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Supreme Court rejects Samsung appeal of ruling that it copied Apple iPhone features

By Associated Press

In 2014, a jury awarded Apple $120 million in damages for Samsung's infringement of the patents.

Commerce Sec. Ross has stake in firm tied to Putin’s circle, report says

By Bernard Condon, Associated Press

Ross says U.S. ethics officials who had reviewed his finances earlier this year did not ask him to sell his stock, and that he had listed the holding in his government financial disclosure forms and wasn't hiding anything.

Trump says U.S. will arm Japan to knock down North Korea missiles

By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin, Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Monday refused to rule out eventual military action against North Korea and declared that the United States "will not stand" for Pyongyang menacing America or its allies.

Trump says south Texas mass shooting is about mental health, not guns

By Jill Colvin, Associated Press

President Donald Trump says the mass shooting at a Texas church "isn't a guns situation," but is a "mental health problem at the highest level."…

One year after the presidential election, New Yorkers on how it changed their lives

By Pavni Mittal

New Yorkers from a range of political backgrounds reflected on their electoral choices and the past year.

Kentucky House speaker resigns post after texts with staffer

By Adam Beam, Associated Press

Kentucky's Republican House speaker has resigned his leadership position after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month.

Ryan says health insurance mandate part of GOP tax talks

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

It would be another shot at further undermining the Affordable Care Act after repeated failures by the GOP-led Congress to repeal and replace the law, as President Donald Trump has demanded.

Gov. Abbott says shooting is worst in state’s history, with 26 dead

By Kamala Kelkar

Twenty-six people were killed in an attack at a rural church in south Texas during Sunday services, in what Gov. Greg Abbott called the deadliest shooting in the state’s history.

What draws ‘lone wolves’ to the Islamic State?

By James L. Gelvin, The Conversation

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the Manhattan bike path attack, wasn't a devout Muslim. He cursed and came late to prayers. A terrorism expert explains why such a man may want to be a martyr.

Puigdemont, 4 ousted Catalan leaders surrender to police

By Kamala Kelkar

Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four ministers turned themselves in to Belgium’s federal prosecutor on Sunday and are awaiting a judge’s decision on whether to impose European Union arrest warrants.