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Longtime GOP senator pessimistic about health bill prospects

WASHINGTON – A long-time Republican lawmaker said Tuesday he is “very pessimistic” that his party will push a health care bill through the Senate, even as a colleague warned leaders about re...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Afghanistan combat vet charged with killing wife, trooper

A New York state police trooper responding to reports of gunfire was shot to death by a soldier who had just killed his wife at their home near his Army base, authorities said Monday. ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP health care divisions multiply as Trump pressures Senate

WASHINGTON – Republican divisions over health care multiplied Monday as President Donald Trump pressured GOP senators to act quickly, and Vice President Mike Pence suggested they might have ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump Jr: ‘Had to listen’ to Russian lawyer for Clinton info

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s eldest son acknowledged Monday that he met a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign to hear information about his father’s Democratic oppo...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tillerson aims to ease Qatar crisis with shuttle diplomacy

KUWAIT CITY – The Trump administration tossed aside its aversion to mediating a weeks-long Persian Gulf dispute Monday, as the top U.S. diplomat flew to the region hoping to corral Qatar and...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congress returns to battles over health care, budget

WASHINGTON – Congress is still trying to send President Donald Trump his first unqualified legislative triumph, nearly six months after Republicans grabbed full control of Washington. Now, l...

DATE: Jul 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Marked dead in Vietnam, a long journey back to life

HALLETTSVILLE, Texas – Ronald Ridgeway was “killed” in Vietnam on Feb. 25, 1968. The 18-year-old Marine Corps private first class fell with a bullet to the shoulder during a savag...

DATE: Jul 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iraqi leader celebrates in Mosul; pockets of fighting go on

MOSUL, Iraq – Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi celebrated with Iraqi troops Sunday in Mosul after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in a nearly nine-month ...

DATE: Jul 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fiery rhetoric from California to feds over $18M fire debt

LOS ANGELES – California’s emergency services director has fired off a sharply worded letter to the U.S. Forest Service that said the agency had stiffed local governments $18 million for fig...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Third mistrial in case of ex-officer accused of killing black man

TULSA, Okla. – For the third time in less than a year a jury deadlocked on Friday and forced a mistrial in the murder case of a white former Oklahoma police officer accused of killing his da...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. bombers join jets from Japan, South Korea for training mission

WASHINGTON – Two U.S. bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula to join fighter jets from South Korea and Japan for a practice bombing run as part of a training mission in response to North Korea...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World