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3-2-1, BAM! Georgia Dome imploded in downtown Atlanta

ATLANTA – One of the nation’s largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of dust in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta. Nearly ...

Trump promises Americans ‘huge tax cut’ for Christmas

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday promised a tax overhaul by Christmas, even as a nonpartisan tax analysis group said the Senate package would leave half of taxpayers facing high...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe ignores calls to quit, faces impeachment

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabweans mobilized Monday for a major push to oust President Robert Mugabe, an increasingly isolated figure who faces impeachment proceedings and more street demonstrat...

Germany faces uncertainty after coalition talks break down

BERLIN – Germany, Europe’s largest economy and anchor of stability, is facing the prospect of months of political uncertainty after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives were unable to fo...

New allegation against Franken, this time met with silence

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A woman says Al Franken pulled her in tightly and put his hand on her buttocks in 2010 while posing for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair, the second allegation of impr...

Opioid crisis cost $504B in 2015, higher than once thought

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Monday that the opioid epidemic is “ravaging so many American families and communities.” It also appears to be more expensive than previously thought...

Charles Manson, whose brutality made him face of evil, dead

LOS ANGELES – Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after masterminding the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six...

Mixed signals sent on fate of tax bill’s health provision

WASHINGTON – Two of President Donald Trump’s leading economic advisers sent mixed signals Sunday on the fate of a health care provision in the Senate version of a $1.5 trillion measure to ov...

Trump voices doubt about trophy hunting policy

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed more doubts about a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported, appearing to question whether “th...

Trump era sparks new debate about nuclear war authority

WASHINGTON – It’s hard to overstate how thoroughly the U.S. military has prepared for doomsday – the day America gets into a nuclear shooting war. No detail seems to have been ove...

Figure known as ‘Crocodile’ could replace Zimbabwe president

JOHANNESBURG — Emmerson Mnangagwa, elected Sunday as the new leader of Zimbabwe’s ruling political party and positioned to take over as the country’s leader, has engineered a remarkable come...

Capitol Hill roiled by sexual harassment claims - old and new

WASHINGTON – The ongoing deluge of sexual harassment allegations on Capitol Hill has put old claims – including those against President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton – in th...