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January was officially Australia's hottest month on record
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continued with wildfires razing the drought-parched south and flooding in expanses o...
Feb 01, 2019
Judge: PG&E put profits over wildfire safety
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge berated Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. on Wednesday, accusing the nation's largest utility of enriching shareholders instead of clearing trees that can fall on its power...
Feb 01, 2019
Parole recommended for Manson follower Leslie Van Houten
LOS ANGELES - A California panel on Wednesday recommended that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be paroled after serving more than four decades in prison. After a hearing at the women's priso...
Feb 01, 2019
Stone heads to court; Mueller cites potential evidence trove
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone is due back in court Friday in the special counsel's Russia investigation as prosecutors say they have recovered "voluminous and complex" potential evid...
Feb 01, 2019
Midwest awaits spring-like thaw just days after bitter cold
CHICAGO - The bitter cold that gripped the Midwest forced commuters to bundle up like polar explorers. By early next week, many of those same people might get by with a light jacket. Just days after t...
Feb 01, 2019
Ayatollah Khomeini's family mostly absent from Iran politics
TEHRAN, Iran - His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country's shah and forever changed ...
Feb 01, 2019
Iran starts marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Friday kicked off days-long celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchica...
Feb 01, 2019
China greets Lunar New Year with celebrations, travel rush
BEIJING - China is greeting next week's Lunar New Year with celebrations and a travel rush that will see an estimated 3 billion trips by people around the country. Thousands of passengers toted bundle...
Feb 01, 2019
Heaven Can Wait: Back in LA, Rams go for a Hollywood sequel
ATLANTA - Before there was Jared Goff, there was Warren Beatty. Years before Goff or any of today's Rams were born, Beatty had been carried off on his teammates' shoulders to celebrate a Rams title th...
Feb 01, 2019
EU leaders say No, non and nein to Brexit deal changes
BRUSSELS - Leaders across the European Union offered a united chorus of "No" on Wednesday to Britain's belated bid to negotiate changes to the Brexit divorce deal so Prime Minister Theresa May can win...
Feb 01, 2019
