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Mexico shocked by news: Girl trapped in rubble didn't exist

MEXICO CITY — Hour after excruciating hour, Mexicans were transfixed by dramatic efforts to reach a young girl thought buried in the rubble of a school destroyed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.

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Christian singer Natalie Grant undergoing thyroid surgery

NASHVILLE — Contemporary Christian singer Natalie Grant will undergo thyroid surgery to remove tumors and will cancel shows between mid-October and November to recover.

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'White allies' protest of police shooting leads to stadium

ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of mostly white protesters gathered Thursday evening in downtown St.

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A test for Trump's political muscle in Alabama Senate runoff

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It's Trump versus Trumpland.

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GOP health bill offers provisions aimed at helping 2 states

WASHINGTON — Provisions shoehorned into the Republican health care bill dangle extra money for Alaska and Wisconsin, home states of one GOP senator whose vote party leaders desperately need and another who co-sponsored the legislation, according to a

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Kim Jong Un: 'Deranged' Trump will 'pay dearly' for threat

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump "deranged" and said he will "pay dearly" for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on the ho

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Protesters ejected from Turkish president's New York speech

NEW YORK — A demonstrator who got up and shouted "Terrorist!" at Turkey's president during a speech at a hotel on Thursday was grabbed by bodyguards and rushed out of the hall as others in the emotional crowd pushed, shoved and shouted.

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Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake

MEXICO CITY — As painstaking attempts to reach survivors in quake-ravaged buildings across Mexico City stretched into a third day Thursday, desperation mounted among loved ones who earlier had high hopes for quick rescues and some complained they wer

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UN Peacekeepers: Congo leads world in sex abuse allegations

BUNIA, Congo — She had been orphaned by a brutal conflict, but the 14-year-old Congolese girl found refuge in a camp protected by United Nations peacekeepers. The camp should have been safe the day she was raped. A delegation from the U.N.

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SEC under fire for being hacked despite warnings on security

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission waited until Wednesday to disclose a hack of its corporate filing system that occurred last year.

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