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Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn't expect a new shutdown

Published on Feb. 13, 2019 | Updated 7:56 a. m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appeared to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the →

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Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman convicted

Published on Feb. 12, 2019

NEW YORK — Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs →

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10 things to know, Tuesday, Feb. 12

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 9:34 a. m.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. →

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Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 9:24 a. m.

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had →

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Iranian-Americans nurture new generations after revolution

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 8:59 a. m.

IRVINE, Calif. — Minoo Sharifan came to the United States from Iran in the 1970s for graduate school, and like many others, wound up settling in America, starting a career and raising her family while a revolution upended her homeland and →

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Refugee footballer freed by Thailand returns to Australia

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 8:31 a. m.

CANBERRA, Australia — A refugee soccer player thanked Australians on his return home Tuesday hours after the threat of extradition to Bahrain was lifted and three months after he was detained in Thailand. Hundreds of supporters carrying →

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Islamic militants' deadly resurgence threatens Nigeria polls

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 8:16 a. m.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Baba Inuwa was pleased to move back to his vegetable farm in Nigeria's northeast, encouraged by the military's offensive against Boko Haram, the country's homegrown Islamic extremist rebels and by President Muhammadu →

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Top Pentagon official in Iraq to discuss US troop presence

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 8:11 a. m.

BAGHDAD — The top Pentagon official arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday to consult with American military commanders and Iraqi government leaders on the future U.S. troop presence in Iraq. Pat Shanahan, the acting secretary of defense, said before →

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2 Parkland moms, linked in iconic photo, now divided over guns

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 8:00 a. m.

PARKLAND, Fla. — It's an image that has become emblematic of the Parkland school massacre : two terrified moms outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, one of them a tall, weeping blonde with the black smudge of Ash Wednesday on her forehead, →

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Campbell's Chris Clemons dazzles among game's small (big) scorers

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 7:53 a. m.

Campbell's Chris Clemons is leading the country in scoring and moving up the Division I career scoring list to headline a crop of big-time undersized scorers in college basketball. The list includes No. 10 Marquette's Markus Howard and No. 12 Purdue's Carsen Edwards. The 5-foot-9 Clemons is averaging 29 points for the little-known Fighting Camels as a senior and is on pace to become the highest-scoring player shorter than 6 feet in Division I history. →

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Harrison Ford knocks Trump, others who 'denigrate science'

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 7:51 a. m.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Harrison Ford offered an emphatic plea on Tuesday for protecting the world's oceans, calling out President Donald Trump and others who “deny or denigrate science.” The 76-year-old actor, best known →

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Iconic Palestinian robe fashions a new political symbol

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 7:35 a. m.

JERUSALEM — The traditional brightly embroidered dress of Palestinian women known as the “thobe” was not the type of garment one would expect to become a pop political symbol. Now it's gaining prominence as a softer expression of →

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Joe Biden, other dignitaries expected at John Dingell's funeral

Published on Feb. 12, 2019 | Updated 7:28 a. m.

DEARBORN, Mich. — Former Vice President Joe Biden and other dignitaries are expected at John Dingell's funeral after hundreds of people passed his coffin and were personally greeted by the family of America's longest-serving member of Congress. →

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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect pleads not guilty

Published on Feb. 11, 2019

PITTSBURGH — The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges Monday as his new lawyer, a prominent death penalty litigator who represented one of the Boston Marathon bombers, signaled he might be open →

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Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn't expect a new shutdown

Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman convicted

10 things to know, Tuesday, Feb. 12

Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall

Iranian-Americans nurture new generations after revolution

Refugee footballer freed by Thailand returns to Australia

Islamic militants' deadly resurgence threatens Nigeria polls

Top Pentagon official in Iraq to discuss US troop presence

2 Parkland moms, linked in iconic photo, now divided over guns

Campbell's Chris Clemons dazzles among game's small (big) scorers

Harrison Ford knocks Trump, others who 'denigrate science'

Iconic Palestinian robe fashions a new political symbol

Joe Biden, other dignitaries expected at John Dingell's funeral

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect pleads not guilty

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