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US takes aim at countries doing business with North Korea

NEW YORK – The United States said Monday it would target countries doing business with North Korea as U.N. Security Council members called for further sanctions in response to the regime’s p...

Trump expected to end ‘Dreamers’ program, with delay

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but with a six-month de...

Frustration mounts over premiums for individual health plans

WASHINGTON – Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium incre...

Man dies after rushing into Burning Man festival flames

A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival’s signature ceremony, suffering burns that left him dead just hours later. Authoritie...

Trump raises stakes in escalating North Koreans nuke crisis

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump raised the stakes Sunday in an escalating crisis over North Korea’s nuclear threats, suggesting drastic economic measures against China and criticizing al...

U.S. to auction drilling rights near national monument in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY – Federal land managers said Friday they will allow drilling for publicly owned oil and gas near Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Utah despite concerns about disrupt...

North Korea says it has loaded H-bomb onto ICBM

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Pyongyang’s state media said Sunday, a claim to t...

‘Erratic’ wildfire near Los Angeles burns 5,000 acres, forces hundreds to evacuate

A fast-spreading brush fire north of Los Angeles forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes Friday, as firefighters struggled against triple-digit temperatures and erratic winds to co...

For Trump, chance to return with empathy for Harvey victims

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump brought plenty of optimism and swagger to Texas on his first visit to survey Harvey’s wreckage. He’s getting a chance to return with empathy. A...

Danger not over: Gas leaks, mold loom for Harvey evacuees

HOUSTON – Bound for their Harvey-soaked home east of Houston, Lakeithia Bankhead and her four children left the mass shelter at the city’s convention center Friday after five nights sleeping...

An equal opportunity storm: ‘Harvey didn’t spare anyone’

HOUSTON – Harvey did not discriminate in its destruction. It raged through neighborhoods rich and poor, black and white, upscale and working class. Across Houston and surrounding ...

New Mexico village to hold Bigfoot festival

JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. – A New Mexico village is holding a festival in connection with a legend that Bigfoot is roaming around the state’s Jemez Mountains. The Los Alamos Monitor rep...