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CARACAS, Venezuela – Leopoldo Lopez won his last election as mayor of an affluent Caracas district with 81 percent of he vote. Women supporters mobbed him at a recent Mother’s Day appearance, posing for photos while he and his wife handed out roses. But the popular politician’s plan to challenge …

CHICAGO – A four-car Chicago Transit Authority train derailed on a South Side track Wednesday, forcing emergency responders to retrieve dazed passengers from the elevated structure, but there were no immediate reports of serious injuries. The southbound train’s first two cars sat askew at a junction between two lines but …

PORTLAND, Ore. – Federal fisheries officials now say the six sea lions found dead in traps on the Columbia River apparently were not shot to death. Spokesman Brian Gorman of the National Marine Fisheries Service said Wednesday that preliminary results of a necropsy found no evidence of recent gunshot wounds …