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Fact-checking fake news on Facebook works – just too slowly

NEW YORK – Facebook’s effort to limit the spread of fake news using outside fact-checkers appears to be having an effect – although that finding comes with a major caveat. Once a ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

No clarity on Catalan independence bid

BARCELONA, Spain – A Monday morning deadline came and went without the president of the Catalonia region clarifying whether he had declared independence from Spain, and the Spanish governmen...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Better weather gives leg up to crews on California wildfires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – The winds eased, some of the smoke began to clear and the forecast Monday offered a tantalizing chance of rain to firefighters trying to corral the blazes that have laid...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt says Ramses II temple unearthed southwest of Cairo

CAIRO – Egypt’s antiquities agency says archaeologists have unearthed remains of a temple belonging to King Ramses II southwest of Cairo, which may shed light on the life of the 19th Dynasty...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump voters in storm-ravaged county confront climate change

PORT ARTHUR, Texas – The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s wo...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge refuses to throw out case against New Jersey senator

NEWARK, N.J. – In a big defeat for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the judge at his corruption trial Monday refused to throw out any of the charges against him in light of a U.S. Supreme Court...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Somalia truck bombing toll exceeds 300, scores remain missing

MOGADISHU, Somalia – More than 300 people were killed in the weekend truck bombing in Somalia’s capital and scores remained missing, authorities said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa na...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Portugal wildfires kill at least 35; 4 dead in Spain

LISBON, Portugal – Late season wildfires that broke out over the weekend in Portugal have killed at least 35 people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making 2017 by f...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Weinstein Co., overwhelmed by backlash, may be up for sale

NEW YORK – The Weinstein Co., besieged by sexual harassment allegations against its namesake and co-founder, may be putting itself up for sale. The company said Monday that it wil...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Crews search air, water for missing worker after blast

KENNER, La. – Authorities searched by air and water Monday for a Texas man who disappeared when an oil and gas platform exploded on a lake near New Orleans. Seven people were injured in the ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. Supreme Court to hear government’s email dispute with Microsoft

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on a major dispute over the government’s authority to force American technology companies to hand over emails and other digital informati...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Army Sgt. Bergdahl pleads guilty to deserting his post

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured and held by the Taliban for five years after walking away from his post in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and en...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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