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‘Lone wolf’ suspected in Canada terror attack, police chase

EDMONTON, Alberta – A car and knife attack on a police officer outside a football game and a high-speed chase of a moving van that left four people injured appear to be the work of a single ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump puts NFL players on notice: Stand for national anthem

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is putting pro football players on notice for Week 4 of the NFL season: He won’t stand for it if they kneel in protest during the national anthem. ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man fatally knifes 2 at French station, yells ‘Allahu akbar’

MARSEILLE, France – A man with a knife killed two women at the main train station in the French city of Marseille on Sunday, shouting “Allahu akbar” during an attack that French authorities ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Oceanographer’s ashes going to sea aboard rescued sea turtle

PORT ARANSAS, Texas – A rescued green sea turtle will be released this weekend back into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying the ashes of a self-taught Texas oceanographer who founded the rehabilit...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor who begged for more help

BRANCHBURG, N.J. – President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at the mayor of San Juan and other officials in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, contemptuous of their claims of a laggard U.S. res...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tillerson: U.S. is in direct contact with North Korea

BEIJING – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States is in direct contact with North Korea and is probing whether the Kim Jong Un regime is open to talks. “We are pro...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Catalonia’s pro-independence parents occupy polling stations in mass act of civil disobedience

SABADELL, Spain – In a mass act of civil disobedience, organized by Whatsapp groups, encrypted messages and clandestine committees, an army of parents and their children occupied thousands o...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After release, O.J. Simpson to live in Florida

LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson will live in Florida after he is released on parole from a Nevada prison where he has been held for the past nine years for a robbery conviction, his lawyer said Fri...