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SUMTER, S.C. – Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday apologized for recent comments about working with segregationist senators in his early days in the U.S. Senate, saying he understands now his remarks could have been offensive to some.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 23:02:11 +0000
RIDGECREST, Calif. – Officials in Southern California expressed relief Saturday that damage and injuries weren’t worse after the largest earthquake the region has seen in nearly 20 years, while voicing concerns about the possibility of major aftershocks in the days and even months to come.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 22:39:13 +0000
PLANTATION, Fla. – A vacant pizza restaurant exploded Saturday in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 22:34:57 +0000
CONOWINGO, Md. – When the Conowingo Dam opened to fanfare nearly a century ago, the massive wall of concrete and steel began its job of harnessing water power in northern Maryland.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:48:57 +0000
FRANKFORT, Ky. – A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of aging bourbon in Kentucky, and state officials worried that runoff whiskey seeping into nearby waterways would kill fish.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:31:55 +0000
WASHINGTON – Democrats pivoted Wednesday from a divisive fight over a border bill to what they label the government’s “willful neglect” and “callous” treatment of thousands of detained migrants, even as President Donald Trump defended Border Patrol agents and said many people being held “are living far better now than where they came from.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 01:12:21 +0000
SEATTLE – A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked a Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum-seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, saying the Constitution demands that such migrants have a chance to be released from custody.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:35:15 +0000
The chief of the Transportation Security Administration says travelers should see only a slight increase in checkpoint wait times over the four-day July 4 holiday weekend despite the diversion of about 350 employees including screeners to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 02:22:08 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump administration has agreed to postpone implementing a rule allowing medical workers to decline performing abortions or other treatments on moral or religious grounds while the so-called “conscience” rule is challenged in a California court.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:09:19 +0000
PHILADELPHIA – U.S. authorities seized 33,000 pounds, or 15,000 kilograms, of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in what they described as one of the largest drug busts in American history.
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