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McCain’s moment: Ailing senator plays spoiler again for GOP

WASHINGTON – John McCain faced a choice that balanced friendship, party loyalty and his convictions. He made the decision some of his closest advisers expected. Looking at the twi...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Zinke: One-third of Interior employees not loyal to Trump

WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to chan...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP hopes to reform health care dim

WASHINGTON – The Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama’s health care law was flickering out Monday as a decisive handful of GOP senators remained opposed to the last-gasp bill...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Weiner gets prison in sexting scandal

Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl, capping the spectacular fall of the former congressman whose self-destr...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump revels in latest war of words with professional sports

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his criticism of NFL players who knelt during the national anthem, pushing back against suggestions that race drove his calls for tho...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Collins’ opposition essentially kills GOP health care drive

WASHINGTON – The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama’s health care law essentially died Monday as Maine Sen. Susan Collins joined a small but decisive cluster of G...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds send aid to Puerto Rico amid growing requests for help

WASHINGTON – Federal agencies are ramping up their response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico as the Trump administration seeks to blunt criticism its response to Hurricane Maria h...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court: Texas can enforce more of ‘sanctuary cities’ law

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas can require law enforcement to comply with requests from federal immigration authorities to detain people in local jails for possible deportation under a new “sanctuary...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump associates to talk to House panel in Russia probe

WASHINGTON – The House intelligence panel will interview two of President Donald Trump’s associates behind closed doors this week as congressional committees step up their investigations int...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Concerns raised about arrests at suburban St. Louis protest

ST. LOUIS – Several elected officials and faith leaders on Monday called for an investigation into the way police arrested and incarcerated protesters at a suburban St. Louis mall, with many...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uber fights with London regulators, but also tries diplomacy

LONDON – In past skirmishes with local regulators, Uber’s playbook under co-founder and now-ousted CEO Travis Kalanick was simple: fight. Now, as brand-new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi d...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tennessee church shooting suspect charged with murder

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The pastor shouted “Run, run, gunshots!” and congregants hid under pews or in bathrooms as a masked man armed with two guns opened fire at a Tennessee church, killing one ...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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