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Trump says he may pull Blanche's attorney general nomination until dissenting senators leave officeUS and Iran trade missile barrages as hopes dim for a quick resolution to the five-month conflictHow views on Trump’s handling of Iran have shifted, according to a new AP-NORC pollUS economy grows at a sluggish 1.5% in second-quarter with inflation remaining stubbornly highHope dwindles for rescue in southwestern Japan quake as death toll climbs to 25As France tames wildfire and lets 84,000 evacuees go home, blazes flare across EuropeAP Exclusive: Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenariesFather who gave his son the gun used in a Georgia high school shooting to be sentencedAfter Lindsay Clancy killed her 3 children, first responders tell a jury what th