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Rescuers seek anyone left in floodwaters

Beaumont loses water supply

DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mattis begins sending additional troops to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he has signed orders to begin deploying additional troops to Afghanistan to carry out President Donald Trump’s new war strategy. Mat...

DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Explosions rock flood-crippled chemical plant near Houston

EPA says smoke is not toxic

DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Governors’ health care plan urges stabilizing markets

COLUMBUS – A bipartisan governor duo is urging Congress to retain the federal health care law’s unpopular individual mandate while seeking to stabilize individual insurance markets as legisl...

DATE: Aug 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal judge blocks Texas’ tough ‘sanctuary cities’ law

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law that would have let police officers ask people during routine stops whether...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Triceratops skull, skeleton dug up in Colorado

THORNTON – A dinosaur fossil has been discovered in Colorado by construction workers. The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Thornton at the construction...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

25 years after Ruby Ridge standoff, radical movement grows

SPOKANE, Wash. – It’s been a quarter-century since a standoff in the mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked an expansion of radic...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flood insurance policies plunge in Houston in past 5 years

WASHINGTON – Houston’s population is growing quickly, but when Harvey hit last weekend there were far fewer homes and other properties in the area with flood insurance than just five years a...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials take stock of national trail uniting 3 countries

DEMING, N.M. (AP) – Out in the Bootheel near the border fence east of the Big Hatchet Mountains of Hidalgo County, a simple headstone marks the official southern terminus of a trail reaching...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Harvey shows how planetary winds are shifting to create bigger disasters

Meteorologists explain that Hurricane Harvey stalled off the Texas coast because two high-pressure atmospheric masses – huge bookends made out of air – have squeezed it in place, and there h...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump: ‘All options are on table’ after North Korea launch

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to reassert an American military threat against North Korea, saying that “all options are on the table” in response to its launch of a miss...

DATE: Aug 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Business leaders want Mexican wolves in Grand Canyon area

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – More than 60 business leaders have urged the federal government to release endangered Mexican gray wolves into the Grand Canyon area in northern Arizona and eastern Utah...

DATE: Aug 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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