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U.K. leader Theresa May in peril as Brexit offer slammed
LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May dug in Wednesday against a relentless push by rivals and former allies to remove her from office as her attempts to lead Britain out of the European Union appeared to be headed for a dead end. May resisted calls to rip up her...
‘American Taliban’ Lindh to be released after 17 years
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — John Walker Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free after nearly two decades in prison. But conditions imposed recently on Lindh’s release, slated...
Kroger, largest grocery chain in U.S., to eliminate plastic bags
The nation’s largest grocery chain has vowed to stop using plastic bags. Cincinnati-based Kroger says it will phase out the plastic bags by 2025. The chain goes through 6 billion bags annually. Six years to eliminate plastic bags, Kroger?? Disappointing. ♻️ Nancy Dinell (@Nancy_Advocate) May 22, 2019 The project...
Girl, 10, 6th known child to die after U.S. border detention
HOUSTON — U.S. authorities say a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died last year after being detained by border authorities in a previously unreported case. The death marks the sixth known case in the last year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that she died on...
North Carolina teacher charged with threatening to ‘shoot up’ her school
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A North Carolina teacher has been charged with threatening to “shoot up” her school. A news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office says Kristen Thompson was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of communicating a threat of mass violence. The sheriff’s office says Thompson abruptly resigned...
U.S. officials: Plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East, in a move to beef up defenses against potential Iranian threats, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The officials said no final decision has been made yet, and...
Michael Avenatti charged with stealing money from Stormy Daniels
Los Angeles lawyer Michael Avenatti was indicted Wednesday on charges of stealing from his former client Stormy Daniels by skimming money from her deal to write a memoir detailing her alleged sexual affair with Donald Trump. It was the third time in two months that federal prosecutors have charged the...
Dinosaur found at Denver construction site could be rare torosaurus
A construction crew made a groundbreaking discovery when they found dinosaur fossils in Denver. A limb bone and several ribs were revealed during excavation near a retirement community in the Highlands Ranch neighborhood, reports Fox-31 Denver. “From what we’ve seen, we think it’s a horned dinosaur, something like triceratops,” chief...
Mnuchin: I was unaware of IRS memo on tax returns
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday he has no idea who wrote a confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo that says that tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president asserts executive privilege. Appearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Mnuchin said he was not aware...
Conviction tossed for man held 33 years for New York murder
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A man who spent more than half his life in prison for a 1975 New York murder has had his conviction overturned. The judge’s ruling Wednesday says that Keith Bush’s conviction was tainted because prosecutors didn’t disclose that police had interviewed another possible suspect in the Long...
Alabama House approves ‘born alive’ abortion bill
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Doctors would face prison sentences if they fail to treat babies “born alive” after an attempted abortion, under a bill approved Tuesday night by the Alabama House of Representatives. The measure patterned after legislation in Texas was approved after more than an hour of contentious debate. It...
Rivers rising in waterlogged central U.S.; more rain to come
OKLAHOMA CITY — Waterlogged parts of the central United States braced Wednesday for more rain, following days of severe storms that have battered Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and caused at least three deaths. Authorities urged residents of several small towns in Oklahoma and Kansas to leave their homes as...
Zoo euthanizes flamingo hit by rock thrown by child
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Officials at a zoo in Illinois had to euthanize a flamingo after it was struck by a rock thrown by a child. Director Jay Tetzloff told The Pantagraph in an email that a juvenile guest accidentally injured the bird on Monday by “skipping a rock into the...
Young African painted dog killed by guillotine-style door at Zoo Miami
A juvenile African painted dog was instantly killed when a guillotine-style door fell on it while a pack of the animals was being transferred at Zoo Miami, the Miami Herald reported. The young female was one of five puppies born Jan. 23. Zoo spokesman Ron Magill told the Herald that...
Motorist saved after car falls 450 feet off California cliff
NAPA, Calif. — A woman was rescued after the car she was driving plunged 450 feet down a Northern California cliff and a bicyclist just happened to witness the accident. Authorities say the car could have fallen another 800 feet Tuesday but it hit a tree that stopped it. A...
Japan urges traditional order for Japanese names
TOKYO — Japan’s Foreign Ministry wants the world to begin using the traditional order for Japanese names, with family names first. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would become Abe Shinzo, as he is known in Japan, ending the Westernized name order the country adopted for use with foreigners more than a...
Wild chase of stolen RV ends with injuries in Los AngelesVideo
LOS ANGELES — A woman in a stolen recreational vehicle led authorities on a wild chase in Los Angeles on Tuesday, smashing into cars and a palm tree before finally coming to a halt with a large dog hanging out of the shattered windshield. The half-hour chase began around 7...
Suicide car bomb kills at least 6 in Somalia’s capital
NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamic extremists exploded a suicide car bomb and killed at least six people near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital on Wednesday, police said. Capt. Mohamed Hussein told the Associated Press another 13 people were wounded and most of the casualties were soldiers. The Somalia-based extremist group...
Virginia airline founder charged with fraud, tax evasion
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The leader of an ill-fated effort to revive the People Express airline has been indicted on fraud and tax evasion charges. The Daily Press reports Michael D. Morisi was arrested Tuesday, accused of defrauding creditors of nearly $448,000. An indictment says he used most of the...
Alaska air carrier suspends operations after 2nd crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska air carrier involved in two deadly floatplane crashes in a week has voluntarily suspended operations, federal officials said Tuesday. The halt of flightseeing and commuter flights is in place indefinitely, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The action comes after the passenger and the pilot...
OAS calls Nicaragua to release jailed protesters by June 18
WASHINGTON — The Organization of American States called Tuesday on Nicaragua to unconditionally release all prisoners related to anti-government protests that started last year. Twenty of the 34 member states in the hemispheric body voted in favor of a resolution that urges all prisoners to be liberated by June 18,...
Another day of tornadoes in Midwest, but St. Louis spared
ST. LOUIS — Dangerous storms in the Midwest produced dozens of tornadoes for the second consecutive day Tuesday, demolishing a racetrack grandstand and damaging buildings in a wild animal park in Missouri but mostly sparing St. Louis, the biggest city in its path. Two deaths, both in Missouri, were blamed...
Mexico to auction off seized luxury goods to help poor
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hasn’t just moved out of the luxurious president’s residence, he’s using it to auction off seized luxury goods to raise money for poor communities. After he took office Dec. 1, López Obrador stayed in his middle-class condominium and turned the Los...
Prosecutors want GPS monitor on truck driver in deadly crash
DENVER — Prosecutors say they only learned after a judge set $400,000 bond for a truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people on a Colorado highway that he had tried to flee the scene of the collision. In a filing Monday, they asked a judge...
San Francisco police chief: Journalist ‘crossed the line’
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had “crossed the line” by joining a conspiracy to steal a confidential report. Chief William Scott addressed reporters hours after police agreed...
