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GOP senators say fate of ‘dreamers’ must wait for next year

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Republican senators agreed not to deal with a needed fix for young immigrants in must-pass year-end spending legislation, according to some GOP lawmak...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump nominates Jerome Powell to be next Fed chairman

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who ha...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Weinstein’s ex-company wants sworn testimony from producer

DOVER, Del. – Attorneys for the company co-founded by film mogul Harvey Weinstein told a judge Thursday they want to depose him in a lawsuit he filed seeking his employment file and emails. ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Manafort attacks special counsel’s case as ‘embellished’

WASHINGTON – Accused of multiple financial crimes, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on Thursday attacked the strength of the evidence against him, saying the case brought by...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California fire victims seek housing in tight, pricey market

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Raj Sodhi, his wife, Lucia Cascio and their 11-year-old twins turned into nomads for more than three weeks after a wildfire gutted their California wine country home – l...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump’s tweets seen as unlikely to slow New York terror case

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for the death penalty for the man charged in the New York truck rampage could give defense attorneys grounds to argue that Trump has poison...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Big GOP tax bill would cut rates _ but also popular breaks

WASHINGTON – With fanfare and a White House kickoff, House Republicans unfurled a broad tax-overhaul plan Thursday that would touch virtually all Americans and the economy’s every corner, mi...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House: N. Korea could be listed as terrorism sponsor

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser says North Korea could be returned to the list of countries the U.S. believes sponsor terrorism, as part of Trump’s strategy t...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Baby gene therapy study offers hope for fatal muscle disease

WASHINGTON – A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots’ lives, and some began to roll over, sit ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

US revisits proposed protections for imperiled fly

BILLINGS, Mont. – U.S. wildlife managers are revisiting a pending proposal to protect a rare, cold-water insect, after scientists confirmed its presence in new locations in Wyoming and Monta...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2 women, 2 decisions: Going public on Harvey Weinstein

NEW YORK – Day by day, the accusations pile up, as scores of women come forward to say they were victims of Harvey Weinstein. But others with stories to tell have not. For some of...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bike path victims reflected a buzzing, diverse New York City

One of the dead was a mother of young sons from Belgium. Five had traveled from Argentina to New York with a tight-knit group of classmates to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduat...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World