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Little progress made to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children, subcommittee says

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WATCH LIVE: Mike Pompeo launches Iran Action Group after nuclear deal withdrawal

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Nation Aug 15

How Catholic churches in Pennsylvania hid decades of abuse

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World Aug 15

Afghan confidence in government undermined by fresh attacks

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How the Pentagon joins forces with Silicon Valley startups

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Nation Aug 15

‘The Problem with Apu’ and the American immigrant stories that aren’t being told

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What happens when migrant children are deported home

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A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending family separation at the border. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images

Little progress made to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children, subcommittee says

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Hackers are preparing an ‘unlimited’ ATM cash heist. Here’s how to protect yourself

By Gretchen Frazee

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A man prepares to smoke K2 or "Spice", a synthetic marijuana drug, along a street in East Harlem on August 5, 2015 in New York City. New York, along with other cities, is experiencing a deadly epidemic of synthetic marijuana usage including varieties known as K2 or "Spice" which can cause extreme reactions in some users. According to New York's health department, more than 120 people visited an emergency room in the city in just one week in April. While the state banned the ingredients used to make K2 in 2012, distributors have switched to other ingredients and names in an attempt to circumvent the law. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

76 people overdosed near Yale, and officials suspect a bad batch of synthetic marijuana

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U.S. first lady Melania Trump hosts a roundtable discussion with tech leaders on the effects of the Internet on children, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. Photo By Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

First Lady Melania Trump plans cyberbullying summit

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hundreds of newspapers defend press freedom against President Trump’s attacks

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan participates in a session at the third annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, U.S., September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

Former CIA Director John Brennan says Trump is trying to silence critics

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Migrant children from Honduras and Mexico play at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico June 22, 2018. Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters

What happens when migrant children are deported home

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The year after childbirth is the deadliest for addicted women

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In a “Hothouse Earth” scenario, temperatures would be irreversibly warmer than pre-industrial levels, by 4 to 5 degrees Celsius or 7 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

How to avoid a catastrophic ‘Hothouse Earth’

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The many different ways Trump has described Putin and Russian election interference

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies at a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters

Politics Aug 16

WATCH LIVE: Mike Pompeo launches Iran Action Group after nuclear deal withdrawal

Officials said the group will be headed by Brian Hook, who is currently the State Department's director of policy planning.

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

U.S. first lady Melania Trump hosts a roundtable discussion with tech leaders on the effects of the Internet on children, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. Photo By Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Politics Aug 16

First Lady Melania Trump plans cyberbullying summit

The first lady is focusing on cyberbullying among young people as part of her "Be Best" initiative. The campaign also…

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Nation Aug 16

Hundreds of newspapers defend press freedom against President Trump’s attacks

Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii pushed back against President Donald Trump's attacks on "fake news" Thursday with a coordinated series…

By David Bauder, Associated Press

A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending family separation at the border. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images

Nation Aug 16

Little progress made to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children, subcommittee says

In the past six years, more than 200,000 unaccompanied migrant children have entered the U.S. and been placed into the…

By Patty Gorena Morales

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan participates in a session at the third annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, U.S., September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

Politics Aug 16

Former CIA Director John Brennan says Trump is trying to silence critics

In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Thursday, former CIA Director John Brennan cited press reports…

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Hundreds of newspapers defend press freedom against President Trump’s attacks

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Nation Aug 15

How Catholic churches in Pennsylvania hid decades of abuse

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Aretha Franklin, queen of soul, dies at 76

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U.S. first lady Melania Trump hosts a roundtable discussion with tech leaders on the effects of the Internet on children, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. Photo By Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Politics Aug 16

First Lady Melania Trump plans cyberbullying summit

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How the Pentagon joins forces with Silicon Valley startups

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Column: Proposed budget bill would have devastating effects on millions’ Social Security benefits

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In a “Hothouse Earth” scenario, temperatures would be irreversibly warmer than pre-industrial levels, by 4 to 5 degrees Celsius or 7 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

Science Aug 15

How to avoid a catastrophic ‘Hothouse Earth’

By Julia Griffin, Nsikan Akpan

A man prepares to smoke K2 or "Spice", a synthetic marijuana drug, along a street in East Harlem on August 5, 2015 in New York City. New York, along with other cities, is experiencing a deadly epidemic of synthetic marijuana usage including varieties known as K2 or "Spice" which can cause extreme reactions in some users. According to New York's health department, more than 120 people visited an emergency room in the city in just one week in April. While the state banned the ingredients used to make K2 in 2012, distributors have switched to other ingredients and names in an attempt to circumvent the law. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Nation Aug 16

76 people overdosed near Yale, and officials suspect a bad batch of synthetic marijuana

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A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014. Google has taken the first steps to meet a European ruling that citizens can have objectionable links removed from Internet search results, a ruling that pleased privacy campaigners but raised fears that the right can be abused to hide negative information. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTR3RK9T

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies at a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters

WATCH LIVE: Mike Pompeo launches Iran Action Group after nuclear deal withdrawal

Officials said the group will be headed by Brian Hook, who is currently the State Department's director of policy planning.

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

U.S. first lady Melania Trump hosts a roundtable discussion with tech leaders on the effects of the Internet on children, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. Photo By Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

First Lady Melania Trump plans cyberbullying summit

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hundreds of newspapers defend press freedom against President Trump’s attacks

By David Bauder, Associated Press

Migrant children from Honduras and Mexico play at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico June 22, 2018. Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters

What happens when migrant children are deported home

Central American migrant children face intensified violence and poverty when they're deported back to their home countries, according to a new UNICEF report released today.

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The wreckage of the bus is seen in Papallacta, Ecuador on Aug. 13 in this image obtained from social media by Reuters on Aug. 14.

Bus crash in Ecuador kills 24 people, injures 19

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Forensic investigators work at the site after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, Britain, August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

London police treat crash near Parliament as terrorism

By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Associated Press

A man prepares to smoke K2 or "Spice", a synthetic marijuana drug, along a street in East Harlem on August 5, 2015 in New York City. New York, along with other cities, is experiencing a deadly epidemic of synthetic marijuana usage including varieties known as K2 or "Spice" which can cause extreme reactions in some users. According to New York's health department, more than 120 people visited an emergency room in the city in just one week in April. While the state banned the ingredients used to make K2 in 2012, distributors have switched to other ingredients and names in an attempt to circumvent the law. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

76 people overdosed near Yale, and officials suspect a bad batch of synthetic marijuana

People on and around the historic New Haven Green near Yale University began falling ill shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, and the overdoses continued into Thursday morning. No deaths were reported, and most people brought to hospitals have been discharged,…

By Associated Press

A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending family separation at the border. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images

Little progress made to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children, subcommittee says

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Storm clouds pass over a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo by Jason Cohn/Reuters

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