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Afghan girls robotics team competes after visa obstacles

WASHINGTON – Their team shirts didn’t say “Afghanistan” and their name badges were handwritten, not typed, suggesting the last-minute nature of their entry into the United States. But the Af...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cleanup planned for Fla. sinkhole, 5 homes still evacuated

LAND O’LAKES, Fla. (AP) – Cleanup efforts at the site of a sinkhole that swallowed two Florida homes and jeopardized a third house will begin in earnest on Wednesday, as county officials, ge...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Australian woman killed in Minneapolis police shooting

MINNEAPOLIS – Details about what led a Minneapolis police officer to fatally shoot an Australian woman remained unclear Monday, with authorities saying only that officers were responding to ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Analysis: Slow leak of Russia news flooding White House

NEW YORK – As Air Force One flew home from Europe, news was set to break about a meeting that Donald Trump’s eldest son had with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, promising yet another round of un...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas ‘bathroom bill’ may shape 2018 GOP primary campaigns

AUSTIN, Texas – Though “bathroom bills” targeting transgender people fizzled in deep-red states across the U.S., the issue is still white hot in Texas, where the Legislature is heading into ...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More hurdles as Senate again delays vote on GOP health bill

WASHINGTON – The Senate delayed a highly anticipated vote this coming week to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law after Sen. John McCain’s announced absence due to surgery, an en...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cory Gardner: A swing-state case study of the GOP health-care bind

WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Gardner faces one of the tougher political predicaments of any Republican deciding how to vote on the GOP health-care bill. The Colorado Republican, a risin...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congress calls for North Korea sanctions

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., joined other lawmakers Thursday calling for an embargo on North Korea by introducing legislation to ban any entity from doing business with the country. ...

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

Honolulu high-rise fire that left 3 dead like ‘horror movie’

HONOLULU – Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her. “The fire...

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

Family scatters Chinese Nobel laureate’s ashes into the sea

SHENYANG, China – Family members of Liu Xiaobo scattered the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s ashes into the sea on Saturday in funeral proceedings closely orchestrated by the Chinese government...

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

Turkey marks 1 year since July 15 coup attempt quashed

ISTANBUL – Turkish authorities sacked nearly 7,400 civil servants for alleged links to terror groups as the country marked the first anniversary of quashing last summer’s coup attempt on Sat...

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