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Roger Stone appeals denial of prison delay over coronavirus fears
Republican operative Roger Stone asked a federal appeals court to delay the start of his prison term until Sept. 3 from July 14 because of the coronavirus pandemic, after the trial judge denied his earlier request. Stone, sentenced to 40 months behind bars for lying to Congress during the Russia...
White woman charged as a result of racist Central Park confrontation
NEW YORK — A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over walking her dog without a leash in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false police report. In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for frantically calling 911 to claim...
White woman charged after racist Central Park confrontation
NEW YORK — A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over walking her dog without a leash in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false police report. In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for frantically calling 911 to claim...
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York for Epstein-related sex abuse chargesVideo
NEW YORK — Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monday to New York to face charges that she recruited women and girls, one as young as 14, for him to sexually abuse, the Bureau of Prisons said. Prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a Friday court appearance...
World’s longest-surviving conjoined twin brothers die at 68
DAYTON, Ohio — The world’s longest-surviving conjoined twins died July 4 at the age of 68. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, of Beavercreek, Ohio, were born joined at the abdomen Oct. 28, 1951. In 2014, the brothers earned the distinction of being the world’s oldest set of conjoined twins shortly before...
Chicago’s July 4th weekend ends with 17 dead, 70 wounded
CHICAGO — One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 17 people fatally shot, including a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, and 70 more wounded, despite a concerted effort to quell the violence with an additional 1,200 police officers on the streets. The violence was far worse...
Treasury names 650K small businesses receiving govt loans
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Monday released the names of more than 650,000 companies that received funds from the government’s small business lending program, a massive effort intended to support the economy as states shut down in April to contain the viral outbreak. Treasury identified just a fraction of...
Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending reviewVideo
FARGO, N.D. — A judge on Monday ordered the Dakota Access pipeline shut down for additional environmental review more than three years after it began pumping oil — handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to weaken public health...
Ohio man fires gun after firework set off, prompts SWAT standoff
DAYTON, Ohio — A man angry that a firework exploded near his apartment complex shot at the man who set it off, authorities said, sparking a standoff that lasted for several hours. The shooting in Dayton occurred early Monday. The shots struck a car but did not hit any people,...
Little to celebrate in Pamplona with no running of the bulls
PAMPLONA, Spain — Residents in Spain’s northern city of Pamplona dressed up Monday in white clothes and traditional red scarves to mark what should have been the start of their annual San Fermín festival, which was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Known for its races with bulls...
$10,000 reward offered in Atlanta killing of 8-year-old girlVideo
ATLANTA — The shooting death of an 8-year-old girl in Atlanta prompted a $10,000 reward for information as authorities searched Monday for at least two people who opened fire on the car she was riding in near a flashpoint of recent protests. Police identified the girl killed Saturday night as...
Israel announces successful launch of new spy satellite
JERUSALEM — Israel announced the successful launch of a new spy satellite Monday that will help it monitor Iran’s nuclear activities as the Israeli foreign minister hinted that his country may have been behind a fire that damaged an Iranian nuclear site last week. The “Ofek 16” satellite gives Israel...
Frederick Douglass statue vandalized in Rochester, N.Y., park
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852. Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground...
Lawyer: Remains of missing Texas soldier Vanessa Guillén identified
DALLAS — Army investigators have identified the body of a soldier who vanished more than two months ago from a base in Texas, according to a lawyer for the soldier’s family. Remains found last week buried near Fort Hood belong to Spc. Vanessa Guillén and Army officials informed her family...
5 West Virginia residents killed in South Carolina accident
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Five West Virginia residents were killed in a multi-vehicle collision on Interstate 26 in South Carolina, a coroner said. Orangeburg County Coroner Samuetta Marshall said the victims died of blunt force trauma in the crash Thursday near Orangeburg. They were identified as Justin Cooper, 39, and Michael...
Cleveland officials decry violence as 20 shot, 3 killed
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Authorities in Cleveland are condemning rising gun violence and violent crime as a score of people were shot and three killed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Police said a 57-year-old man, a 50-year-old man and a 47-year-old man were killed in shootings between 8 p.m....
Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter
CHICAGO — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests...
Sheriff: 2 dead, 8 hurt in South Carolina nightclub shootingVideo
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff’s official said. Two Greenville County sheriff’s deputies noticed a disturbance at Lavish Lounge just before 2 a.m., and saw a large crowd running out of the building, Sheriff...
1 of 2 protesters hit by car on closed Seattle highway dies
SEATTLE — A car drove onto a closed freeway early Saturday and struck two people in a crowd protesting against police brutality, killing one and critically injuring the other, authorities said. Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center, spokesperson Susan Gregg said. Taylor and...
For nation’s birthday, Trump lashes out at ‘radical left’
WASHINGTON — On a day meant for unity and celebration, President Trump vowed to “safeguard our values” from enemies within — leftists, looters, agitators, he said — in a Fourth of July speech packed with all the grievances and combativeness of his political rallies. Trump watched paratroopers float to the...
U.S. nuclear envoy to visit South Korea, Japan
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, the Trump administration’s main representative for North Korea, will visit South Korea on Tuesday before heading to Japan, Yonhap reported Saturday, citing unidentified diplomatic sources. Biegun will visit Seoul on Tuesday, where he is likely to meet South Korean counterpart Lee Do-hoon along...
Woman falls to death in Grand Canyon while hiking, park says
An Arizona woman hiking in the Grand Canyon fell to her death Friday afternoon, park officials said. Maria Salgado Lopez, 59, was hiking off-trail and taking photographs along the canyon’s south rim when she accidentally stepped off the edge, according to a news release from the park. Lopez fell about...
Another fired Minneapolis officer charged in Floyd death out of jail
MINNEAPOLIS — A third fired Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s Memorial Day death has been released from jail, according to Hennepin County jail records Tao Thao, 34, posted $750,000 bail and was released from the downtown Minneapolis jail Saturday morning. He had been held on $1 million bail...
Kansas newspaper’s post equates mask mandate with Holocaust
TOPEKA, Kan. — A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor’s order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. The cartoon on the...
Christopher Columbus statue in Waterbury, Conn., beheaded
HARTFORD, Conn. — Someone smashed the head off of the Christopher Columbus statue that has stood in front of Waterbury’s city hall for many years. The decapitated statue was discovered Saturday morning. The Waterbury chapter of UNICO, an Italian American service organization, said on its Facebook page Saturday it would...
