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2 men in a truck chase down Texas church shooter: ‘Let’s go’

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – A former National Rifle Association instructor who grabbed his rifle and ran barefoot across the street to open fire on the gunman who slaughtered 26 people at a ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Anthony Weiner reports to prison for sexting conviction

AYER, Mass. – Former Rep. Anthony Weiner reported to prison Monday to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner is being held at the Federal Medical Ce...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Storms rip through East, Midwest; 2 dead in flooded home

A powerful storm with straight-line winds and possible tornadoes tore roofs off factories, ripped away storefronts and destroyed homes across Indiana, Ohio and into Pennsylvania, and on Mond...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jury gets Menendez case after lawyers make last arguments

NEWARK, N.J. – After nine weeks of testimony and nearly eight hours of closing arguments spread over two days, a jury began deliberating Monday in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez of N...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas church gunman sent hostile text messages before attack

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church had a history of domestic violence and sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, a member ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mattis faces questions from allies on Islamic State strategy

HELSINKI – As the Islamic State group loses its remaining strongholds in Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is facing a growing chorus of questions from NATO allies and partners ab...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrats’ disarray on eve of Virginia governor’s race foreshadows problems

A rainy get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax on Saturday night was a fitting coda to a rough week for Virginia Democrats. Virginians finally head to the polls on Tuesday in what’s be...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UK leader calls for end to ‘abuses of power’ amid sex claims

LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May called Monday for greater effort to stamp out “abuses of power” in public life amid what she called troubling allegations of sexual harassment and...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge not ready to remove ex-Trump aides from house arrest

WASHINGTON – A federal judge said Monday that she was inclined to remove from house arrest two former aides to President Donald Trump’s campaign now facing criminal charges but would not do ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Violence followed Texas church gunman after high school

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – Wherever Devin Patrick Kelley went after graduating from high school, a trail of violence followed. In New Mexico, Kelley was kicked out of the Air Force fo...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

East Germany’s answer to the Volkswagen was this nostalgia-inducing 26-horsepower clunker

WASHINGTON – Growing up in communist-controlled Hungary in the 1980s, Judit Csonka remembered her hair blowing in the wind as the compact, cream-colored sedan cruised down the highway from B...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Church where shooting took place was center of community

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – The most recent sermon posted on YouTube by the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, shows him explaining why he had parked a motorcyc...

DATE: Nov 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World