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ST. ANTHONY, N.D. (AP) -- Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that's near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- More than 1,000 mourners were packed into the funeral hall, including some of the most powerful figures in Yemen's rebel movement. Ali al-Akwa, who was just about to start reciting the Quran, heard warplanes overhead - but that wasn't strange for wartime Sanaa. Surely a funeral would be safe, he thought....
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The "shackles" gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency "the way I want to."...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district pulled back from a threatened strike after a tentative last-minute contract agreement that Chicago officials acknowledged Tuesday may amount to a temporary fix and parents worried would fall apart....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press PhotoBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The story of how an Albanian priestendured decades of imprisonment, torture and forced labor during his country'scommunist crackdown against the church brought Pope Francis to tears.During the pope's 2014 visit to Tirana,Cardinal-designate Ernest Simoni moved many listeners when he described thebrutality a militant atheist regime wielded against people of every faith, andpaid tribute to God's infinite goodness, grace and love for allowing him tosurvive.Dedicating his life to drawing people away from hatredand revenge, the octogenarian priest will be one of 17 prelates elevated tocardinal in a consistory Nov. 19 at the Vatican. Of the group, 13 are eligibleto elect Pope Francis' successor in a conclave. Cardinal-designate Simoni isone of four who are older than 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote.Cardinal-designate Simoni, whose 88th birthday is Oct.18, told Vatican Radio he heard the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule that racial bias in the jury room provides a limited basis for breaching the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations....
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- People throughout Haiti's devastated southwest peninsula formed makeshift brigades Tuesday to clear debris and try to regain some semblance of their pre-hurricane lives as anger grew over the delay in aid for remote communities more than a week after the Category 4 storm hit....
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search and rescue operation, authorities said Tuesday, and thousands of people were told to get to higher ground as the flooding from Hurricane Matthew moved downstream....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court raised serious doubts Tuesday about a $399 million judgment against smartphone maker Samsung for illegally copying parts of the patented design of Apple's iPhone....
