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Lawmakers debate future of loan relief for public workers

In 2007, the U.S. government made a promise to public service workers: Make 10 years of payments on their federal student loans and any remaining debt would be erased. But officials have largely failed to deliver. And that’s left lawmakers questioning whether to end the program or try to fix...
Police: 8 shot, 1 fatally, in latest Baltimore shootingVideo

BALTIMORE — A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday afternoon cookout along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and reports said. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the gunfire erupted after 5 p.m. on a block in the city’s...
Socialists win Spain’s election but far-right gains strongly

MADRID — Spain’s governing Socialists won the country’s national election Sunday but will need the backing of smaller parties to stay in power, while a far-right party rode a groundswell of support to enter the lower house of parliament for the first time in four decades, provisional results showed. Voters...
States aim to curb festive balloon launches, citing environmental damage

PORTLAND, Maine — The tradition of releasing balloons at weddings, birthdays and memorials may soon get deflated by lawmakers in more than half a dozen states. Critics say the helium-filled balloons pollute the environment, and threaten birds and other wildlife when they fall to earth. “People don’t really realize that...
Seattle college says student was among those killed by craneVideo

SEATTLE — A college freshman was among the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a building and crashed onto one of Seattle’s busiest streets, the university said Sunday. Sarah Wong, who intended to major in nursing, was in a car when the crane fell from a building...
Tennessee police investigating whether suspect Michael Cummins knew 7 victimsVideo

WESTMORELAND, Tenn. — Police on Sunday raised the death toll at two homes in rural Tennessee to seven and said they are investigating whether a suspect captured after an hourslong manhunt knew the victims. Michael Cummins, 25, was taken into custody Saturday night after being shot about a mile away...
Bolton: Trump wants solo, not multi-party talks with North Korea

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has little interest in joining other countries in a multi-nation effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday. The United States is not trying to exclude other nations from nuclear talks with Pyongyang, John Bolton...
Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, foreign policy expert, dies

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87. Lugar died at...
Donations, pigs part of Las Vegas’ efforts to cut food waste

LAS VEGAS — At a farm outside Las Vegas, a herd of pigs feasts on lobster, sausage links and beef. In town, people at a community center sit for a dinner that may include sliders and truffle mac and cheese. The two meals have something in common: Both came from...
Leaders struggle to make sense of fatal attack on Calif. synagogue

POWAY, Calif. — The rabbi who led a service on the last day of Passover suffered a gunshot wound to his hands and two others endured shrapnel wounds as political, civic and religious leaders across the country struggled to make sense of another fatal attack on a house of worship...
South Africa marks Freedom Day, recalls apartheid’s end

KWA-THEMA, South Africa — Calls for more jobs for South Africa’s black majority and respect for the rights of the LGBTI community marked Freedom Day celebrations Saturday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Singing and dancing punctuated one gathering of about 3,500 on the outskirts of Johannesburg....
Flooding feared in Mozambique after Cyclone Kenneth

PEMBA, Mozambique — Mozambique’s government urged many people to immediately seek higher ground Saturday in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth, fearing flooding and mudslides in the days ahead as heavy rain lashed the region. At least five people were killed, the government said. Mozambique’s disaster management agency said one person...
Aftermath of violence reveals signs of further Sri Lanka terror plans

SAINTHAMARUTHU, Sri Lanka — They arrived a day or two after the Easter Sunday bombings and moved into a low-slung house behind a high wall and black metal gate, unloading boxes from a pale gray minivan. But the neighbors in the seaside town of Sainthamaruthu soon began to suspect something...
N. Korea says U.S. pressuring South to impose sanctions

HONG KONG — North Korea accused the U.S. of pressuring South Korea to follow a policy of implementing sanctions against the regime, its state media reported. The Korean Central News Agency report said there is a “serious situation of tension being created” on the peninsula amid halted denuclearization talks with...
Oliver North out as NRA president after leadership dispute

INDIANAPOLIS — Oliver North announced Saturday he would not serve a second term as National Rifle Association president, making it clear he had been forced out by the gun lobby’s leadership after his failed attempt to remove the NRA’s longtime CEO in a burgeoning divide over the group’s finances and...
Mom says Oklahoma police shot 3 of her kids

HUGO, Okla. — The mother of three children wounded when Oklahoma police fired at a man in a pickup who was suspected of robbing a restaurant says two of her kids suffered head wounds and the third was shot in the face. “My 4-year-old daughter was shot in the head,...

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