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Trump administration officials meet GOP senators on tax bill

WASHINGTON – Top administration officials met privately with Republican senators Wednesday as Senate GOP tax writers put finishing touches on their high-stakes bill cutting levies on people ...

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

Lawyers push to halt Mexican citizen’s execution in Texas

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Attorneys for a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas for the abduction and slaying of his 16-year-old cousin more than two decades ago looked to the U.S. Supreme Court a...

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

FBI again finds itself unable to unlock a gunman’s cellphone

WASHINGTON – The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it mig...

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

Elton John celebrates 25 years of AIDS foundation

NEW YORK – A teary and emotional Elton John celebrated the 25th anniversary of his AIDS foundation with a gala in New York City, raising about $4.4 million and telling the audience that the...

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

Former TV anchor says Spacey sexually assaulted her son

BOSTON – A former TV news anchor said Wednesday that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her teenage son last year at a Nantucket restaurant, adding to mounting allegations of misconduct against...

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

Virginia woman makes history as openly transgender delegate

RICHMOND, Va. – A Virginia woman who is set to become the first openly transgender person to get elected and serve in a state legislature in the U.S. brushed off her historic win over one of...

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

Police: Pennsylvania trooper saves own life with tourniquet

A Pennsylvania State Police trooper who was shot several times during a traffic stop likely saved his own life by applying a tourniquet to his leg before help arrived, authorities said Wedne...

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

Barack Obama shows up in Chicago for jury duty; not chosen

CHICAGO – Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. T...

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

Authorities review video of small-town Texas church attack

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – Authorities have reviewed video from inside the small-town Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including footage that shows the assaila...

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

Top GOP senator says election losses could complicate tax reform

Republicans seeking to overhaul the federal tax code faced new head winds Wednesday, including a new $74 billion hole in their plan and political fallout from GOP losses in Tuesday’s state a...

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

Andrea Jenkins is the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in U.S.

The nation’s transgender community, after a year of tremendous opposition from state legislatures and the president, is rejoicing Tuesday over the election of Andrea Jenkins, who gender advo...

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

Ten Commandments monument to be moved to church property

FARMINGTON – A New Mexico group that erected a monument on city-owned property honoring the Ten Commandments will move it to church property. The city of Bloomfield and the organi...

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