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Animal rescue operators charged after 150 dead dogs found
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A couple who operated an animal rescue face multiple charges after authorities found about 150 dead dogs on property in Missouri and Texas and rescued hundreds more animals that were packed into cages and living in “unimaginable” conditions, law enforcement said. Tiffany and Steven Woodington operated...
Fox News apologizes for ‘disgraceful’ comment about Greta ThunbergVideo
NEW YORK — Fox News has apologized for a guest who called environmental activist Greta Thunberg mentally ill, and said he would never appear on the network again. Michael Knowles of “The Daily Wire” made the comment Monday during a segment on a Fox evening newscast, also saying Thunberg was...
Trump ordered aid frozen; more Democrats want impeachment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation’s leader to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden, a revelation that comes as more Democrats...
‘Greta’: A young activist’s moment, praised and criticized
UNITED NATIONS — She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. “How dare you?” she kept saying to some of the world’s most powerful people. “You are failing us,” she told them. Sometimes, a moment and a person...
Boy, 11, drives 3 hours for Snapchat meeting, gets lost
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Police in South Carolina say an 11-year-old boy took his brother’s car and drove alone for three hours to meet someone he met on Snapchat. Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis says the boy pulled up to an officer around 12:30 a.m. Monday and said he was lost....
Trump attacks globalism, while putting pressure on Iran
UNITED NATIONS — Facing growing calls for his impeachment, President Donald Trump addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday and delivered a roaring defense of nationalism and American sovereignty even as he tried to rally a multinational response to Iran’s escalating aggression. The president implored the world’s leaders to prioritize...
Fake court dates are being issued in immigration court. Here’s why
MIAMI — When a Key West woman finally got her notice to appear in immigration court, she prepared for a grueling trek to Miami. The Russian immigrant — a domestic violence victim who works as a scooter mechanic — took unpaid time off from work, hopped on a bus to...
Orlando officer fired after arresting elementary school students
ORLANDO, Fla. — A police officer who arrested two 6-year-old students at a Florida elementary school last week has been fired. Orlando police Chief Orlando Rolon announced Officer Dennis Turner’s termination Monday afternoon. He says he reminded other officers of department policy that prohibits arrests of children under 12 without...
Oklahoma prosecutors clear officers in death of naked teen
EDMOND, Okla. — A prosecutor declined Monday to file criminal charges against police officers in an Oklahoma City suburb for the fatal shooting of a black teenager who was naked and unarmed. Edmond Police Department Officer Denton Scherman “was acting pursuant to Oklahoma statute” in an effort to protect himself...
U.S. soldier arrested on charge of sharing bomb instructions
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities said Monday they arrested an Army soldier who they accused of discussing with an FBI informant a possible bomb attack within the United States as well as the targeting of left-leaning activists and a media organization. Jarrett William Smith, a 24-year-old private first class infantry soldier...
Woman frees herself from beneath truck-stop camel by biting testiclesVideo
A Florida woman found a startling way to free herself from under a squatting camel at a truck stop in Louisiana. Authorities said a man had been tossing dog treats into a pen containing a camel at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete last week, reports The Advocate. The...
Trump says meeting with Kim Jong Un ‘could happen soon’
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that a fourth summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “could happen soon” amid stalled nuclear diplomacy. Trump didn’t elaborate in comments to reporters ahead of the start of U.N. meetings in New York, and it was not clear if...
Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond alleges that the department is violating the...
Afghan officials: 40 civilians killed in anti-Taliban raid
KABUL, Afghanistan — Anti-Taliban raids by Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes killed at least 40 civilians attending a wedding party in the southern Helmand province, Afghan officials said. The civilian deaths in Sunday night’s raids on Taliban hideouts further rattled Afghanistan amid an upsurge in violence that’s followed the...
Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Maryland conversion therapy ban
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A federal judge has thrown out a psychotherapist’s lawsuit challenging Maryland’s ban on treating minors with conversion therapy, the practice of trying to change a client’s homosexual orientation. U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow’s ruling on Friday rejected Christopher Doyle’s claims that the state law violates his...
Florida officer arrests first-grader over school tantrum; gets suspendedVideo
An Orlando police officer has been suspended while his department investigates his arrests of two elementary school students — one 6 years old, one 8. The 6-year-old, a first-grader, was arrested after throwing a tantrum at school, reported WKMG-TV in Orlando. Dennis Turner, resource officer at Lucious and Emma Nixon...
Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones
CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian state is attempting to persuade people to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said Monday that Australia’s most populous state is the first jurisdiction in the world to use such...
$6,000 in stolen quarters found in California baby stroller
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Authorities say a woman stole $6,000 worth of quarters and her getaway car was a baby stroller. Bakersfield police officers noticed the woman Friday struggling to push the stroller but quickly realized there was no baby inside, according to the Bakersfield Californian . Police discovered the quarters,...
U.S. official meets in Lebanon over anti-Hezbollah sanctions
BEIRUT — A senior U.S. Treasury official was visiting Beirut on Monday, where he’s explaining the motives behind recent U.S. sanctions targeting Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, Lebanon’s central bank governor said. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea met with the prime minister and the speaker of parliament, as well as...
British tour company Thomas Cook collapses, leaving 150,000 strandedVideo
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded across the world Monday after British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed, immediately halting almost all its flights and hotel services and laying off all its employees. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed Thomas Cook, a 178-year-old company that helped create the package...
Trump, Modi show unity between world’s largest democracies
HOUSTON — Deafening drums marked the entrance of President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi as they clasped hands and walked across the stage in a packed Texas stadium Sunday, sending a message of unity between the world’s two largest democracies despite trade tensions. Instead of dwelling on...
Area 51 festival wraps up in Nevada; Earthlings head home
HIKO, Nev. — Festivals are over and Earthlings are heading home from the Nevada desert, where people from around the globe took selfies — but didn’t actually “storm” — a remote U.S. military base long the focus of UFO and space alien lore. They left in peace. Authorities reported no...
Trump says he discussed corruption with Ukraine’s presidentVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that he raised former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son in a summer phone call with Ukraine’s new leader, as Democrats pressed for investigations into whether Trump improperly used his office to try to dig up damaging information about a political rival....
How the past informs Trump’s vision of America’s future
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vision of America’s tomorrows looks much like its yesterdays. He loves “beautiful” coal. “Beautiful” warships. And “those four beautiful words: MADE IN THE USA!” He speaks of the country’s might as measured by its steel mills, farms and cars rolling off Detroit assembly lines. He’s...
Louisiana man drowns while proposing to girlfriend underwater in Tanzania
A Louisiana man drowned during a dream vacation to Tanzania as he proposed to his attorney girlfriend, who never even got the chance to give him her answer. Kenesha Antoine revealed in a heartbreaking Facebook post on Friday that her boyfriend, Steven Weber Jr., died while he popped the big...
