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Saudi Arabia: Half of daily production recovered post-attack
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Tuesday that more than half of the country's daily crude oil production that was knocked out by an attack had been recovered and that ...
Sep 17, 2019
Trump says U.S. locked and loaded in response to drone attack
WASHINGTON - Tensions are flaring in the Persian Gulf after President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "locked and loaded" to respond to a weekend drone assault on Saudi Arabia's energy infrastructure th...
Sep 16, 2019
White House says bin Laden son killed in US operation
WASHINGTON - The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in ...
Sep 14, 2019
Yemen rebels claim drone attacks on major Saudi oil sites
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Drones claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco early Saturday,...
Sep 14, 2019
Fire at Brazil hospital kills 11 people, many elderly
RIO DE JANEIRO - A fire raced through a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, forcing staff to wheel patients into the streets on beds or in wheelchairs and killing at least 11 people, many of them elderly. Fou...
Sep 13, 2019
Analysis: Biden looks like a front-runner, until he doesn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Biden is the Democratic front-runner. And there were moments in Thursday night's debate when he looked the part. Standing between a pair of liberal senators offering radical chan...
Sep 13, 2019 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, listens as former Vice President Joe Biden, right, responds to a question Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
House committee approves guidelines for impeachment hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says there's no confusion about what his committee is doing: It's an impeachment investigation, no matter how you want to phrase it....
Sep 12, 2019 House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., arrive for a gathering of the Democratic Caucus as Congress returns for the fall session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Nadler says his committee will move forward with impeachment hearings this fall, bolstered by lawmakers on the panel who roundly support moving forward. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
UK court rules Johnson’s suspension of Parliament unlawful
LONDON - A Scottish court dealt another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit plans Wednesday, ruling that his decision to suspend Parliament less than two months before the U.K. is due to lea...
Sep 11, 2019
Government will propose banning flavours used in e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration will propose banning thousands of flavours used in e-cigarettes to combat a recent surge in underage vaping. The Food and Drug Adm...
Sep 11, 2019
Afghans fear Trump’s Taliban move means more civilians die
KABUL - The sound of the blast ripped through Kabul, in an instant wrenching the Afghan capital's attention from a nationally televised interview in which a United States envoy revealed the first deta...
Sep 11, 2019
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