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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Hispanic man says acid attacker accused him of invading U.S.
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man who says his attacker asked him, “why did you come here and invade my country?” Police said Monday they arrested a 61-year-old white man suspected in Friday night’s attack, but they haven’t identified him....
U.S. issues $20 million reward for American missing in Iran 
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday offered a reward of up to $20 million for information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, and imposed new sanctions on leading Iranian officials as relations deteriorated further on the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy...
White House announces new sanctions on Iran 
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sanctioning members of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle. Separately, the administration is issuing an up to $20 million reward for information about missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson. He disappeared in Iran in 2007 but the Iranian government has never acknowledged...
Ocasio-Cortez apologizes to critic blocked on Twitter
NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday she is sorry for blocking a former Brooklyn elected official from her Twitter account after he was critical of her. In a statement, the Democrat said she had reconsidered her decision, as part of the settlement of a federal lawsuit that Dov...
Columnist sues Trump for calling her sex assault claim a lie
NEW YORK — An advice columnist who has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in a New York City department store dressing room in the 1990s sued him Monday, saying he defamed her by calling her a liar whom he had never even met. E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, filed...
U.S., China spar at Southeast Asian regional summit
NONTHABURI, Thailand — The rivalry between the United States and China over influence in the Asia-Pacific region was on show Monday as the two superpowers traded barbs over freedom of navigation in the region’s seas. The war of words took place at the annual summit of leaders of the Association...
3 ancient shipwrecks discovered off Aegean island of Kasos
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s Culture Ministry says three shipwrecks from ancient and mediaeval times and large sections of their cargoes have been discovered off the small Aegean island of Kasos. A statement Monday said an underwater survey that ended last month also located cannons and other scattered finds — possibly...
As wildfires burn across California, Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter 
LOS ANGELES — Autumn in California now comes not only with fierce, wind-driven wildfires but with routine claims from President Donald Trump that the state’s leaders are to blame for the disasters, followed by assurances from experts that the president doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The cycle renewed again...
Colorful Columbia Sportswear Co. chairwoman Gert Boyle dies
PORTLAND, Ore. — Gert Boyle, the colorful chairwoman of Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Co. who starred in ads proclaiming her as “One Tough Mother,” died Sunday. She was 95. Company spokeswoman Mary Ellen Glynn did not disclose the cause of death. Boyle, who was chairwoman of the company board of directors,...
How 'do us a favor' led to Trump impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON — The words from one president to another, somewhat casual in tone, were not casual at all in meaning: “I would like you to do us a favor, though.” Those words have now prompted deployment of the ultimate political weapon, an impeachment process enshrined in the Constitution as a...
Storm dislodges boat stuck on rocks above Niagara Falls for 101 years 
A breakaway boat that sparked a dramatic rescue above Niagara Falls in 1918 has remained stuck in that spot. Until now. The wreckage of the iron scow, used in a dredging operation 101 years ago, had been resting on the rocks about 600 yards from Horseshoe Falls all these years,...
Skulls, masks and dancers as Mexico fetes Day of the Dead
MEXICO CITY — Dancers in indigenous costumes pranced down a broad avenue followed by a float bearing the 20-foot-tall likeness of the goddess Mictecacihuatl, announced as “the queen of the underworld and the guardian of our bones,” crowned by a red feather headdress and cradling a skull in her right...
Crews make progress on large Southern California wildfire
LOS ANGELES — Authorities lifted evacuation orders for a farm community Saturday as firefighters make progress on a large wildfire in Southern California that continues to threaten about 2,500 homes and buildings. Ventura County officials allowed an unknown number of residents in Somis to return home Saturday morning after firefighters...
Tear gas fired in downtown Hong Kong as protesters defy police 
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters who rallied for a 22nd consecutive weekend despite authorities denying them a permit to gather. Police arrested dozens, and deployed a water cannon on black-clad demonstrators who had built barricades and threw fire-lit objects in Wan...
Pelosi sets a high bar for impeachment inquiry: ‘ironclad’ proof
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, offering her most expansive view of the impeachment probe to date, said she decided to advance the inquiry into President Donald Trump after his phone call with Ukraine’s leader provided her with the “clarity” that prior allegations against Trump lacked. Pelosi said the partial...
'Chalkbus' inspires drawings and connectivity
AMERICAN FORK, Utah — No matter where he parks his VW bus coated in chalkboard paint, Jonathan Sherman comes back to find great new art adorning the sides. Once a week, he washes it and creates a new canvass for the amateur artists of American Fork who are inspired to...
Smugglers using $100 saws to get through Trump's new border wall 
Smugglers in Mexico are sawing through new sections of U.S. border fence using tools commonly available at The Home Depot. Smuggling gangs along the southern U.S. border are repeatedly cutting through the steel-and-concrete posts of President Trump’s new fence using off-the-shelf power tools, reports The Washington Post. Government agents and...
Long-running coal plant on Navajo reservation nears its end
ALONG THE BLACK MESA AND LAKE POWELL RAILROAD, Ariz. — One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the American West will close before the year ends and others in the region are on track to shut down or reduce their output in the next few years. Owners of the...
Space shipment launched with sports car parts, cookie oven 
A supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Saturday with sports car parts, an oven for baking cookies and a vest to protect against radiation. Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus capsule for NASA from Wallops Island, Virginia. The 8,200-pound shipment should reach the orbiting lab Monday. “Good launch...
South Dakota set to execute man who stabbed former co-worker
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Donnivan Schaeffer was delivering supplies to the South Dakota doughnut shop where he worked when a former co-worker who was in the middle of burglarizing the place ambushed the 22-year-old, stabbing him in the stomach. Bleeding from his wound, Schaeffer begged to be taken to a...
Greta Thunberg call to fight global warming cheers LA rally
LOS ANGELES — Greta Thunberg, Sweden’s 16-year-old climate-change activist, joined fellow teenagers from throughout California Friday in telling a cheering crowd of hundreds at a Los Angeles rally that they can and will fight to save their planet from global warming. Thunberg, who has been traveling across the United States...
Felon arrested who allegedly shot 2 men trying to abduct his son
A Louisiana man was arrested after shooting two men attempting to kidnap his son, killing one. Hakim Dumas of Slidell was reportedly at home in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 when two men attempted to take his sleeping child. Dumas pulled a gun and shot at both men,...
Mississippi's Jim Crow-era election system stands, for now
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge ruled Friday that he will not immediately block Mississippi’s unique, multistep process for electing a governor and other statewide officials, which was enacted at a time of Jim Crow segregation to maintain white rule. However, in a ruling handed down days before Tuesday’s election,...
Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Immigrant rights groups called Friday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end policies they say ease the transfer of prison inmates to federal authorities despite California’s efforts to provide a sanctuary to those who are in the country illegally. The groups asked Newsom to stop prison officials from...
Louisiana man gets probation in whooping crane death
A Louisiana man was sentenced to probation Friday for killing one of the state’s oldest whooping cranes . Gilvin P. Aucoin Jr., of Ville Platte, shot the endangered whooping crane in July 2018 in Evangeline Parish. In a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol B. Whitehurst, Aucoin changed his plea...


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