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Budget deficit to break $1 trillion despite strong economy
WASHINGTON — An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. Tuesday’s Congressional Budget Office report follows a burst of new spending last year and the repeal in December of several taxes used to...
Fresh anti-Semitic writings appear in Italian cities, towns
MILAN — Fresh anti-Semitic writings appeared in Italian cities and towns as the country marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, officials said Tuesday. The incidents included a racist placard tacked onto a Democratic Party bulletin board near Vicenza, a swastika in a...
Lawsuit: Winter wonderland is neighbor’s spring nightmare
NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman says the operators of a seasonal attraction of ice structures failed to control runoff and flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water — and she worries it will happen again this spring. Kelly Trinkle alleges in a lawsuit against Ice...
Wienermobile pulled over in Wisconsin for traffic infraction
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Oscar Mayer’s iconic Wienermobile got a grilling from a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy because the driver of the giant hot dog failed to give enough room to another car on the road with emergency lights. The deputy pulled over the Wienermobile and gave the driver a verbal warning...
New Michigan State student from Iran sent home after landing at airport
EAST LANSING, Mich. — U.S. authorities declined to admit an Iranian graduate student after he landed at an airport to start classes at Michigan State University, an attorney said. Alireza Esfidajani, 27, was stopped Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and interviewed by agents. He was held at a jail in...
Authorities: Florida boy, 9, stabs younger sister with knife
OCALA, Fla. — A 9-year-old boy was taken into custody after he stabbed his 5-year-old sister with a kitchen knife because he said he wanted her to die, authorities in Florida said. The boy stabbed his sister in the back Monday, news outlets reported, citing the Ocala Police Department. When...
In snub to U.S., Britain will allow Huawei in 5G networksVideo
LONDON — Britain decided Tuesday to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to supply new high-speed network equipment, ignoring the U.S. government’s warnings that it would sever intelligence cooperation if the company was not banned. Britain’s decision is the first by a major U.S. ally in Europe, and follows intense lobbying...
Trump to unveil his Middle East peace plan amid skepticismVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is set to unveil his administration’s much-anticipated Middle East peace plan in the latest American venture to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Odds of it taking shape are long, given that the Palestinians, effectively cut off by the Trump administration, have preemptively rejected the plan. Moreover,...
Pakistan gas cylinder explosion kills 11 in perfume factory
LAHORE, Pakistan — A massive explosion and fire triggered by a gas cylinder explosion engulfed a small perfume factory in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, rescuer workers and police said. Two people were also injured in the blast, which caused the roof of the factory to...
Wildfire threatens homes on Australian capital’s outskirtsVideo
CANBERRA, Australia — A wildfire sparked by a military helicopter helping firefighting efforts was blazing out of control and threatening homes on the outskirts of Australia’s capital on Tuesday as fire danger escalated across the country’s southeast. The fire had spread over 19,000 acres since it was started by a...
Puerto Rico opens only 20% of schools amid ongoing earthquakes
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico opened only 20% of its public schools on Tuesday following a strong earthquake that delayed the start of classes by nearly three weeks as fears linger over the safety of students. Only 177 schools were certified to open after engineers inspected them for...
China reports 25 more virus deaths as U.S. prepares evacuationVideo
BEIJING — China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak. Health authorities in Hubei province, where the coronavirus first was detected...
Ohio police say 15-year-old boy killed while playing video game
PATASKALA, Ohio — An Ohio teen was fatally shot when another teen pointed a gun laser in his eyes to distract him during a video game, and then pulled the trigger, according to authorities. A complaint filed Monday in juvenile court in Licking County in central Ohio charged a 15-year-old...
Father arrested in killings of 5 of his infant childrenVideo
WOODLAND, Calif. — A California father has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children, a case the sheriff said had haunted his agency for years. Paul Perez, 57, was arrested at a state prison in Delano, days before he was expected to be released on...
Remains found in wooded area identified as missing New Jersey womanVideo
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — Authorities identified remains found in central New Jersey as those of a woman who disappeared from her home last fall, and investigators said Monday that a suicide note left by her ex-boyfriend supported their suspicions that he killed her. The remains of Stephanie Parze, 25, of...
Supreme Court allows enforcement of new green card rule
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents. The new policy can be used to deny green cards to immigrants over their use of public benefits including...
Nighttime attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injured 1
BAGHDAD — A top U.S. commander said on Monday mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage the previous night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military. Gen. Frank...
Delta Air Lines worker fatally shot in employee parking lot
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — A Delta Air Lines employee was shot in a company parking lot and later died on the way to a hospital, police said Monday. The shooting happened Sunday night in the lot near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, College Park police said. Officers found 30-year-old Alexis Reed...
Suspect arrested in killing of 1 baby, linked to 4 others
WOODLAND, Calif. — An arrest has been made in the death of an infant whose body was found in 2007 by a fisherman in California, and the person is also suspected in the killings of four other babies, authorities said Monday. The arrest came after the infant found in Woodland-area...
Kobe Bryant’s chopper crashed in fog that grounded other aircraftVideo
CALABASAS, Calif. — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others that crashed in the rugged hills outside Los Angeles was flying in foggy weather considered dangerous enough that local police departments had grounded their choppers. The aircraft plunged into a steep hillside Sunday, scattering debris over an area the...
‘I’m being raped’: Harvey Weinstein accuser details alleged assault
NEW YORK — At times sobbing, former production assistant Mimi Haleyi told jurors Monday at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial how she tried to fight off the disgraced movie mogul and told him “no, no, no” while he sexually assaulted her. “I did reject him, but he insisted,” said Haleyi, whose...
Priest in Michigan gets 60 days in jail for bubble wrapping boy
ALLEGAN, Mich. — A Michigan priest accused of wrapping a teenager in bubble wrap was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for attempted false imprisonment, prosecutors said. The Rev. Brian Stanley appeared in Allegan County court, two months after pleading guilty in a deal with the attorney general’s office....
Alabama fire chief confirms 8 deaths in boat dock fire
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — The fire chief in Scottsboro, Ala., says at least eight people were killed in an explosive fire that consumed at least 35 vessels along the Tennessee River. Scottsboro Fire Chief Gene Necklaus said all eight people known to be missing were confirmed dead, and “that number could...
Taliban say mystery crash in Afghanistan was U.S. aircraftVideo
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it’d been brought down by enemy fire. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett, said that the military plane, a Bombardier E-11A,...
China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billionsVideo
Tourism from China was already weakening even before a new virus forced much of the country into a standstill. With tens of millions of Chinese ordered to stay put and many others opting to avoid travel as the new coronavirus spreads, tourism around the globe is taking a heavy hit...
