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Kim vows to show new N. Korean weapon, never trade security

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic wea...

Dec 31, 2019

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

A lauded writer who brought to light stories overshadowed by prejudice. An actress and singer who helped embody the manufactured innocence of the 1950s. A self-made billionaire who rose from a childho...

Dec 31, 2019

Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows stark choices for Trump

WASHINGTON - The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen Tuesday is a stark demonstration that Iran can still strike at American interests despite President Donald ...

Dec 31, 2019

Mexico says a total of 7 detained in killing of 9 Americans

MEXICO CITY - Prosecutors in Mexico said a total of seven suspects have now been detained in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children. Federal prosecutors sai...

Dec 31, 2019

Roberts: Judges working to promote civics, impartial courts

WASHINGTON - Federal judges are taking up the challenge to educate Americans about how their government works at a time when false information can spread instantaneously on social media, Chief Justice...

Dec 31, 2019

Congressman John Lewis says cancer is his latest battle

ATLANTA - As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 1960s forced a nation's awakening to racial discrimin...

Dec 31, 2019

Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating 'cadaver' note

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge that he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he's accused of killing, according to cour...

Dec 31, 2019

Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas - A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot to death by congregants who fired back, police sai...

Dec 31, 2019

US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor's death

WASHINGTON - The U.S. carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor, Defence Secretary Mark Esp...

Dec 31, 2019

5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in latest attack on Jews

MONSEY, N.Y. - A knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi's home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said ...

Dec 31, 2019