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Paris is for walkers and cyclists as city bans cars for day
Parisians and tourists were encouraged to stroll through the City of Light on Sunday as officials banned cars from its streets for a day. Paris has experimented with car-free days in the past, but Sun...
Oct 02, 2017
Alaska communities weigh pot bans 3 years after legalization
JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska marijuana grower Mike Emers has been losing sleep with a vote fast approaching that he says could shutter his family’s business and financially ruin them. The statewide i...
Oct 02, 2017

Trump welcomes Thailand's junta leader at White House
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump welcomed Thailand’s junta leader to the White House on Monday - a rare instance of a military ruler being feted in Washington before even a nominal return to ...
Oct 02, 2017

Lil Wayne won't go through security check, skips concert
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Fans of rapper Lil Wayne will be offered refunds after he refused to pass through a security check to enter a South Carolina arena, and skipped the concert. A statement Sunday by mana...
Oct 02, 2017
Attacks stoke debate over need for domestic terrorism laws
TULSA, Okla. - Attacks this summer on counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an empty Air Force recruiting station in Oklahoma had the hallmarks of terrorist attacks but weren’t pro...
Oct 02, 2017
Boy's near-hanging compels town to open discussion on racism
CLAREMONT, N.H. - In this struggling mill town in western New Hampshire, racism was never something people talked all that much about. There were people who drove around Claremont with Confederate fla...
Oct 02, 2017
Liberian accused of war atrocities faces fraud trial in US
PHILADELPHIA - In Liberia’s first civil war he was known as “Jungle Jabbah,” a rebel commander who witnesses said sliced a baby out of a pregnant woman’s stomach, killed civili...
Oct 02, 2017
Bodyguard gives harrowing account of Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON - A diplomatic security agent testified Monday that after militants stormed the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, he turned to U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was hiding in a ...
Oct 02, 2017
Historic Boston church wants $19 million for tower shadow
BOSTON - A historic Boston church is asking a developer to pay $19 million to compensate for shadows cast by a proposed tower. The Boston Globe reports that Old South Church claims the proposed Back B...
Oct 02, 2017
Japan auteur Kawase exploring how film ties past and future
TOKYO - A sense of loss and the fear of death are recurring themes in the movies by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, whose earliest works were hand-held camera shots of the woman who raised her. The le...
Oct 02, 2017