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Dakota Access: Obama says Army Corps is weighing whether to ‘reroute’ pipeline

The president says he is trying to accommodate Native American sacred lands, which tribes around the country claim will be disrupted if the pipeline is built as planned.

By Derek Hawkins • Read more »

Comey effect, Trump gains send global markets into fear mode

"Trump risk is well and truly being priced in again," a market analyst wrote.

By Fred Barbash • Read more »

Two Iowa police officers killed in what police are calling ‘ambush-style attacks’

The two shootings were 20 minutes apart.

By Travis M. Andrews and Derek Hawkins • Read more »

Fla. man secretly buried his dead mother in backyard to collect her Social Security, pension checks

This sort of behavior happens so often that in 2014, the Office of the Inspector General in the Social Security Administration called it "surprisingly common" and has named the practice — "deceased payee fraud."

By Travis M. Andrews • Read more »

Stanford sexual assault survivor named Glamour ‘Woman of the Year’

The designation was accompanied by an essay from "Emily Doe," recalling what life has been like since BuzzFeed News published her victim's impact statement and Joe Biden wrote her a letter.

By Katie Mettler • Read more »

Mysterious ‘Alaskan Ice Monster’ surfaces in Bureau of Land Managment video

"It's strange thing. I don't know what I would have done if I had come by in a canoe or something," said one of the men who saw it.

By Ben Guarino • Read more »

NASA unveils a laser-based nose to sniff for signs of life on Mars

The system would scour the Martian environment for amino acids and other organic molecules required for biology as we know it.

By Ben Guarino • Read more »

Susan Sarandon: Fear of Trump ‘not enough for me to support Clinton, with her record of corruption’

The Bernie Sanders supporter now backs Jill Stein.

By Travis M. Andrews • Read more »

Saudi college student in Wisconsin dies after assault

Hussain Saeed Alnahdi was attacked by a white male near the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus in Menomonie, Wis, police say. He died of his injuries Monday.

By Derek Hawkins • Read more »

A Japanese woman passed gas during laser surgery. She was badly burned.

An unusual set of circumstances led to serious injury.

By Travis M. Andrews • Read more »

Two arrested in ‘savage’ fatal 2014 stomping of disabled homeless man in San Francisco

One San Francisco police officer promised not to give up on the case after an elderly homeless man was slain in a thrill killing. Two years later, his perseverance paid off.

By Travis M. Andrews • Read more »

Dakota Access protesters accuse police of putting them in ‘dog kennels,’ marking them with numbers

Authorities said some of the 141 protesters arrested last week were placed in chain link holding cells and assigned numbers to keep track of their belongings.

By Derek Hawkins • Read more »

Ex-Harvard women’s soccer team issues takedown of ‘locker room talk’

After an investigative report in the student newspaper revealed that male soccer players had done a "scouting report" of the women back in 2012 and assigned them all numerical ratings based on their sexual attractiveness, the women responded with an op-ed that took their objectification to task.

By Katie Mettler • Read more »

This incredibly deadly snake’s bizarre toxin could lead to a strong, non-narcotic painkiller

The snake is a "killer of killers," said one Australian-based venom expert.

By Ben Guarino • Read more »

‘Closet homosexual’: Trump supporter launches smear robo-calls against Utah’s Evan McMullin

The robo-calls are sponsored by a Trump supporter who calls himself a white nationalist.

By Fred Barbash • Read more »

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