Law enforcement to beef up in Dallas entertainment district after shootings and nationwide violence

Federal authorities in Texas planned to detail their response Monday to a series of shootings in Dallas, one of numerous gun incidents across the nation on Halloween weekend that left at least ...

Rain clears but flood risk remains high after destructive storms swamp normally arid US Southwest

Some rivers began receding in the flood-weary Southwest on Monday, including in a Colorado tourist town that has to alter its Election Day voting plans, while others were still rising, keeping ...

Parts of a Learjet may have broken off midair before Florida crash that killed 9, investigators say

A business jet crashed into a South Florida neighborhood and erupted into a ball of flames, killing all nine people on board ...
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Trump’s agenda meets the ballot box as states vote on abortion, redistricting and voter ID mandates

WASHINGTON (AP) — A battle over abortion rights is playing out in several states Tuesday as voters decide 145 proposed laws and constitutional amendments, including some that could affect voting for ...
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Suspected militants open fire and kill 2 police officers guarding polio workers in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants riding a motorcycle shot and killed two police officers assigned to protect polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in northwestern ...
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Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration

As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night’s rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny ...
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Caleb Williams and Jeffery Simmons lead the Bears past the Seahawks 34-17

SEATTLE (AP) — Jeffery Simmons ran out of the tunnel for the first time since joining the Chicago Bears with a new uniform, orange sleeves and a wide smile as he welcomed the move that put right into ...
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After Election Day, Trump stares down the specter of Democratic probes and the race to succeed him

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Donald Trump, Tuesday’s elections will chart the course for the final two years of his presidency. If his party loses control of Congress in the midterm elections, the rest of ...
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Election Day arrives after a surge in early voting, with observers keeping close watch at the polls

WASHINGTON (AP) — The final day of voting in this year’s midterm elections arrives Tuesday against a backdrop of uncertainty after a year in which President Donald Trump has tried to interfere in how ...
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Midterm elections coming to a close as voters pass judgment on Trump’s second term

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters struggling with high prices and angry over an unpopular war with Iran will decide whether to drastically shift power in Washington in midterm elections Tuesday that will serve ...
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Parents of 1-year-old fatally shot by police protest at Mississippi Attorney General’s Office

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Mississippi led a protest Monday at the office of the state’s attorney general, who ruled last ...
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How My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade’ hit No. 1 in the US, 20 years later

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s official: The influential New Jersey rock outfit My Chemical Romance has the No. 1 record in the U.S., having topped the all-genre Billboard 200 for the first time in their career ...