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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that the “evil attack” in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend meets the legal definition of an act of domestic terrorism, an early declaration in an investigation after a car plowed into a crowd of protesters. “It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute,” Mr. Sessions said on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” referring to a fatal attack on Saturday when a vehicle drove into a crowd protesting white nationalists, killing one woman and injuring others. A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged by Virginia authorities with second-degree murder,...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Wednesday suggested his policies would torpedo his chances at two terms in the Oval Office. "You know, if I'm successful in this endeavor to become president of the United States, it's very likely I would be a one-term president," he said, according to The Wall Street Journal. "[It is] because there are some tough things we have to attack," Carson added. "We cannot continue down this path." The retired neurosurgeon bemoaned the GOP base's impossibly high standards for its conservative credentials. "Republicans have this mental disorder that says, ‘A person doesn’t agree with me...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country's cultural traditions. Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom. "Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches," Chavez said. "That is contrary to our ways." Chavez said he was urging Venezuelans to reflect on the subject. In recent years it has become common to see Venezuelan parents holding parties for children dressed as ghouls,...

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