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September 27, 2016

SpaceX chief envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying to Mars

SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars within a century, "Battlestar Galactica" ...

September 27, 2016

Man who filmed Oregon police from an SUV returns to jail

A man arrested last month after filming a Portland police precinct from a sports utility vehicle filled with weapons and ...

September 27, 2016

Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging

Airline pilots and air traffic controllers are on schedule to switch to text communications at most of the nation's busiest ...

September 27, 2016

House Dem: GOP leaders refuse to help Flint because of race

House Republican leaders are refusing to approve emergency aid for a water crisis in Flint, Michigan because a majority of ...

September 27, 2016

How the AP-GfK poll on the candidates' health was conducted

The Associated Press-GfK poll on health and the presidential race was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate ...

September 27, 2016

AP-GfK poll: Voters more confident in Trump's health

The "stamina," the "look": A new poll suggests voters are buying in to Donald Trump's insinuations about Hillary Clinton's ...

September 27, 2016

Justice Dept. top national security official to leave post

The Justice Department's top national security official is leaving his position next month, the department announced Tuesday.

September 27, 2016

California heat wave intensifies wildfire threatening homes

A heat wave stifling drought-stricken California worsened a wildfire Tuesday that burned buildings and forced people from ...

September 27, 2016

Pence breaks with Trump, says humans affect climate change

Donald Trump's running mate is breaking with the Republican nominee's claim that climate change is not the result of human ...

September 27, 2016

FBI chief says immunity for Clinton aide limited to laptop

FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Tuesday that his agency granted immunity to Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff ...

September 27, 2016

Strong winds from typhoon hit Taiwan, killing at least 4

Strong winds knocked down people and scattered debris as a massive typhoon crossed over Taiwan on Tuesday, killing at least ...

September 27, 2016

AP Fact Check of First Presidential Debate

The AP Fact Check of the first Presidential debate found Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both denying their previous ...

September 27, 2016

Password breach could have ripple effects well beyond Yahoo

As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo's massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts ...

September 27, 2016

US appeals court hears arguments in Clean Power Plan case

Lawyers for a coalition of states and businesses reliant on fossil fuels made their case Tuesday to a federal appeals court ...

September 27, 2016

Vietnamese fishermen sue Taiwan steel firm over fish deaths

Hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen have filed claims seeking compensation from a Taiwanese steel company that acknowledged its ...

September 26, 2016

Clinton, Trump Debate Energy and Trade

The first United States presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump is under way. In the ...

September 26, 2016

Feds accuse Silicon Valley firm of hiring bias

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit accusing a fast-growing Silicon Valley software company of systematically ...

September 26, 2016

Jupiter moon may have water plumes that shoot up 125 miles

The Hubble Space Telescope has spied what appear to be water plumes on one of Jupiter's icy moons shooting up as high as 125 ...

September 26, 2016

Study: Earth's roughly warmest in about 100,000 years

A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into ...

September 26, 2016

US not on track to meet 2025 carbon pollution cutting goal

Unless it does more, the United States probably will fall short of goals set under last year's Paris agreement to ...