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Trump says he’ll send feds if NYC can’t stop bloodshed
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is again threatening to send federal agents to New York City if local authorities don’t stop a surge of violence that has left seven people dead and more than 50 people shot since Friday. Trump, who’s running for re-election on a law-and-order agenda as...
2 former correctional officers charged with helping escape at W.Va. juvenile facility
MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — Two former correctional officers at a West Virginia juvenile facility are accused of aiding the escape of a teen-aged murder defendant. Alexanderia Shelby, 25, of Harts and Larissa Mackall, 32, of Julian were charged Friday with conspiracy. The complaint said the women helped an 18-year-old escape...
Q&A: What’s happening at the U.S. Postal Service, and why?
The U.S. Postal Service is warning states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines. That’s raising the possibility that millions of voters could be disenfranchised. It’s the latest...
Power outage halts streetcars, hits thousands in The Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Streetcars ground to a halt and some stores closed in the Hague after a power outage hit large parts of the Dutch city Monday, with technicians still trying to fix the fault several hours later. Power grid company Stedin said the outage that started around 11...
U.S. approves oil, gas leasing plan for Alaska Wildlife refuge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration on Monday took another step to opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for oil and gas, potentially fulfilling a decades-long dream for Republicans. Environmentalists, however, promised to fight opening up the coast plain of the refuge, a 1.56-million acre swath of land...
Hit-and-run crash involving SUV, buggy leaves 4 hurt
GREENWICH TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A hit-and-run crash in northeastern Ohio involving a car and a horse-drawn buggy left two adults and two children injured, authorities said. The crash happened Sunday night on Route 250 in Greenwich Township, when the southbound car driven by Renold Workman, 58, of Vermilion, rear-ended the...
Politics slows flow of U.S. virus funds to local public health
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find funds to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money to administer tests. Money to hire contact tracers. And yet even more money for a service that helps tracers...
Homeless Florida man lives in stadium’s luxury suite for 2 weeks
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A homeless man has been arrested after he reportedly lived in the luxury suite of a professional soccer stadium for two weeks, wearing the team’s clothing and eating food he found in the facility, reports say. A cleaning crew discovered Daniel Albert Neja, 39, after it...
Hostage situation after Texas officers shot ends peacefully
CEDAR PARK, Texas — A hostage situation ended peacefully Monday morning when a man and his mother exited a home near Austin, Texas, where a day earlier three police officers had been shot and wounded. Cedar Park Police said on Twitter that the man and his mother “had come out...
Lightning sparks new wildfires across CaliforniaVideo
LOS ANGELES — A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge forest fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles. More than 4,500 buildings remained threatened by the wildfire, which was burning...
Police: At least 18 shot, with 4 dead, across CincinnatiVideo
CINCINNATI — At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places around the city overnight, authorities said Sunday. Officers responded just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday to the Avondale neighborhood and found 21-year-old Antonio Blair with gunshot wounds, police said in a statement. He was...
German food company to change racist name of popular sauce
BERLIN — One of Germany’s best-known food companies said it will rename a popular spicy dressing because of the racist connotations of its name. Food company Knorr will change the name of its “Zigeuersauce,” or “gypsy sauce” to “Paprika Sauce Hungarian Style,” the German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday....
Trump makes call for new White House doctor’s virus adviceVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there’s no daylight between them. Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the...
Robert Trump, President Trump’s younger brother, dead at 71
NEW YORK — President Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71. The president visited his brother at a New...
Protesters in Portland, Ore., skirmish, fire pepper spray
PORTLAND, Ore. — A rally by a small group of alt-right demonstrators in Portland, Ore., quickly devolved Saturday as they traded paint balls and pepper spray with counter-protesters. About 30 people were participating the Patriot Prayer rally in front of the Multnomah County Justice Center in Oregon’s biggest city. Several...
In a reversal, 9/11 Memorial and Museum to go ahead with annual tribute
NEW YORK — Pressured by politicians and public safety unions, 9/11 Memorial leaders reversed course Saturday and said they’ll go ahead with this year’s Tribute in Lights commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks. The change came two days after the 9/11 Memorial and Museum called off the display over coronavirus...
Japan marks 75 years since World War II’s end
TOKYO — Japan on Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Emperor Naruhito expressing “deep remorse” over his country’s wartime actions at a somber annual ceremony curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic. Naruhito pledged to reflect on the war’s events and expressed hope that the...
Right-wing group, counter-protesters clash in Michigan
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Members of the far-right Proud Boys group and counter-protesters clashed violently Saturday afternoon in western Michigan, resulting in arrests, police said. Assistant Chief Vernon Coakley of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said a few people were arrested, but didn’t know exactly how many. “A fight occurred,...
Training pushed to show officers how to stop abuse in own ranks
HARTFORD, Conn. — Despite policies on the books for years that require officers across the United States to stop colleagues from using excessive force, there has been little or no effort to teach officers how to intervene, law enforcement officials and experts say. That’s changing after the killing of George...
Climate change packs twice as many storms into hurricane season
Atlantic hurricane records go back to 1851, and in all that time the ocean has never piled up so many storms in such a short span as this year. So far, 11 storms have formed since May. This is the earliest date on record for a storm with a “K”...
Man sues Nebraska officer who used Taser on him
COZAD, Neb. — A Nebraska man who was sitting in a swing in his sister’s backyard with his empty hands visible when a police officer shocked him with a Taser has filed an excessive force lawsuit over the videotaped encounter. Hilario Velasquez of Lexington and his sister, Sarah Garrett, filed...
Police: Girl killed by gunfire during birthday party in Ohio
AKRON, Ohio — An 8-year-old girl was shot and killed during a backyard birthday party for a teenager at an Ohio home, authorities said. Akron police said shots were fired shortly before midnight Friday in the Sherbondy Hill neighborhood. The 8-year-old was found wounded and was taken to Akron Children’s...
Severe heat wave causes rolling blackouts, dangerous conditions across California
LOS ANGELES — What forecasters say is shaping up to be the worst heat wave in years caused rolling blackouts Friday because of power shortages and is setting up dangerous conditions across California. The power crisis was caused in part by the coronavirus restrictions, which have closed movie theaters, malls...
Crews battle wildfires amid brutal heat wave in California
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters struggled to contain three wildfires near Los Angeles on Saturday as forecasters warned the risk of new fires was high with temperatures expected to spike and humidity levels to drop across California. A huge forest fire that prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles flared up about...
Police move in after fights break out during Georgia protest
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — After hours of mostly peaceful demonstrations Saturday in an Atlanta suburb that’s home to a giant Confederate memorial, large numbers of police moved in to disperse the crowds when fights broke out. Several dozen right-wing demonstrators, some waving the Confederate battle flag and many wearing military...
