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Tactics increasingly divide pipeline protesters
BISMARCK, N.D. - Protesters at the demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline are increasingly divided over how to stop the project, with militant younger activists seeking more aggressive tacti...
Nov 01, 2016
A bridge too far? Trial reinforces New Jersey's poor image
NEWARK, N.J. - If the state that brought you Abscam (fake sheikhs bribing politicians), Bid Rig (rabbis laundering money, more bribes to politicians) and other instances of political corruption was lo...
Nov 01, 2016
Trump is master of his domains, even ones that bash him
Whoever owns donaldtrumpsucks.com must really hate Donald Trump, right? Wrong! It’s the Donald himself. The same goes for no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen other web addresses that sou...
Nov 01, 2016
Attorneys make final pitch to jurors in Rolling Stone trial
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Making their final pitches to jurors, attorneys sparred in court Tuesday over whether the writer of a botched Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape at the University of...
Nov 01, 2016
Ex-wife says dad in son's hot car death 'destroyed my life'
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - A day after she defended her former husband as a loving father, the ex-wife of a Georgia man charged with leaving their toddler son to die in a hot SUV bitterly told a jury Tuesday: &...
Nov 01, 2016
Iraqi forces edge into Mosul, major urban warfare lies ahead
BAZWAYA, Iraq - Iraq’s special forces fought their way into the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday, taking its state television building despite resistance by Islamic State group fighters that is onl...
Nov 01, 2016
Kurdish authorities detain Japanese journalist in Iraq
TOKYO - Kurdish authorities have detained a Japanese freelance journalist covering the fighting in Iraq, according to Japan’s government and media reports. Japanese government spokesman Yoshihid...
Nov 01, 2016
'Norfolk Four' to ask Va. governor to declare them innocent
RICHMOND, Va. - Two former sailors whose rape and murder convictions were tossed by a federal judge plan to ask Virginia’s governor to formally declare that they are innocent. U.S. District Judg...
Nov 01, 2016
Defence wants video kept out of ex-officer's murder trial
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The attorney for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist asked a judge Tuesday to keep the dramatic cellp...
Nov 01, 2016
Testimony continues today in case of New Brunswick boys killed by python
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - Testimony continues today in the jury trial of a man charged in the deaths of two young New Brunswick boys who were suffocated by a python. On Tuesday, the jurors heard the emotion...
Nov 01, 2016