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FACT CHECK: Clinton’s latest gun-law broadside on Sanders

WASHINGTON (AP) — With New York’s crucial presidential nominating contest looming, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is framing gun laws in Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont as a primary culprit...

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Kerry says Navy ship could have fired on Russian planes

MIAMI (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that under U.S. military rules of engagement, the Navy ship that Russian military jets buzzed in the Baltic Sea this week could have opened...

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Kerry says Cuba should let anyone visit via cruise lines

MIAMI (AP) — A Cuban law that bars anyone born on the island from returning by ship is discriminatory and should be eliminated, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. Kerry said the policy...

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Cubans fleeing in high numbers despite new diplomatic ties

WASHINGTON (AP) — While more than 50 years of enmity between the United States and Cuba is slowly vanishing, the renewed relationship is raising concerns among some on the communist island nation that...

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DHS released nearly 20,000 criminal immigrants last year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. tried repeatedly to deport Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, but his native Haiti wouldn’t take him back after he served more than a decade in a state...

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Secret Service to investigate Trump’s former butler

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s former butler has drawn the attention of Secret Service for threats online he’s made against President Barack Obama. Anthony Senecal, who served the presumptive...

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Head of TSA security operations removed from position

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee said Monday that the head of security operations at the Transportation Security Administration has been replaced. “Kelly Hoggan has been removed from his position as...

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Management shake-up at TSA not likely to ease security lines

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration has ousted its head of security operations and put new leadership in charge of screening operations at a major international airport, but...

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Only Trump can decide to curb aggressive campaign language

WASHINGTON (AP) — The security ring protecting Donald Trump includes Secret Service agents, his own private bodyguards, local police, sometimes even the Transportation Security Administration. But even...

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Fearing copycat attacks, US officials step up security

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top U.S. intelligence officials...

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Security agents didn’t flinch at reporter Trump calls threat

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said he was worried that a reporter walking with him through a ballroom and asking questions earlier this month may have been armed with a bomb or a knife, disguised as a...

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech needs some asterisks

WASHINGTON (AP) — An annotated version of Donald Trump’s speech on combatting terrorism would be heavy with asterisks. The presumptive GOP nominee’s speech Monday painted a picture of a nation overrun...

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech needs some asterisks

WASHINGTON (AP) — An annotated version of Donald Trump’s speech on combating terrorism would be heavy with asterisks. The presumptive GOP nominee’s speech Monday painted a picture of a nation overrun...

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AP FACT CHECK: Facts undercut Trump’s post-Orlando arguments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says the United States admits Syrian refugees without checking their backgrounds and that Hillary Clinton wants to allow “radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our...

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AP FACT CHECK: Facts undercut Trump post-Orlando arguments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says the United States admits Syrian refugees without checking their backgrounds and that Hillary Clinton wants to allow “radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our...

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What about Bernie? Still running and keeping security detail

WASHINGTON (AP) — What about Bernie? Sanders was mathematically eliminated from the Democratic presidential race earlier this month, but the Vermont senator isn’t ready to bow out and that means highly...

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State Dep’t defends handling of classified, sensitive info

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is defending its handling of classified and sensitive information against statements by the FBI director that the department doesn’t handle such information as...

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Pence has long conservative record on immigration

WASHINGTON (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s conservative track record on immigration dates to his earliest days in the U.S. House and echoes the hard-line stance of Republican presidential candidate...

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Federal immigration court backlog tops 500,000 pending cases

WASHINGTON (AP) — The backlog in the federal immigration court system has eclipsed half a million pending cases, The Associated Press has learned. The Justice Department’s Executive Office for...

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Obama says US does not pay ransom, defends payment to Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expressed surprise Thursday at criticism of his administration’s $400 million cash payment to Iran to settle a longstanding legal claim, adamantly rejecting...

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