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Trump abandons bid to include citizenship question on census

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the informat...

Jul 13, 2019

Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry

NEW ORLEANS - People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a pat...

Jul 13, 2019

Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation

MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...

Jul 13, 2019

Train collision in Pakistan kills 20

MULTAN, Pakistan - A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others, hospital officials said. The ...

Jul 12, 2019

Britain says Iranian vessels tried to block tanker in Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The British navy said Thursday it stopped three Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz in a brief b...

Jul 12, 2019

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS - Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in, threatening an epic drenching that could test...

Jul 12, 2019

Jim Bouton, ex-Yankees pitcher and 'Ball Four' author, dies

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book "Ball Four," has died. He was 80. Bouton's fami...

Jul 12, 2019

Pence acknowledges 'tough stuff' at border detention centre

WASHINGTON - Acknowledging "this is tough stuff," Vice-President Mike Pence says he was not surprised by what he saw Friday as he toured a Texas Border Patrol station, where hundreds of men were being...

Jul 12, 2019

Divisive telescope to restart building next week in Hawaii

HONOLULU - Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii's tallest mountain will desecrate l...

Jul 12, 2019

AP Exclusive: Officer alleges sexual misconduct by general

WASHINGTON - A senior military officer has accused the Air Force general tapped to be the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of sexual misconduct, potentially jeopardizing his nomination....

Jul 12, 2019