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Questions and answers on status of Trump's border wall

President Donald Trump is trying to keep his promised border wall with Mexico in the public eye during his reelection bid, touting it this week on a trip to Yuma, Arizona.

Tropical storm whips Mexico's Baja, new storms in Atlantic

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Genevieve weakened to a tropical storm Thursday after lashing Mexico's Los Cabos tourist resorts with hurricane-force gusts and heavy rains. And two new tropical depressions …

Chicago mayor defends beefed-up police presence near home

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot adamantly defended on Thursday a beefed-up police presence outside her home, saying extra officers were necessary to protect her and her family.

AP Exclusive: Feds to seek death sentence for Boston bomber

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said …

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California firefighters `taxed to the limit' seeking help

Mexico graft case: Ferrari for the president, bags of cash

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The alleged examples of kickbacks, bribes and graft contained in leaked accusations by a former Mexican official contain some of the oddest, most banal and most colorful instances of corruption s…

Man sentenced to life for 1993 death of Missouri girl

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of leaving a 9-year-old Missouri girl to die in a wildlife area after snatching her from her bus stop and sexually abusing her was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without …

Ex-CIA officer in spy case called 'extreme flight risk'

HONOLULU (AP) — A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of giving China classified information must remain detained because the trained spy is an “extreme flight risk,” U.S. prosecutors said.

Bidding for Pennsylvania, Trump trolls Biden in old backyard

OLD FORGE, Pa. (AP) — Determined to keep Pennsylvania in his column, President Donald Trump took the fight to Joe Biden's old backyard Thursday and insisted his Democratic rival would be the state's “worst nightmar…

Firefighters extinguish large blaze at Dallas-area factory

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — Firefighters doused the last hot spot Thursday after a massive fire a day earlier at a Dallas-area plastics factory sent a dense column of toxic black smoke over North Texas, officials s…

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George Floyd mural in Minneapolis defaced with black paint

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Someone has defaced a giant mural of George Floyd at the Minneapolis intersection where he died in May.

Officials: Some who went to huge Sturgis rally have COVID-19

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota health officials warned Thursday that a number of people who attended the 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month, including some who came from out of state, have come down …

Israel launches airstrikes after 2 rockets fired from Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the Israeli security fence late Thursday, and Israel carried out airstrikes on targets linked to the territory's Hamas rulers, the Israeli military…