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Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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 …

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
AP News Digest 2:10 p.m.

Here are the AP's latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EST. For up-to-the minute information on AP's coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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):

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
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…