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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Homeland security secretary visits island

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...

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...

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...

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...