Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017

Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017
Trump falls, Fiorina jumps in GOP race: CNN/ORC poll
GOP candidate Carson: Muslim shouldn't be elected president
Trump's advice to teens: Follow your heart, do what you love
Dozens feared dead in Aegean Sea after boat incidents
Pope Francis arrives in Cuba amid high hopes for the nation
Gains made in fighting California wildfires as some residents return
Three Westerners flown to Oman by Yemen's Houthis: source
Jackie Collins, novelist of the rich and scandalous, dies
Trump responds after not correcting Obama claims
Obama pays tribute to female civil rights leaders
Fiorina pitches herself as fearless to Michigan Republicans

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 10:45 AM PDT

The United States is seeking to ease the Syrian refugee crisis by significantly increasing the number of worldwide refugees it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged.

Trump falls, Fiorina jumps in GOP race: CNN/ORC poll

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 08:49 AM PDT

Carly Fiorina's strong performance at last week's primetime Republican debate has catapulted her into second place behind Donald Trump in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, a new CNN/ORC national poll shows.

GOP candidate Carson: Muslim shouldn't be elected president

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 08:49 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, and he doesn't believe that a Muslim should be elected president.

Trump's advice to teens: Follow your heart, do what you love

Posted: 19 Sep 2015 09:44 PM PDT

Donald Trump's advice for high school students in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, is uncharacteristically wholesome: Avoid alcohol and drugs as well as cigarettes.

Dozens feared dead in Aegean Sea after boat incidents

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 09:26 AM PDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Disasters at sea claimed the lives of dozens of migrants on Sunday, as desperate people fleeing war and poverty braved the risky journey to seek sanctuary in Europe.

Pope Francis arrives in Cuba amid high hopes for the nation

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Gains made in fighting California wildfires as some residents return

Posted: 19 Sep 2015 05:31 PM PDT

Fire officials say the two blazes, which have killed five people, highlight the severity in drought-stricken California of an intense wildfire season that in the coming weeks could become one of the state's fiercest on record. The so-called Valley Fire, which is north of the wine-producing region of Napa Valley, has burned 74,500 acres (29,946 hectares), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), or more than double the size of San Francisco. Authorities on Saturday allowed people to return home to Middletown, a community of 1,300 people evacuated a week ago that was scarred by the fire, with hundreds of homes destroyed, said Cal Fire captain Richard Cordova.

Three Westerners flown to Oman by Yemen's Houthis: source

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 08:33 AM PDT

By Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis flew two U.S. citizens and one Briton they held for several months to Oman on Sunday, sources in the group said, in what appears as a goodwill gesture ahead of talks with the United Nations on efforts to end nearly six months of fighting. The three Westerners had been held by the Houthis since the early days of a Saudi-led military campaign in March on charges of entering the country without proper visas. The source said the three accompanied a delegation of the Houthi group on an Omani flight to Muscat, where they were due to meet U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, for talks on efforts to push a peace deal in the country.

Jackie Collins, novelist of the rich and scandalous, dies

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 01:21 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The novels of Jackie Collins dramatized the lives of the most elite people and places, but they were read by everyone, everywhere — from airports to beaches to, sometimes, under the covers with a flashlight to hide from disapproving parents and partners.

Trump responds after not correcting Obama claims

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The candidate defends himself after not addressing a man who said the president is a foreign-born Muslim.

Obama pays tribute to female civil rights leaders

Posted: 19 Sep 2015 08:41 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to black women for their role in helping shape American democracy, calling them "the thinkers and the doers" who made things happen at the height of the civil rights movement half a century ago.

Fiorina pitches herself as fearless to Michigan Republicans

Posted: 19 Sep 2015 08:26 PM PDT

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Former tech CEO Carly Fiorina, hailed for her performance at the second GOP debate, held roughly 1,000 Michigan Republicans in silence Saturday, broke them up in laughter and then brought them to their feet in cheers and chants of "Carly, Carly."