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Trump backs Pompeo against NPR, criticizes CNN and Fox News
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pompeo's battle with National Public Radio and tweeted out more media criticism, one target familiar and the other...
Jan 30, 2020
Sanders' Social Security 'adjustments' undercut Biden attack
DES MOINES, Iowa - As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making "adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the s...
Jan 30, 2020
Nicolas Manohar hits century in Canada cricket win at U19 World Cup
POCHEFSTROOM, South Africa - Nicolas Manohar scored 101 runs to help Canada defeat Japan by 182 runs Thursday for its first win at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup. The young Canadians had previously los...
Jan 30, 2020
Prosecutors seek October trial for Loughlin, Giannulli
BOSTON - Federal prosecutors are seeking an October trial for "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, on charges that they paid bribes to get their daug...
Jan 30, 2020
Bureaucratic hurdles hampered federal flood-prevention program: audit
OTTAWA - A federal review says the government had trouble spending half of the $184 million earmarked to prevent flood damage in Canadian communities. A newly released evaluation report...
Jan 30, 2020
Man accused of killing missing wife is in critical condition
FARMINGTON, Conn. - A Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged wife was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after being found unresponsive in a vehicle inside his garage, authoritie...
Jan 30, 2020
San Francisco official charged with corruption in FBI probe
SAN FRANCISCO - A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reass...
Jan 30, 2020
Astronaut craves salsa and surf after record 11 months aloft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nearly 11 months in orbit, the astronaut holding the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman can't wait to dig into some salsa and chips, and swim and surf in the Gu...
Jan 30, 2020
Alberta climate plan part of cabinet decision on oilsands mine: Wilkinson
OTTAWA - The federal cabinet's decision on a huge new Alberta oilsands mine will weigh what the province is doing to help Canada achieve its climate goal of net-zero emissions by&n...
Jan 30, 2020
World Health Organization declares global emergency over Chinese coronavirus
BEIJING (AP) - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number...
Jan 30, 2020 A doctor puts on a protective suit and goggles at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to medical observation and even isolation. (AP)