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$160B deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan raises outcry

A $160 billion deal announced Monday to merge Pfizer and Allergan and create the world’s biggest drug company renewed the outcry in Washington over “inversions,”… Continue reading

Adele has already sold 2.3 million copies of disc

NEW YORK (AP) — Adele’s new album “25” has sold more than 2.3 million copies in the United States alone during its first three days… Continue reading

2 charged with murder in killing of pastor’s wife

INDIANAPOLIS — Authorities charged two young men with murder on Monday in the fatal shooting of a pastor’s pregnant wife during a home invasion that… Continue reading

Officials remove a man from the scene following a shooting in New Orleans' 9th Ward on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. Police spokesman Tyler Gamble says police were on their way to break up a big crowd when gunfire erupted at Bunny Friend Park. (Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT; THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE OUT; THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Police hunt suspects in mass shooting in New Orleans park

NEW ORLEANS — Police on Monday sought to determine what touched off a wild shootout in a crowd of hundreds of people at a New… Continue reading

Officials remove a man from the scene following a shooting in New Orleans' 9th Ward on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. Police spokesman Tyler Gamble says police were on their way to break up a big crowd when gunfire erupted at Bunny Friend Park. (Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT; THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE OUT; THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

W.H. asks allies to step up in IS fight

WASHINGTON — The White House urged allies on Monday to do more in the campaign against the Islamic State, while President Barack Obama faced pressure… Continue reading

Most GOP candidates flunk climate science

WASHINGTON — When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic presidential candidates are A students, while most of the Republican contenders are… Continue reading

Afghans seeking asylum buy fake Taliban threat letters

KABUL, Afghanistan — Threatening letters from the Taliban, once tantamount to a death sentence, are now being forged and sold to Afghans who want to… Continue reading

Two people cross a deserted street near the main train station in the center of Brussels on Sunday. Residents of the Belgian capital awoke to largely empty streets as the city entered its second day under the highest threat level and the city kept subways and underground trams closed.

Belgium police arrest 16, Paris fugitive still at large

BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors announced early Monday that police had detained 16 people in 22 raids but that Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam was not among… Continue reading

Two people cross a deserted street near the main train station in the center of Brussels on Sunday. Residents of the Belgian capital awoke to largely empty streets as the city entered its second day under the highest threat level and the city kept subways and underground trams closed.
In this Nov. 20 photo, a technician steadies a skiff at the "beach" end in an indoor wave pool and wind tunnel at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The university's new 90-foot-long wind-wave basin is capable of simulating some of the worst conditions at sea at a 1:50 scale.

UMaine debuting ocean simulator

ORONO, Maine — Builders of everything from cruise ships and ports to oil rigs offshore wind turbines are tasked with the same question — will… Continue reading

In this Nov. 20 photo, a technician steadies a skiff at the "beach" end in an indoor wave pool and wind tunnel at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The university's new 90-foot-long wind-wave basin is capable of simulating some of the worst conditions at sea at a 1:50 scale.

Brussels hunkers down amid threat

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities closed down Brussels’ subway system and flooded the streets with armed police and soldiers Saturday in response to what they said… Continue reading

Soldiers from the presidential patrol outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, Saturday in anticipation of the President's visit.

Mali attack took advantage of security lapses

BAMAKO, Mali — The heavily armed Islamic extremists who shot up a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, killing 19 people, timed their assault for the… Continue reading

Soldiers from the presidential patrol outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, Saturday in anticipation of the President's visit.
In this photo taken on Nov. 18, Sheeneneh Smith, a transgender woman, speaks after performing during a Trans Day of Remembrance program in New York.

Homicides of transgender women reach alarming high

For a few transgender Americans, this has been a year of glamour and fame. For many others, 2015 has been fraught with danger, violence and… Continue reading

In this photo taken on Nov. 18, Sheeneneh Smith, a transgender woman, speaks after performing during a Trans Day of Remembrance program in New York.

US religious leaders make forceful appeal to admit refugees

In rare agreement across faith and ideological lines, leaders of major American religious groups have condemned proposed bans on Syrian refugees, contending a legitimate debate… Continue reading

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Presidential Family Forum on Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.

Carson supports monitoring of ‘anti-American’ groups

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Saturday that he wants to expand the government’s surveillance operations aimed at potential terrorist threats, even beyond… Continue reading

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Presidential Family Forum on Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.
FILE - This image made from an AP video posted on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 shows a volunteer adjusting a students gas mask and protective suit during a session on reacting to a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. (AP Photo via AP video, File)

Officials: IS determined to produce chemical weapons

BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help… Continue reading

  • Nov 20, 2015
  • By HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KEN DILANIAN
  • NewsNation-World
FILE - This image made from an AP video posted on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 shows a volunteer adjusting a students gas mask and protective suit during a session on reacting to a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. (AP Photo via AP video, File)

Syrian refugees put through years of screenings

DETROIT — Over and over, Nedal Al-Hayk and his wife traveled up to three hours by bus from their temporary home in Jordan to an… Continue reading

U.S. Army veteran Jim Purcell, of Burrillville, R.I., front left, displays a placard as U.S. Navy veteran Robert Martinez, right, displays a folded American flag during a rally Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., held to demonstrate against allowing Syrian refugees to enter Rhode Island following the terror attacks in Paris. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

House members snub veto threat, vote to curb Syrian refugees

WASHINGTON — Responding swiftly to the terror in Paris, the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to erect high hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming… Continue reading

U.S. Army veteran Jim Purcell, of Burrillville, R.I., front left, displays a placard as U.S. Navy veteran Robert Martinez, right, displays a folded American flag during a rally Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., held to demonstrate against allowing Syrian refugees to enter Rhode Island following the terror attacks in Paris. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

IS releases photo of bomb it says downed jetliner

CAIRO — The Islamic State group on Wednesday released a photo of a bomb hidden in a soft drink can that it said had brought… Continue reading

French police officers storm a church after a raid in Paris suburb Saint-Denis, Wednesday, Nov.18, 2015. A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Fate of mastermind unclear after bloody raid

SAINT-DENIS, France — The hunt for the mastermind of last week’s attacks took a bloody turn Wednesday to a Paris suburb where a fierce gunbattle… Continue reading

French police officers storm a church after a raid in Paris suburb Saint-Denis, Wednesday, Nov.18, 2015. A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, gives a speech on foreign policy and national defense, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Bush calls for US ground forces to fight Islamic State in Mideast

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the U.S. to send more troops to the Middle East to fight the… Continue reading

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, gives a speech on foreign policy and national defense, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)