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Trump Security Adviser Echoes Warning To Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser is echoing the combative warning to Iran against deploying any more threatening language toward the U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says he's spoken with Trump over the last several days and, "President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will…
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Trump Returns to Russia Doubting After a Week of Walkbacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference, President Donald Trump on Sunday was back to referring to "a big hoax." Trump spent days trying to reassure the country that he accepts that the longtime foe interfered in…
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Man Firing Into Toronto Cafes Shoots 14 People, Killing 1

TORONTO (AP) — A man firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes as he walked along a Toronto street shot 14 people, killing one of them, before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police late Sunday, police said. Police Chief Mark Saunders said the shooting in the city's Greektown neighborhood was not random and…
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Gunman In Trader Joe’s Standoff Was Feuding With Grandmother

By MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A feud between a man and his grandmother over his girlfriend staying at the grandmother's home exploded into violence that ultimately led to him taking dozens of people hostage inside a Los Angeles supermarket, a relative said Sunday. Investigators believe Gene Evin Atkins, 28, shot…
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Grandmother Shot, Hostages Held At Supermarket; 1 Woman Dead

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police said they were trying to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and wound another woman before he crashed his car and ran into a busy supermarket, where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff with…
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