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Muslims in N.J. city fear another backlash after latest attack

PATERSON, N.J. – In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest te...

Menendez jury hears competing theories in closing arguments

NEWARK, N.J. – Jurors in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez heard competing narratives during closing arguments Thursday, with the prosecution calling him the “personal senator” of a wea...

Russia hackers pursued Putin foes, not just US Democrats

WASHINGTON – It wasn’t just Hillary Clinton’s emails they went after. The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election last year had ambitions that stretched across the gl...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...