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After days spent in a hotel Downtown preparing for a high-stakes presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, traveled to an airbase next to Pittsburgh International Airport for a stroll on Sunday night. The Democratic nominee’s motorcade arrived at the airbase, which is used by the 171st Air Refueling Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, shortly before 5 p.m., according to pool reports. Ms. Harris, wearing a black hat and a scarf, and Mr. Emhoff, wearing a “Harris/Walz” sweatshirt, walked the grounds of the military base in Coraopolis. When a reporter asked...

This arsenal of firearms is among the dozens of weapons that have been taken off London’s streets during the Met’s latest gun amnesty. Since Monday 45 weapons have been surrendered across the capital as part of the Give Up Your Gun campaign, including shotguns, revolvers, rifles and handguns, Scotland Yard said. Detectives from the Met’s gang unit today urged anyone still in possession of an illegal firearm to hand it in before the amnesty ends on Sunday night.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, leader of the minority Democrats, told Yahoo Global Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview Wednesday that he believes his Republican colleagues are concerned but “afraid” to speak out against President Trump. Schumer also discussed his meeting with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, his reaction to the removal of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., from the House floor, and why he thinks top Trump adviser Steve Bannon should leave the White House.

Homeland security enters the classroom Pioneering program starts next year at Harford high school The Harford County school system plans to open what will apparently be the nation's first magnet program focused on homeland security, preparing high school students for careers in disaster response, high-level computer science and law enforcement. Students in the program, scheduled to open in the fall of 2007 at Joppatowne High School, will be given limited security clearances to enable them to perform internships at nearby Aberdeen Proving Ground, where the military develops and tests conventional and biological weapons. The curriculum, which is being developed, is...

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