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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
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Japan awaits spacecraft return with asteroid soil samples
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said the Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully separated a capsule and sent it toward Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the sol…
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EST
States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows
China state TV reports 18 miners killed by carbon monoxide in southwest; rescuers searching for 5 others
BEIJING (AP) — China state TV reports 18 miners killed by carbon monoxide in southwest; rescuers searching for 5 others.
Chinese state TV reports 18 coal miners killed by lethal gas
BEIJING (AP) — China's state TV says at least 18 coal miners have been killed by high levels of carbon monoxide in the country's southwest.
Police: Man who says he was crime victim chases, shoots man
MIAMI (AP) — A man who says he was the victim of a burglary attempt chased a man down a South Florida street and shot and wounded him with an assault-style rifle as he begged for his life, authorities said.
Nicaraguans search for miners buried after mine collapse
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — An unregulated gold mine collapsed Friday in southern Nicaragua near the border with Costa Rica, leaving about 10 wildcat miners missing.
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EST
States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows
Bill to criminalize doping schemes signed into law
A bill that will criminalize international doping conspiracies became law Friday with President Donald Trump's signature, closing out a two-year legislative process during which the only true opposition to the bill…
Nearly 30 found in Texas smuggling operation, 1 man arrested
HOUSTON (AP) — An Honduran man was charged on Friday with harboring more than two dozen people who authorities say were being held in a Houston home as part of a human smuggling operation, according to a federal pr…
Appeals court rules for Trump taking military money for wall
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a lower court was wrong to bar the Trump administration from taking $3.6 billion from military construction projects for a border wall.
Judge: Trump administration must take new DACA applications
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration must accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects some young immigrants from deportation, a federal judge ruled Friday, in va…
DeVos suspends student federal loan payments through January
The Trump administration on Friday suspended all federal student loan payments through the end of January and kept interest rates at 0%, extending a moratorium that started early in the pandemic but was set to expi…
Wyoming health official: 'so-called pandemic' communist plot
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming Department of Health official involved in the state's response to the coronavirus questioned the legitimacy of the pandemic and described a forthcoming vaccine as a biological weapon a…
The Latest: FBI urges retests for people tested at NJ lab
VENTNOR, N.J. — The FBI is telling anyone who underwent a coronavirus test at a New Jersey laboratory to get retested and to contact the agency.