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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Violence in U.S. rises for second consecutive year

WASHINGTON – Violent crime in America rose in 2016 for the second straight year, driven by a spike in killings in some major cities, but remained near historically low levels, according to F...

Myanmar officials: Insurgents killed 45 Hindu villagers

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar officials said Monday they have discovered at least 45 slain Hindus in three mass graves in the Southeast Asian country’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state. The ...

Searchers dig as Mexico City reopens just 1% of schools

MEXICO CITY – Search teams were still digging in dangerous piles of rubble Monday, hoping against the odds to find survivors at collapsed buildings in Mexico City, where the death toll from ...