The rebel-held portion of the Syrian city had gotten used to airstrikes over the years, but it hadn’t seen anything like the past week, when a massive increase in bombing swamped hospitals and overwhelmed rescuers — and left no escape.
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In a sharp setback for the Saudi government, the first veto override of Obama’s presidency clears the way for families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to file claims against Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s long-rumored but unproven links to the attackers.
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Over the years, Hillary Clinton helped forge aggressive defenses to allegations about her husband. (AFP/Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton’s detractors say that over the years she has unfairly lashed out at women involved in her husband’s indiscretions. Her responses have forced her to walk a fine line during the campaign, even as she builds strong political support among female voters.
Trump’s comments about weight, along with a long line of other incendiary comments about women, present another serious challenge for him in attracting female voters in November.
The House voted Wednesday night to extend government funding until Dec. 9, avoiding a government shutdown this weekend. The Senate passed the bill earlier in the day.
They challenged him, often aggressively, during a CNN town hall Wednesday.
The Obama administration is issuing new rules that reverse a long-standing industry practice and preserve the rights of patients to sue in cases of abuse or neglect.
Construction of the roughly mile-long concrete barrier is designed to separate a sprawling camp of more than 7,000 migrants from the tunnels that offer passage to Britain.
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The first lady described the GOP nominee's birther campaign against her husband this way: "Hurtful, deceitful questions deliberately designed to undermine his presidency, questions that cannot be blamed on others or swept under the rug by an insincere sentence uttered at a press conference."
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Wells Fargo's move to strip John Stumpf of millions in compensation did little to temper criticism, as he'll still have more than $100 million in company stock and millions in salary he earned as his bank was setting up millions of unauthorized accounts customers didn't ask for.
A teenager with a handgun opened fire at Townville Elementary School in South Carolina on Wednesday, not long before authorities say they found his father shot to death in a home nearby.
Officials said the man, described by relatives as "mentally challenged," had no gun, but he pulled an unidentified object from his pocket and took "a shooting stance" before he was killed.
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