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Texas boy dies after being impaled on swimming pool’s fence

Police in Fort Worth say no criminal charges will be filed in the death of an 11-year-old boy who was impaled as he climbed over an iron fence surrounding an apartment complex’s swimming pool.

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3 students, including 1 who died, rushed gunman in Colorado shooting

The three students who disarmed a gunman in a Colorado school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word when they spotted the gun, recounted one of the young men.

Trump to aim at curtailing ‘surprise medical bills’

President Donald Trump will begin a push Thursday to fight health care sticker shock by limiting “surprise medical bills” usually associated with an out-of-network provider.

US, China make threats going into high-stakes trade talks

U.S. and Chinese negotiators are to resume trade talks Thursday just hours before the United States is set to raise tariffs on Chinese imports in a dramatic escalation of tensions.

North Korea fires 2 missiles in possible new warning

North Korea on Thursday fired two suspected short-range missiles from the country’s western area, South Korea said, the North’s second weapons launch in the last five days.

Pope Francis mandates reporting of sex abuse to church, not police

Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the worldto report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholichierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.