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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

Taliban launch wave of attacks in Afghanistan, kill 74

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, ...

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

Deadly fires ease, anger grows over Iberia’s 45 fire deaths

LISBON, Portugal – Portugal began three days of national mourning Tuesday over its 41 wildfire deaths amid widespread public anger, with pressure growing on the government to explain why off...

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

Trump warns ‘I fight back’ after McCain hits foreign policy

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Sen. John McCain that “I fight back” after McCain questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in America’s foreign policy. ...

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

Self-driving cars could ease traffic, but increase sprawl

BOSTON – A new study inspired by Boston’s early experiments with self-driving cars finds that the technology could ease congestion, but might also lead to more cars on the road and further e...

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

Trump: Drug czar nominee pulls his name from consideration

WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Marino, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s drug czar, has withdrawn from consideration, following reports that he played a key role in weakening the fe...

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