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Trump aims for moon, pulls back on space station, telescopes
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Under President Donald Trump’s 2019 p...
Feb 12, 2018
Pick to help run 2020 Census no longer under consideration
The Trump administration’s pick for a key position overseeing the 2020 Census is out, the Commerce Department confirmed Monday, as civil rights groups applauded the decision. A Commerce Departme...
Feb 12, 2018
Feds: Military impersonator used helicopter to impress woman
RALEIGH, N.C. - A man pretending to be a three-star U.S. Army general wanted to impress a woman when he unexpectedly landed in a chartered helicopter at the headquarters of a North Carolina technology...
Feb 12, 2018
14 worms pulled from woman's eye after rare infection
NEW YORK - An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. Fourteen tiny worms were removed from the left eye o...
Feb 12, 2018
Interior to replace Obama-era rule on methane emissions
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is replacing an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands. A rule being published in the Fed...
Feb 12, 2018
NKorea still holds the key after US shifts policy on talks
WASHINGTON - The U.S. is open for talks without preconditions with nuclear North Korea, Vice-President Mike Pence has declared, subtly shifting White House policy after Olympics-inspired gestures of r...
Feb 12, 2018
White House says Trump takes domestic violence seriously
WASHINGTON - Facing another day of fallout, the White House on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s failure to acknowledge publicly the women who’ve accused former staff secretary Rob ...
Feb 12, 2018
Boston police tweet about Red Auerbach called 'tone-deaf'
Boston’s police commissioner apologized Monday after the department faced heavy criticism for a now-deleted Black History Month tweet that celebrated a white man. The original post on the depart...
Feb 12, 2018
North Korea leader impressed with South's delegation welcome
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday it is important to continue a reconciliatory mood between the Koreas and expressed satisfaction with the North Korean delegatio...
Feb 12, 2018
Alberta woman returns home after successful cancer surgery in the U.S.
SEVEN PERSONS, AB. – Tanya Ellis is beyond thrilled to be home from Houston, Texas after receiving life changing surgery. Ellis had a cancerous tumour removed from the underside of her liver fou...
Feb 12, 2018