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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a sign of a turbulent campaign to come, indicted U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter failed to win the endorsement Monday of his local Republican Party after arguing that he is the best candidate for the job despite his approaching federal trial. Hunter faced significant odds of winning the two-third support he…

Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images A 75-year-old Costa Cruises passenger jumped overboard, a Costa representative told Business Insider. The representative said the woman “voluntarily” jumped from the balcony in her cabin on the Costa Pacifica ship. The woman’s body was found on the morning of October 11 off the coast of Spain, the NATO Allied Maritime Command said in a statement. Visit…

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – A huge oil spill off Brazil’s northeastern coast may have involved a “ghost ship” carrying Venezuelan oil in breach of US sanctions, an expert close to the probe into the disaster said Tuesday. Brazil has accused its South American neighbor of responsibility for the leakage that began in early September…

Key point: South Korea has experience dealing with North Korean infiltrations. At 4:30 p.m. on June 22, 1998, Capt. Kim In-yong noticed a curious site from the helm of his fishing boat as it sailed eleven miles east of the South Korean city of Sokcho: a small submarine, roughly sixty feet in length, caught in…

FLETCHER, N.C. – A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to a North Carolina fair has claimed a third life, state health officials say. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that 140 Legionnaires’ cases have been confirmed in 19 North Carolina counties and “multiple states” so far. It’s not immediately clear which states…

(Adds quotes, details) WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The senior U.S. defense official for Asia said on Tuesday that the United States has some concerns about some of the tactics used by demonstrators in Hong Kong but was also concerned about the heavier hand Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have used against protests in the…

Democrats continued their whirlwind investigation of Donald Trump on Tuesday as another witness testified before Congress, building momentum towards a likely impeachment of the president. Related: National Enquirer shredded Trump documents, Ronan Farrow book claims Trump sought to fight back by drawing attention to a TV interview in which Hunter Biden, the son of the…

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani informed House Democrats on Tuesday that he will not comply with a subpoena for documents they sent him as part of an ongoing impeachment inquiry. “Mr. Giuliani will not participate because this appears to be an unconstitutional, baseless, and illegitimate ‘impeachment inquiry,’” Jon Sale, Giuliani’s attorney, wrote…

LGBT activists gathered last week for CNN’s “Equality” town hall with the Democratic presidential candidates. The advocates present were, in the words of Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David, the “tip of the spear in our fight for full equality.” The “spear” metaphor grew more apt as the night went on. Religious freedom was the…

From Popular Mechanics A Norwegian hiker uncovered an ancient arrowhead. Discoveries like these are uncommon in Norway, where harsh winters have either hidden away or destroyed many artifacts. Some archaeologists credit climate change for the discovery. A hiker traversing mountainous Norway made an astonishing find by chance: a 4.6-inch arrowhead that possibly dates back 1,000…