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Kurds pull out abruptly from disputed Iraqi areas

BAGHDAD – Kurdish fighters pulled out of disputed areas across northern and eastern Iraq on Tuesday, one day after giving up the vital oil city of Kirkuk – a dramatic redeployment of forces ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Negotiators give up hope of rewriting NAFTA this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — Talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement have stalled over tough American demands, dashing hopes that a deal can be reached this year. A fourth r...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police: Woman who feared deportation drowned 2 boys

A woman drowned her infant son and his 5-year-old half brother in a bathtub hours after she called police and told them she was worried about being deported, a Delaware police chief said Tue...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate moves ahead on GOP budget that’s key to taxes

WASHINGTON – The Senate is moving ahead on a Republican budget plan, a critical step in President Donald Trump and the party’s politically imperative drive to cut taxes and simplify the IRS ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge halts newest Trump travel ban, saying it has same woes

HONOLULU – A federal judge in Hawaii blocked most of President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban Tuesday, just hours before it was set to take effect, saying the revised order “suffers from p...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Catalans vow to resist after Spain court rules vote illegal

BARCELONA, Spain – Spain’s top court ruled Tuesday that a recent independence referendum in Catalonia was unconstitutional, adding legal weight to the government’s efforts to block an attemp...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Parts of unmanned Russian spaceship burn up over Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Parts of an unmanned Russian cargo spaceship burned across the night sky of the Arabian Peninsula, drawing gasps from Dubai to Riyadh before breaking up in the ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bergdahl guilty pleas leave room for drama at sentencing

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea to charges of endangering comrades in Afghanistan has set up a dramatic sentencing hearing that could land him in prison for life. ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Book’s challenge: Can you do squats like Justice Ginsburg?

WASHINGTON – Personal trainer Bryant Johnson hears it all the time: Four more years. That’s how long fans of his client, 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tel...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims cross border into Bangladesh

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Thousands more Rohingya Muslims are fleeing large-scale violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossing into Bangladesh, where more than half a million others are ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Californians head back home to altered lives, communities

PETALUMA, Calif. – Some have lost loved ones. Many have survived near-death experiences. Others have lost their homes and a lifetime of possessions. A week after fleeing raging wi...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A short-term health deal by senators _ with Trump’s blessing

WASHINGTON – Republican and Democratic senators joined in announcing a plan Tuesday aimed at stabilizing America’s health insurance markets in the wake of President Donald Trump’s order to t...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World