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Facing tax vote in Senate, Trump seizes on cultural fights

WASHINGTON – Facing a critical Senate vote on his tax overhaul and a crush of December deadlines, President Donald Trump is instead putting the spotlight on a volatile collection of extraneo...

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

Matt Lauer is fired at NBC, accused of crude misconduct

NEW YORK – “Today” show host Matt Lauer was fired for what NBC on Wednesday called “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a colleague and was promptly confronted with a published report accusi...

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

List of men in media accused of sexual misconduct

NEW YORK — Since The New York Times published allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in October, multiple men in entertainment, media and polit...

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

Eni receives federal permit for US Arctic offshore drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A subsidiary of an Italian energy company has received a federal permit to drill the first oil exploration wells in U.S. Arctic waters in two years. The federa...

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

Remains of ancient sea cow unearthed on California island

The Associated Press VENTURA, Calif. – Scientists say they’ve unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the shallow waters off Southern California’s Channel Islands some...

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

Citing probes, military agency bars access to Flynn records

WASHINGTON – The Defense Intelligence Agency is refusing to release a wide array of documents related to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, saying that turning them over could i...

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

Air Force: Several dozen criminal histories not given to FBI

WASHINGTON – The Air Force said Tuesday that in addition to failing to alert the FBI to the criminal history of the former airman who massacred 26 people at a Texas church on Nov. 5, it has ...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI deviated from its policy on alerting hacking victims

WASHINGTON – The FBI deviated from its own policy to notify victims of computer hacking when it left U.S. officials and other Americans in the dark about Kremlin-aligned attempts to break in...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge sides with Trump’s pick to take over consumer agency

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump scored a victory Tuesday when a federal judge refused to block the president’s choice to temporarily run the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog and,...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Libyan cleared of murder charges in Benghazi attack

WASHINGTON – A Libyan militant was convicted Tuesday of terrorism charges stemming from the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. But a federal jur...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea fires intercontinental missile

First launch in more than two months

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Aspiring actress details allegations against Weinstein

NEW YORK – An aspiring actress who met Harvey Weinstein by chance in 2014 detailed in tears Tuesday how she said the media mogul made her stand in front of a mirror in his hotel room in Cann...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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