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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The prime minister of Singapore is joining President Barack Obama at the White House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of U.S. diplomatic relations with the Southeast Asian city state. But the two leaders will also discuss a shared cause with less rosy prospects - the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is trying to claw back a string of inaccurate comments about Ukraine, but he's yet to get it right....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The call for paid family leave on the Democratic party platform is the most ambitious attempt by a major party in years to reverse the United States' status as the only industrialized nation without any standard for paid time off for new parents. But over the last five years a handful of states and some industries have been quietly increasing this benefit....

LOCKHART, Texas (AP) -- If Alfred "Skip" Nichols had been a commercial airplane pilot, he probably would have been grounded long ago....

MIAMI (AP) -- In a highly unusual travel warning, health officials advised pregnant women to avoid a part of Miami where mosquitoes are apparently transmitting Zika directly to humans....

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels - sometimes within the same sentence....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- It was a national scandal. Peru's then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out. Then, a top congressman blamed the spy agency for a break-in at his office. News stories showed the agency had collected data on hundreds of influential Peruvians....

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) -- Less than four years ago, the Republican Party tapped a few respected party officials to help the GOP find its way forward. This week, one of them says she's leaving the party - driven out by Donald Trump....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Donald Trump, it's become a familiar pattern. The Republican nominee can't let go of a perceived slight, no matter the potential damage to his presidential campaign or political reputation....

Jonathan Lucroy got a deal he liked, Carlos Beltran joined him in Texas and Jay Bruce and Rich Hill also moved Monday during an 18-swap frenzy at the trade deadline....