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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior military leaders take their political neutrality seriously. But this year's presidential election — with forays into national security issues that have included proposals for carpet-bombing Syrian cities or waterboarding extremists — has the top brass navigating a political minefield. Senior officers, from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Engineers, safety advocates and even automakers have a message for federal regulators eager to get self-driving cars on the road: slow down. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is being told that fully self-driving cars may be the future of the industry, but that such vehicles aren't yet up to the demands…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A sheriff's spokesman says two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio. Bexar County sheriff's spokesman James Keith said two bodies were found Friday morning inside a room of a building at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Keith says it's believed the shooter…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he would "very much like to" meet Pope Francis when he travels to the Vatican next week but he has not received an official invitation from the Catholic leader. It's "not yet clear," Sanders told journalists in New York Friday, saying this pope is someone he…

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man is facing a fine for flying flags that support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Joseph Hornick thought West Long Branch police were responding to his reports that the flags proclaiming "Trump Make America Great Again" had been vandalized. Instead, he was ticketed for violating an…