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Mom arrested after 2-year-old daughter tests positive for STD and meth
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 04:22
A Missouriwomanwas charged with child abuse and endangerment after police say she admitted in an audio recording to seeing her2-year-old girl raped repeatedly. The girl tested positive for chlamydia and had meth in her s...
N. Korea puts reunion of war separated families in doubt
Miami Herald - 20 Jul 2018 05:21
North Korea said that an August reunion of Korean families separated by war may not happen if South Korea doesn't immediately return some of its citizens who arrived in the …
Eight Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes on Missouri Lake
The New York Times - 20 Jul 2018 05:14
High winds tore through the area on Thursday evening, and the tourist boat capsized and sank to the bottom of the lake.
Nearly 70% of Republicans approve of Trump's handling of Helsinki summit, CBS poll finds
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 04:46US, allies set to evacuate Syrian aid workers from southwest
Boston - 20 Jul 2018 04:02
U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed government forces close in on the area
Russia launches social media campaign to 'free' accused spy
New York Post - 20 Jul 2018 03:49
The Russian foreign ministry launched a social media campaign Thursday to "free Maria Butina," the alleged Russian spy charged with infiltrating GOP social circles to pass information back to Moscow ahead of the 2016 ele...
Michigan's 11th Congressional District: This crowded race is all a political junkie could ask for
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 16:56
An open seat, a toss-up race, good candidates: You can't beat the race for Dave Trott's seat if you're a political junkie.
Bulk of families separated at U.S.-Mexico border remain apart
Reuters - 20 Jul 2018 04:49
With one week left on a court-ordered deadline to reunite children and parents separated by U.S. immigration officials, government lawyers reported on Thursday that 364 of some 2,500 families with children aged 5 and old...
Russia Campaign 'Just One Tree in a Growing Forest,' Rosenstein Says
The New York Times - 20 Jul 2018 04:11
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, said the Justice Department would crack down on foreign agents who sought to manipulate the American political process.
Intelligence director Coats caught off guard by Trump inviting Putin to Washington
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 03:36
"That's going to be special," Coats said.
Stephen Colbert Finally Staged an Intervention to Try to Get Trump to Resign
Time - 20 Jul 2018 17:05
"Your friend Vladimir, he's not really your friend, OK?"
Egypt, Sudan seek to bolster ties after yearslong tension
Fox News - 20 Jul 2018 17:04
The leaders of Egypt and Sudan have agreed to mend ties, frayed by repeated failures to reach a deal over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia, and the revival of a longstanding dispute over a border held by Cair...
US and South Korea brief UN on Trump-Kim Jong Un summit
Miami Herald - 20 Jul 2018 16:55
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and South Korea's foreign minister are briefing the U.N. Security Council on President Donald Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
Thirteen dead, divers search sunken Missouri tourist boat for missing
Reuters - 20 Jul 2018 16:50
Divers on Friday pulled bodies from the wreckage of a "duck boat" that sank in a storm in a Missouri lake, killing at least 13 people in one of the deadliest U.S. tourist incidents in recent years.
Van Gogh 'Starry Night' house here to stay after Florida couple wins legal battle
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 16:48
A year-long legal dispute over a house covered in a mural of Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" ended in a settlement without changes to the house.
Teen killed neighbors hours after his mom kicked him out: cops
New York Post - 20 Jul 2018 16:47
A teen accused of fatally stabbing his neighbors in April was booted from his Texas home just hours before the double killing, according to a newly released police report. Jorge Carmond, 17, is accused in the stabbing de...
Major damage, several injured as tornadoes sweep through Iowa
New York Post - 20 Jul 2018 04:34
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A flurry of tornadoes that formed unexpectedly swept through central Iowa Thursday, injuring at least 17 people, flattening buildings in three cities and forcing the evacuation of a hospital. The torn...
Putin vows to hear 'all opinions' in pension controversy
Miami Herald - 20 Jul 2018 16:42
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to trying to tamp down public distress over a proposal to raise the national retirement age, saying he will listen to "all opinions" on the …
10-year-old girl dies after genital mutilation
USA Today - 20 Jul 2018 16:32
A 10-year-old girl has bled to death after undergoing female genital mutilation in Somalia, an activist said, a rare confirmed death in the country with the world’s highest rate of the practice. The girl died in a hosp...
President Trump Says He's Prepared to Slap Tariffs on Every Product Imported From China
Time - 20 Jul 2018 16:26
'We've been ripped off by China for a long time'
Colombia has billions in sunken treasure lying off its coast. But who owns it?
Miami Herald - 20 Jul 2018 13:00
Sitting at the bottom of the ocean, just off Colombia's coast, is one of the hemisphere's richest treasures: a Spanish galleon packed with billions of dollars worth of New World …
Four Men Charged in Florida for Murder and Robbery of Rapper XXXTentacion
Time - 20 Jul 2018 05:15
The 20-year-old rapper was fatally shot multiple times by one or more gunman