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Doctors find brain abnormalities in victims of Cuba mystery

WASHINGTON – Doctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memor...

DATE: Dec 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. tightens travel rules to Cuba, blacklists many businesses

WASHINGTON – Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new pol...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Analysis: U.S. options on North Korea narrow further after test

WASHINGTON – Sanctions on North Korea have been tried, and failed. Serious negotiations seem like a pipedream. And any military strike would almost surely bring mass devastation and horrific...

DATE: Sep 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Welcome boost from China to global pressure on North Korea

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – A global pressure campaign on North Korea propelled by sharp new U.N. sanctions received a welcome boost Sunday from China, the North’s economic lifeline, as Beiji...

DATE: Aug 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After Warmbier’s death, US weighs travel ban on North Korea

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is considering banning travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, as outrage grew over the death of American student Otto Warmbier ...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin meets Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday as the two countries traded sharp accusations about a chemical weapons attack ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump OKs Keystone pipeline

Greenpeace vows to stop it

DATE: Mar 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Groups worried about U.S. resolve on human rights

Tillerson fails to introduce latest report on repression

DATE: Mar 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump aides to try to ease Mexico’s fears

MEXICO CITY – President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomat and homeland security chief to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants t...

DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama loyalists challenging Trump

Ex-White House aides speak out on early actions

DATE: Jan 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama presses Trump not to back away from clean energy

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama cast the adoption of clean energy in the U.S. as “irreversible,” putting pressure Monday on President-elect Donald Trump not to back away from a core stra...

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump may face test over Russia

President-elect praises Putin’s ‘great move’ to delay retaliation

DATE: Dec 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World