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Pat Buchanan: Should U.S.-Saudi alliance be saved?

OVER THE WEEKEND, Donald Trump warned of 'severe punishment' if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

 

Pappas will protect Social Security

To the Editor: For those of us that have worked our entire lives, we embrace Social Security as the ultimate safety net. Since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law more than 80 years ago, we have lived in relative comfort, knowing that we need not suffer from poverty in retirement. That may change if Eddie...

 

Gatsas for Council

To the editor: This election the voters of Executive Council District 4 will select a new councilor.

 

Rindge man pleads guilty to indecent exposure in sexting case, avoids jail

A Rindge man is avoiding jail time in a sexting case after he entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors at Cheshire County Superior Court.

 

Troy man sentenced after pleading guilty to beating boy

A Troy man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to hitting a 4-year-old boy, leaving bruises.

 

Trump says former lawyer Cohen's testimony was 'totally false' -AP

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his former attorney Michael Cohen was lying when he testified Trump had directed him to break the law, the Associated Press reported.

 

Honduras and Guatemala act to stop migrants after Trump threats

The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained on Tuesday in Guatemala as the U.S. government threatened to withdraw aid from both countries if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped.

 

Warren angers prominent Native Americans with politically fraught DNA test

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's release of a DNA test, which suggested a lineage to a distant Native American ancestor, has roiled the indigenous community frustrated about the seizure of cultural and social ties for political maneuvering.

 

Hurricane Michael death toll at least 29

The death toll from Hurricane Michael rose to at least 29 on Tuesday as crews scoured debris for hundreds of people reported missing in the Florida Panhandle, nearly a week after the storm flattened whole communities.

 

FBI official improperly accepted gifts from reporter, report says

An unnamed senior official at the FBI improperly accepted tickets to professional sporting events and later misled investigators when confronted about it, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Tuesday.

 

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