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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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Police: Man kills firefighter who was leaving wife's home
GRANITE QUARRY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man shot and killed a firefighter who stepped outside his estranged wife’s house, then walked inside the home and fatally shot himself after confronting the woman, offic…
New appeal filed in 12-year sentence for cellphone in jail
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court should overturn an “astonishing” 12-year prison sentence given to an African American man who took a mobile phone into a jail cell when he was arrested on a misde…
Lee to pitch sweeping abortion bans in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says he wants to enact some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, which would include banning women from undergoing the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is de…
Pence: Israel PM, election rival invited to US to talk peace
JERUSALEM (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz would visit the White House to discuss the “prospect of peace…
Leaders vow to learn from Holocaust, offer competing lessons
JERUSALEM (AP) — Speaker by speaker, world leaders on Thursday denounced the rising threat of anti-Semitism and vowed never to forget the lessons of the Holocaust at a solemn ceremony in Jerusalem marking the 75th …
Top Arizona court: Divorced woman can't use frozen embryos
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman can't use her frozen embryos to have a baby over opposition from her ex-husband under terms of the contract they signed with a fertility clinic, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
WHO says China virus 'too early' for emergency declaration
LONDON (AP) — A viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people and prompted Chinese authorities to effectively shut down three cities is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization…
Jim Lehrer of the 'MacNeil-Lehrer Report' dies at 85
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.
World Health Organization says a viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds is not yet a global health emergency.
LONDON (AP) — World Health Organization says a viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds is not yet a global health emergency.
Pence: White House invites Israel's Netanyahu and chief rival to White House next week to discuss 'prospect of peace'
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pence: White House invites Israel's Netanyahu and chief rival to White House next week to discuss 'prospect of peace'.
Pence says Israel PM, rival invited to US to discuss peace
JERUSALEM (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz have been invited to Washington next week to discuss the "prospect of peace" with t…
The Latest: Charles appears to snub VP Pence in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest on the gathering in Jerusalem of dozens of world leaders for the World Holocaust Forum, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp (all times…
Deputy uses stun gun to settle a beef between K9 and cow
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy responding to a burglary call in South Carolina was forced to settle a beef between his K9 and a spooked cow by using a stun gun.
NYC subway chief Andy Byford resigns after 2 years
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who earned the unlikely nickname “Train Daddy” as chief of New York City’s beleaguered transit agency announced Thursday that he was taking himself out of service, resigning after two years …