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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump wants a running mate who has what he lacks - political experience. Hillary Clinton is putting a premium on diversity as she searches for a No. 2....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday night, taking hostages, killing two officers and wounding at least 26 people in a gunbattle with security forces, authorities and a witness said....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rose Ybarra, The Valley CatholicBy Rose YbarraMISSION,Texas (CNS) -- When 66-year-old Army veteran Jacky Eugene Gonzalez was laid torest at the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery June 22, a group of U.S.military veterans from the Jesus Martinez American Legion Post 93 in Mission performedfull military honors.Asquad of seven riflemen rendered the 21-gun salute, the American flag was foldedand presented to the family along with three spent shell casings representing duty,honor and country. Taps was played on an electronic bugle.Themen, who are all volunteers, are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They perform thesesolemn duties several times a week, usually at the veterans cemetery, but theywill go wherever they are needed. Guard members have served at up to fourfunerals in one day, often in temperatures hovering around 100 degrees.Regardlessof the weather conditions, no matter what aches and pains they areexperiencing, they don't see it as a burden but rather, a grea...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Some 18,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl will be transported to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, Friday night as writer and humorist Garrison Keillor hosts his final episode of the old-style variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" after 42 years on public radio....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first American death involving a car in self-driving mode presents a dilemma: How aggressively to embrace the potentially life-saving technology after a fatal crash. The driver's history of speeding complicates the question....
BOSTON (AP) -- A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state's highest court ruled Friday....
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- Clumps of hair from hastily shaven beards littered floors and filled wastebaskets in houses in the Iraqi city of Fallujah's western neighborhood, a dense block of low-rise homes that were the Islamic State militants' last stand before they largely fled, melting into the sprawling Anbar desert in the face of advancing Iraqi ground forces....
PATHUM THANI, Thailand (AP) -- Nearly eight months ago, migrant worker Tin Nyo Win thought he was doing the right thing - the only thing - to help free his pregnant wife from slavery inside a Thai shrimp peeling shed. He ran for help and prompted police to raid the business, freeing nearly 100 Burmese laborers, including children....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Attention focused Friday on whether a Chechen extremist known to be a top lieutenant in the Islamic State group was involved in the suicide attacks that killed 44 people at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport....
