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The Police Killings in Des Moines, Iowa: Latest Updates
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the killings.
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Ken Blaze / USA Today Sports Today's News: Nov. 2, 2016
The Cubs are World Series champions, two officers shot in “ambush-style attacks” in Iowa, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Jim Young / Reuters Today's News: Nov. 1, 2016
Chicago has its 600th homicide, Alabama declares a state of emergency, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Happens If Republicans Refuse to Replace Justice Scalia?
Senators Ted Cruz and Richard Burr and some conservative legal scholars are arguing that if a Democrat wins the election, the Senate should refuse to confirm anyone.
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Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters Today's News: Oct. 31, 2016
Nigerian officials may have sexually abused displaced women and girls, activists are using a Facebook tool to protest a North Dakota pipeline, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Trump Time Capsule #151: Director Comey’s Uneven Sensitivities
Presented with minimal elaboration, today’s installment of the “what is Director Comey thinking?” saga: This story is…
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Chris Keane / Randall Hill / Reuters / ... Which Republicans Oppose Donald Trump? A Cheat Sheet
Colin Powell has reportedly announced that he will back Hillary Clinton for president.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Everyone Is Angry at James Comey Now
The FBI director finds himself targeted not only by the Clinton campaign but also by former Republican officials for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email case.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Today's News: Oct. 30, 2016
A powerful earthquake struck central Italy, transportation officials investigating an airplane fire in Chicago, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Today's News: Oct. 29, 2016
Bob Dylan breaks his Nobel silence, Clinton and Trump hit the campaign trail, and more from across the United States and around the world.
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Colin McPherson / Getty How Did Maajid Nawaz End Up on a List of 'Anti-Muslim Extremists'?
“They put a target on my head.”
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Jim Young / Reuters Today's News: Oct. 28, 2016
The FBI is once again looking at Hillary Clinton’s emails, Dakota Access Pipeline protests, a plan caught fire at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and more from across the United States and around the world.
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Bob Strong / Reuters American Airlines Plane Blows a Tire During Takeoff in Chicago; Passengers Safe
Video of Flight 383, which was headed to Miami, shows thick black smoke emerging from the aircraft and passengers walking on grass.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer
The FBI has announced that it is reviewing new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system, after the messages turned up in an unrelated inquiry.
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James MacPherson / AP Today's News: Oct. 27, 2016
Police removed protestors demonstrating against a North Dakota pipeline, the Oregon militiamen were acquitted, groping allegations of Clarence Thomas, and more from across the United States and around the world.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump's 'Voter Suppression Operation' Targets Black Voters
Even as the Republican launches a purported African American outreach campaign 12 days before the election, his aides say their goal is to depress turnout in the bloc.
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Alejandro Cegarra / AP Today's News: Oct. 26, 2016
Venezuelans took to the streets to protest President Nicolas Maduro, the U.S. abstained in a U.N. vote condemning the Cuba embargo, and more from across the United States and around the world.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Revolt of the Conservative Women
A dustup between Megyn Kelly and Newt Gingrich shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are struggling to retain the support of women.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Trials of Sheriff Joe
Years of racial profiling and ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop his immigration sweeps may have finally caught up.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Today's News: Oct. 25, 2016
Volkswagen reached a $14.7 billion settlement, Paul Beatty wins the Man Booker Prize, and more from across the United States and around the world.
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Does Trump Understand What Obamacare Is?
The candidate: Donald Trump The gaffe: During a campaign swing on Tuesday morning in Miami, the Republican tried to…
