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• Police say man killed kitten with TV remote, shot another

  20-09-2017 23:53
  WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been charged with killing a kitten with a TV remote and shooting another with a BB gun.
  
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• Marshals official says man offered to make plea in abduction

  20-09-2017 23:48
  
  SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Marshals inspector said Wednesday that a jail inmate he interviewed about a missing Tennessee woman said he would plead to charges in the case, a year before another man was charged with her kidnapping…
  
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• UN voices new approach to solve Libyan crisis, bring peace

  20-09-2017 23:47
  CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations has proposed a new approach to solve the Libyan crisis, by amending a current political agreement, holding a constitutional referendum and general elections.
  
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• The Latest: White man facing murder charges on suicide watch

  20-09-2017 23:47
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a 23-year-old white man accused of killing two black men in Baton Rouge (all times local):
  
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• Man's path from Eagle Scout to alleged killer baffles family

  20-09-2017 23:47
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Eagle Scout at age 18, Kenneth Gleason graduated with honors from one of Baton Rouge's most elite high schools and enrolled at Louisiana State University.
  
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• Trump to award Medal of Honor to Alabama veteran

  20-09-2017 23:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will award the Medal of Honor to a retired Army medic from Alabama who risked his life several times to provide medical care to his comrades during the Vietnam War, the White House announced…
  
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• Price can't always travel commercial, HHS spokeswoman says

  20-09-2017 23:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokeswoman says Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price tries to fly commercial whenever possible.
  
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• Rev. John Wolf, longtime pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, dies at 92

  20-09-2017 23:45
  
  Often controversial, Wolf was an outspoken advocate for civil rights, education and the arts
  
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• Girl, 5, is thrown from SUV, killed in fiery highway crash

  20-09-2017 23:44
  EAST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) — A tractor-trailer has slammed into an SUV that was disabled on a New Jersey highway, ejecting a 5-year-old girl and killing her and causing a massive fire.
  
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• Jacksonville Hospital Removes Staffers Over "Inappropriate" Handling Of Newborn

  20-09-2017 23:05
  
  Photos and videos of a hospital employee improperly handling a newborn went viral - with more than 300,000 shares in less than 24 hours - after a Facebook user posted about the behavior Monday night. 
  
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• Maria destroys homes, triggers flooding in Puerto Rico

  20-09-2017 22:44
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years destroyed hundreds of homes, knocked out power across the entire island and triggered heavy flooding Wednesday in an onslaught that could plunge the…
  
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• Mueller investigators seek documents from the White House

  20-09-2017 22:43
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators is seeking information from the White House related to Michael Flynn's stint as national security adviser and about the administration's response to a meeting at Trump Tower last year.
  
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• NY agency called Justice Center may lack power to prosecute

  20-09-2017 22:41
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state agency launched four years ago to protect the disabled from abuse and neglect was staffed with a team of investigators and prosecutors empowered to bring criminal cases against alleged wrongdoers. But it…
  
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• US allies divided over Trump's threat against North Korea

  20-09-2017 22:39
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Japan urged international unity Wednesday in pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, even as another key U.S. ally pushed back against President Donald Trump's threat to "totally destroy" the rogue nation if it…
  
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• Over 40 nations ink nuclear ban treaty opposed by big powers

  20-09-2017 22:36
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 40 countries on Wednesday signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact that the world's nuclear powers spurned but supporters hailed as a historic agreement nonetheless.
  
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• New St. Louis mayor navigates racial strife after acquittal

  20-09-2017 22:32
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — After defeating three leading black candidates, the new white mayor of St. Louis is carefully navigating racial strife that culminated in days of protest over the acquittal of a white former police officer who fatally shot…
  
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• Key suspect in pricey Kentucky bourbon heist pleads guilty

  20-09-2017 22:32
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A rogue distillery worker at the center of a bourbon-heist scheme that spirited away tens of thousands of dollars' worth of liquor has pleaded guilty in a case that has secured a place in Kentucky lore.
  
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• Worries of backlash help revive GOP health care drive

  20-09-2017 22:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Political worries have helped pump fresh life into the last-gasp Republican drive to erase the Obama health care overhaul, including the party's increasingly impatient conservative base, incumbents' nightmares about primary challenges and wrathful presidential tweetstorms.
  
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• The Latest: Mexico moves quake death toll down to 223

  20-09-2017 22:28
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on a major earthquake that has struck Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Obama: GOP's efforts to repeal health care 'aggravating'

  20-09-2017 22:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday called repeated Republican efforts to repeal his signature health care law "aggravating" as he urged people not to be discouraged by unsteady progress as they work on pressing global issues.
  
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• 'I have decided,' Trump says of Iran deal — before big talks

  20-09-2017 22:16
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — "I have decided," President Donald Trump declared Wednesday, announcing he'd reached a verdict on the Iran nuclear deal's future even as top U.S. and Iranian officials headed into their highest-level talks of his presidency. Iran's leader,…
  
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• The Latest: Iran's president slams Trump's UN speech

  20-09-2017 22:11
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly (all times local):
  
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• Montana must rewrite transgender bathroom ballot description

  20-09-2017 22:08
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court ordered the state attorney general to rewrite ballot language for an initiative that would require people to use public restrooms and locker rooms designated for their gender at birth.
  
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• Trump heard about Mideast peace as a boy, now wants to solve

  20-09-2017 22:07
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's been hearing about prospects for peace in the Middle East since he was "a little boy," and now an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians seems within reach. But there…
  
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• Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty to escape, fraud

  20-09-2017 22:07
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A high-ranking polygamous sect leader recaptured after a year on the run pleaded guilty Wednesday in a food-stamp fraud and escape case, ending a wide-ranging investigation seen as a crackdown on the secretive group.
  
