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After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 8:49 a. m.

AL-HOL CAMP, Syria — The women say it was misguided religious faith, naivety, a search for something to believe in or youthful rebellion. Whatever it was, it led them to travel across the world to join the Islamic State group. Now after the →

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Impeachment, felons voting divides Democrats at CNN forums

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 8:35 a. m.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — California Sen. Kamala Harris joined the call for President Donald Trump's impeachment as five leading Democratic presidential contenders clashed in a series of prime-time town hall meetings that exposed deep divisions in a →

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North Korea's Kim will go into Putin summit needing a win

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 8:13 a. m.

TOKYO — When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for their first one-on-one meeting, he will have a long wish list and a strong desire to notch a win after the failure of his second summit with President →

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Militants blamed in Sri Lanka attacks had incendiary leader

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:49 a. m.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The purported leader of an Islamic extremist group blamed for an Easter attack in Sri Lanka that killed over 300 people began posting videos online three years ago calling for non-Muslims to be “eliminated →

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Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:46 a. m.

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military's brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Wa Lone and Kyaw →

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Powerful quake hits Philippines, day after deadly temblor

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:44 a. m.

PORAC, Philippines — A new powerful earthquake hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, a day after a magnitude 6.1 quake rattled the country's north and left at least 16 people dead, including in a collapsed supermarket, where rescuers →

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over citizenship question on census

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:43 a. m.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, a question that could affect how many seats states have in the House of Representatives and their share →

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Northern Ireland police: Woman arrested in slaying of journalist Lyra McKee

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:40 a. m.

LONDON — The Northern Ireland Police Service said Tuesday they have arrested a woman under the Terrorism Act in connection with the slaying of journalist Lyra McKee. The arrest of the 57-year-old under the Terrorism Act came as an Irish →

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California bill encourages banks to work with pot businesses

Published on April 23, 2019 | Updated 7:32 a. m.

LOS ANGELES — California legislators considered a plan Monday intended to encourage more banks to do business with marijuana companies that have been frozen out of thousands of financial institutions. Most Americans live in states where →

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10 things to know, Monday, April 22

Published on April 22, 2019 | Updated 8:24 a. m.

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

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Official: Sri Lanka failed to heed warnings of attacks

Published on April 22, 2019 | Updated 8:10 a. m.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 200 people, the →

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Notre Dame fire was a warning bell. But will Europe listen?

Published on April 22, 2019 | Updated 8:08 a. m.

PARIS — It's a thin line where the patina of age on Europe's countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many loved ones, all is assumed to be fine, until suddenly it's not. In the wake of the fire last week that →

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Trump called on spy chiefs for help as Mueller probe began

Published on April 22, 2019 | Updated 8:02 a. m.

WASHINGTON — Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency. Trump told Mike Rogers, director of the →

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Nothing wrong with help from Russians, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says

Published on April 22, 2019 | Updated 7:53 a. m.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted there was “nothing wrong” with the president's 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into →

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After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home

Impeachment, felons voting divides Democrats at CNN forums

North Korea's Kim will go into Putin summit needing a win

Militants blamed in Sri Lanka attacks had incendiary leader

Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

Powerful quake hits Philippines, day after deadly temblor

U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over citizenship question on census

Northern Ireland police: Woman arrested in slaying of journalist Lyra McKee

California bill encourages banks to work with pot businesses

10 things to know, Monday, April 22

Official: Sri Lanka failed to heed warnings of attacks

Notre Dame fire was a warning bell. But will Europe listen?

Trump called on spy chiefs for help as Mueller probe began

Nothing wrong with help from Russians, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says

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