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December 31, 2018 |
A 22-year-old intern at a North Carolina zoo was killed Sunday after a lion escaped a locked space. The Conservators Center in Burlington announced that the intern was killed during a routine cleaning of
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December 28, 2018 |
On Thursday, attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked an appellate court to overturn his conviction and death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded
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December 28, 2018 |
Negotiations among Democrats, Republicans and the White House appear to be going nowhere, as the partial government shutdown entered day six on Thursday. The Senate was in session Thursday to continue negotiations, but with
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December 27, 2018 |
The S&P 500 rose 4.96%, or 116.6 points, as of market close. The Dow surged 4.98%, or 1,086.25 points. The Nasdaq rose 5.84%, or 361.44 points. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq completely regained
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December 27, 2018 |
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to American troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to an active combat zone since he took office. The President was joined by first lady Melania
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December 26, 2018 |
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody early Tuesday. This is the second immigrant child to die in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the boy, identified by the
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December 26, 2018 |
President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Christmas Day, wished U.S. troops stationed around the country and the world a Merry Christmas. President Trump spoke by video conference to members of all five branches of the
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December 24, 2018 |
The government will be partially shut down through Christmas, as Washington remains divided over budget negotiations and nowhere near a resolution to the shutdown that began early Saturday morning. All sides now anticipate the
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December 24, 2018 |
President Trump announced Sunday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave the Trump administration at the beginning of the new year. This is nearly two months earlier than Mattis said he would depart in
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December 21, 2018 |
On Thursday, attorneys generals from nine U.S. states sued the Trump administration to stop future seismic tests for oil and gas deposits off the East Coast, joining a lawsuit from environmentalists concerned the tests