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NORTHEAST IS WARMING FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD
The 2 degree mark is considered the point of no return for catastrophic effects of global warming... READ MORE›
WINTER STORM WEAKENS BUT TRAVEL STILL HAZARDOUS IN PLACES
The South Dakota Rural Electric Association said roughly 16,400 of its customers were without power Monday evening... READ MORE›
HOLIDAY WEATHER FRIGHTFUL FOR SOME, WITH SNOW AND STORMS
There is a blizzard watch posted for much of the Dakotas and a winter storm watch in effect from Montana to Lake Superior... READ MORE›
ARCTIC OUTBREAK, THEN LA NINA WARMING IN NORTH AMERICA
With holes in the Arctic Sea ice weakening, the jet stream - a pool of freezing air that formed near the North Pole... READ MORE›
ARAB-KURD TENSIONS SIMMER IN SHADOW OF MOSUL CAMPAIGN
The Kurdistan Regional Government has changed course, declaring its commitment to Baghdad to retreat from territory that Kurdish forces have taken from ISIL... READ MORE›
NO EVIDENCE OF ALOE VERA FOUND IN THE ALOE VERA AT WAL-MART, CVS
The products all listed aloe barbadensis leaf juice -- another name for aloe vera -- as either the No... READ MORE›
ESCAPED CIVILIANS RUN OUT OF FOOD AS IRAQI FORCES TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND MOSUL
Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighborhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Islamic State m... READ MORE›
DAILY LIFE INSIDE A WOMEN'S MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON
Women who have jobs within the prison complete their duties separately until afternoon lock-up... READ MORE›
IRAQI MILITARY FINDS 100 DECAPITATED SKELETONS EAST OF MOSUL
The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the ISIS-held city of Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQ PESHMERGA STORM ISLAMIC STATE TOWN AS ARMY BATTLES IN MOSUL
Islamic State fighters have sought to slow the offensive on their Mosul stronghold with waves of suicide car bomb attacks... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES PUSH DEEPER INTO EASTERN MOSUL
Human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Friday Islamic State fighters had killed hundreds of people, including 50 deserters and 180 former Iraqi government employees, around Mosul... READ MORE›
BATTLE FOR MOSUL: IRAQ ARMY SAYS SIX ISIL AREAS SEIZED
They raised the Iraqi flag over buildings in those neighbourhoods, and inflicted heavy losses on the fighters with ISIL, or ISIS, the statement said... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE CHIEF BELIEVED LEFT MOSUL BUT TELLS HOLDOUTS TO FIGHT TILL DEATH, 'WREAK HAVOC'
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a total war against the forces arrayed against them... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE LEADER SAYS 'NO RETREAT' FROM MOSUL ASSAULT
Fleeing residents said there had been heavy mortar fire launched by retreating Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE LEADER BAGHDADI SAYS 'NO RETREAT' FROM MOSUL ASSAULT
Published November 4, 2016 4 28 am Members of Iraqi security forces gather during a battle with Islamic State militants in southeast of Mosul on Thursday... READ MORE›
AMERICAN BISON DESIGNATED NATIONAL MAMMAL OF US
AP -- The American bison has been designated the national mammal of the U.S. during a ceremony at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota... READ MORE›
IRAQI SPECIAL FORCES HOLD POSITIONS AFTER ENTERING ISIS-HELD MOSUL
Iraqi special forces are holding their positions in Mosul a day after entering the Islamic State-held city for the first time since 2014... READ MORE›
IRAQI TROOPS ENTER MOSUL FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2014
Mosul was conquered in a lightning Isis advance in the summer of 2014, falling to the militants along with much of the surrounding Nineveh plains... READ MORE›
MOST ROUTES TO 270 BLOCKED FOR TRUMP, NEEDS LAST-DITCH SURGE
In Nevada, Trump's hardline position on immigration has turned off many in the state's large Hispanic population -- giving Clinton an advantage... READ MORE›
WITH MOST ROUTES TO WHITE HOUSE BLOCKED, TRUMP NEEDS LAST-DITCH SURGE
In Nevada, Trump's hard-line position on immigration has turned off many in the state's large Hispanic population -- giving Clinton an advantage... READ MORE›
DAESH TAKING IRAQIS TO MOSUL FOR USE AS HUMAN SHIELDS
