Category: National
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Migrants won’t see armed soldiers on border
SAN DIEGO (AP) — As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won’t find are armed American soldiers standing guard.
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:
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Loyola celebrates inauguration of first female, lay leader
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Loyola University New Orleans celebrated the inauguration on Friday of the first woman and first layperson to be appointed president of the more than century-old Jesuit institution.
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William Goldman, Oscar winner for ‘Butch Cassidy,’ has died
NEW YORK (AP) — William Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and summed up the mystery of making a box office hit by declaring “Nobody knows anything,” has died. He was 87.
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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Today in History
Today in History
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Remembering the sweet life of a town wiped out by wildfire
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — There’s a sweet legend about this town: On a blazing summer day in the 1850s, a lumber mill crew with wagon and ox took a break under a grove of tall evergreens. The air was cool, the pine needles fragrant.
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The Latest: At least 55,000 ballots in Senate hand recount
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Florida’s election recount (all times local):
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Northern California fire death toll at 56; 130 missing
MAGALIA, Calif. (AP) — At least 63 are now dead from a Northern California wildfire, and officials say they have a missing persons list with 631 names on it in an ever-evolving accounting of the missing after the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century.
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The Latest: New wildfire burning in Southern California
MAGALIA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):