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AP FACT CHECK: Defending border wall, Trump misstates facts
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is, at once, demanding billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury for a border wall and insisting the wall won’t really cost America anything. As he’s d...
Jan 04, 2019
Trump says shutdown could last for 'months or even years'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared Friday he could keep parts of the government shut down for “months or even years” as he and Democratic leaders failed in a second closed-door m...
Jan 04, 2019
House Dems urge sweeping reforms to boost voting, ethics
WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Friday unveiled a comprehensive elections and ethics reform package that targets what they call a “culture of corruption in Washington” and aims to reduce t...
Jan 04, 2019
Fragmentation helps Netanyahu re-election hopes
JERUSALEM - Barring a devastating legal ruling against him in a series of corruption allegations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks to be cruising toward re-election and a historic fifth...
Jan 04, 2019
Tropical storm's rain, surging seas strike Thai beaches
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand - Rain, wind and surging seawater from a tropical storm buffeted coastal villages and world-famous tourist resorts on southern Thailand’s east coast on Friday, knoc...
Jan 04, 2019
Rhodes scholar and 'Dreamer' fears he can't return to US
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - He became the first “Dreamer” to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, but for recent Harvard University graduate Jin Park, the joy of that achievement has given way t...
Jan 04, 2019
China begins first surface exploration of moon's far side
BEIJING - A Chinese space rover explored the lunar terrain on Friday in the world’s first mission on the surface of the far side of the moon. Jade Rabbit 2 drove off a ramp the previous night an...
Jan 04, 2019
China's space journey, to the moon's far side and beyond
BEIJING - China has come a long way since the founding of its space program in 1956. Shortly after the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik, Chairman Mao Zedong declared that China too should have an ...
Jan 04, 2019
Charles Manson follower, murderer recommended for parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California parole panel on Thursday recommended for the first time that Charles Manson follower Robert Beausoleil be freed after serving nearly a half-century in prison for murd...
Jan 04, 2019
Explosion outside office of German far-right party condemned
BERLIN - An explosion outside an office of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in an eastern town has damaged windows and doors in the building, drawing condemnation from a senior regional off...
Jan 04, 2019