Iraqi forces have been pushing toward Mosul from several directions since the operation began Oct. 17... READ MORE›
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HILLARY CLINTON: TRUMP'S RHETORIC 'SEIZED ON' BY ISIS
Hillary Clinton addressed the terror attack in New York City and Minnesota over the weekend, saying there's much more we need to do... READ MORE›
FORMER NUCLEAR LAUNCH OFFICERS SIGN LETTER
The letter, signed by ex-Air Force officers, said Trump lacks the temperament for deciding whether to use nuclear weapons... READ MORE›
JIMMY CARTER SEEING RESURGENCE OF RACISM PLANS BAPTIST CONFERENCE FOR UNITY
Mr. Carter founded the New Baptist Covenant by reaching out to black and white Baptist associations, many of which had split many years ago over slavery... READ MORE›
AMERICA'S FIRST NATIONAL MAMMAL IS THE BISON
A herd of bison graze in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., in 2011... READ MORE›
ISIS RECONCILES WITH AL-QAIDA GROUP AS SYRIA AIR STRIKES CONTINUE
Control of the area would give the group a strategic foothold in north-east Syria, which would give it easy access to north-west Iraq... READ MORE›
US FACES WORST DROUGHTS IN 1,000 YEARS, PREDICT SCIENTISTS
Climate change is likely to cause decade-long mega-droughts across US south-west and Great Plains, new study shows... READ MORE›
CLINTON CAMP PREPARING FOR POSSIBILITY TRUMP WON'T CONCEDE
That's according to several Clinton campaign aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal strategy... READ MORE›
LAYERS OF MEANING IN MR OBAMAS KENYA TRIP
Of course, Mr. Obama cannot travel to Kenya simply as a seeker of roots, the way he did before he moved into the White House... READ MORE›
8 STATES RUNNING OUT OF WATER
Exceptional drought 0.0 percent With more than one-quarter of the state's land under severe drought conditions, nearly 2.8 million people in South Carolina live in drought areas... READ MORE›
'WE USUALLY CRY WHEN WE WATCH THE NEWS'
Mosul residents confirm that enslaved Yazidis are still inside the city, where conditions for civilians are rapidly deteriorating... READ MORE›
THE WORLD MOURNS SHIMON PERES AS ISRAEL CONSIDERS HIS LEGACY
Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat for the peace accords... READ MORE›
GREEN 'LAWFARE': VOTERS FEEL COALITION IS TRYING TO SILENCE ENVIRONMENT GROUPS
The latest move by the Abbott government puts at risk not just our environment but our very democracy... READ MORE›
EXPERT WARNS IT'S A MISTAKE TO REBUILD FORT MCMURRAY NEIGHBOURHOOD ON FLOOD PLAIN
John Pomeroy says it is unwise for Fort McMurray and the province to okay rebuilding in a floodplain... READ MORE›
ARMY OF ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS AIMS TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE
VanDyke said the lack of outside help convinced him he couldn't sit still while the people of the Nineveh Plains suffered... READ MORE›
WHY A BOLLYWOOD FILM HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF DISTORTING HISTORY
'Suspend disbelief' Now Mohenjo Daro's makers and cast have defended the film as historical fiction... READ MORE›
KURDISH FORCES VOW NO RETREAT UNTIL NINEVEH PLAINS ARE RETAKEN FROM ISIS
Peshmerga officers said the New Zealand SAS are also present... READ MORE›
NSW GOVERNMENT SPRUIKS COAL SEAM GAS MINING TO THE WORLD
The government department said it should have made clear that it is government policy to prohibit coal seam gas exploration in the state's northern rivers... READ MORE›
IRAQI CITY OF MOSUL BRACES FOR LOOMING BATTLE WITH ISIS
In military circles, the Mosul offensive draws comparisons to two other cities where Iraqi forces wrested control from ISIS Ramadi and Falluja... READ MORE›
PUMPED BEYOND LIMITS, MANY U.S. AQUIFERS IN DECLINE
An estimated 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the country is pumped from the aquifer... READ MORE›
SPRING COMING EARLIER IN US A?? SCIENTISTS
The findings published on Wednesday in Environmental Research Letters suggest even bigger shifts in the plant calendar due to climate change than had been expected... READ MORE›
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HALTS WORK ON PART OF PIPELINE PROJECT
Associated Press writers Blake Nicholson in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Doug Glass in Minneapolis contributed to this report... READ MORE›
ANTI-ISIS RESISTANCE GROUP PLANS TO RISE UP IN MOSUL, SAY RESIDENTS
