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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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The Latest: Sanders: NH win would put me on nomination path
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The latest on campaigning for the 2020 election (all times local):
Son of mom accused of arranging witness deaths enters plea
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to killing a 16-year-old in a crime that prosecutors alleged his mother initially tried to cover up by orchestrating the deaths of two potential witnesses.
Man who drove van at GOP voter sign-up worked as stagehand
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man charged with driving a van into a tent where local Republicans were registering voters worked as a stagehand and had lived in northeast Florida for two years, according to jail recor…
Sanders campaign requests partial recanvass of Iowa caucuses
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign on Monday filed a request for a partial recanvass of the Iowa caucus results, citing "mathematical errors and inconsistencies" in more than two dozen location…
New Mississippi AG reviewing 6-trial murder case
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's new attorney general must decide whether to take a quadruple murder case to a seventh trial. Curtis Flowers has had two mistrials and four reversed convictions in connection with…
Police: 2 officers, 1 other person shot at Arkansas Walmart
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) — At least three people, including two police officers, were shot Monday morning at a Walmart in eastern Arkansas, police said.
Navy SEAL Team 6 member convicted in sexting case
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 has been convicted of indecent conduct in a case where he was accused of impersonating someone and soliciting nude photos of women.
Interior Dept. drops trophy hunting council amid court fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing significant legal challenges, the Trump administration has disbanded its advisory board created to help boost trophy hunting and relax federal rules for importing the heads and hides of Afr…
Weinstein's many accusers follow trial anxiously from afar
Correction: Sexual Misconduct-Weinstein-Accusers story
In a story Feb. 9, 2020, about women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of his accusers. She is Caitlin Dulany, not Dulaney.
Man: Guilty plea to federal charges in black church burnings
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The aspiring ‘black metal’ musician who was arrested in a series of fires set at African American churches in Louisiana last spring pleaded guilty Monday to four federal criminal counts.
UN warns of 'major shock' as Africa locust outbreak spreads
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Uganda scrambled to respond to the arrival of the biggest locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in decades, while the United Nations warned Monday that “we simply cannot afford ano…
Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants
CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, lead…
Police: 9 homicides in Chicago's deadliest weekend of year
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago recorded nine homicides between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday, a weekend police said was the deadliest of the year for a city that has seen the number of fatal shootings surge this year a…