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Tropical Storm Beta spurs hurricane worries for Texas

Beta is forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday.

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Published 47m at 10:38 PM

Police: 2 dead, 14 wounded at party in Rochester, New York

Authorities in Rochester, New York, say a mass shooting has resulted in fatalities.

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Published 51m at 10:33 PM

Homes destroyed after winds push California fire into desert

The El Dorado Fire has burned more than 33 square miles and was 65% contained, with 10 buildings destroyed and six damaged.

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Published 55m at 10:30 PM

US says all UN sanctions on Iran restored, but world balks

The U.S. move faces stiff opposition from the other members of the U.N. Security Council who have vowed to ignore it.

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Published 1h at 10:20 PM

AP source: Envelope addressed to White House contained ricin

Federal officials intercepted an envelope addressed to the White House that contained the poison ricin, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.

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Published 1h at 9:28 PM

Trump pledges woman for court, pushes Senate to move on pick

President Donald Trump on Saturday promised to put forth a female nominee in the coming week to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pushing the Republican-controlled Senate to consider the pick without delay.

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Published 2h at 8:32 PM

Trump backs proposed TikTok deal with Oracle, Walmart

President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he’s targeted for national security and data privacy concerns.

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Published 2h at 8:30 PM

Trump to Senate: Vote ‘without delay’ on his high court pick

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday cast an immediate spotlight on the vacancy on the high court, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to bring President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vote with just over six weeks before the election.

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Published 5:18 PM at 5:18 PM

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.

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Published 2:17 PM at 2:17 PM

Ginsburg to be remembered with statue in her native Brooklyn

Cuomo, a Democrat, said that he’ll appoint a commission to choose an artist and oversee the selection of a location for the statue.

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Published 11:53 AM at 11:53 AM

Flowers, homemade signs by high court in Ginsburg tribute

A large group of mourners packed the high court’s steps and the street across from the U.S. Capitol in a nighttime memorial.

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Published 11:24 AM at 11:24 AM

After wildfire smoke clears, protests resume in Portland

Photos show that smoke was used to clear the crowd, and it appeared that tear gas was deployed.

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Published 8:38 AM at 8:38 AM

Russia’s Navalny says he’s now more than ‘technically alive’

Navalny was kept in an induced coma for more than a week while being treated with an antidote.

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Published 7:47 AM at 7:47 AM

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattles southern California

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Southern California late Friday night.

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Published 6:31 AM at 6:31 AM

Iran vows to go after Americans who killed top general

U.S. President Donald Trump warned this week that Washington would harshly respond to any Iranian attempts to take revenge for the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

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Published 5:12 AM at 5:12 AM

A firefighter has died battling a wildfire in California that officials say was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby’s gender.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 11:39 PM

Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday when President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaign to mark the beginning of early voting.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 7:21 PM

Stopgap bill to prevent shutdown held up over farm funding

House Democrats on Friday prepared a temporary spending bill that is needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month — and that would allow lawmakers to leave Washington to campaign.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Hundreds of thousands still without power in Sally cleanup

Baldwin County coroner Dr. Brian Pierce said the death in the Foley area and was of someone who was involved in storm cleanup.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Manager ordered census layoffs despite judge’s ruling

It was unclear whether such actions would violate U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s temporary restraining order prohibiting the Census Bureau from winding down field operations while she considers a request to extend the headcount by a month.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 5:25 PM

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially returned to its previous testing guidance, getting rid of language posted last month that said people who didn’t feel sick didn’t need to get tested.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Canada extends U.S. border restrictions to Oct. 21

Americans who are returning to the U.S. and Canadians who are returning to Canada are also exempted from the border closure.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 10:49 AM

Tropical Storm Wilfred forms, using last Atlantic storm name in record time

The storm comes amid a very active hurricane season in the Atlantic and “Wilfred” is the last name on the Hurricane Center’s list of storm names for the season.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 10:26 AM

Pope seeks to ‘liberate’ Virgin Mary from the Mafia

The Catholic Church in Italy has long been associated with the Mafia, thanks in part to their post-war common cause against communism. Pope Francis said the religious and cultural image and patrimony of the Madonna “must be preserved in its original purity.”

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Published September 18, 2020 at 9:28 AM

Kremlin chafes at Navalny team taking suspected evidence

Members of the Navalny team said they searched his hotel room in the city of Tomsk upon learning that he collapsed on the flight home.

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Published September 18, 2020 at 8:53 AM

‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris arrested on child porn charges

Jerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” was arrested Thursday on felony charges of production of child pornography.

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Published September 17, 2020 at 9:27 PM

‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77

Winston Groom, the author of the novel “Forrest Gump” that was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a pop cultural phenomenon, has died.

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Published September 17, 2020 at 9:20 PM

US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail

A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election.

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Published September 17, 2020 at 9:13 PM

Gulf Coast braces for 2nd round of flooding in Sally’s wake

Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding in the coming days from rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains

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Published September 17, 2020 at 8:14 PM

Ex-Pence adviser says Trump bungled virus; she’s for Biden

Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term.

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Published September 17, 2020 at 6:32 PM

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