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Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after embassy attack

WASHINGTON - Charging that Iran was "fully responsible" for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 mor...

Jan 01, 2020

China convicts 3 researchers involved in gene-edited babies

BEIJING - A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his resear...

Dec 31, 2019

Kim vows to show new N. Korean weapon, never trade security

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic wea...

Dec 31, 2019

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

A lauded writer who brought to light stories overshadowed by prejudice. An actress and singer who helped embody the manufactured innocence of the 1950s. A self-made billionaire who rose from a childho...

Dec 31, 2019

Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows stark choices for Trump

WASHINGTON - The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen Tuesday is a stark demonstration that Iran can still strike at American interests despite President Donald ...

Dec 31, 2019

Mexico says a total of 7 detained in killing of 9 Americans

MEXICO CITY - Prosecutors in Mexico said a total of seven suspects have now been detained in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children. Federal prosecutors sai...

Dec 31, 2019

Roberts: Judges working to promote civics, impartial courts

WASHINGTON - Federal judges are taking up the challenge to educate Americans about how their government works at a time when false information can spread instantaneously on social media, Chief Justice...

Dec 31, 2019

Congressman John Lewis says cancer is his latest battle

ATLANTA - As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 1960s forced a nation's awakening to racial discrimin...

Dec 31, 2019

Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating 'cadaver' note

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge that he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he's accused of killing, according to cour...

Dec 31, 2019

Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas - A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot to death by congregants who fired back, police sai...

Dec 31, 2019