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Utilities warn that power could be out for days in Northeast

HARTFORD, Conn. – A severe storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and soaking rain swept through the Northeast early Monday, knocking out power for nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Menendez defense rests case in bribery and fraud trial

NEWARK, N.J. – The defense in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez rested its case Monday, shortly after the judge turned down a bid to have a mistrial declared over his rulings durin...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Health law sign-ups start, and some see a ‘hostile takeover’

WASHINGTON – It’s sign-up season for the Affordable Care Act, but the Trump administration isn’t making it easy – cutting the enrollment period in half, slashing advertising and dialing back...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

On stand, Bergdahl apologizes to those hurt looking for him

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – In an unexpected and emotional statement, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl apologized in court Monday to all the military personnel who were wounded searching for him and described...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Native American activist Dennis Banks dies at age 80

Dennis Banks, who helped found the American Indian Movement and engaged in sometimes-violent uprisings against the U.S. government, including the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, di...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump fumes as Mueller probe enters new phase with charges

WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Muller’s charges Monday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Ru...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

First guilty plea, indictment of Trump aides in Russia probe

WASHINGTON – In a black Monday for Donald Trump’s White House, the special counsel investigating possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump presidential campaign announced the f...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poll finds most have little fear of robots taking jobs

WASHINGTON – Most Americans believe their jobs, and the jobs of those they live with, are safe from automation – at least for the next decade, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center fo...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ship with sailors rescued at sea reaches U.S. base in Okinawa

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Japan – A U.S. Navy ship carrying two sailors it rescued from their storm-battered sailboat in the Pacific docked Monday at an American naval base in Japan. ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Penance’ for Iraq war vote: N.C. congressman writes to families of dead troops

RALEIGH, N.C. – On a Sunday morning more than two weeks after four U.S. soldiers were ambushed and killed in Niger, Rep. Walter Jones sat at the desk in his North Carolina office, doing what...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Menendez attorneys file for mistrial over judge’s rulings

NEWARK, N.J. – The judge in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, and a wealthy friend is facing another decision on a motion for a mistrial. Attorne...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

It will be a tale of 2 countries as open enrollment begins

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act have health care advocates and insurers concerned that the open enrollment period will be one of cha...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World