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Launch pad blast destroys SpaceX rocket, Facebook satellite
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test in Florida on Thursday, destroying a satellite that ...Dozens of wildfires rage across arid U.S. West
Dozens of wildfires that have blackened hundreds of square miles raged in the arid U.S. West on Tuesday, as destructive blazes forced ...Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Donald Trump\'s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, resigned Friday under fire over pro-Kremlin ties and after being sidelined in a reshuffle as the ...Two US swimmers leave Brazil after admitting to inventing mugging
US Olympic authorities have apologized to Brazil after two US swimmers were allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story about ...Brazil police pull two US Olympic swimmers from airplane
Brazilian police pulled two US Olympic swimmers off a US-bound plane in a row over their claim of having been victims of ...Trump overhauls campaign team again as Clinton surges
Donald Trump on Wednesday shook up his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential ...11 dead, 40,000 homes flooded in Louisiana
The death toll from historic flooding in Louisiana climbed to 11 as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in ...Michael Phelps wins 23rd gold with US win in 4×100 relay
Michael Phelps claimed his 23rd gold medal. Puerto Rico won its first ever. And Jamaica got its first gold of the Rio ...Panama agrees to help migrants head on for US
Panama promised to help hundreds of migrants who have crossed its jungle border from Colombia to carry on toward the United States.50 Republican national security officials reject Trump
Fifty senior Republican national security officials have issued a stinging rejection of their party\'s White House nominee Donald Trump, warning he would ...