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    Three dead, 100 inured in N.J. train crash
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three people were killed and more than 100 people were injured, some of them critically, when a New Jersey Transit train derailed and crashed through the station in Hoboken, New Jersey during the morning rush hour on Thursday, U.S. media and a transit official...
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    September 28, 2016
    Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and John Cornyn (R-TX), speak after the Senate voted to override U.S. President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow lawsuits against Saudi Arabia's government over the Sept. 11 attacks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
    Senate overwhelmingly rejects Obama veto of 9/11 bill
    WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the...
    News/nationSeptember 28, 2016 - 2:43pm
    Update: Teen reportedly killed father before opening fire at S.C. school
    UPDATED at 4:29 p.m. A teenager is believed to have shot and killed his father before going to a nearby elementary school in South Carolina and...
    News/nationSeptember 28, 2016 - 2:37pm
    September 27, 2016
    U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a Hispanic Town Hall meeting Tuesday with supporters in Miami, Florida. Reuters
    Clinton seeks to keep Trump on defensive after presidential debate
    RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican Donald Trump suggested Tuesday he would hit rival Hillary Clinton harder in the next U.S. presidential debate...
    News/nationSeptember 27, 2016 - 5:55pm
    Stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown fails Senate procedural vote
    WASHINGTON—A stopgap funding bill to avoid a federal government shutdown later this week failed to garner enough votes to move forward in the Senate on Tuesday, with Democrats and Republicans both opposing the measure. The must-pass continuing resolution, which would keep federal...
    News/nationSeptember 27, 2016 - 4:45pm
    Maersk's Triple-E giant container ship Maersk Majestic, one of the world's largest container ships, seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song
    WTO cuts 2016 world trade growth forecast
    GENEVA — The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a...
    News/nationSeptember 27, 2016 - 9:40am
    Clinton, Trump clash over race and economy in first debate
    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.,—Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Republican Donald Trump on Monday of having a long history of racist behavior during a heated presidential debate that could reshape the 2016 campaign for the White House. Clinton and Trump interrupted each other throughout...
    News/nationSeptember 27, 2016 - 7:56am
    September 26, 2016
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    Troubled lawyer shoots nine in Houston before being killed by police
    HOUSTON—A troubled lawyer opened fire on morning commuters in Houston on Monday, Sept. 26, injuring at least nine people before being fatally...
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 9:17pm
    Suspect Arcan Cetin appears for his arraignment on murder charges in the killing of five people, in Mt. Vernon, Wash., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. REUTERS/Karen Ducey
    Wash. mall shooter confesses, charged with 5 counts of murder
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash.—A 20-year-old man was charged on Monday with five counts of first-degree murder after confessing to a shooting rampage...
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 9:15pm
    FBI: Violent crime in U.S. rose in 2015 but far from peak levels
    WASHINGTON—Violent crime in certain big U.S.
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 5:44pm
    Bountiful 2016 pumpkin crop overcomes last year's shortfall
    CHICAGO—Halloween enthusiasts need not take fright over the state of this year's U.S. pumpkin crop. Supplies of the orange-yellow fruit are...
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 2:35pm
    In this undated photo, an unidentified customer tries different e-cigarette flavors at the Henley Vaporium in New York City. E-cigarette use is on the rise in the U.S. and nearly 4 percent of adults currently use the devices, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. REUTERS
    E-cigarette users view smoke-free areas as okay for vaping
    The majority of e-cigarette users have "vaped" in a smoke-free environment and most don't view use of the devices as harmful to themselves or...
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 2:28pm
    A man uses a mobile phone July 27 in front of an advertisement board bearing the image of Pokemon Go at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
    It took a study to show Pokemon Go is a distracted-driving hazard
    ST. PAUL—Players of Pokemon Go, the smartphone-based creature-hunting videogame that has swept the nation, usually play while on foot....
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 10:34am
    The flag of diversity flutters at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, as a show of support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Costa Rica, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate/File Photo
    Supreme Court has reasons to duck transgender rights fight
    WASHINGTON—The U.S.
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 10:32am
    In this undated photo, parts are added to a Dodge Ram pickup truck at an assembly plant in Warren, Michigan. Two auto industry consultants on Monday said new vehicle sales in September will be 1.43 million, down 0.8 percent from a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate for September will be 17.7 million vehicles, down from 18 million on the same basis a year earlier. REUTERS
    Despite big discounts, auto sales expected to decline
    DETROIT — September U.S. auto sales are forecast to drop nearly 1 percent from a year ago, despite a record high for consumer discounts,...
    News/nationSeptember 26, 2016 - 10:19am
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