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CIA head: N. Korea months from perfecting nuclear capabilities

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday that North Korea is months away from perfecting its nuclear weapons capabilities. “They are close enough now in their capabilit...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Company seeks to build island off Alaska for Arctic drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won’t be from a remote drilling platform. Federal regulators...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Rico still stumbles in the dark a month after ‘Maria’

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – One man climbs 24 flights of stairs several times a day alongside dormant elevators. Street vendors hawk plastic washboards for $20. And families outstretch their han...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Spain set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid

BARCELONA, Spain – The crisis over Catalonia’s quest for independence escalated Thursday, as Spain’s central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of som...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate backs GOP budget in step forward for tax revamp

WASHINGTON – Republicans on Thursday muscled a $4 trillion budget through the Senate in a major step forward for President Donald Trump’s ambitious promise of “massive tax cuts and reform.” ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Taliban attacks kill 58, nearly wipe out Afghan army camp

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban have killed at least 58 Afghan security forces in a wave of attacks across the country overnight, including an assault that nearly wiped out an army camp in ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal

DES MOINES, Iowa – Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing bec...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California fires cause $1B in damage, burn 7,000 buildings

SAN FRANCISCO – The wildfires that have devastated Northern California this month caused at least $1 billion in damage to insured property, officials said Thursday, as authorities increased ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees

NEW YORK – Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Utah man will be tried on murder charge in girl’s suicide

SALT LAKE CITY – A judge has ruled an 18-year-old Utah man accused of encouraging a teen friend to hang herself and filming it because he was fascinated with death should stand trial on a mu...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates

BEIRUT – Over several nights in September, some 10,000 men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control, hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from governm...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ultra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care

SAN DIEGO – Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswo...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World