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Protest leaders: We’re not going away, in spite of arrests

ST. LOUIS – The arrest of a clergyman who was taken to the ground and subdued with pepper spray is the latest incident in which police have been responsible for “unnecessary and dangerous vi...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Marseille suspect released from custody day before attack

PARIS – A man who fatally stabbed two women outside Marseille’s main train station had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack, and used seven fake identities in...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Witness and survivor accounts from the Las Vegas shooting

LAS VEGAS – It was a night of music that turned to chaos and horror. There were 22,000 country music fans at the outdoor Las Vegas concert when the shooting started. Police said 59 people di...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Palestinian leader launches reconciliation push in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The Palestinian prime minister traveled Monday to the Gaza Strip to launch an ambitious reconciliation effort with the rival Hamas militant group, receiving a hero’s ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American toddlers shooting people on a weekly basis

On Wednesday, two 3-year-old boys were shot by another toddler who found and inadvertently fired a gun at the home of their baby sitter in Dearborn, Michigan, according to the Detroit Free P...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Las Vegas gunman liked to gamble, listened to country music

Stephen Paddock lived quiet retired life before massacre

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trial opens for suspected mastermind of Benghazi attacks

WASHINGTON – The alleged mastermind of the 2012 attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, despises America and when his hatred “boiled over,” he organized the strike that killed four Ame...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Facebook to turn over to Congress Russia-linked ads

WASHINGTON – Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to a Rus...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Biological clock discoveries by 3 Americans earn Nobel prize

STOCKHOLM – Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body’s biological clock, opening up whole new fields of research and raisi...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former Equifax chairman apologizes for data breach

WASHINGTON – The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and “we let them down” as human error and technology fai...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Islamic State claims Las Vegas mass shooting

CAIRO – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for the mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying the perpetrator was “a soldier” who had converted to Islam months ago, without pro...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World