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Trump Budget Dismays Families Hit by Opioid Crisis

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump's budget proposal weakens insurance coverage for drug addiction treatment and cuts back funding for research and prevention programs. Some see that as a betrayal of those who trusted his campaign pledge to make…

21 Charged in Global Sex Trafficking Ring

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KMSP) - Investigators from Minnesota assisted in breaking up an international prostitution ring that trafficked women from Thailand to cities across the United States, including Minneapolis, acting U.S. District Attorney Greg G. Broker announced Thursday. Twenty-one people have…

Trump Travel Ban Blocked; Fight Headed for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's revised travel ban "speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination," a federal appeals court said Thursday in ruling against the executive order targeting six…

Graco Recalls More than 25,000 Car Seats

DETROIT, Mich. (FOX NEWS) - Graco Children's Products is recalling more than 25,000 car seats because the harness webbing can break in a crash and may not keep children restrained. The recall affects certain My…

Trump Budget: More for the Military, Less for the Poor

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent Congress a $4.1 trillion federal spending plan that promises faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in a bid to balance the government's books over the next…

Manchester Terror Attack Suspect Identified as Salman Abedi

(FOX NEWS) - British authorities on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who launched a deadly attack at a Manchester Ariana Grande concert, hours after the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the blast. Salman Abedi, 23, was identified as…

Prosecutors: Times Square Driver Wanted to Kill

NEW YORK (AP) - A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians on the sidewalks of Time Square, killing a teenage tourist and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted…

Rocker Chris Cornell Found Dead at Age 52

DETROIT (AP) - Chris Cornell, one of the most lauded and respected contemporary lead singers in rock music with his band Soundgarden and Audioslave, killed himself Wednesday by hanging in a Detroit hotel…

Forecasters Predicting Hotter than Normal Summer

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forecasters are predicting another warmer-than-normal summer for most of the country along with wetter weather in a swath of states stretching from Texas to Montana. The National Weather Service's summer outlook issued Thursday predicts greater chances…

Fox News Founder, Roger Ailes, Dead at 77

(FOX NEWS) - Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a cable powerhouse before leaving the company last year, died Thursday morning at age 77. The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office determined Thursday afternoon that Ailes suffered bleeding of…

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