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Little aid for quake-stricken Mexican town
JOJUTLA, Mexico -- On a map roughly drawn on scraps of cardboard, the volunteers used bottle caps to mark the places they needed to search.
"There are many families asking us for help in these areas," said one volunteer, tracing streets drawn in Sharpie with his finger. "But they're really dangerous to get to."
Nonetheless, the volunteers ...Read more
Here are the major questions before the Supreme Court this fall
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court opens its new term Oct. 2 and will quickly take up major disputes involving President Donald Trump, immigration policy, religious liberty, gay rights and partisan gerrymandering.
Here are the major questions before the court this fall:
Trump and the travel ban
Can Trump temporarily block the entry of foreign ...Read more
As retirement costs rise at the University of California, so does tuition
As parents and students start writing checks for the first in-state tuition increase in seven years at the University of California, they hope the extra money will buy a better education.
But much of that new money -- perhaps tens of millions of dollars -- will go to pay for the faculty's increasingly generous retirement benefits.
Last year, ...Read more
Analysis: Bully pulpit laced with race
WASHINGTON -- For much of his time as president, Donald Trump has been the bully in the bully pulpit, castigating targets foreign and domestic. Much of Trump's bluster attempts to divide people into us-against-them, and it often has a single polarizing agent: race.
On Friday night, as he has many times before, Trump inflamed an almost ...Read more
22 arrested in another protest of St. Louis officer's acquittal
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. –– Police arrested at least 22 people in a protest at a St. Louis suburban shopping mall Saturday afternoon, called to further protest the acquittal last week of a white police officer in the shooting death of a black man.
Police made the arrests and cleared the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights after some in the ...Read more
US planes fly off North Korean coast in 'show of force'
WASHINGTON -- American bombers and fighter jets flew along North Korea's eastern coastline Saturday in a "show of force" that was closer to the rogue nation's border than any other mission this century, the Pentagon reported.
The predawn flight followed a North Korean threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean.
Dana White, chief ...Read more
Independence vote puts Iraqi Kurds at odds with neighbors and allies
IRBIL, Iraq -- For the jubilant, flag-waiving throngs who filled rallies across Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave in recent weeks, a vote on independence Monday is a chance to realize a dream cherished for generations.
But every major player in the region opposes the referendum, placing the Kurds on a collision course with neighbors and ...Read more
Trump's star power tested in Alabama Senate race
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- President Donald Trump has tweeted and rallied, cajoled and extolled in his all-out effort to save Sen. Luther Strange of Alabama, who is struggling to survive a Republican runoff against an opponent embraced by much of the president's own base.
And as the contest nears its end, the race Tuesday is emerging as a test of ...Read more
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An Act of War
Michael K. McMahan$4.99
When Lt. Travis Kelly kills a North Vietnamese officer near the Cambodian border in 1969, he tries hard to put the incident--and the rest of the Vietnam War--behind him. But like so many of Travis's experience in the war, this one comes continues to haunt him decades ...
Far-right gathering in Berkeley is called off
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Organizers of a far-right event planned for the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, have told the school that all of the events scheduled for the coming week have been canceled, officials said Saturday.
Representatives of the student group Berkeley Patriot informed the university that Free Speech Week, which ...Read more
Unrelenting water imperils Puerto Ricans
LOIZA, Puerto Rico--Spend a day wending down unpredictable country roads outside San Juan and the hurt Hurricane Maria inflicted on Puerto Rico becomes crushingly evident.
Maria drenched town after town east of the capital, dumping so much water that people who had already lost their roofs to the Category 4 storm's winds, and then saw their few...Read more
China will restrict oil exports to North Korea
BEIJING -- China will soon begin restricting oil exports to North Korea, the country's Commerce Ministry announced Saturday, marking a major step by Pyongyang's top ally and trading partner to further isolate the country from the global economy.
China said the new restrictions are in accordance with United Nations sanctions leveled against the ...Read more
Another earthquake jolts Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- A new earthquake sent Mexico City residents streaming onto the streets early Saturday, creating more alarm in a country still trying to recover from two powerful earthquakes over the past three weeks.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday's magnitude 6.1 earthquake, which hit just before 8 a.m., was centered about 12 miles ...Read more
Americans should be wary of Cuban humanitarian fund
After Hurricane Irma's devastating 72-hour pass through northern Cuba, the Cuban government took a novel approach to storm relief: It posted a Cuban bank account number on social media where donations can be sent.
Even though the Cuban Foreign Ministry provided the code to facilitate donations to an account at the government Banco Financiera ...Read more
Iran tests new ballistic missile
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has successfully tested a new ballistic missile that can carry multiple warheads and travel up to 1,242 miles, state media reported Saturday.
The launch comes after U.S. President Donald Trump told world leaders at the United Nations this week that the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran was "an embarrassment" and "one of the ...Read more
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