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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
Philadelphia victim's family sought ambulance, not police
PHILADELPHIA - The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers in a shooting caught on video had called for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police in...
Oct 27, 2020
Utility: Winds too weak to cut power before California fire
LOS ANGELES - Facing extreme wildfire conditions this week that included hurricane-level winds, the main utility in Northern California cut power to nearly 1 million people while its counterpart in So...
Oct 27, 2020
Biden vows to unify and save country; Trump hits Midwest
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. - Joe Biden travelled Tuesday to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio to declare the U.S. is not too politically diseased to overcome its health and ...
Oct 27, 2020