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Woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart to be released
SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart said Tuesday that she’s been assured the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be closely watched when she&...
Sep 19, 2018
UK police: possible hate crime outside Muslim centre; 3 hurt
LONDON - British police are investigating a possible hate crime after a car hit pedestrians near a Muslim community centre, injuring three people. Police were called early Wednesday morning after a co...
Sep 19, 2018
'Up in the air': If displaced by storm, where to call home?
BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. - As the pounding rains from Hurricane Florence finally ended, Lutrice Garcia left the shelter where she had spent several nights on a cot and tried to head home. But floodwaters f...
Sep 19, 2018
Feeling your pain: Presidents tread tricky disaster politics
WASHINGTON - The politics of natural disasters can be tricky for a president. Long before President Donald Trump tossed paper towels to storm-stricken Puerto Ricans and denied Hurricane Maria’s ...
Sep 19, 2018
Fate of FEMA leader in doubt as Florence cleanup continues
WASHINGTON - While Hurricane Florence barrelled through the Carolinas, a different type of storm was brewing within the federal disaster relief agency tasked with responding to the fallout. The fate o...
Sep 19, 2018
Analysis: Summit could be domestic win for S. Korean leader
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The Korean leaders’ surprisingly substantive summit announcement is a huge step toward a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula - and a Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong ...
Sep 19, 2018
Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names
PINHAO, Portugal - The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that ca...
Sep 19, 2018
EU looks to Egypt, Africa for help with migrant challenge
SALZBURG, Austria - European Union leaders agreed Thursday to enter talks with Egypt to help stem the flow of migrants entering Europe from Africa, offering to step up economic co-operation and the pr...
Sep 19, 2018
Report: South Sudan troops raped, killed while peace pursued
JUBA, South Sudan - With “staggering brutality,” South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armoured v...
Sep 19, 2018
New landslide kills 21, buries houses in Philippines
NAGA, Philippines - A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday, killing at least 21 people and sending rescuers scrambling to find survivors after some sent...
Sep 19, 2018