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Not real news: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Pres...

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

Interior Secretary Zinke says Democrats holding agency’s nominees ‘hostage’

They have ‘nothing to do with monument review’ he says

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

Subject of Colorado manhunt handed 35-year prison sentence

FORT COLLINS – A Colorado man who evaded police for 14 hours during a manhunt in March has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to seven felony charges. The ...

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

Sexual misconduct accusations transform Alabama Senate race

WASHINGTON – Republicans weren’t supposed to have to worry about Alabama. Yet in the span of a tumultuous afternoon, a low-profile special election became a Republican nightmare t...

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

Alaska lawmaker sees financial boon in refuge drilling

WASHINGTON – Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says her legislation to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling would generate $2 billion in royalties over the next dec...

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

Four possible explanations for the shocking Obamacare enrollment figures

Americans are flocking to Healthcare.gov in greater numbers than ever before in a development that runs precisely contrary to the doom-and-gloom everyone had predicted for this enrollment se...

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

How 1-year Trump rally stacks up against other presidents

Donald Trump warned that the stock market was a “big, fat, ugly bubble” just weeks before he was elected. A year later, Wall Street remains on a milestone-shattering run that the president h...

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

Family: Woman died shielding grandson during church massacre

DALLAS – Sunday school teacher Peggy Warden threw herself in front of her grandson when a gunman opened fire onto the congregation at First Baptist Church, getting fatally shot as she protec...

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

Church shooting victims face many obstacles in court

CHICAGO – Texas church shooting victims and their families could have a hard time successfully suing the government over the Air Force’s failure to submit the gunman’s criminal history to th...

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

What’s next in the criminal probe of Harvey Weinstein

NEW YORK – A criminal investigation by New York police into 2010 rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein does not necessarily mean an arrest is imminent. A look at the case and ...

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

Sheriff: Wildfires point to usefulness of old technology

UKIAH, Calif. – Wildfires that killed nine people in a remote Northern California county last month also crippled land lines, cellphones and internet service, the local sheriff said Thursday...

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

GOP leaders bolt from Senate candidate Moore after sex claim

WASHINGTON – A month before Alabama’s special election, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore abruptly faced lurid allegations Thursday of sexual misconduct with minors decades ago – and an ...

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