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Taliban launch 'massive attack' on Afghan city of Kunduz

KABUL - The Taliban have launched a new large-scale attack on one of Afghanistan's main cities, Kunduz, and taken hospital patients as hostages, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent gro...

Aug 31, 2019

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stable after prison stabbing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Dieg...

Aug 30, 2019

North Korea berates Pompeo, says hopes for talks fading

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A senior North Korean diplomat on Saturday berated U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments describing North Korean behaviour as "rogue" and said Pyongyang's h...

Aug 30, 2019

Dorian becomes a Category 4 monster powering toward Florida

MIAMI - Hurricane Dorian powered toward Florida with increasing fury Friday, becoming an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm but leaving forecasters uncertain whether it would make a direct hit on ...

Aug 30, 2019

Skaggs family 'shocked' over possible Angels link to death

ARLINGTON, Texas - The family of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs says it was startled to learn that a club employee "may" be part of the investigation into the 27-year-old's death from an acci...

Aug 30, 2019

Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing

SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015. Jose Inez Garcia-Z...

Aug 30, 2019

After US Open win, Federer bristles at idea he chose timing

NEW YORK - There was no slow start to this U.S. Open outing for Roger Federer, who bristled at the suggestion that he might have played a role in some favourable scheduling. After dropping the opening...

Aug 30, 2019

Appeals court reinstates lawsuit in SC church shooting case

RICHMOND, Va. - A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a Charleston church was reinstated Friday by...

Aug 30, 2019

MSNBC's O'Donnell retracts Trump story

NEW YORK - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday retracted his story about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump's finances and apologized for reporting it - just as Trump's lawyer demande...

Aug 30, 2019

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends once-promising presidential bid

WASHINGTON - Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability but inste...

Aug 30, 2019