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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- First it was Ryan Lochte lying about being robbed in Rio, and now it's Donald Trump's startlingly lewd videotaped comments. For the second time in less than two months, TV personality Billy Bush is part of a major news story - but this time, he's coming under fire....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- In just 100 days in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has stirred a hornet's nest by picking a fight with Barack Obama, the United Nations, the European Union and others who have criticized his brutal crackdown against drugs, which has left more than 3,600 people dead....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is turning up the rhetorical heat on Russia, accusing senior Russian officials of ordering the hacking of American political sites to try to interfere in the upcoming presidential election and suggesting that Russia's military is committing war crimes in Syria....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Some of the South's most historic cities faced the weakening but still powerful Hurricane Matthew as it plowed north along the Atlantic coast, flooding towns and gouging out roads in its path....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Evan Bayh spent substantial time during his last year in the Senate searching for a job in the private sector, even as he cast votes on issues of interest to his future corporate bosses, according to the former Indiana lawmaker's 2010 schedule, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- World finance officials believe that the answer to growing attacks on globalization is not to erect new trade barriers but to do a better job of protecting workers who are harmed by free trade....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The disintegration of diplomatic talks with Russia has left the Obama administration with an array of bad options for what to do next in Syria....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):...

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped midnight apology, Donald Trump declared "I was wrong and I apologize" after being caught on tape making shockingly vulgar and sexually charged comments. Yet he also defiantly dismissed the revelations as "nothing more than a distraction" from a decade ago and signaled he would close his presidential campaign by arguing rival Hillary Clinton has committed greater sins against women....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton told bankers behind closed doors that she favored "open trade and open borders" and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help reform the U.S. financial sector, according to transcripts of her private, paid speeches leaked Friday....