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Anxiety 2020: Voters worry about safety at the polls
WASHINGTON - Gary Kauffman says he does not scare easily. So when men waving President Donald Trump flags drive by his house in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he stands on his front steps and wave...
Oct 27, 2020
Best Betts: Dodgers win first World Series title since 1988
ARLINGTON, Texas - Mookie Betts came to the Dodgers to make a World Series difference. With a mad dash to home plate, he put Los Angeles over the top. The end of a frustrating championship drought for...
Oct 27, 2020
US accuses Syria of delaying constitution ahead of election
TANZANIA, Tanzania - The United States and several Western allies on Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time until presidential ...
Oct 27, 2020
Store guard stabbed 27 times for asking women to wear masks
CHICAGO - Two sisters accused of stabbing a West Side Chicago store security guard 27 times with a knife after he asked them to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer were ordered held without bond Tu...
Oct 27, 2020
UN urges Libyan rivals to implement cease-fire, pursue peace
TANZANIA, Tanzania - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the permanent cease-fire agreement signed by the rival sides in Libya and called on the parties to implement it and "show the same de...
Oct 27, 2020
Virus pushes twin cities El Paso and Juarez to the brink
A record surge in coronavirus cases is pushing hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the tig...
Oct 27, 2020
Thai student-protesters aim for ambitious political change
BANGKOK - He was only 7 when he saw his first military coup. He was 15 during the second. Now 21, he is among those at the front of Thailand's growing pro-democracy movement pushing for sweeping polit...
Oct 27, 2020
Peru's Machu Picchu reopening Sunday after pandemic closure
MACHU PICCHU, Peru - Except workers repairing roads and signs, Peru's majestic Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is eerily empty ahead of its reopening Sunday after seven months of closure due to the coro...
Oct 27, 2020
Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim
NEW ORLEANS - Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves Tuesday for yet another tropical weather strike as Tropical Storm Zeta took aim at southeast Louisiana, fraying the nerves o...
Oct 27, 2020
Collins votes against Barrett, heads home to save Senate job
PORTLAND, Maine - When Republican Sen. Susan Collins had to vote on a Supreme Court justice in 2018, she deliberated under the spotlight for weeks, building suspense that ended with a dramatic floor s...
Oct 27, 2020