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85-year-old jewel thief’s retirement didn’t last

ATLANTA – Ten years ago, when she was 75 years old, Doris Payne swore she was done with a lifetime of pilfering jewels across two continents. Several arrests later, in 2013, she said again t...

Poll: Use default, shutdown threats to cut spending

WASHINGTON – Even as Congress nears votes on a bipartisan deal that could yield two years of budget peace, an Associated Press-GfK poll has found that Republicans back home prefer a far more...

U.S. officials: Iran invited to next round of Syria talks

WASHINGTON – Iran has been invited to participate for the first time in international talks over Syria’s future, U.S. officials said Tuesday, a shift in strategy for the United States and it...

Woman faces 2nd-degree murder charges in Oklahoma crash

STILLWATER, Okla. – A 25-year-old woman accused in the deaths of four people at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade is scheduled to appear in court Monday, after witnesses said she drove he...

Ole Miss removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem

JACKSON, Miss. – The University of Mississippi removed the state flag on its Oxford campus Monday morning because the banner contains the Confederate battle emblem, which some see as a painf...

GOP candidates struggling to get Hispanic support

NEWARK, N.J. – Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation’s Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire’s oft-repeated assertion that he wi...

Over 260 dead as earthquake strikes Asia

KABUL, Afghanistan – A massive earthquake struck remote and impoverished regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 263 people as it shook buildings across Sout...

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U.S. Navy set to challenge China’s steep sea claims WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is preparing to sail a warship near artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea in a l...

U.S. thought Taliban had hospital

WASHINGTON – The Army Green Berets who requested the Oct. 3 airstrike on the Doctors without Borders trauma center in Afghanistan were aware it was a functioning hospital but believed it was...

Can Volkswagen insiders clean it up?

WOLFSBURG, Germany – Volkswagen’s effort to fix its emissions scandal will be largely led by company insiders. Some experts say it’s the only way, given the German carmaker’s unusually compl...

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Biden will not enter race because he ‘couldn’t win’ WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says he decided against running for president because he “couldn’t win,” not because he w...

Hurricane passes through Texas without incident

AUSTIN, Texas – Drenching storms that the remnants of Hurricane Patricia dragged into Texas finally cleared Sunday without leaving behind the death or devastation of torrential rain and floo...
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