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FBI processes record number of gun checks WASHINGTON – Black Friday set a record for the number of firearms background check requests received by the FBI. The FBI sa...

Head of Chicago police out over shooting

Mayor says public lost trust in leadership

Transportation spending bill heads for vote

WASHINGTON – The House and Senate have reached agreement on a five-year, $281 billion transportation bill that would increase spending to address the nation’s aging and congested highways an...

Facebook CEO marks baby’s birth with big donation

SAN FRANCISCO – Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife said they’ll devote nearly all their wealth – roughly $45 billion – to good works in celebration of ...

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Paris attack suspect arrested in France PARIS – A woman was arrested Tuesday in a Paris suburb for suspected links to an intermediary to the only man charged in connection the Par...

U.S. to send more ground troops to Iraq

Assault force will target Islamic State

Pipe bomb explodes in Istanbul, wounding 5 at rush hour

ISTANBUL – A pipe bomb left on a highway overpass near an Istanbul subway station exploded Tuesday, wounding five people, a local official said. The blast caused some panic in the city, whic...

Toymakers are tracking more data about kids

As toys go high-tech, hackers are zeroing in on a particularly vulnerable target - children. VTech, a Hong Kong-based company that sells baby monitors and digital learning toys su...

World leaders focus on future in Paris’ climate summit

LE BOURGET, France – With dramatic vows to save future generations from an overheated planet, the largest gathering ever of world leaders began two weeks of talks Monday aimed at producing t...

Cyber Monday sales losing some luster

NEW YORK – Retailers are rolling out online deals on so-called “Cyber Monday.” But now that shoppers are online all the time anyway, the 10-year-old shopping holiday is losing some of its lu...

Japanese vessel to kill 333 minke whales for ‘research’

On Tuesday, Japan’s whaling fleet will set out on a three-month-long hunt for minke whales. The Japanese government argues that this hunt – which will kill 333 whales, about a third of the a...

Turkey won’t apologize over Russian warplane downing

BRUSSELS – Turkey won’t apologize to Russia for shooting down a warplane operating over Syria, the Turkish prime minister said Monday, stressing that the military was doing its job defending...
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