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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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Sanders refocusing his campaign after Biden's super Tuesday
Philippine police chief, 7 others injured in chopper crash
SAN PEDRO, Philippines (AP) — A helicopter carrying the Philippine national police chief and seven other people crashed after hitting a power cable on takeoff Thursday, critically injuring two people on board.
'Bob Durst killed his wife,' prosecutor says at his trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife Kathie Durst, who was later declared dead despite no body being found, but on Wednesday a prosecutor in a Los An…
Prosecutors urge denial of early prison release for Madoff
NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff should not be released early from prison even if kidney disease kills him within months, prosecutors said Wednesday as they cited the scope and magnitude of his decades-long Ponzi sch…
Bloomberg hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in the Pacific
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands with lush vegetation and stunning coastlin…
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Hope for more survivors ebbs in Brazil area hit by mudslides
GUARUJA, Brazil (AP) — Standing amid debris where his house and repair shop once stood, Antônio Pereira Farias took stock of what little remained Wednesday. He saved his wife and son from a thunderous cascade of mu…
California governor declares statewide emergency due to threat of new coronavirus, becoming third US state to do so.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California governor declares statewide emergency due to threat of new coronavirus, becoming third US state to do so.
Bloomberg's mega-spending nets win in American Samoa
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands 7,200 miles from where he once served as N…
Arkansas woman convicted of killing husband getting clemency
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A woman convicted more than three decades ago of fatally shooting her husband, who had physically abused her, will have her life sentence commuted, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesd…
Democrats eye more gains after Texas stars on Super Tuesday
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats' plans to win Texas in 2020 sharpened into focus Wednesday amid the familiar uncertainty of whether the party's presidential nominee will work as hard in the giant red state in Novemb…
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Man gets jail for video of himself licking ice cream tub
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video
Missouri man sentenced in planned terrorism attack plot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who believed he was helping ISIS terrorists plot an attack on Kansas City was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 20 years in prison and a lifetime of probation.
Reptile breeder pays fine after 157 venomous snakes seized
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A reptile breeder in upstate New York has paid a $500 fine related to the possession of more than 150 venomous snakes in his home, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Wednesd…