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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) -- Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed six people soon may get a bit of a break: Winds are forecast to ease from the gusts that whipped the flames....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mark and Jennifer Swartz moved into their first home in November. On Tuesday, only a section of floor was left of their three-bedroom, two-bath house in Oak Grove, Missouri, after a storm system that dropped more than 30 tornadoes across the Midwest tore it apart....
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- A freight train smashed into a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Tuesday, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks and leaving at least three people dead, authorities said. Rescuers spent more than an hour removing passengers, cutting through the bus's heavily damaged frame to extract the last two....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill Tuesday less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for "Obamacare."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users' computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Armed Services Committee eased the path on Tuesday for an active duty general to become President Donald Trump's new national security adviser weeks after controversy abruptly ended his predecessor's brief tenure....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mary Stachyra Lopez, ABy Mary Stachyra LopezARLINGTON,Va. (CNS) ?- In late February Father Mauricio Pineda, parochial vicar of AllSaints Church in Manassas, heard from a couple he had married a few years ago.Thehusband had been detained by immigration authorities. They just had a baby fourmonths ago. They didn't know what to do.FatherPineda gave the best advice he could: Trust God. Keep praying hard. And hepromised to pray for them, too.Theconversation was one of many such calls Father Pineda, and priests throughoutthe Arlington Diocese, have taken during the last few weeks amid increasedenforcement of immigration laws. In a time of personal crisis, immigrants inthe country without documents are turning in large numbers to their church forspiritual counsel and practical legal assistance through Catholic Charities."I'vebeen living in this country for 18 years now and I've never seen this kind ofpressure and fear," said Father Pineda, who is originally from El Salvado...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is moving to roll back federal fuel-economy requirements that would have forced automakers to increase significantly the efficiency of new cars and trucks, a key part of former President Barack Obama's strategy to combat global warming....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gorging on bacon, skimping on nuts? These are among food habits that new research links with deaths from heart disease, strokes and diabetes....
