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Hezbollah, Israel trade fire near Lebanese-Israeli border, stoking fears of an escalating battleVideo
JERUSALEM — In an escalation of hostility between Israel and Lebanon not seen since the war they fought in 2006, the Israeli military and the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah traded attacks on Sunday. Hezbollah, which is also a powerful Lebanese Shiite political faction, said in a statement that a squad...
Dorian strikes Bahamas with record fury as Category 5 stormVideo
McLEAN’S TOWN CAY, Bahamas — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph wind ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters. Dorian slammed into Elbow Cay in Abaco island...
Police say no explanation yet for Texas shooting frenzyVideo
ODESSA, Texas — Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying, 10-mile rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended with officers gunning him down outside a...
Taliban attack 2nd Afghan city as U.S. envoy says deal is near
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Sunday launched an attack on a second Afghan city in as many days, an official said, even as a United States envoy says the U.S. and the Taliban are “at the threshold of an agreement” to end America’s longest war. The spokesman for the...
5 killed in West Texas mass shooting
AUSTIN, Texas — At least five people were killed in West Texas after a man who was stopped by state troopers when his vehicle failed to signal a left turn opened fire and fled, shooting more than 20 people before he was killed by officers outside a movie theater, authorities...
Justice Ginsburg reports she’s ‘very well’ following cancer
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s on her way to being “very well” following radiation treatment for cancer. The 86-year-old justice was speaking Saturday at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington. The event came a little over a week after Ginsburg disclosed that she had...
Taliban launch major attack on Afghan city of Kunduz
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban launched a large-scale attack on Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s main cities, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 75 others, government officials said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America’s longest war. The militants, who...
Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing
SAN FRANCISCO — A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015. Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate was acquitted of murder in the killing of Kate Steinle, who was walking on a pier...
1st charges filed in string of child homicides in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — A man is charged with fatally shooting a 15-year-old who investigators say was backing away from him with his hands raised in the first criminal case filed after a string of recent child homicides in St. Louis that have drawn attention to gun violence in Missouri. Joseph...
California deputies rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster
KINGS BEACH, Calif. — Deputies helped a wailing bear cub reunite with its family after it got stuck inside a trash container outside a motel near Lake Tahoe. The cub can be heard crying from inside the metal dumpster in video recorded by Placer County Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday. While...
Judge: No bail for suspect in Nevada sledgehammer attack
LAS VEGAS — A man accused of killing a woman with a sledgehammer while she was calling 911 for help told police who arrested him about “smashing people” and said the woman asked him to hit her, a prosecutor told a judge on Friday. “The violence is almost unspeakable,” Chief...
Wave of child sex abuse lawsuits threatens Boy Scouts
TRENTON, N.J. — The Boy Scouts of America is facing a threat from a growing wave of lawsuits over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse. The Scouts have been sued in multiple states in recent months by purported abuse victims, including plaintiffs taking advantage of new state laws or court decisions...
Commission: 11 Texas judges broke law by denying free bail
HOUSTON — Texas’ judicial ethics commission has found 11 current and former judges broke the law by indiscriminately denying free bail to thousands of poor people charged with crimes. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct this week publicly admonished the group of Harris County district judges, most of whom have...
$250 fine for white woman who brandished gun at black couple
STARKVILLE, Miss. — A white Mississippi woman who brandished a handgun at an African American couple while telling them to leave a campground has been convicted of a misdemeanor and fined $250. Local news outlets report 70-year-old Ruby Nell Howell of Starkville was found guilty Tuesday in Oktibbeha County Justice...
25 bags of white powder in London luggage turn out to be vegan cake mix
What could have been a huge drug bust crumbled when police determined the evidence was cake mix. British Transport Police were dispatched when a suitcase containing 25 bags of white powder was spotted at Britain’s Gatwick airport on Wednesday, reports The Guardian. An employee of Purezza vegan pizza shops was...
E-cigarette maker Juul facing mounting scrutiny by state AGs
WASHINGTON — E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing mounting scrutiny from state law enforcement officials, with the attorneys general in Illinois and the District of Columbia investigating how the company’s blockbuster vaping device became so popular with underage teens, The Associated Press has learned. The company’s rapid rise to the...
New plan calls for killing sea lions to save salmon in Columbia River
BOISE, Idaho — More than 1,100 sea lions could be killed annually along a stretch of the Columbia River to boost faltering populations of salmon and steelhead. Billions of dollars have been spent in Idaho, Oregon and Washington to save 13 species of Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead protected under...
Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald’s side, dies at 99
DALLAS — Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history’s most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy’s assassin as he was fatally shot, has died. He was 99. Leavelle, distinctive in his light-colored suit and white Stetson, is seen in the photograph...
Donald Trump gets statue in wife’s homeland of Slovenia
SELA PRI KAMNIKU, Slovenia — There’s no mistaking it depicts Donald Trump: a large wooden statue of the U.S. president has been erected in Slovenia, the homeland of his wife Melania. The nearly 26-foot high construction shows Trump with his trademark hair style, blue suit, white shirt and a long...
Threat of mass shootings give rise to AI-powered cameras
Paul Hildreth peered at a display of dozens of images from security cameras surveying his Atlanta school district and settled on one showing a woman in a bright yellow shirt walking a hallway. A mouse click instructed the artificial intelligence-equipped system to find other images of the woman, and it...
Woman fell asleep in her parked car, woke to find it missing
HAMILTON, N.J. — Police in New Jersey say a possible carjacker apparently removed a sleeping 80-year-old woman from her parked car before stealing the vehicle and leaving her in the driveway. Hamilton police say the woman told them she’d fallen asleep in her parked car in a driveway around 9...
Electric bikes might soon be coming to national park trails
WASHINGTON — Motorized electric bicycles may soon be humming their way into serene national parks and other public lands nationwide, under a new Trump administration order — hotly opposed by many outdoors groups — allowing the so-called e-bikes on every federal trail where a regular bike can go. Sales of...
Trump eyes mental institutions as answer to gun violence
WASHINGTON — When shots rang out last year at a high school in Parkland, Fla., leaving 17 people dead, President Donald Trump quickly turned his thoughts to creating more mental institutions. When back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, jolted the nation earlier this month, Trump again...
5 whales dead after mass stranding on Maui beach
HONOLULU — Five whales died, including four that were euthanized, after a mass stranding Thursday on a beach on the Hawaii island of Maui. Ten melon-headed whales were found stranded alive early in the morning on Sugar Beach in the coastal resort community of Kihei. Hours later, a whale calf...
Hurricane Dorian bears down on northern Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian bore down on the northern Bahamas on Saturday with howlingwinds, surging seas and a threat of torrential rains, forcing some evacuations and hotel closures ahead of the fierceCategory 4 storm. Forecasters expected Dorian, packing 150 mph winds, to hit some Bahamian islands Sunday before heading nearFlorida and then...
