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CHICAGO (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital, killing a police officer and two hospital employees. Authorities say the attack began Monday afternoon with a domestic dispute and exploded into a firefight with law enforcement inside the medical center. The suspect was also dead, but it was not clear if the attacker took his own life or was killed by police at Mercy Hospital on the city's South Side. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the other victims were a doctor and a pharmaceutical assistant.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicizing the military by faulting a war hero for not capturing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden sooner. Trump took shots at retired Adm. William McRaven in a Fox News interview Sunday in which he also asserted that the former Navy SEAL and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command was a "backer" of Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, and supporter of President Barack Obama.
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California sheriff says two more sets of human remains were found Monday, bringing the total number killed in a devastating California wildfire to 79. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea says the list of names of those unaccounted for after a deadly wildfire has dropped to around 700. The so-called Camp Fire swept through the rural town of Paradise on Nov. 8. It has destroyed nearly 12,000 homes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the first big question confronting newly elected House Democrats: Will you vote for Nancy Pelosi? Even before they've taken office, the freshmen swept in by the midterm elections are caught at the center of an escalating power struggle over Pelosi's future.
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Many Central Americans camped in Tijuana after crossing Mexico in a caravan say that a protest over the weekend by residents demanding they leave frightened them and left them even more anxious while they try to get into the United States. The angry protests have been fed by concerns raised by President Donald Trump's month-long warnings that criminals, gang members and even terrorists are in the group of migrants fleeing crime and poverty in their own countries.
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