A strong earthquake measuring 7.2 struck off the coast of Mindanao island in the Philippines on Saturday, and the country’s seismology agency advised people to stay away from coastal areas but expected no major damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a risk big waves could spread 300 km (190 miles) away from the epicenter, reaching as far away as Indonesia. The Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology …
MENA, Ark. (AP) — In a story April 27 about two missing Arkansas children, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Polk County Sheriff's Office, reported erroneously the age of one of the children. Reilly James Scarbrough is 9, not 10.
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Correction: Missing Children-Arkansas story…
The House passed a continuing resolution, or “CR,” giving Congress until next Friday to hammer out a spending deal for the rest of the fiscal year.
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Trump signs spending bill to avert government shutdown — for one week…
It is the not the first time the former reality show host has expressed surprise at the difficulty of the job, the size of the government or the vastness of the country.
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Being president isn’t so easy, and other things Trump has learned in first 100 days…
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — With his victim's two young sons in court for the first time, a gunman who shot and killed a Pennsylvania trooper was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined he should receive a lethal injection for the ambush at a state police barracks.
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Slain trooper's young sons in court as killer gets death…
And no, it's probably not coming to America.
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The BMW M550d xDrive Touring Is the Quad-Turbo Diesel Wagon of Your Dreams…
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Angus McDowall AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israeli warplanes struck a weapons supply hub operated by Lebanese group Hezbollah near Damascus airport on Thursday, targeting arms sent from Iran in commercial and military cargo aircraft, Syrian rebel and regional intelligence sources said. The Israeli military said later that one of its Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries intercepted a target over the Golan Heights that Israeli media described as an …
The White House has assured Democrats it will continue to fund a key portion of Obamacare, clearing the way for negotiations on a series of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, according to two sources familiar with the decision. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had demanded that Congress pay for the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies — which lower health care costs …
Police were responding to Hawkins Middle School in Mason County following reports of an active shooter.
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Police Confirm Active Shooter In Washington Middle School…
Congressman Elijah Cummings talks with Rachel Maddow about the frustration of the House Oversight Committee that the White House won't produce documents on disgraced former Trump NSA Mike Flynn and what it may take to get those documents.
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House Oversight May Subpoena White House…