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Chill in the air as McConnell prepares to meet with Trump

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump blames the Senate’s GOP leader for the health overhaul failure, hints at tantalizing deals with Democrats and watches his former strategist work to bulldo...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California firefighters say their ‘gaining upper hand’

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – With the winds dying down, fire officials said Sunday they have apparently “turned a corner” against the wildfires that have devastated California wine country and other...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Election produces likely right turn, young leader in Austria

VIENNA – Austria’s 31-year-old foreign minister declared victory for his party Sunday in a national election that set him up to become Europe’s youngest leader and puts the country on course...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hopes and plans destroyed overnight by deadly wildfires

SONOMA, Calif. – It was just another Sunday night. Sure, the wind was kicking up, but for hundreds of thousands of people in California’s wine country, their minds were on the week ahead: sc...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wildfires, now up to 100 miles wide, threaten more wineries

SONOMA, Calif. – The California wildfires raced toward wineries and the historic town of Sonoma on Saturday, chasing hundreds more people from their homes and threatening to roll back firefi...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rescued hostages home in Canada, getting medical exams

TORONTO – Former hostage Joshua Boyle returned Saturday to his parents’ home in Canada where he said full medical exams were being arranged for him and his family after they were rescued fro...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More Californians ordered to flee as gusting winds spread wildfires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Northern California officials ordered a new round of mandatory evacuations overnight for parts of the Sonoma Valley and eastern Santa Rosa, as gusty winds returned, revi...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Rico raises Hurricane Maria death toll to 48

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Authorities in Puerto Rico raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria to 48 on Saturday based on a review of medical records. The medical examiner conclude...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Huge blast rocks Somalia’s capital; police say 20 killed

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A huge explosion from a truck bomb killed 20 people in Somalia’s capital, police said Saturday, as shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they’d heard in yea...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Take a look at what didn’t happen this week

NEW YORK – A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Asso...

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Vegas police: No 6-minute gap between first shots, concert massacre

Number of injured rises to 546

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump moving ‘step by step’ to take apart Obamacare on his own

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he is moving “step by step” on his own to remake the U.S. health care system because Congress won’t act on his demand to repeal Obamacare. ...

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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