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Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Texas woman arrested for confronting couple with hammer

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman accused of using a hammer to threaten a vacationing couple who she mistakenly referred to as Mexican during a profanity-laced tirade in southwest Houston has been arrested.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Coronavirus, pouring rain can't dampen New Orleans' seniors

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Neither the coronavirus pandemic nor rain showers could deter the 2020 graduating class of the New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School from having a celebratory — albeit improvised — com…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Biden accuser's credentials, expert testimony under scrutiny

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — State prosecutors in California are investigating the credentials that Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who has accused Joe Biden of assaulting her in 1993, attested to in as many as 20 cri…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Puerto Rico court orders new murder trial for judge's son

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The son of a federal judge convicted in 2014 of killing his wife in one of Puerto Rico’s most high-profile cases will get a new trial, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Police: 2 officers shot, woman found dead in North Dakota

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Two law enforcement officers and a suspect were shot and a woman was found dead at an apartment in a North Dakota city, police said Wednesday.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
The Latest: US deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 mark

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Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
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US deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 milestone

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
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Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
History in the making as House cast proxy votes in pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a day for the history books on Capitol Hill: For the first time, House lawmakers were voting by proxy, an unprecedented move to avoid the risk of travel to Washington during

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Trump threatens Twitter over fact checks: What's next?

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Twitter has taken the

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Victim in police encounter had started new life in Minnesota

Before he died after being pinned for minutes beneath a Minneapolis police officer's knee, George Floyd was suffering the same fate as millions of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: out of work and looking …

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
US deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 milestone

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
FBI: Florida man scouted terror targets and attack weapons

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is charged with providing material support to the Islamic State extremist group, including attempting to buy multiple weapons and scouting potential targets for an attack i…

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
Gunman kills 3 at French quarry, wounds self with gunshot

PARIS (AP) — A man shot three people to death at a quarry in western France on Wednesday and then shot himself, police said.

Updated 6 years, 3 months ago
The Latest: Professional sports can resume in Pennsylvania

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