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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 …
Man who swam to US from Canada to deliver books is released
DETROIT (AP) — A man who said he swam across the Detroit River from Canada to try to deliver handmade books before Christmas won his release Tuesday after two months in U.S. custody.
Hill collapses, roads flooded, dam eroded by Southern rains
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a Mississippi lake where a dam…
Tenet Healthcare to pay $1.4M to settle cardiac lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for implanting …
Back from Wuhan, Brazil model describes life in quarantine
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Adrielly Eger, an 18-year-old Brazilian model, has left behind her budding career in Wuhan, China, and is now spending her time in quarantine playing board games and talking to family members …
Teachers unions express opposition to active shooter drills
The nation's two largest teachers unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, asserting Tuesday that they can harm students' mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the po…
NCAA's Emmert presses Senate for 'guardrails' on athlete pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert urged Congress to put restrictions on college athletes' ability to earn money from endorsements, telling a Senate committee Tuesday federal action is needed to “maintain…
House approves plan to create US women's history museum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years after the opening of the Smithsonian's landmark
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In rare move, feds back away from Stone sentencing proposal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday it will take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it will seek for Roger Stone, an announcement that came just hours after President Don…
Radical Iraqi cleric threatens to disavow PM designate
BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite preacher who heads a powerful political bloc in Iraq's Parliament threatened Tuesday to withdraw support for the candidate chosen by rival blocs as prime minister designate, ind…
Samsung unveils its new foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Samsung on Tuesday unveiled a new foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, its second attempt to sell consumers on phones with bendable screens and clamshell designs.
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The Latest: Sanders greets supporters, says he hopes for win
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 Democratic presidential contest and
Charity founded by disgraced cyclist announces relaunch plan
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The cancer charity whose yellow wristbands became a global brand under founder Lance Armstrong is seeking to reinvent itself, years after donations and revenues crashed along with the disgraced…
Palestinian chief rejects US plan, seeks global conference
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vehemently rejected the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan in a speech to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, calling it an attempt to keep the Pa…