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Increase in threats reported at U.S. abortion clinics

NEW YORK – Threats and violence directed at U.S. abortion clinics increased sharply in 2015, according to the National Abortion Federation, which attributed the surge to the release of under...

Destruction, razed monastery left behind by IS in Syria town

QARYATAIN, Syria – Syrian troops fired their guns in celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaryatain on Monday, hours after recapturing it from retreating Islamic State mi...

EU begins shipping migrants in Greece back to Turkey

ATHENS, Greece – A controversial European Union plan to stem the flow of refugees began Monday with the deportation of more than 200 people from Greek islands to Turkey, despite concerns ove...

California, New York enact US-highest $15 minimum wages

LOS ANGELES – California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour – the highest in the nation – as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again se...

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Two Guantanamo Bay detainees sent to Senegal WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has transferred two Libyan detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Senegal, Defense Department officials said on Mon...

Trump and Cruz making final pitches to Wisconsin voters

MILWAUKEE – After Donald Trump’s toughest stretch of the campaign, he and Ted Cruz made spirited final pitches Monday to Wisconsin voters, who will cast ballots Tuesday in a Republican prima...

Princeton to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name despite his racist views

PRINCETON, N.J. – Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist, the Ivy...

Court upholds total population count in electoral districts

WASHINGTON – A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts. The justices turned back...

Deportation of migrants from Greece to Turkey starts Monday

ATHENS, Greece – An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect Monday morning, but the opera...

Sen. Graham to Arab world: U.S. hasn’t changed despite Trump

CAIRO – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sought to reassure the Arab world Sunday over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, saying in Cairo that Congress would continue to play a p...

Trump calls on Kasich to quit race: ‘He’s taking my votes’

MILWAUKEE – Donald Trump on Sunday called for John Kasich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, arguing that the Ohio governor shouldn’t be allowed to continue accumulating delega...

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Amtrak train derails; 2 people reported dead Two people were killed and 35 were taken to hospitals Sunday morning when an Amtrak passenger train struck a railroad backhoe that was doing main...
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