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American woman's mission: Rescuing dogs from Bali volcano
KARANGASEM, Indonesia - As the small convoy carrying volunteers, dried food and canned meat pulls up before a revered Hindu temple on the slopes of Bali’s Mount Agung volcano, dogs trot out from...
Oct 03, 2017
Police: Man facing charges after fight over stolen pork roll
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. - A New Jersey man who police say punched another man several times over a stolen pork roll sandwich is facing charges. Hackettstown police say they were called to an apartment on r...
Oct 03, 2017
False news of the Vegas attack spread on Google, Facebook
MENLO PARK, Calif. - False news that erroneously named a suspect in the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday spread on Google and Facebook before the services removed the posts in question, the tw...
Oct 03, 2017
US senator seeks cyber info from voting machine makers
WASHINGTON - A U.S. senator wants to know how well the country’s top six voting machine manufacturers protect themselves against cyberattacks, a move that comes just weeks after federal authorit...
Oct 03, 2017
In hurricanes' aftermath, technology eases return to school
Smartphone exchanges, social media, messaging apps and websites rendered students and their teachers at once disconnected and connected in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Now, as the hard...
Oct 03, 2017
Travel ban lawsuits filed by legal centre, Muslim advocates
BALTIMORE - A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions for citizen...
Oct 03, 2017
ALS patient behind ice bucket challenge: I will bounce back
BEVERLY, Mass. - Pete Frates was mistakenly written off as dead this summer. Turns out, the man who helped spark the ice bucket challenge that raised millions of dollars for research on Lou GehrigR...
Oct 03, 2017
Question posed by Menendez trial: What is a constituent?
NEWARK, N.J. - Sen. Bob Menendez’s fate could turn on a simple question: What is a constituent? Specifically, could Dr. Salomon Melgen, Menendez’s longtime friend and now co-defendant, be ...
Oct 03, 2017
Post-mortem: VX poison killed brother of North Korean leader
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - A Malaysian government pathologist testified Tuesday at the trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader that the banned VX nerv...
Oct 03, 2017
Former Equifax CEO says response should have been better
WASHINGTON - The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the challenge of responding to the concerns of tens of millions of consumers in the wake of a massive data breach proved overwhelming, and regr...
Oct 03, 2017