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Mike Pence's brother launches run for Indiana US House seat
INDIANAPOLIS - Greg Pence, one of Mike Pence’s older brothers, launched a campaign Wednesday for the eastern Indiana congressional seat that the vice-president and former governor represented fo...
Oct 18, 2017
Rio Olympic head Nuzman formally charged with corruption
RIO DE JANEIRO - Carlos Nuzman, the head of last year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, has been charged by Brazilian prosecutors with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion and running a criminal o...
Oct 18, 2017
CMHC says it can withstand a severe shock as it passes stress test scenarios
OTTAWA - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says stress testing has confirmed its mortgage loan insurance and securitization businesses are able to withstand a severe shock. The housing agency tested t...
Oct 18, 2017
Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates
BEIRUT - Over several nights in September, some 10,000 men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control, hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from government troops...
Oct 18, 2017
Trump: Lawmaker 'fabricated' account of his talk with widow
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a Florida congresswoman “fabricated” an account of the commander in chief telling the widow of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger ...
Oct 18, 2017
Judge: Newest travel ban 'same maladies' as previous version
HONOLULU - Just hours before President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban was to take full effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the revised order, saying the policy has the same problems as a...
Oct 18, 2017
Puerto Rico youth stranded with school still out from storm
HATILLO, Puerto Rico - Alanys Arroyo and her little brothers have been cooped up in a school for weeks, but they aren’t in class. They’ve been living in a campus-turned-shelter in western ...
Oct 18, 2017
Amnesty: Myanmar army killed at least hundreds of Rohingya
BANGKOK - Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for...
Oct 18, 2017
Trump says Comey knew he was going to exonerate Clinton
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to revive his long-standing complaint about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, alleging that t...
Oct 18, 2017
Under fire, Trump defends call to soldier's grieving family
MIAMI - President Donald Trump emphatically rejected claims Wednesday that he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain soldier, as the firestorm he ignited over his assertions of empathy fo...
Oct 18, 2017