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Global Airlines Reroute Flights After Iran Downs US Drone
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Major airlines from around the world on Friday began rerouting their flights to avoid areas around the Strait of Hormuz following Iran's shooting down of a U.S. military ...
Syndicated Author Jun 21, 2019

Trump Called Off Iranian Strikes, Citing Potential Deaths
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. was "cocked and loaded' to retaliate against Iran for downing an American drone, but he canceled the missile strikes 10 minutes before they wer...
Syndicated Author Jun 21, 2019

Manning seeks relief from fines for not testifying
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is seeking relief from accumulating fines of $500 a day for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileak...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2019

‘Hail Satan’ prayer at Alaska gov’t meeting sparks protest
SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) - A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared "Hail Satan" during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and ...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2019

S&P 500 index closes at a record high
NEW YORK (AP) -The S&P 500 is closing at a record high and has erased all of a steep pullback it suffered in May. The rally Thursday came as investors balanced optimism over the possibility that t...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2019

Roy Moore announces another run for US Senate
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -Alabama Republican Roy Moore has announced he is running for U.S. Senate again in 2020 after failing to win the seat two years ago amid sexual misconduct accusations. Moore anno...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2019

Self-Help Guru Convicted In Lurid Sex-Trafficking Case
NEW YORK - The former leader of a purported self-help group was convicted Wednesday of federal charges that centered on lurid details of what prosecutors called a secret society of "sex slaves" within...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2019

Senate Panel Approves Emergency Aid For Migrant Refugees
WASHINGTON - A modified version of President Donald Trump's $4 billion-plus request to care for tens of thousands of migrant refuges massing at the southern border swept through a key Senate panel on ...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2019

Hicks Won’t Talk About Trump White House In Interview
WASHINGTON - Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks is refusing to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats' cha...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2019

Trump EPA Rolls Back Obama Rule On Coal-Fired Power Plants
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2019
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