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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 …
California governor makes homelessness top issue in 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Tossing aside tradition, California's governor on Wednesday devoted his biggest platform to a single issue: solving a homelessness crisis that has overwhelmed the nation's most populous st…
Panel advances proposal to limit gubernatorial pardon powers
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Responding to an outcry over some of the previous governor's pardons, a Kentucky legislative panel gave initial approval to a proposal to put limits on the pardon powers of his successors.
Puerto Rico goes to court against debt-restructuring deal
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government went to court on Wednesday to fight a deal that a federal control board overseeing the U.S. territory’s finances recently reached with bondholders to reduce the…
Alabama lawmakers advance bill aimed at transgender athletes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Transgender students would be required to play sports under their “gender assignment at birth" instead of how they live under a bill approved Wednesday by a committee in the Alabama House of…
US man charged in death of Chinese wife despite no body
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The American husband of a Chinese woman who has been missing since October was charged Wednesday in her death, even though her body hasn't been found.
The American husband of a Chinese woman has been charged in her death, although her body remains missing
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The American husband of a Chinese woman has been charged in her death, although her body remains missing.
Jurors promised trial of their lives in Durst murder case
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge made a sales pitch of sorts Wednesday to a panel of would-be jurors facing the prospect of serving five months in the murder trial of Robert Durst: this will be a once-in-a-li…
Venezuelans react to U.S. sanctions targeting Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The debate over fresh U.S. sanctions aimed at forcing out Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro played out Wednesday across the crisis-stricken nation — including a bustling Caracas bus terminal.
Man charged in grisly slaying found unresponsive, treated
CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) — A man charged in the slaying and mutilation of a man he met through the dating app Grindr was found unresponsive in his Michigan jail cell after not eating, authorities said.
AP sources: Trump expected to tap loyalist as intel official
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to name Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as acting director of national intelligence.
Police say 8 killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau
HANAU, Germany (AP) — Eight people were killed in shootings in and outside two hookah lounges in a southwestern German city late Wednesday, and authorities were searching for the perpetrators.
Police say 8 people have been killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau
BERLIN (AP) — Police say 8 people have been killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau.
'Medicare for All' is driving a wedge through labor movement
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates' plans to provide “Medicare for All” are driving a wedge through the labor movement, pitting union against union and fracturing a powerful constituency as the pri…
Columbus ship replicas sail into Mississippi harbor
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — With about a dozen spectators lining a pier on Mississippi's Gulf Coast and aiming their phones out to the horizon, the Niña and Pinta sailed Wednesday into a Biloxi harbor.
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Rivals take pre-debate shots as Bloomberg faces major test