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Thanksgiving tribe reclaims language lost to colonization
MASHPEE, Mass. - The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language, one schoolchild at a time. “Weeso...
Nov 21, 2017
Conyers confirms harassment settlement; ethics probe opens
DETROIT - John Conyers has dealt with various ethics investigations and a public corruption case that landed his wife in prison during a U.S. House career spanning more than five decades - longer than...
Nov 21, 2017
Jury weighing fate of suspect in San Francisco pier killing
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors on Tuesday started weighing the fate of a Mexican man who was in the United States illegally when he shot a woman on a San Francisco pier in a killing that stirred up another fi...
Nov 21, 2017
FBI: Border agent's death a 'potential assault '
DALLAS - An FBI official said Tuesday that the bureau is investigating the death of a border patrol agent and severe injuries to another as “potential assault,” but he wouldn’t rule ...
Nov 21, 2017
Manson has endured as the face of evil for nearly 50 years
LOS ANGELES - Other killers snuffed out far more lives than Charles Manson did in 1969. Yet he has endured for nearly a half century as the personification of evil, even in an age in which mass shooti...
Nov 21, 2017
US first loosened limits on lion trophies, then elephants
WASHINGTON - One month before the Trump administration sparked outrage by reversing a ban on trophies from threatened African elephants, federal officials quietly loosened restrictions on the importat...
Nov 21, 2017
Trump, Putin discuss Syria, NKorea, more in hour-plus call
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed efforts to bring peace to war-torn Syria during an hour-plus phone call on Tuesday. Iran, North Korea and Ukraine also w...
Nov 21, 2017
A look at the 4 countries the US says sponsor terrorism
TOKYO - North Korea is on its way back onto a very short list of countries the United States says sponsor terrorism. The designation, announced by President Donald Trump on Monday, will expand the alr...
Nov 21, 2017
Myanmar treatment of Rohingya called apartheid in new report
BANGKOK - Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that r...
Nov 21, 2017
Coming out as trans just start of journey for teen, family
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - It was May of seventh grade, and 14-year-old Theo Ramos was in a new school. Perhaps because it was an arts magnet program, or because it was a diverse place, kids and adults seemed ...
Nov 21, 2017