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Radical or moderate? Trump paints Democratic ticket as both

WASHINGTON - An overzealous prosecutor trying to hide her crime-fighting past - who is also weak on crime. The most radical pick for vice-president ever - but too moderate to energize progressive Demo...

Aug 13, 2020

US seizes digital currency accounts used by militant groups

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts that militant organization abroad, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, relied on to raise mo...

Aug 13, 2020

President Trump says UAE to open diplomatic ties with Israel

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of...

Aug 13, 2020

Bob Woodward's new Trump book, 'Rage,' due out next month

WASHINGTON - Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book about President Donald Trump is titled "Rage" and will be released Sept. 15, less than two months before Election Day, according t...

Aug 13, 2020

Lives Lost: Woman who performed Shakespeare on the street

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - She had all the makings of a rising star, someone who wrote, directed and acted in her own plays in her 20s and attended one of the country's top drama schools around the same time ...

Aug 12, 2020

US says Iran briefly seizes oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., a U.S....

Aug 12, 2020

Puerto Rico Supreme Court upholds second round of primaries

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the votes cast during a botched primary over the weekend are valid and that a second round of voting will be held Aug. 16 at ce...

Aug 12, 2020

Biden, Harris lash Trump in introduction of historic VP pick

WILMINGTON, Del. - Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered an aggressive one-two attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as they made their election case for the ...

Aug 12, 2020

US budget deficit climbs to record $2.81 trillion

SILVER SPRING, Md. - The U.S. budget deficit climbed to $2.81 trillion in the first 10 months of the budget year, exceeding any on record, the Treasury Department said Wednesday. The nation's budgetar...

Aug 12, 2020

Science and politics tied up in global race for a vaccine

WASHINGTON - No, Russia isn't having a Sputnik moment. The announcement Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the ...

Aug 12, 2020