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Trump’s health secretary resigns amid travel controversy

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration’s agenda and angered his boss. T...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Energy secretary proposes sweeping moves to support coal, nuclear plants

WASHINGTON – Energy Secretary Rick Perry took sweeping steps on Friday to buttress a pair of financially-strapped nuclear plants under construction and redefine how coal and nuclear plants a...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Rico angry at Trump official ‘good-news story’ remark

Homeland security secretary visits island

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA: Tests show contaminants exposed at Texas Superfund site

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency says an unknown amount of a dangerous chemical linked to birth defects and cancer may have washed downriver from a Houston-area Superfund sit...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wisconsin girl reaches plea deal in Slender Man case

WAUKESHA, Wis. – The second of two Wisconsin girls charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress horror character Slender Man will plead guilty in a deal that will send her to a st...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Air Force Academy investigates racial slurs

AIR FORCE ACADEMY – Someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dormitory rooms of five black students at a preparatory school on the U.S. Air Force Academy campus, school offic...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Climber: Rock fall strikes Yosemite for a second day

SAN FRANCISCO – A massive new rock fall hit Yosemite National Park on Thursday, cracking with a thundering roar off the iconic El Capitan rock formation and sending huge plumes of white dust...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump economic aide says tax overhaul aimed at middle class

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s economic adviser pushed back Thursday against the suggestion that the administration’s tax plan could benefit the wealthy, but said he couldn’t guarante...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pipeline firm gives $15M toward security costs

BISMARCK, N.D. – The builder of the Dakota Access pipeline sent North Dakota $15 million on Thursday to help pay law enforcement bills related to months of sometimes violent protests over th...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Ricans say U.S. relief efforts failing them

FEMA to receive infusion of funds

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials reopening Outer Banks as Maria races out to sea

WAVES, N.C. – Maria raced away from the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, giving the nation its first rest from the constant threat of tropical weather for more than a month. No injuri...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump, Ryan clear the way for gov’t cash to Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON – On the defensive over the pace of federal help for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans cleared the way Thursday for more supplies and government ca...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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