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As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won’t be enough

By Juliet Linderman, Associated Press

Farmers across the United States will soon begin receiving government checks as part of a billion-dollar bailout to buoy growers experiencing financial strain from President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China.

Pope warns Lithuanians to guard against anti-Semitism

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Pope Francis warned Sunday against any rebirth of the "pernicious" anti-Semitic attitudes that fueled the Holocaust as he marked the annual remembrance for Lithuania's centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during World War II.

Kavanaugh accuser commits to hearing

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

Attorneys for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, and the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached agreement for a public hearing Thursday.

North Carolina river swirls with gray muck near flooded coal ash dump

By Michael Biesecker, Alan Suderman, Associated Press

Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence's floodwaters.

Tanzania death toll 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry

By Tom Odula, Associated Press

As rescue divers probed a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster and the death toll soared past 200, a man was found in an air pocket, alive.

Some see signs of hope on North Korea as Trump heads to UN

By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press

In the year since Trump's searing, debut U.N. speech fueled fears of nuclear conflict with North Korea, the two leaders have turned from threats to flattery.

Rosenstein’s fate could turn on which account Trump believes

By Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

The fate of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could turn on whether President Donald Trump believes the account of an ex-FBI official who, as Trump once asserted in a tweet, had "LIED! LIED! LIED!"…

DHS secretary: FEMA chief misused cars, but won’t lose job

By Colleen Long, Associated Press

The head of the federal disaster response agency used government vehicles without proper authorization, but will not lose his job over it, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday.

Parents face tougher rules to get immigrant children back

By Gisela Salomon, Claudia Torrens, Associated Press

The Trump administration has imposed more stringent rules and vetting on immigrants in the U.S. trying to take custody of children who crossed the border on their own.