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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab....
NEW YORK (AP) -- They sat on either end of the congressmen's couch, one a Jewish healthcare executive whose parents fled Germany in 1936, the other the Kashmiri Muslim chairman of a well-known American furniture chain. The men, Stanley Bergman and Farooq Kathwari, came to draw attention to an outbreak of hate crimes. But Bergman and Kathwari hoped their joint appearance would also send a broader message: that U.S. Jews and Muslims could put aside differences and work together....
WEST CHAZY, N.Y. (AP) -- Only 17 snowy miles from the Canadian border, Katie Bushey's most basic needs are met by traveling health aides who come into her home to change her diapers, track her seizures, spoon-feed her fettuccine Alfredo and load her wheelchair into the shower....
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Rockefeller, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the last in his generation of one of the country's most famously philanthropic families, died Monday. He was 101....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The person who shares a news story on social media is more important than the story's actual source in determining whether readers believe it, a study by the Media Insight Project has found....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain will begin divorce proceedings from the European Union on March 29, starting the clock on two years of intense political and economic negotiations that will fundamentally change both the nation and its European neighbors....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Quick, name a Supreme Court justice. OK, name three. One of the current justices, Stephen Breyer, once noted wryly that their names are less well-known than those of the Three Stooges....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee praised President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick on Monday for an "unfailing commitment" to the principle of separation of powers, as Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing got underway....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on a congressional inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Germany's government has cast doubt on Turkey's chances of joining the European Union, amid growing tensions with Ankara over human rights and Turkey's claim that it's being treated unfairly by countries in western Europe. The comments by the German foreign minister came as an estimated crowd of at least 30,000 Turkish Kurds gathered in the German city of Frankfurt over the weekend to protest against the constitutional reforms sought by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Kurdish Turks, many carrying banned symbols and banners sympathetic to Kurdish political groups marched against Erdogan through the streets of Frankfurt, closely watched by a large police force. The protesters demanded a ‘NO’ vote to proposed changes in Turkey's constitution that would extend President Erdogan's powers. “First of all we demand freedom for [Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK politician Ab...
