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'You're my guy': Top Senate Dem urges Jaime Harrison to challenge Lindsey Graham
WASHINGTON -- Days after announcing his exploratory bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in 2020, Democrat Jaime Harrison might have already secured the support of key national Democratic ...Read more
Republicans rally around Trump after McCabe's assertions
WASHINGTON -- Republicans have launched a counteroffensive to discredit former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe's reports that Justice Department officials discussed removing President Donald Trump from office.
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House Democrats to file resolution on Trump's border emergency
WASHINGTON -- Democrats in the U.S. House plan to file a resolution on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's emergency declaration to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.
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Roger Stone moving out of his Fort Lauderdale home — even if judge doesn't lock him up
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Even before finding out if a federal judge will revoke his bail and lock him up, Roger Stone has decided to move out of his $9,500-a-month home in a luxury neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale.
A "For ...Read more
California lawmakers propose soda tax, outlawing super-size sugary drinks
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California restaurants and stores would be prohibited from selling "Big Gulp"-style sodas and consumers would face taxes on sugar-sweetened soft drinks under bills announced Wednesday by five state ...Read more
Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico -- Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter at a shuttered factory ...Read more
Putin edges closer to renewed arms race
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the Trump administration Wednesday against basing intermediate-range missiles in Europe, saying that Moscow would respond by deploying new weapons of its own that could ...Read more
Small, icy and elusive: Scientists discover a new moon at Neptune that Voyager missed
When Voyager II flew past Neptune in August of 1989 it revealed a complex system of 13 moons, six of which had never been seen before.
Thirty years later, scientists say the space probe missed one.
Using data from the ...Read more
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Trump says release of Mueller report will be 'totally' up to new AG Barr
WASHINGTON -- During a Wednesday meeting with his Austrian counterpart, President Donald J. Trump said the release of special counsel Robert S. ...Read more
At least 49 killed in Bangladesh multi-building fire
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- At least 49 people were killed in an overnight fire that engulfed several buildings in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, a rescue official said early Thursday.
Ali Ahmed Khan, director general of the ...Read more
Trump says release of Mueller report will be 'totally' up to new AG Barr
WASHINGTON -- During a Wednesday meeting with his Austrian counterpart, President Donald J. Trump said the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report would be "totally" up to Attorney General William Barr.
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Alabama Republicans aren't stressing a Roy Moore redux as Senate primary kicks off
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Republican Rep. Bradley Byrne launched his Senate campaign Wednesday, kicking off the contest to take on one of the most vulnerable senators in the country: Democrat Doug Jones.
"Look in Washington ...Read more
University of Washington Medicine mistakenly exposed information on nearly 1 million patients
SEATTLE -- The medical files of nearly 1 million patients of University of Washington Medicine were visible on the internet for at least three weeks in December, UW Medicine said Wednesday.
The files, which were exposed ...Read more
Coast Guard officer accused of plotting to kill Democratic politicians, TV news personalities
WASHINGTON -- A Coast Guard lieutenant living in a Washington suburb stockpiled weapons and plotted to kill prominent liberal politicians and television news personalities, federal prosecutors said.
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Trump says US won't take back Alabama woman who joined ISIS
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he's told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to bar an Alabama woman who joined Islamic State and now expresses remorse from returning to the U.S.
"I have instructed Secretary of ...Read more
'Day care fight club' in St. Louis will be investigated by Missouri attorney general
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said Wednesday his office would investigate a St. Louis day care where 3- and 4-year-olds were filmed engaging in fist fights.
The announcement came two weeks ...Read more
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