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Read Oct 17 WATCH: Pence announces cease-fire with Turkey in Syria
Read Oct 16 Read Trump’s full letter to Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!’
Watch Oct 11 Can ultrasound be used to fight Alzheimer’s?
Read Oct 17 Rep. Elijah Cummings dies at 68
Read Aug 29 After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople

Arts Oct 17

Alicia Alonso, grande dame of Cuban ballet, dies at 98

By Peter Orsi, Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press

The front entrance to the Trump National Doral is seen where a golf course owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is located in Doral, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Politics Oct 17

WATCH: G-7 will be held at Trump resort in Miami, Mulvaney says

By Associated Press

Britain's Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference after agreeing on the Brexit deal, at the sidelines of the European Union leaders summit, in Brussels, Belgium October 17, 2019. Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters

World Oct 17

What’s in the proposed UK-EU Brexit deal?

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland arrives on Capitol Hill before testifying to congress behind closed doors, as part of the impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs and House Oversight and Reform Committee, in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. Photo by Tom Brenner/Reuters

Politics Oct 17

Read Sondland’s full opening remarks on Trump impeachment inquiry

FILE PHOTO: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) addresses a National Press Club luncheon on his "committee's investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration," in Washington, U.S., August 7, 2019. Photo by Mary F. Calvert/Reuters

Politics Oct 17

How Rep. Elijah Cummings is being remembered

By Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland arrives to testify behind closed-doors as part of the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. Photo by Carlos Jasso/ Reuters.

Politics Oct 17

In remarks on Ukraine, Sondland distances himself from Trump

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

Hundreds of teachers and supporters march, days before the teacher's union was set to go on strike if a contract settlement was not reached, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. October 14, 2019. Photo by Brendan O'Brien/ Reuters.

Nation Oct 17

Chicago teachers go on strike in nation’s 3rd largest district

By Kathleen Foody, Don Babwin, Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk at the residence of U.S. ambassador in Ankara, Turkey, October 17, 2019. Photo by Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters

World Oct 17

WATCH: Pence announces cease-fire with Turkey in Syria

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at Downing Street in London, Britain October 15, 2019. Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters

World Oct 17

Boris Johnson strikes Brexit deal with EU

By Raf Casert, Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Nation Oct 17

Rep. Elijah Cummings dies at 68

By Brian Witte, Associated Press

Students at Doherty Middle School get their healthy lunch at the school cafeteria in Andover, Massachusetts. Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images

Nation Oct 16

Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch

By Candice Choi, Associated Press

A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP, received by Reuters January 25, 2012. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

Science Oct 16

Scientists discover big storms can create ‘stormquakes’

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Politics Oct 16

Contentious meeting at the White House ends in Dems walking out

By Robert Burns, Associated Press

Nation Oct 16

Immigrant kills himself in ICE jail in Louisiana

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump watches as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan departs at the entrance to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters

World Oct 16

Read Trump’s full letter to Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!’

By Yasmeen Alamiri

Politics Oct 16

Bipartisan House vote condemns Trump’s withdrawal from Syria

By Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: The badge and gun of a Charlotte police officer in riot gear are seen during a large security presence outside the football stadium as the NFL's Carolina Panthers host the Minnesota Vikings amid protesting of the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 25, 2016. Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters

Nation Oct 16

Deadly police shootings keep happening. Data could be a missing piece

By Gretchen Frazee

World Oct 16

In Iraq, concern that Syria chaos would bring back ISIS

By Hadi Mizban, Associated Press

The new tax law includes a number of changes regarding divorce. Photo by Altrendo Images/Stockbyte via Getty Images.

Making Sen$e Oct 16

Can my ex bar me from his retirement benefits?

By Philip Moeller

Keith Best, director of grassroots outreach, puts up a banner next to a cardboard cutout of U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of a leadership training session with local Republican Party officials and volunteers in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S., September 7, 2019. Picture taken September 7, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Nation Oct 16

Complaint could make up to 234,000 Wisconsin voters ineligible

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press