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3 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmosVideo
STOCKHOLM — A Canadian American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for exploring the evolution of the universe and discovering a new kind of planet, with implications for that nagging question: Does life exist only on Earth? Canadian-born James Peebles, 84, an...
Border apprehensions drop as immigration crackdown continues
WASHINGTON — The number of migrants apprehended at the southern U.S. border declined in September for the fourth straight month, Trump administration officials said Tuesday. Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said border officials encountered about 52,000 migrants at the border last month — down about 65% from...
Louvre opens huge outpost to protect art from flooding
LIEVIN, France — The Louvre opened a new sprawling art conservation center Tuesday about 120 miles from Paris to protect the museum’s priceless artworks from its flood-prone storage reserves. The Louvre Conservation Center in Lievin, northern France, will help protect valuable works from the swelling Seine River as major floods...
Ohio man charged with murder in police cruiser crash that killed 6-year-oldsVideo
DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio man accused of stealing a police car near Dayton and causing a crash that killed two 6-year-old cousins has been indicted on nearly two dozen charges including murder. Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck said on Monday while announcing the charges that evidence shows 32-year-old Raymond...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s gun plan doesn’t include ‘red-flag’ law
COLUMBUS — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s new proposals to address Ohio gun violence in the wake of the Dayton mass shooting don’t include background-check requirements for gun sales or a so-called red-flag law to restrict firearms for people perceived as threats, despite his earlier support of those ideas. Instead, his...
Tesla cars could add fart noises to warn pedestriansVideo
Well, you can’t say that Elon Musk doesn’t have a sense of humor. When you gotta get someone’s attention, what’s better than fart noises? The Tesla CEO revealed plans to offer customizable alerts — including fart noises and goat sounds — that his electric cars would use as a warning...
First lady calls for end of e-cigarette marketing to youthVideo
ARLINGTON, Va. — Melania Trump said Monday that companies “must stop” marketing e-cigarettes to children, saying they are addictive and dangerous. Marketing tobacco products to kids is already prohibited in the United States, and Juul Labs Inc., the nation’s largest maker of electronic cigarettes, has said it will cease advertising...
Authorities: 3 children, 2 adults found shot, dead in homeVideo
ABINGTON, Mass. — Two adults and three children were found dead with gunshot wounds in a Massachusetts home Monday, authorities said. The five family members were found in an Abington condominium complex at about 7:30 a.m. by a relative who showed up to take the children to school, Plymouth District...
Despite fall, former President Carter helps build homeVideo
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With a bandage above his left eye and a large, red welt below it, former President Jimmy Carter was greeted by a cheering crowd Monday morning as he prepared to help build a home with Habitat for Humanity in Nashville. Carter fell at home on Sunday, requiring...
Supreme Court’s election-year term opens with insanity case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began its election-year term Monday by wrestling over whether states must allow criminal defendants to plead insanity. The one minor surprise when the justices took the bench just after 10 o’clock was the absence of Justice Clarence Thomas. The 71-year-old Thomas was at home, likely...
Trump’s Syria withdrawal announcement draws GOP condemnation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sudden decision to pull back U.S. troops from northern Syria drew quick, strong criticism Monday from some of his closest allies in Congress. It was condemned, too, by Kurdish fighters who would be abandoned to face a likely Turkish assault after fighting alongside Americans for...
Woman hides in Big Lots ceiling to avoid shoplifting arrest
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — A Florida woman faces multiple charges after authorities say she climbed into the ceiling of a Big Lots store to avoid a shoplifting arrest. A Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office news release says 37-year-old Kristina Perkins went into the store’s restroom on Friday and removed some tiles...
At least 13 dead in migrant boat capsizing off Lampedusa
MILAN — At least 13 people died when an overloaded migrant boat capsized near the island of Lampedusa as they were about to be rescued, the Italian coast guard said Monday. Twenty-two people were rescued from the sea and taken to land. The smugglers’ boat overturned as a patrol boat...
Immigration protesters shout down acting DHS secretary
WASHINGTON — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan left an immigration policy conference Monday without speaking after protesters shouted him down. McAleenan was scheduled as the keynote speaker at Georgetown University Law Center during an annual immigration law and policy conference held by the nonprofit immigration think tank Migration Policy...
3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
LONDON — Two Americans and a British scientist won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels, work that has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee said. Drs....
1 of 2 men wanted in deadly Kansas bar shooting arrestedVideo
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — One of the two men accused of opening fire inside a Kansas bar early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others, was arrested Sunday afternoon while the other remained at large, police said. Javier Alatorre, 23, and Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, were each charged with four...
Judge rejects Trump challenge to release of his tax returnsVideo
NEW YORK — A federal judge Monday emphatically rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying the president’s broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with the Constitution. But an appeals court blocked any handover of the...
Repubblica: Italy’s spy chief met twice with William Barr to aid inquiry
ROME — Italy’s spy chief Gennaro Vecchione met twice in August with U.S. Attorney General William Barr and prosecutor John Durham to help an investigation into the scandal involving President Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia, one of Italy’s leading newspapers reported. The first meeting took place on Aug. 15...
Ex-President Jimmy Carter has black eye, stitches as a result of fall
NASHVILLE — Former President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling at his Georgia home on Sunday, but made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity. The 39th president fell earlier in...
Homeless man arraigned for beating deaths in ChinatownVideo
NEW YORK — A homeless man who used a metal rod to bludgeon four other homeless men to death in New York City was arrested holding the murder weapon covered with blood and hair and admitted that he was the person in a video of one of the attacks, prosecutors...
2nd whistleblower adds to impeachment peril at White House
WASHINGTON — A second whistleblower has come forward with information about President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, adding to the impeachment peril engulfing the White House and potentially providing new leads to Democrats in their unfurling investigation of Trump’s conduct. Attorney Mark Zaid, who represents both whistleblowers, said in a...
Police look for 2 men in Kansas bar shooting that killed 4Video
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Two men opened fire inside a bar in Kansas City, Kan., early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others in a shooting believed to have stemmed from an earlier dispute, police said. Authorities were searching Sunday for the two gunmen, said Officer Thomas Tomasic, a...
Ex-officer not guilty of manslaughter in Georgia shooting
WOODBINE, Ga. — A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot a fleeing, unarmed black man was acquitted Saturday of voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. The jury, however, found Zechariah Presley guilty of violating his oath of office in the 2018 shooting of Tony Green, 33, in coastal Camden County...
Long-lost sculpture has returned to Los Angeles library
LOS ANGELES — A bronze sculpture that mysteriously disappeared from the Los Angeles Central Library 50 years ago has returned to its original home. One of three panels of the Well of Scribes was unveiled at the downtown library Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported . The sculpture depicting writers...
Mormon leader: Uphold ‘sexual purity’ in face of mocking
SALT LAKE CITY — A high-ranking leader from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged members Saturday to adhere to the faith’s law of chastity that forbids premarital sex despite mocking by others on social media. During a speech at a twice-annual church conference in Salt Lake City,...
