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Trump administration plans to expand hunting, fishing in wildlife refuges
OAK HARBOR, Ohio — The Trump administration is announcing what it calls a major expansion of hunting and fishing in the nation’s protected wildlife refuges. U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said Wednesday the plan affects 1.4 million acres of federal public lands, including 74 national wildlife refuges. “President Trump is...
Mexico officials prepare to intercept about 1,000 migrants
METAPA, Mexico — Some 200 military police, immigration agents and federal police were awaiting a group of about 1,000 Central American migrants who were walking north along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday. The group of migrants, including many women and children, set out early from Ciudad Hidalgo at the...
Readers respond: Dodgeball is not bullying
A story about researchers questioning whether dodgeball is an appropiate game for schoolchildren drew hundreds of responses on social media with most of them decrying the research and saying to leave dodgeball alone. While the Canadian researchers said that dodgeball is not an appropriate game because it often has players...
YouTube gets more aggressive in banning supremacist, hoax videos
YouTube said Wednesday it will remove false videos alleging that major events like the Holocaust didn’t happen, as well as a broad array of content by white supremacists and others in a move to more aggressively crack down on hate speech. The Google-owned video site, along with its Silicon Valley...
Panel: New Jersey governor’s staff botched sex assault claim response
TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration botched its handling of a sexual assault claim made by one state worker against another, a state legislative panel found in a report that it published on Wednesday. The Legislative Select Oversight Committee released the 123-page document after nine public hearings and hours...
Americans think fake news is big problem, blame politicians
NEW YORK — Half of U.S. adults consider fake news a major problem, and they mostly blame politicians and activists for it, according to a new survey. A majority also believe journalists have the responsibility for fixing it. Differences in political affiliation are a major factor in how people think...
Powerball winner used numbers from fortune cookieVideo
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina man who says he based his Powerball entry on a fortune cookie he got from his granddaughter now has a fortune to celebrate. WRAL in Raleigh reports retired retailer Charles W. Jackson Jr. stepped forward at North Carolina Education Lottery headquarters on Tuesday to...
Battery-powered glider crashes into Connecticut home
DANBURY, Conn. — A battery-powered glider crashed into the roof of a Connecticut home, injuring the pilot and scaring a mother and her two children who were watching TV. Neighbors described hearing a small explosion when the aircraft hit the home in Danbury Tuesday night and became partially embedded in...
Indiana officer apologizes for blackface Halloween costume
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana police captain has apologized for a blackface Halloween costume and his department plans to update sensitivity training following the disclosure. The News and Tribune reports it was recently made aware of Facebook photos showing Clarksville Capt. Joel DeMoss, a 20-year veteran of the department...
Alabama passes bill requiring chemical castration of child molesters
The Alabama Legislature has passed a bill that would require chemical castration of child molesters over age 21 who have abused a child younger than 13. The bill, known as HB379, would make the measure a condition of parole. Convicted sex offenders would have to undergo chemical castration before leaving...
American, British veterans re-create D-Day parachute drops
CARENTAN, France — Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day — but this time without being shot at. With the throb of their engines rumbling through cloudy skies, C-47 transport planes in World War II colors dropped jumpers with round canopies reminiscent...
Trump reads from FDR’s prayer to the U.S. on D-Day
PORTSMOUTH, England — President Donald Trump read from a prayer delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he joined other world leaders and veterans Wednesday in marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Roosevelt went on national radio on June 6, 1944, to address the U.S. for the first time about...
Video: Rescue of injured 74-year-old hiker spins out of controlVideo
PHOENIX — Authorities say a 74-year-old hiker whose head and face were injured in a fall on a Phoenix mountain endured a wild ride in a stretcher as she was being hoisted into a helicopter. Phoenix Fire Department officials say the woman was treated for dizziness and nausea but suffered...
Texas teacher trying to privately message Trump about ‘illegal’ students gets fired
An English teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, who thought she was directly messaging President Trump on Twitter about removing undocumented students from her district has been fired. Self-proclaimed whistle-blower Georgia Clark, who has been with the district since 1998, thought she was being discreet with direct messages to the president,...
Proposed cat declawing ban passes New York Legislature
ALBANY — New York’s Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would make the state the first in the country to make it illegal to declaw a cat. The bill, which would subject veterinarians to $1,000 fines for performing the operation, now heads to the desk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose...
Former deputy Scot Peterson, who didn’t confront Parkland shooter, is arrested
The former Broward County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy who did not pursue the gunman attacking a Parkland high school last year was arrested Tuesday and charged with child neglect and negligence stemming from his actions that day. Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested and charged with 11 counts, including seven counts of...
Lawsuit: Thrill ride maker knew of defect before fatal crash at Ohio State Fair
The manufacturer of an amusement ride that broke apart at the Ohio State Fair and left one teenager dead and others with life-changing injuries knew five years earlier about a defect that caused the malfunction, a new lawsuit said. Attorneys for some of the victims say they have a letter...
Nigerian ambassador is next UN General Assembly president
UNITED NATIONS — Members of the United Nations General Assembly have chosen the Nigerian ambassador to the world body as its next president. They elected Tijjani Muhammad-Bande by acclamation on Tuesday to preside over the 74th U.N. session for one year, starting in September. He’s the second Nigerian president of...
China handles Tiananmen anniversary with usual silence
Dissidents silenced. Security tightened. References scrubbed from the internet. China imposed an information lockdown Tuesday on the 30th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, a stark reminder that three decades later, the possibility of democratic change has all but evaporated. Extra checkpoints and street closures...
Ikea’s newest dressers are designed to prevent ‘tip-over’ deaths
Scandinavian retailer Ikea has introduced a line of tip-resistant dressers in response to an industry problem that it says has killed eight children and injured dozens of others over the past two decades. The Glesvär collection unveiled Tuesday in Sweden comes with a range of “stability features” aimed at getting...
Researchers say dodgeball is ‘legalized bullying’
Pick a group. Eliminate your opponent by hurtling a ball at them. Survive the onslaught. Win the game. Dodgeball has been a playground game for generations, but is it more than just a child’s game? Is it something more oppressive? “It’s tantamount to legalized bullying,” said Joy Butler, a professor...
The history and reasoning for hurricane names
Naming hurricanes and big wildfires is now such an ingrained part of our culture that most people don’t think about how and why naming began or how storms or fires acquire their names. Names are the one thing hurricanes and wildfires have in common. Both are named soon after they...
Czech court sentences 3 men for trading in tiger products
PRAGUE — A Czech court has convicted three men of killing critically endangered tigers and illegally trading in tiger products. They were arrested last year after police discovered the body of a recently killed tiger, a large number of skins of big cats and the bodies of 20 other protected...
Indiana teacher awards autistic boy ‘annoying male’ trophy
GARY, Ind. — An Indiana school district has apologized after a teacher awarded an 11-year-old autistic student a trophy naming him the “most annoying male” of the school year. The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports that a special education teacher at Bailly Preparatory Academy in Gary gave the boy the trophy...
Maine legislators OK assisted suicide; bill goes to governor
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Legislature voted Tuesday to legalize assisted suicide, passing a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill people a fatal dose of medication. The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has not indicated whether she will let it become law. Her...
