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Wildfire seasons growing worse
Study confirms global warming creating more fire hazards
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GREENVILLE, N.C. — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were…
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Beware extremes: Exercise, anger may trigger heart attack
A large, international study released on Monday ties heavy exertion while stressed or mad to a tripled risk of having a heart attack within an hour.Clinton Lewis/Daily News file via…
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Medics plead for access to Syria’s embattled Aleppo
This frame grab from video provided by Doctors Without Borders, shows a house on fire in Aleppo, Syria. The international charity, Doctors Without Borders is pleading for access to treat…
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Call that ended officers’ lives was among most unpredictable
For no matter how much training and experience officers receive, they often have little idea what awaits them when they approach the scene of such a disturbance. “You never know…
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Trump puts Clinton sex abuse claims at center of campaign
Paul Ryan will no longer campaign for billionaire
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Hart, Holmstrom share economics Nobel for contract theory
British-born Oliver Hart of Harvard University and Finnish economist Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Finland will share the $930,000 award for their contributions to contract theory. That’s…
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Train service resumes after deadly New Jersey crash
New Jersey Transit employees talk to one another after a train arrives to Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, N.J. Rail service resumed Monday at the New Jersey transit station damaged less…
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Father: Suspect in officers’ slaying wanted to shoot police
Man arrested Sunday after standoff
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Time for candidates to keep calm, debate on
For many people, the jaw-dropping 2005 video of Trump’s vulgar comments about women trumps anything else that has come out about the Republican nominee. And it gives Hillary Clinton fresh…
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Fire officials in Texas say a man who apparently was sleeping in a dumpster survived when he and the trash in the bin were dumped into…
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Police: Doughnut heist leads to capture of wanted man
The Hobbs News-Sun reports that Gregory Mendoza was arrested Monday outside a bakery after police received a report he stole a doughnut. Police then discovered 35-year-old Mendoza was wanted on…
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Trump apologizes for ‘foolish’ comments about women … then attacks the Clintons
“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more…
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Utah exhibit shows nuclear testing’s downwind effects
Goal is to educate future generations
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Utah Republicans out front in opposing Trump
Gov. Gary Herbert was the first elected official to pull his endorsement from Donald Trump as conservatives recoiled from a recording of Trump boasting of how his fame allowed him…
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Weakened Matthew aims for Georgia, S. Carolina
Hurricane continues climb north hugging east coast
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Trump caught on video making crude remarks about women
‘I apologize if anyone was offended’
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Kerry seeks war crimes probe against Russia, Syria
Kerrydu1-i-syn Kerry said Russia and the regime of President Bashar Assad “owe the world more than an explanation” for attacks made to “terrorize civilians and to kill anybody and everybody…
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Colombian leader wins Nobel Peace Prize
Juan Manuel Santos’s peace deal with rebels was rejected days earlier
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‘A monster’ closes in on Florida
It was the most powerful storm to threaten the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade, and had already left more than 280 dead in its wake across the…
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Barely half of illegal border crossers caught
The report found that 54 percent of people who entered illegally between border crossings got caught in the 2015 fiscal year. That’s much lower than the 81 percent success rate…
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ALBUQUERQUE – Latino scholars and activists are criticizing Republican Mike Pence for referring to “that Mexican thing,” at the vice presidential debate as he tried to brush aside criticism of…
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Southwest faces threat of megadroughts
Threat curbed if only humanity can reduce greenhouse gases