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Cochran’s illness shows risks to GOP leaders of aging Senate

WASHINGTON – Top Republicans coping with a razor-thin majority in the Senate as they try pushing a partisan agenda are running smack into another complication – the sheer age and health issu...

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

Celebrity-named seal pups rehabilitated, set free on beach

SANDWICH, Mass. – Two celebrity-named harbor seal pups rescued in Maine earlier this year have been rehabilitated and set free on a Massachusetts beach. “Giseal Bündchen” and “Sea...

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

Dems slam Arctic drilling plan as ‘polar payout’ to Big Oil

WASHINGTON – Democrats and environmental groups on Tuesday denounced a Republican plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying it would defile a cro...

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

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

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