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Vermont exec would be nation’s first transgender governor

By Wilson Ring, Associated Press

A former energy company executive from Vermont has a shot at becoming the nation's first transgender governor — but she says that's not the main reason she's running.

Charlottesville victim’s mother: ‘So much healing to do’

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

Heather Heyer's mother said Sunday there's much healing to do a year after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

‘You’re mostly isolated and alone.’ Why some domestic workers are vulnerable to exploitation

By Ivette Feliciano, Corinne Segal

Many domestic workers in the U.S. labor behind closed doors in private homes, exempt from certain types of federal labor protections.

NASA spacecraft rockets toward sun for closest look yet

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before.

V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 85

By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press

V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing made him one of the world's most admired writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85.

Ige wins Hawaii Democratic governor primary

By Caleb Jones, Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press

Hawaii Gov. David Ige won the Democratic primary in his bid for a second term in office Saturday, defeating U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa.

3 Jordan policemen killed in storming of militants’ hideout

By Fares Akram, Associated Press

Three members of Jordan's security forces were killed Saturday when they stormed a hideout of suspected militants that had been rigged with explosives, the government spokeswoman said.