DALLAS — His wife and daughters’ final goodbyes came as the crowd broke: a quiet prayer with their heads bowed over Sgt. Michael Smith’s casket. There, they left three gerbera daisies — the kind Smith and his daughters used to plant in their yard. After days of services and teary-eyed speeches, Smith is at rest. […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump has aggressively challenged and won reductions in property tax bills on his elite golf courses — and then boasted as a presidential candidate that several of those same courses are worth tens of millions more than his staff argued to county assessors. His maneuvers to contain tax increases have posed fiscal
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USAOne Utah woman called Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Friday with a question: Where should she send her used tampons in case of a miscarriage? An Indiana woman called with a different query: Could she go swimming, or would the chlorine in the water be harmful to her unfertilized eggs? And a Colorado woman had
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USAYour cigarettes could one day look a lot grosser, with the packaging depicting rotten teeth, charred lungs or cancer-ridden skin. It’s all thanks to a judgment in a landmark case between the tiny South American country of Uruguay and the giant tobacco company Philip Morris International. The ruling has sent a stark message to the
LOS ANGELES — Three University of California, Berkeley students studying abroad were injured in the Nice, France, terrorist attack on Thursday, while a fourth student remains missing and unaccounted for, school officials confirmed Friday. The missing student was identified as Nicolas Leslie, 20, a junior from Del Mar. University officials are working with local police,
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International, USAAfter years of wrangling with critics, Congress on Friday released 28 newly declassified pages from the 9/11 Commission report, regarding Saudi Arabia’s possible role in the attacks. Lawmakers, including former Senator Bob Graham of Florida, as well as the families of 9/11 victims, had long called for the release. According to The New York Times,
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has chosen conservative Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. He announced his decision via Twitter Friday morning just before he had planned to hold a news conference announcing his choice—an event he postponed in the wake of the Thursday attack in Nice, France, that killed at least 84 people and injured
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USAPARIS — When it comes to Western political leaders, we have definitely arrived at The Time of the Woman. Hillary Clinton is the first serious female candidate for U.S. president, Theresa May just took over as British prime minister and Germany’s Angela Merkel remains the most powerful European politician. Moreover, the nationalist Marine Le Pen
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InternationalTim Kaine does not thunder. While introducing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally on Thursday afternoon, the Virginia senator lit into her likely Republican opponent rhetorically, but with a delivery that was more Sunday school teacher than fire breather. “I’ll tell you one that gets me steamed,” Kaine said, pointing to one
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USAAUSTIN, Texas — An Austin area father and son were two of at least 84 people who were killed Thursday when a truck drove through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, according to friends and relatives. Sean Copeland, 51, and his 11-year-old son Brodie were in Nice on a family vacation, the family
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International, USAA long-shot, last-ditch attempt by a few Republican delegates to prevent Donald Trump from securing the GOP nomination failed by an overwhelming margin late Thursday night. The rules committee of the Republican National Convention shut down an effort by the Never Trump movement to allow delegates to vote according to their conscience and not be
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USAMK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List), known for her anti-Israel statements, is at it again, and is clarifying that she views sovereign Israeli territory as “occupied” Palestinian territory. In an interview on Thursday with Hamas’s Palestine newspaper, Zoabi said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s threat to expel her from the Knesset is “an attempt to deter
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Middle EastDonald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, he said Friday on Twitter, a sign that the volatile Republican business mogul hopes to stabilize his campaign for president as he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton prepare to claim their party nominations over the next two weeks. A longtime champion of conservative
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USAFrance faced a painful morning on Friday, after 84 people were murdered in the worst vehicular terror attack in history. A 31-year-old Muslim terrorist used his truck to run over hundreds of people out celebrating the French independence day. Eighty-four of the victims were killed, including dozens of children, and over a hundred wounded. The
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