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MacDill AFB on brief lockdown after report of armed suspect

MIAMI - MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, was briefly put on lockdown Friday morning after a report of an armed suspect outside the base. The base was put on lockdown after local authorities n...

Jan 12, 2020

World leaders travel to Oman to meet its newly named sultan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - World leaders travelled Sunday to Oman to meet the country's new sultan, named just a day earlier after the death of the nation's longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said. B...

Jan 12, 2020

US dismisses Iraq request to work on a troop withdrawal plan

BAGHDAD - Iraq's caretaker prime minister asked Washington to work out a road map for an American troop withdrawal, but the U.S. State Department on Friday bluntly rejected the request, saying the two...

Jan 12, 2020

Ghosn's lawyer slams minister's gaffe on proving innocence

TOKYO - A lawyer for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former chairman who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon, on Friday slammed a gaffe by the Japanese justice minister who said that Ghosn should "prove"...

Jan 12, 2020

US employers expected to have added 160,000 jobs in December

WASHINGTON - The U.S. job market appears to be entering 2020 on a solid footing. Economists expect that Friday's jobs report will show job gains of 160,000 in December, with the unemployment rate hold...

Jan 11, 2020

Australians leave homes as heat, winds escalate fire danger

EDEN, Australia - Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions Friday threatened already fire-ravaged southeaster...

Jan 11, 2020

Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8

BEIRUT - Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight Iran-backed Iraqi militiamen, Syrian activists and two Iraqi officials said, an attack that come...

Jan 11, 2020

US blames Iran for Ukrainian jetliner downing, pledges probe

WASHINGTON - The U.S. promised "appropriate action" Friday in response to its assessment that an Iranian missile was responsible for downing a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside Tehran, as the Ir...

Jan 11, 2020

DiCaprio's Earth Alliance gives $3M to Australia fire relief

LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio's Earth Alliance environmental organization will donate $3 million to help wildfire relief efforts in Australia. The foundation said Thursday that it has started the Au...

Jan 11, 2020

FBI is trying to catch a "bad wig bandit" in North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The FBI is asking the public's help in catching a so-called "bad wig bandit" who's been robbing banks in North Carolina. The FBI said in a statement on Thursday that the suspect wore...

Jan 11, 2020