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Minnesota, Poland and Argentina compete to host World’s Fair

MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota is hoping to host the first World’s Fair on U.S. soil in nearly 40 years, but it will have to overcome bids by Poland’s third-largest city, Lodz, and the Argentine ca...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Frozen treats, other supplies rocketing toward space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A stash of frozen treats and other supplies rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday, this time from Virginia’s cold eastern shore. NASA’s ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In Florida, all eyes on Puerto Rican voters after Maria

MIAMI – Javier Gonzalez has joined a human tide of more than 130,000 U.S. citizens arriving in Florida since Hurricane Maria wrecked Puerto Rico, grateful for a place to start over but resen...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hundreds in Hollywood march against sexual harassment

LOS ANGELES – Armed with signs, catchy phrases and a motivation to take #MeToo beyond the internet and into real life, a few hundred women, men and children gathered Sunday among the sex sho...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Veterans Day marked with parades, somber ceremonies

Americans honored their military veterans Saturday with a parade in the wintry cold of New York City, where one World War II vet thanked onlookers for remembering, and in a somber ceremony i...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

George Takei, Richard Dreyfuss respond in harassment scandal

NEW YORK – George Takei took to Twitter on Saturday to deny groping a male model and Richard Dreyfuss said he never exposed himself to a female writer helping him with a TV script, both back...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

His Asia trip winding down, Trump meets with allies

MANILA, Philippines – President Donald Trump is winding down his lengthy Asia trip with an international summit and a series of meetings with Pacific Rim allies, including his host in the Ph...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chairman: House won’t agree to nix property tax deduction

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House’s tax-writing committee said Sunday that he’s confident that chamber won’t go along with the Senate’s proposal to eliminate the deduction for property ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills more than 140

TEHRAN, Iran – A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than 140 people and injuring 860 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas town holds 1st Sunday service since church attack

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – Hundreds of mourners crowded into the tiny town of Sutherland Springs for the first Sunday service since a gunman stormed the First Baptist Church a week earlier,...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Roy Moore says allegations are intended to derail Senate bid

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. – A defiant Roy Moore on Saturday insisted the allegations of sexual misconduct decades ago were false and voters in Alabama would “see through this charade.” ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Community to honor church attack victims on Veterans Day

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – Veterans Day has special meaning this year in the small South Texas community where a church massacre occurred last weekend. Nearly half of the victims had ties t...

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