Trump ready to ease rules on coal-fired power plants
The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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Jimmy Carter is still the man from Plains
The former president lives modestly in his Georgia hometown, a peanut and cotton farm town with a poverty rate of 40 percent.
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Reeking red tide catches Minnesotans in Florida
Gulf Coast snowbirds hold their noses during southwest Florida's state of emergency.
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Richard Sipe, national expert on clergy sex abuse, dies at 85
The former monk from St. John's Abbey in Minnesota was one of the nation's foremost authorities on clergy sex abuse and a thorn in the side of the Catholic Church.
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Singing custodian hits the right note with kids at this elementary school
Alo Key has been head custodian for only a year. But he's been singing since childhood.
Miss America: Leadership bullied, manipulated, silenced me
The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant's current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson.
Trump blames DC, as military parade plans unravel over costs
The cancellation of President Donald Trump's Veterans Day parade came swiftly when senior White House and Pentagon leaders saw the estimated $92 million price tag play out in public, setting off a chaotic volley of tweets and accusations between the president and the mayor of the nation's capital.
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Colorado man arrested in his family's death
Christopher Watts, who is being held without bail, is expected to be formally charged by Monday with three counts of murder and three counts of tampering with evidence.
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'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies, leaving legacy of 'Respect'
A powerhouse vocalist until the end, Franklin gave up touring only last year.
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Former US security leaders blast Trump for yanking clearance
Former U.S. security officials issued scathing rebukes to President Donald Trump on Thursday, admonishing him for yanking a top former spy chief's security clearance in what they cast as an act of political vengeance. Trump said he'd had to do "something" about the "rigged" federal probe of Russian election interference.
Manafort jury ends first day of deliberations with questions
The jury in the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations with a series of questions to the judge, including a request to "redefine" reasonable doubt.
'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies at 76
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died Thursday at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
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Grand jury says church had 'playbook for concealing the truth' about abuse
Avoid scandal. Use euphemisms. Ask inadequate questions. Lock complaints away in a "secret archive." Do not tell the police.
'Manafort and his lies' at heart of case, prosecution argues
Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash for his luxurious lifestyle and lied some more to procure millions in bank loans when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments at the former Trump campaign chairman's financial fraud trial. Jurors will begin deliberations Thursday.
Manafort chooses not to testify as defense rests its case
Paul Manafort's defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses in the former Trump campaign chairman's tax evasion and bank fraud trial. Manafort himself chose not to testify.
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FBI agent Strzok, who criticized Trump in texts, is fired
Trump and his allies seized on the text messages, sent during the 2016 campaign, to assail the Russia investigation as an illegitimate "witch hunt."
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