Their family was taken to Irbil after less than a day in a holding centre set up for those fleeing Isis's last urban stronghold in Iraq... READ MORE›
ISIS KILLS DOZENS AND SEIZES HOSTAGES IN COUNTER-ATTACK ON KIRKUK
Iraqi police said on Saturday morning that the assault was over... READ MORE›
CLINTON CAMPAIGN: WIKILEAKS HACK GETS 'CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN'
Clinton campaign director John Podesta boards the campaign plane in White Plains, N.Y., on Sept. 27 before leaving for a rally in North Carolina... READ MORE›
COPS: DRUNKEN DRIVER KICKS TROOPER IN EYE WITH HIGH HEEL
She was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle... READ MORE›
BISON ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING 'NATIONAL MAMMAL'
The American bison is one step closer to becoming the national mammal of the United States... READ MORE›
FILM: SURVIVORS' KIN TELL HOLOCAUST STORIES
Carol King of New City is a social worker with Rockland Jewish Family Service whose clients include second-generation Holocaust survivors... READ MORE›
SHENHUA CRITICISES GOVERNMENT DELAY ON NEW SOUTH WALES COALMINE
By the environment minister, Greg Hunt, using the water trigger legislation after the NSW government's Planning Assessment Commission PAC gave approval last month with conditions... READ MORE›
DUTCH HONEYMOONER FALLS OFF 4,000FT CLIFF AND SURVIVES
Mamitho Lendas was visiting the World's End mountain when he stepped back to take a picture of his bride, and plummeted off the edge... READ MORE›
BRITAIN LAUNCHES FIGHTER JETS AGAINST ISIS FORCES IN IRAQ
Denmark and Belgium have also committed their air forces to tackling Isis, but, like Britain and France, have limited their roles to inside Iraq... READ MORE›
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JOHN MCCAIN: RUSSIA ELECTION HACKING THREATENS TO 'DESTROY DEMOCRACY'
Russia's involvement in hacking US systems during presidential election campaigns threatens to destroy democracy in its current form, according to former Republican candidate John McCain... READ MORE›
POPULISM TAKES OVER THE WORLD
As a form of horizontal political power, populism has been instrumental to legal, agrarian, and social reforms through the years... READ MORE›
WHO IS WINNING THE ELECTION SO FAR? DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON VOTERS COULD DECIDE SWING STATE RESULTS, EARLY VOTING SHOWS
Voters stand near a voting sign before casting ballots during early voting at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2016... READ MORE›
MICHELLE OBAMA LEADS DEMOCRATIC CHARGE IN 'SWING STATE' ARIZONA
Clinton is hoping to win in Arizona at the November 8 election, something her party has done only once since 1952... READ MORE›
CLINTON'S TRADITIONAL PLAYBOOK CAN'T COPE WITH CHAOS CANDIDATE TRUMP'S RISE
President Barack Obama was born in the United States... READ MORE›
TRUMP LIES AGAIN, THEN FINALLY ADMITS OBAMA WAS BORN IN AMERICA
Then he said, Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again, thank you, and he walked away... READ MORE›
GOP SUBPOENAS FIRMS THAT RAN CLINTON'S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER
The subpoenas were issued Monday by the Republican chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP'S SECOND AMENDMENT THREAT MAY IMPLY HILLARY CLINTON (OR SCOTUS JUSTICE) COULD BE SHOT
EDT -- Donald Trump's campaign quickly released a statement Tuesday regarding his remarks about the Second Amendment and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Wilmington, North Carolina... READ MORE›
IS THIS WHY OBAMA THINKS CLINTON IS THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE?
Hillary Clinton's still trying to pretend that FBI chief James Comey says she didn't lie repeatedly to the American people... READ MORE›
CLINTON ALLIES USES REPUBLICAN WORDS AGAINST TRUMP
The Democratic convention last week featured several Republican speakers who pledged their support for Clinton, including Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg... READ MORE›
'I AM MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF AMERICA THAN EVER BEFORE:' OBAMA
After Obama's speech, Clinton joined him on stage where they hugged, clasped hands and waved to the crowd... READ MORE›
OBAMA STUMPS FOR CLINTON TUESDAY IN NORTH CAROLINA AS TRUMP GAP SEEN NARROWING
President Barack Obama will campaign with presumptive Democratic White House nominee Hillary Clinton for the first time next Tuesday, as a new poll shows a... READ MORE›