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Cyberattack downs city computers in site of navy attackVideo
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Federal authorities are investigating a cyberattack on the city of Pensacola, Fla., home to the naval air station where a Saudi flight student killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Friday. A spokeswoman for the city said federal authorities were alerted to the cyberattack as a...
5 dead, many more missing in eruption of New Zealand volcanoVideo
WHAKATANE, New Zealand — A volcano on a New Zealand island erupted Monday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam as tourists were exploring the moon-like surface, killing five people and leaving perhaps two dozen others missing. Police said the site was still too dangerous hours later for...
Kennesaw State cheerleader punished for kneeling awarded $145,000Video
A former Kennesaw State cheerleader who kneeled during the national anthem in 2017 was awarded $145,000 in a lawsuit settlement. Tommia Dean filed the lawsuit in 2018 when the cheerleaders took on criticism from their public protest over police brutality before a game in Georgia. The school responded by ordering...
Police: 3 dead, 1 injured when vehicle strikes building in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A vehicle crashed into a building early Sunday, leaving three people dead and a fourth person critically injured, police in Ohio said. Columbus police said officers responded to an alarm at an NTB Tire & Service Center around 3 a.m. Sunday and found that a vehicle had...
Female minister, 34-year-old Sanna Marin, tapped to become Finland’s youngest PM
TALLINN, Estonia — A 34-year-old transport minister and lawmaker has been tapped to become Finland’s youngest prime minister ever and its third female government leader. Finland’s ruling Social Democratic Party council voted 32-29 late Sunday to name Sanna Marin over rival Antti Lindtman to take over the government’s top post...
Shooting survivor sues Southern California synagogue
POWAY, Calif. — A man wounded in a shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue is suing the house of worship, alleging Chabad of Poway didn’t use federal funds meant to hire security to protect worshipers, according to a newspaper report. In the lawsuit obtained by Los Angeles Times, Almog Peretz...
FBI says it presumes base shooting was act of terrorismVideo
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim, a U.S. official said Sunday as the FBI confirmed it is operating on the...
Tennessee woman faces $25,000 lawsuit for posting negative posting of doctor on YelpVideo
A Tennessee woman is facing a $25,000 lawsuit for a negative posting on Yelp about a medical doctor. Kelly Beavers, a Wilson County resident, is accused is accused of defamation and libel, and false light for a review she made about Dr. Kaveer Nandigam of Nandigam Neurology in Murfreesboro. “...Kelly...
Police: Slain Arkansas officer ‘ambushed’ in patrol vehicle
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A man who “was looking for an officer to kill” drove into a police parking lot in northwestern Arkansas, approached an officer who was sitting in a patrol car and shot him point-blank in the head, police said Sunday. Officer Stephen Carr, 27, was “ambushed and executed”...
North Korea says it carried out ‘very important test’
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Sunday it carried out a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site that U.S. and South Korean officials said the North had partially dismantled as part of denuclearization steps. The announcement comes amid dimming prospects for a resumption of nuclear negotiations...
Rudy Giuliani will file report on findings from Ukraine, Trump says
WASHINGTON — President Trump said his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, plans to prepare a report for the U.S. Justice Department and Congress about allegations of misconduct the former New York mayor says he uncovered during a recent trip to Ukraine. Trump said Giuliani, a central figure in the impeachment investigation...
House impeachment report looks at abuse, bribery, corruption
WASHINGTON — Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out the...
Tuskegee Airman celebrates 100th birthday with flight
FREDERICK, Md. — A member of the Tuskegee Airmen celebrated his 100th birthday by taking a flight. Retired Army Air Forces Col. Charles McGee flew a private jet Friday between Frederick, Maryland, and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, news outlets reported. The Tuskegee Airmen is the nickname of the...
Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for U.S.-held scientist
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Princeton scholar held for three years in Iran on widely criticized espionage charges was freed Saturday as part of a prisoner exchange that saw America release a detained Iranian scientist, a rare diplomatic breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions. The trade...
Venice tide barriers pass another test, but skeptics remain
VENICE, Italy — Floated along by barge , one of the 10-ton barriers designed to relieve Venice’s perennial flooding looks like a giant plaything: an oversized hinged yellow Lego. Central to the plan to protect the city, some or all of the 78 barriers will one day be raised when...
Caroline Kennedy christens father’s namesake carrier
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline has christened a new aircraft carrier that is named after the 35th U.S. president. Caroline Kennedy smashed a bottle across the USS John Kennedy carrier’s hull Saturday at the shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. She is the sponsor of her father’s...
Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians
Port-au-Prince — The flaming barricades are mostly gone, protesters have largely dissipated and traffic is once again clogging the streets of Haiti’s capital, but hundreds of thousands of people are now suffering deep economic aftershocks after more than two months of demonstrations. The protests that drew tens of thousands of...
Chicago chief’s firing again rattles confidence in force
CHICAGO — The unceremonious firing of Chicago’s police superintendent just weeks before his retirement has rattled a department that, under his leadership, was seeking to restore public confidence since the release of a 2014 video showing a white officer killing a black teenager with 16 gunshots. Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted...
Minnesota National Guard identifies 3 killed in copter crash
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The Minnesota National Guard says the three soldiers who were killed when their helicopter crashed near St. Cloud this week were part of a unit that returned last May from a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. The Guard identified the men who were killed in...
Naval base shooter investigated for possible terrorism links
PENSACOLA, Fla. —U.S. officials investigating the deadly attack by a Saudi aviation student at a naval air station in Florida were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism. An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday...
Aging survivors return to Pearl Harbor to recall ’41 attack
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A dozen frail survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor returned Saturday to honor those who perished when Japanese planes pierced a quiet sunny morning 78 years ago and rained bombs on battleships lined up below. About 30 World War II veterans and some 2,000 members...
New Hampshire to Supreme Court: Leave nudity laws to locals
CONCORD, N.H. — There’s no reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on New Hampshire’s “Free the Nipple” case, the state attorney general said this week. The high court is deciding whether to accept the appeal of three women who were convicted of public nudity at Weirs Beach...
Voting site reopened in Georgia after grassroots fight
HAZLEHURST, Ga. — When local election officials shut down a polling site in a predominantly black area of a rural Georgia county, displaced voters couldn’t look to the federal government to intervene as it once did in areas with a history of racial disenfranchisement. So residents banded together, circulating petitions...
PG&E says it has reached $13.5 billion wildfire settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas and Electric says it has reached a $13.5 billion settlement that will resolve all major claims related to devastating wildfires blamed on its outdated equipment and negligence. The settlement, which the utility says was reached Friday, still requires court approval. PG&E says it is a...
Deserted 5-year-old takes toddler to neighbor in bitter cold
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 5-year-old child left alone in a house in a remote Alaska village carried a toddler half a mile to a neighbor’s home in the bitter cold wearing only socks and light clothing after the power went out, authorities said Friday. Both children suffered cold-weather injuries in...
