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Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial gove...

Dodgers great Clayton Kershaw to pitch his last regular-season game

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw pitches the final regular-season game of his 18-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday in what figures to be an emotional night after announcin...

Trump says he and Xi will meet in South Korea in coming weeks and he'll later go to China

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the ...

Wall Street coasts toward the finish of another record-setting week

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is coasting toward the finish of its latest record-setting week on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and was on track to close out its sixth winning week in the last ...

US attorney whose office is investigating Letitia James is told he's being removed, AP source says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. attorney whose office has been investigating mortgage fraud allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James has been told to resign or be fired, a pers...

US military strike off the coast of Venezuela disrupts life in impoverished fishing communities

GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — On Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, an idyllic stretch of Caribbean coast, it is an open secret that boats departing from its ports transport both drugs and fish. Reside...

The Taliban release British couple held for months in Afghanistan on undisclosed charges

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban released on Friday a British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges, likely part of a wider effort to get...

Pakistan says its nuclear program can be made available to Saudi Arabia under defense pact

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister says his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed under the countries’ new defense pact, mar...

A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot...

What to know about the search for Travis Decker, who was wanted in the deaths of his daughters

The remains of a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters were believed to be found this week in the mountains of Washington state, authorities said. Law enforcement...

Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James who co-wrote 'Jesus, Take the Wheel' dies in plane crash

Grammy award-winning country songwriter Brett James, whose string of top hits includes “Jesus Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood and "When The Sun Goes Down” by Kenny Chesney, died in a pla...

What a new poll shows about where Americans think the country is heading

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted shortly after last week's assassinati...