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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...

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...

Man burned by caustic beer awarded $750K by jury

Beer tainted by chemical cleaning agent

Global hunger rising with conflicts, climate shocks

38 million more people undernourished from previous year

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 ...

Farewell Cassini

Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive

N. Korea tests another missile

Flight reportedly takes it over Japan

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...

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...

Phoenix sheriff pardoned by Trump hits the speaking circuit

LAS VEGAS – Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is returning to the public speaking circuit after being pardoned by President Donald Trump following his federal contempt-of-court conviction in an immi...

House backs $1.2T spending bill with more money for military

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion spending bill that provides billions more dollars for the military while sparing medical research and popula...

Double attack in southern Iraq kills at least 50

IRBIL, Iraq – A coordinated attack on a restaurant and a security checkpoint in southern Iraq killed at least 50 people Thursday, police and health officials said, in a rare spasm of violenc...