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EPA hears worries about climate in heart of coal country

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – After more than four decades as a coal miner, Stanley Sturgill ambled into an ornate room at West Virginia’s state capitol Tuesday to deliver a stark message to the Trump...

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care

WASHINGTON – Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing – a debilitating condition that gets l...

Beaked baby boomers: Record year for puffin chicks in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine – Puffins face existential challenges, but the little birds found a new role in Maine this summer: baby boomers. The 2017 nesting season was the most productive on...

How Powell could differ from Yellen: Nominee faces hearing

WASHINGTON – Jerome Powell’s confirmation to be chairman of the Federal Reserve is considered all but certain. Yet when a Senate committee holds a hearing Tuesday on Powell’s nomination, one...

CNN’s Blitzer fights back against Trump’s attack

NEW YORK – CNN fought back against President Donald Trump on Monday with a lengthy video showing its reporters in dangerous situations and Wolf Blitzer saying that despite the insults, “even...

Facebook turns to AI to help prevent suicides

NEW YORK – Facebook is turning to artificial intelligence to detect if someone might be contemplating suicide. Facebook already has mechanisms for flagging posts from people think...

Actress sues Weinstein, accusing him of sex trafficking

NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein engaged in sex trafficking by traveling to Europe and luring an aspiring actress from London to a hotel room where he sexually assaulted her, according to a new l...

2 fight for control of consumer watchdog; judge yet to rule

WASHINGTON – With emails, tweets and doughnuts, the two dueling acting directors battled for control of the nation’s top financial watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ...

At Capitol, Franken apologizes and sees long fight for trust

WASHINGTON – Sen. Al Franken apologized Monday to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women” as the Minnesota Democrat fought to bolster his support with his first Capitol p...

House panel to weigh bill expanding gun rights

WASHINGTON – House Republicans moved forward on legislation to expand gun owners’ rights, the first gun-related measure since mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas killed more than 80 people...

California farmworker union wins battle to ensure contracts

SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court handed a victory Monday to organized farm labor in the state in a lawsuit that pitted the union launched by iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez agai...

Dancing ballerinas help kick off Christmas at White House

WASHINGTON – Ballerinas leaping to the strains of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” helped launch Christmas at the White House, featuring a traditional decor that Melania Trump chose for her fa...
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