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Reid announces $204M for Nevada military, veterans projects

By: The Associated Press • Updated: Sat, Oct 1, 2016

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sen. Harry Reid says Nevada will be getting more than $200 million in federal funding for projects involving the military and veterans.

The retiring Democrat announced Saturday that more than...

El Salvador Massacre
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains, in El Mozote, El Salvador. A human rights advocate said Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 that Judge Jorge Guzman Urquilla has granted reopening a probe into the El Mozote massacre. A postwar truth commission concluded that the army massacred at least 500 people in El Mozote and surrounding villages in three days in December 1981. Victims’ rights advocates put the number closer to 1,000. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)

Judge orders reopening of El Salvador military massacre case

By: MARCOS ALEMAN, Associated Press • Updated: 24 min ago

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge in El Salvador has ordered prosecutors to reopen a probe into one of the most notorious massacres in recent history: the army's slaying of hundreds of people in the village...

Elections chief OKs drug price issue for 2017 Ohio ballot

By: The Associated Press • Updated: 1 hr ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An issue aimed at controlling what Ohio agencies pay for prescription drugs has cleared a hurdle on the path to appearing on next year's ballot.

The Drug Price Relief Act aims to keep...

Election Hacking
FILE - In this June 5, 2015, file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. A Homeland Security Department official says hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states in recent months. FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers this week that the agency is looking “very, very hard” at Russian hackers who may try to disrupt the U.S. election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Official: No 'manipulation' of data seen in election hacks

By: TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press • Updated: 2 hr ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers have made their way into state election systems "in a few cases," but the federal government hasn't found "any manipulation" so far of voting information, the Homeland Security secretary...

Hungary Migrants Referendum
A woman holds a banner during a protest against Orban's policies regarding migrants in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Hungarians will vote Sunday in a referendum which Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes will give his government the popular support it seeks to oppose any future plans by the European Union to resettle asylum seekers among its member states. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

The Latest: 4 Albanians arrested in Syrian refugees case

By: The Associated Press • Updated: 2 hr ago

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

Albanian police have arrested four Albanians and stopped 15 Syrians they were helping to go to neighboring...

New York Knicks center Joakim Noah chose to sit out a dinner with West Point cadets during the team’s training camp this week, citing his pacifist viewpoints and the fact that it was hard for him to “understand why we have to go to war, why kids have to kill kids around the world.” (Courtesy of Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Military Academy criticizes NBA player for skipping team dinner with West Point cadets

By: Charles Curtis, USA Today • Updated: 3 hr ago

New York Knicks center Joakim Noah chose to sit out a dinner with West Point cadets during the team’s training camp this week, citing his pacifist viewpoints and the fact that it was hard for him to “understand why we...
Oil Pipeline Protest Federal Land
FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, Phil Daw Sr., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps cook beef stew to feed hundreds at an encampment near North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The sprawling encampment that’s a protest against the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining _ except a federal permit to be there. The camp near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers in North Dakota is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Feds say they won't evict sprawling pipeline protest camp

By: JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press • Updated: 3 hr ago

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The sprawling encampment that's a protest against the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining — except a federal permit to be there.

The...

Mideast Iran Drone
This photo released on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, shows a new attack drone called Saegheh or Thunderbolt in an undisclosed location in Iran. Iranian media says the Revolutionary Guard has built a new attack drone which is similar to a U.S. drone captured five years ago. The semi-official Tasnim news agency says the "Saegheh" drone was built by the Guard's aerospace division and is similar to the RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards via AP)

Iran says new attack drone modeled on captured US aircraft

By: The Associated Press • Updated: 4 hr ago

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard has built a new attack drone which is similar to a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured five years ago, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

The semi-official...

Afghan military kill 6 security forces in air strike mistake

By: The Associated Press • Updated: 5 hr ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five Afghan soldiers and a police officer were killed in an air strike carried out by an Afghan military helicopter in western Farah province, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense said...

State to honor 7 military heroes from New York

By: The Associated Press • Updated: 7 hr ago

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A Civil War hero from Scotland and six New York-born soldiers who died while serving in the military are being honored by the state.

A portion of a state highway and two Binghamton city...

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