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Trump chooses visit to military base over DMZ
WASHINGTON - It has become something of a ritual for U.S. presidents trying to demonstrate their resolve against North Korea’s ever-escalating aggression. Beginning with Dwight Eisenhower’...
Nov 01, 2017
Japan suspect in serial killing questioned by prosecutors
TOKYO - Japanese investigators knocked on the door of a suspect’s apartment and asked him about a missing woman. “She is in here,” the man reportedly replied, pointing to a cooler bo...
Nov 01, 2017
'This Is Us' Kevin Spacey name-check goes to Christian Bale
LOS ANGELES - Christian Bale won what embattled Kevin Spacey lost: the privilege of being name-checked on “This Is Us.” Tuesday’s episode of the NBC drama included a 2008 flashback s...
Nov 01, 2017
House GOP's evolving tax bill leaves retirement plan intact
WASHINGTON - House Republicans would leave intact current tax rules on retirement accounts popular with middle class Americans and maintain a top income tax rate for million-dollar earners as negotiat...
Nov 01, 2017
Russia probe snags GOP, Democratic interests
WASHINGTON - The indictment that alleges covert foreign lobbying by two former Trump campaign officials is casting shadows on three powerful Washington lobbying and legal firms, with Democratic as wel...
Nov 01, 2017
Bowe Bergdahl judge begins deliberating sergeant's sentence
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military judge on Thursday began deliberating the punishment for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after defence attorneys asked for no prison time while prosecutors sought more than a deca...
Nov 01, 2017
Truck attack suspect is charged with terrorism offences
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant accused in the truck rampage that left eight people dead, saying he was spurred to attack by the Islamic ...
Nov 01, 2017
Former Trump adviser's guilty plea could rattle White House
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos as a “liar” and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser’s frequent con...
Nov 01, 2017
Bike path victims reflected a buzzing, diverse New York City
One of the dead was a mother of young sons from Belgium. Five had travelled from Argentina to New York with a tight-knit group of classmates to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation. The ...
Nov 01, 2017
Spain judge jails Catalan ministers, mulls leader's arrest
MADRID - A Spanish judge jailed nine former members of Catalonia’s separatist government Thursday and was deliberating a possible international arrest warrant for the region’s ousted presi...
Nov 01, 2017