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Tear gas after protesters break mayor’s window

ST. LOUIS – Protesters have broken a front window and splattered red paint at St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home, and police have responded in force, using tear gas to disperse the crowd. ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cuba mystery: Even Castro baffled by harm to US diplomats

HAVANA – Raul Castro seemed rattled. The Cuban president sent for the top American envoy in the country to address grave concerns about a spate of U.S. diplomats harmed in Havana....

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Environmentalists get win in U.S. coal-climate change lawsuit

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Handing a major victory to environmentalists, a court cast doubt Friday on a longstanding U.S. government argument that blocking federal coal leasing won’t affect climate ch...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Pres...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Search for perpetrators of bomb on London subway, 29 wounded

LONDON – A homemade bomb planted in a rush-hour subway car injured 29 people in London on Friday, sparking a huge manhunt for the perpetrators of what police said was the fourth terrorist at...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man burned by caustic beer awarded $750K by jury

Beer tainted by chemical cleaning agent

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Global hunger rising with conflicts, climate shocks

38 million more people undernourished from previous year

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

St. Louis ex-officer acquitted in killing of black man

ST. LOUIS – A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, with the judge declaring that he would not ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Farewell Cassini

Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

N. Korea tests another missile

Flight reportedly takes it over Japan

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Forest Service spends record $2B battling forest fires

WASHINGTON – The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country – a new record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation’s worst fir...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Equifax’s troubles deepen after disclosure about breach

NEW YORK – Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, furthe...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World