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FDA advisers endorse gene therapy to treat form of blindness

SILVER SPRING, Md. – A potentially groundbreaking treatment for a rare form of blindness moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday, as federal health advisers endorsed the experimental...

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

Emergency alerts draw complaints in fast-moving wildfires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – The story is repeated again and again: The dead of night, no warning, then panic after realizing the smoke and flames were approaching. Fleeing residents from...

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

NYC, London police taking fresh look at Weinstein claims

NEW YORK – Police detectives in New York City and London are taking a fresh look into sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein now that some 30 women have accused the Hollywood fi...

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

Inmate executed in Texas for corrections officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas inmate convicted in the death of a prison guard was executed Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ attempts to halt the punishment. ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Missouri senator makes new negative Trump post after censure

ST. LOUIS – A Democratic senator from suburban St. Louis who was censured by the Missouri Legislature for a Facebook post that hoped for President Donald Trump’s assassination said Thursday ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump to end ACA subsidies

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is throwing a bomb into the insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, choosing to end critical payments to health insurers that help m...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Energy secretary, Dems clash over plan to help coal, nuclear

WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats accused the Trump administration Thursday of falsely suggesting the nation’s electricity grid faces severe problems to justify an unnecessary bolstering ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mnuchin: Trump hopes to announce Fed chair within a month

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that President Donald Trump hopes to decide within a month whom he will choose to lead the Federal Reserve starting next year but...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump: Homeland Security secretary nominee needs ‘no on-the-job training’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday introduced his choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, a former staffer at the sprawling post-9/11 federal agency who he says will...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ryan blasts states that send billions to federal government

WASHINGTON – The top House Republican on Thursday blasted high-tax states that deliver billions to the federal government as he faced a backlash from rank-and-file GOP lawmakers over a sweep...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

It’s Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts

NEW YORK – Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts pledge to be friendly and helpful. But their parent organizations may find that promise hard to keep as they head into a potentially bitter competition ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Official says Vegas hotel didn’t immediately report gunfire

Mandalay Bay hotel officials didn’t notify police about a shooting in a hallway inside the high-rise until after Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival outside,...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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