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New York attorney general launches probe of Weinstein Co.

ALBANY, N.Y. – State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation on Monday into The Weinstein Co. following sexual harassment and assault allegations against it...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

McCain critiques Trump without labeling him ‘draft dodger’

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. John McCain left no doubt Monday that he was thinking of President Donald Trump as he criticized the draft system during Vietnam for forcing low-income Americans...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA keeps scientists from speaking about report on climate

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Environmental Protection Agency kept three scientists from speaking at a Monday event in a move condemned by researchers and Democratic members of Congress as an attem...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Long day of diplomacy: Tillerson visits Afghanistan, Iraq

BAGHDAD – Far from the Washington murmurs about his future, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to two of America’s enduring war zones Monday, prodding leaders in Afghanistan and ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New flight paths lead to airplane noise complaints across U.S.

PHOENIX – Airliners began flying over Twila Lake’s bungalow-style house in a historic district three years ago, taking off every one to two minutes from the Phoenix airport and roaring over ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Angry soldier’s widow says Trump didn’t know husband’s name

WASHINGTON – A fallen soldier’s angry widow joined the stormy dispute with President Donald Trump on Monday over his response to her husband’s death, declaring that his failure to remember t...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption

PHILADELPHIA – The FBI hasn’t been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday, turning ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

National Democrats are jittery about Virginia governor’s race

LAS VEGAS – The Democratic National Committee gathered here over the past week with one worry on every activist’s mind: We’d better not lose the Virginia governor’s race. It’s a ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials: EF1 tornado tore part of Oklahoma casino roof off

NORMAN, Okla. – An overnight batch of severe storms spawned an EF1 tornado that tore part of a casino roof off in central Oklahoma during a concert and downed power lines and trees throughou...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dramatic sentencing hearing expected in Bergdahl case

RALEIGH, N.C. – The fate of Bowe Bergdahl – the Army sergeant who pleaded guilty to endangering his comrades by leaving his post in 2009 in Afghanistan – now rests in the hands of a judge. ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

38 accuse writer/director James Toback of sexual harassment

LOS ANGELES – Writer and director James Toback, who received an Oscar nomination for writing “Bugsy,” has been accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a report published Sunday in The Lo...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump voting commission criticized for lack of transparency

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s advisory commission on election integrity has integrity questions of its own – with some of its own members raising concerns about its openness. ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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