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• The Rev. Dr. John Burton Wolf Tulsa Unitarian Universalist Minister, Dies at 92

  20-09-2017 22:06
  
  The Rev. Dr. John Burton Wolf, 92, a Unitarian Universalist minister, father, and grandfather died on September 19, at Clarehouse, in Tulsa, OK.
  
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• Study: FEMA's Houston flood maps outdated long before Harvey

  20-09-2017 22:04
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency's flood plain maps for parts of southeastern Houston were woefully out-of-date long before Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast, a new study suggests.
  
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• Clash over Catalan vote heats up in Spain as police swoop in

  20-09-2017 22:01
  
  MADRID (AP) — Thousands of people supporting a contested referendum to split Catalonia from Spain took to Barcelona's streets amid an intensifying government crackdown on the independence vote that included the arrests of a dozen regional officials Wednesday and the…
  
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• Afghan president details US strategy for Afghanistan

  20-09-2017 21:59
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani says the Trump administration has a four-year objective to bring 80 percent of the country back under the government's control.
  
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• Boy killed at huge protests over Togo president's tenure

  20-09-2017 21:58
  LOME, Togo (AP) — A 10-year-old boy was killed and 10 others injured in Togo's capital as hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated Wednesday against a vote by the West African nation's parliament on a bill they fear will…
  
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• Tulsa Most Wanted Sought On Burglary Charge

  20-09-2017 21:45
  
  Tulsa Police are asking the public to help them find a man charged with second-degree burglary, possession of drug paraphernalia and false impersonation. 
  
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• David Boren Announces Retirement As OU's President

  20-09-2017 21:41
  
  University of Oklahoma President David Boren announced his retirement Wednesday.
  
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• Police: Prank to blame for shooting scare at Alabama school

  20-09-2017 20:28
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police say a prank is to blame for a shooting scare at a combined elementary-middle school in Alabama.
  
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• The Latest: Fed sees slightly better growth this year

  20-09-2017 20:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting (all times local):
  
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• TCC and Union Schools Announce New College Program

  20-09-2017 20:20
  
  Tulsa Community College and Union Public Schools announced plans Wednesday for a pilot program allowing students to earn a high school diploma and an associate degree at the same time. 
  
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• Melania Trump to UN: 'Come together' for good of children

  20-09-2017 20:14
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Melania Trump on Wednesday called on world leaders to come together for the good of their children, delivering her first public remarks at the United Nations as the White House works to strengthen its…
  
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• German officials see no sign of election hacking — yet

  20-09-2017 20:13
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German officials say there's no sign of concerted cyberattacks aimed at influencing the outcome of the country's upcoming election, but warned Wednesday against giving the all-clear yet.
  
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• Mexicans dig through collapsed buildings as quake kills 225

  20-09-2017 20:11
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Rescuers found a surviving child on Wednesday in the ruins of a school that collapsed in Mexico's magnitude 7.1 earthquake, one of many efforts across the city to try to save people trapped in debris under…
  
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• Pence applauds UN resolution on peacekeeping reform

  20-09-2017 20:07
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council is backing reforms to reduce inefficiencies, corruption and abuse in the world body's far-flung peacekeeping operations, a key priority of the Trump administration at the U.N. General Assembly this week.
  
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• The Latest: Catalan secession vote finds support in Madrid

  20-09-2017 20:06
  
  MADRID (AP) — The Latest on independence efforts in Spain's Catalonia region (all times local):
  
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• Barrier put in mine that sent toxic water into 3 states

  20-09-2017 20:06
  
  DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states.
  
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• Services Set For 5 NSU Students Killed In Wreck

  20-09-2017 20:04
  
  Services are planned for the five Northeastern State University students who died September 17, 2017, in a Cherokee County crash. 
  
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• Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty in escape, fraud case

  20-09-2017 20:04
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous sect leader recaptured after a year on the run has pleaded guilty in an escape and food-stamp fraud case.
  
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• The Latest: Trump wants to increase US investment in Africa

  20-09-2017 20:03
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  
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• Power is back on in Florida, but utilities still under fire

  20-09-2017 20:02
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — After a massive restoration effort, most of Florida has power 10 days after Hurricane Irma knocked out electricity to nearly two-thirds of the state, mostly because of improvements made to the power grid since Hurricane Wilma…
  
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• The Latest: Mexico president says quake rescues top priority

  20-09-2017 20:01
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on a major earthquake that has struck Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Oklahoma City neighbor of disabled man shot and killed by police says family will hire attorney

  20-09-2017 20:00
  
  "We were screaming that he can't hear," Rayos said.
  
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• Iranian president: Trump's UN comments 'ignorant, absurd'

  20-09-2017 20:00
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's president warned the United States on Thursday that his country will "respond decisively" to any violation of the agreement that reins in Tehran's nuclear program and called U.S. President Donald Trump's "ignorant, absurd and hateful…
  
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• California sues Trump administration to prevent border wall

  20-09-2017 20:00
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general sued the Trump administration Wednesday over its plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, arguing it's overstepping its authority by waiving environmental reviews and other laws.
  
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• Marshals official says man offered to make plea in Bobo case

  20-09-2017 19:54
  
  SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Marshals inspector said Wednesday that a jail inmate he interviewed about a missing Tennessee woman said he would plead to charges in the case, a year before another man was charged with her kidnapping…
  
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