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3 gored in Pamplona’s first running of the bulls of 2017
A 46-year-old Spanish man was undergoing surgery for serious injuries to his head and leg after he was gored and then tossed by a bull. Hospital officials said that the…
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Trump meets Putin: Talk of positive results, not of election
President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit on Friday in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/Associated Press In characteristically confident fashion, Trump said he and the Russian leader…
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Interior issues order to speed drilling permits
Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, in western Colorado, in 2013. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans Thursday to encourage oil and gas…
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Analysis: Trump’s Poland visit a study in breaking norms
President quick to break long-established rules
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Mother charged with killing 4 of her kids and their father
The five were apparently stabbed to death. A fifth child, a girl, survived and was hospitalized with injuries described as serious, police said. The woman was detained by police after…
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States sue over EPA’s decision to keep pesticide on market
Several states are seeking to join a legal challenge to a decision by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to keep a widely used pesticide on the market despite studies…
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U.S. renews offer of Syria cooperation with Russia
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the Trump administration is renewing an offer to cooperate with Russia in the Syrian conflict, including on military matters, ahead of President Donald Trump’s…
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U.S. ready to use force in North Korea but prefers trade clout
United Kingdom U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, left, listens as United States U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, responds to Russia’s statements during a United Nations Security Council meeting on North Korea’s…
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Govt supporters storm Venezuela congress, injuring lawmakers
Four lawmakers were injured and blood was splattered on the neoclassical legislature’s white walls. One of them, Americo de Grazia, had to be removed in a stretcher while suffering from…
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Almost every state resists Trump’s voter fraud commission
Even as some of the resistance centers on Trump and members of his commission, the broader responses from the states indicate a strong and widespread belief that local officials should…
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NYC officer shot to death in command post RV; gunman killed
Miosotis Familia, a 12-year member of the New York Police Department, was writing in her notebook in the front seat when the gunman strode up to the vehicle in a…
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Kim vows North Korea’s nukes are not on negotiation table
A man walks by a TV screen showing a local news program reporting about North Korea’s missile firing at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday. North Korea’s…
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U.S. celebrates July Fourth with parades, fireworks, hot dogs
Tuesday’s events even went international, as U.S. senators traveled to Afghanistan and spent the holidays with the troops and an Independence Day exhibition took Major League Baseball to London. Along…
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Venezuela high court, top prosecutor in political showdown
Ortega Diaz argued the outcome of Tuesday’s hearing was a foregone conclusion decided by the government that violates her legal right to defense and due process. “I am not going…
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Iraqi PM reaches out to Mosul civilians as battle nears end
The months-long battle to free Iraq’s second-largest city of ISIS has shown that the civilians of Mosul reject the militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was quoted as saying during a…
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Trudeau: Trump, Brexit mean new chances for Canada, Ireland
Trudeau said there are “tremendous opportunities for countries like Canada and Ireland at a time where perhaps our significant allies and trading partners … are turning inward or at least…
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North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile
The launch appeared to be North Korea’s most successful missile test yet. A U.S. scientist examining the height and distance said the missile could potentially be powerful enough to reach…
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Fourth of July brings mixed feelings for some minorities
How do you celebrate during what some people of color consider troubling times? Blacks, Latinos and immigrant rights advocates say the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, recent non-convictions of…
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In Europe, Trump gets 2nd chance to make 1st impression
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by European Council President Donald Tusk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, talks with President Donald Trump during a family photo with G7 leaders at the…
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Scientists baffled by strange sea creatures near Alaska
This Thursday, June 23, 2016, taken off the Oregon coast, shows a bucket full of pyrosomes. The tropical, filter-feeding spineless creatures usually found along the equator have been making their…
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DC appeals court orders EPA to move ahead with methane rule
Administrator Pruitt overstepped authority, court rules
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Man facing murder charges in road-rage slaying of woman, 18
Police said David Desper, of Trainer, Pa., turned himself in accompanied by an attorney early Sunday and was charged with first- and third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime…
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Trump makes push on health bill; repeal-only vote an option
Matt Slocum/Associated Press<br><br>People demonstrate against the GOP health care bill, Thursday in Philadelphia. Senate Republican leaders considered keeping one of former President Barack Obama’s big tax increases on wealthier Americans…
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Doctor who shot 7 at NYC hospital had made threats to kill
Police help people cross the street outside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York after a gunman opened fire there on Friday. The gunman, identified as Dr. Henry Bello who…
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Nevada launches sales of legal recreational marijuana
People wait in line at the Essence cannabis dispensary Saturday in Las Vegas. Nevada dispensaries were legally allowed to sell recreational marijuana starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.John Locher/Associated Press People…
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Little Rock police: 17 injured after nightclub shooting
The shooting happened at the Power Ultra Lounge, a club in a two-story building downtown about 1 mile east of the state Capitol. Police cordoned off the block as crime-scene…
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Nevada pot sites stock, check bud before legal sales fire up
Recreational marijuana sales start there today
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At least 2 people shot inside NYC hospital; gunman dead
The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, bringing police cars and firetrucks rushing to the scene and sending officers onto the roof with their guns…
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Suspect livestreams shootout with Los Angeles police
This image from video provided by KABC-TV shows the scene where a Los Angeles police officer was shot following the pursuit of a homicide suspect ending in El Segundo, Calif.,…