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Trump budget faces Dem opposition, GOP doubts about math
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s budget chief delivered a spirited defence of the plan’s deep spending cuts, but his agriculture secretary offered only a half-hearted endorsement of p...
May 24, 2017
Foreign meetings omitted from Sessions' security clearance
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose contacts with foreign dignitaries, including the Russian ambassador, on a security clearance form he submitted as a United States senator l...
May 24, 2017
Writers Guild overwhelmingly ratifies new 3-year contract
LOS ANGELES - Members of the Writers Guild of America have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract with television and film producers. The guild announced Wednesday that the new agreement pa...
May 24, 2017
Sextuplets thriving after delivery at Virginia hospital
RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia hospital says its staff has successfully delivered sextuplets and the three boys and three girls are thriving. VCU Medical Center in Richmond announced the births in a state...
May 24, 2017
Science Says: What's known and not known about marijuana
NEW YORK - A new marijuana study joins a limited record of scientific knowledge about the harms and benefits of pot. The research published Wednesday is the first rigorous test of a marijuana compound...
May 24, 2017
On the Syrian border, Haley confronts civil war's reality
President Donald Trump’s U.N. envoy set foot Wednesday in the no-man’s-land between Syria and Turkey, witnessing the precarious transfer of aid supplies into a seemingly interminable confl...
May 24, 2017
US announces sanctions on alleged Mexican heroin trafficker
MEXICO CITY - The U.S. government is imposing sanctions on alleged Mexican drug traffickers described by the Treasury Department as “major contributors to our nation’s heroin epidemic.R...
May 24, 2017
Treasury chief to Congress: Raise debt limit before August
WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told lawmakers on Wednesday that they should vote to increase the government’s borrowing authority - and avert a disastrous economic default - befo...
May 24, 2017
Argentina authorities raid Odebrecht offices in Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine federal agents searched the offices of the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht in Buenos Aires on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged bribe...
May 24, 2017
Boston Marathon-bomber friend's family sue agents over death
ORLANDO, Fla. - The parents of a Chechen man who was fatally shot while being questioned in Florida about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect in 2013 have sued four law enforcement agents for wrongful d...
May 24, 2017