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UN completes first round of Syria polio vaccination campaign
BEIRUT – The United Nations says the first round of a vaccination campaign following a…
Cities seek creative ways to prevent car or van attacks
PARIS – From Barcelona to Times Square and beyond, extremists have used vehicles as deadly…
Markets Right Now: Health care, retailers weigh on US stocks
NEW YORK – The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m.…
Correction: Abortion-Oregon story
SALEM, Ore. – In stories Aug. 15 and July 5 about Oregon’s expansion of abortion…
California tightens rules on popular pesticide for farmers
SAN FRANCISCO – California is tightening the strictest rules in the nation on a pesticide…
Trump won places drowning in despair. Can he save them?
ABERDEEN, Wash. – One-hundred-fifty baskets of pink petunias hang from the light posts all over…
Helicopter crew had life vests, air bottles during crash
HONOLULU – All five crew members aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed over the…
Physicist Hawking criticizes UK health secretary on service
LONDON – Noted physicist Stephen Hawking has criticized Britain’s health secretary for what he described…
Kansas trial to examine bias claim against Kobach’s office
TOPEKA, Kan. – A former employee in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office alleges…
Saskatchewan Party sets Jan. 27 as date for vote to replace Premier Brad Wall
REGINA – The Saskatchewan Party will choose a new leader to replace Premier Brad Wall…
Unpopular Saskatchewan budget hangs over leadership race to replace Brad Wall
REGINA – Retiring Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s austerity budget from last spring has not been…
Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84
LOS ANGELES – Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in…
McCaskill reaching out to rural Missouri ahead of election
CUBA, Mo. – Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is spending the August recess trekking through Republican…
New Nova Scotia data raises concerns about use of solitary confinement
HALIFAX – Close to a quarter of solitary confinements in Nova Scotia’s jails are due…
Plenty at stake in jury selection for Menendez trial
NEWARK, N.J. – A lengthy criminal investigation that has put U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez in…
Tensions rise within Yemen’s rebel alliance
SANAA, Yemen – A long-simmering power struggle between Yemen’s Shiite rebels and a former president…
Trump won towns drowning in despair. Will he save them?
ABERDEEN, Wash. – One-hundred-fifty baskets of pink petunias hang from the light posts all over…
Battling demons in a community looking to Trump for change
ABERDEEN, Wash. – In Grays Harbor County, a rural community on the coast of Washington…
US health chief lauds China for help with opioid control
BEIJING – China has been an “incredible partner” in cracking down on synthetic opioids seen…
AP-NORC poll: Hispanics lack confidence in nursing homes
WASHINGTON – Hispanics in the United States have a longer life expectancy, but a poll…
Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84
LOS ANGELES – Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in…
French police rule out terror in van’s fatal bus stop hits
MARSEILLE, France – A van rammed into two bus stops in the French port city…
McConnell: ‘Zero chance’ Congress won’t increase debt limit
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said there is “zero chance” Congress will…
Manitoba no longer a holdout on health funding deal with federal government
WINNIPEG – Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government ended its status as the lone holdout among the…