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Thailand braces for powerful storm at southern beach towns
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand - Thai authorities suspended ferry services and evacuated locals and tourists ahead of a tropical storm expected to pound the Southeast Asian nation’s famed souther...
Jan 03, 2019
NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman
LAUREL, Md. - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman...
Jan 03, 2019
Californian sailor welcomes discovery of yacht in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Californian solo sailor Abby Sunderland said on Thursday her “heart skipped a beat” with news that the yacht she abandoned in the remote Indian Ocean in 2010 during a...
Jan 03, 2019
Mexico finds Flayed god temple; priests wore skins of dead
MEXICO CITY - Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico’s National Insti...
Jan 03, 2019
Sanders contrite as 2016 aides face harassment allegations
NEW YORK - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his chief lieutenants are offering contrition as some of his 2016 campaign staffers face allegations of sexual harassment that threaten to derail a second Wh...
Jan 03, 2019
Republicans worry a primary challenge would hurt Trump
NEW YORK - Donald Trump declared himself “the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party” on Wednesday. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Repub...
Jan 03, 2019
Lawyers try to seize Japanese assets over Korean forced work
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Lawyers for South Koreans forced into wartime labour have taken legal steps to seize the South Korean assets of a Japanese company they are trying to pressure into followin...
Jan 03, 2019
Jury process opens in trial over 6 killings in Michigan
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The size of the jury pool could delay the start of testimony in the high-profile trial of a man who is charged with killing six strangers in southwestern Michigan. Jason Dalton is c...
Jan 03, 2019
Mexican man charged with killing cop gets mental health exam
MODESTO, Calif. - A Mexican national accused of living in the U.S. illegally was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a California police officer who pulled him over to check if he w...
Jan 03, 2019
Sheriff: Unknown if race was factor in Texas girl's slaying
HOUSTON - Authorities in Texas continue to investigate what prompted a weekend shooting that killed a 7-year-old black girl after activists on Wednesday claimed the incident was racially motivated. Ha...
Jan 03, 2019