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Icy blast reminds of 2014 'polar vortex,' with worst to come
FARGO, N.D. - An arctic blast spread painful cold across the Midwest on Friday, closing schools, opening warming centres and even intimidating ice fishermen in a taste of the even more dangerous weath...
Jan 26, 2019
Travel groups praise deal on shutdown after flight delays
Politicians couldn't overcome their differences and end the government shutdown over five weeks. Six air traffic controllers might have done it in a day. Six of the 13 controllers who normally staff a...
Jan 26, 2019
Dam with mine waste collapses in Brazil; 7 dead, 200 missing
SAO PAULO - A dam that held back mining waste collapsed Friday in Brazil, inundating a nearby community in reddish-brown sludge, killing at least seven people and leaving scores of others missing. Par...
Jan 26, 2019
Pope brings World Youth Day to prisoners, hears confessions
LAS GARZAS, Panama - Pope Francis on Friday brought World Youth Day to Panama's juvenile delinquents, celebrating an emotional penitential liturgy inside the country's main youth prison since the inma...
Jan 26, 2019
Fiat Chrysler recalls pickups; power steering can fail
DETROIT - Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 182,000 pickup trucks worldwide to fix an electrical problem that can knock out the power steering. The recall covers Ram 1500 pickups from the 2019 mode...
Jan 26, 2019
Dueling Venezuela leaders dig in defending presidency claims
CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself interim president vowed Friday he would remain on the streets until the South American country has a transitional governm...
Jan 26, 2019
Undercover agents target Toronto-based cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab
NEW YORK - The Associated Press has found that Toronto-based researchers who reported the role of Israeli spyware in the targeting of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle are in t...
Jan 26, 2019
Asylum seekers worry new US policy will mean more waiting
TIJUANA, Mexico - Eusebio Gomez thought his arduous journey to the U.S. and monthslong wait in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico, would end when he made it to American soil. But a shift in the Trump ...
Jan 26, 2019
Ohio governor delays execution, orders look at other drugs
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed next month's execution of a condemned Ohio man and ordered the prison system to look at alternative lethal injection drugs. The announcement by the ...
Jan 26, 2019
Trump's retreat: Shutdown ends without wall money, for now
WASHINGTON - Submitting to mounting pressure amid growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congres...
Jan 26, 2019
