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Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La. — The day after Hurricane Delta blew through besieged southern Louisiana, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to flooded homes with ruined floors and no power, and pledging to rebuild after the storm. Delta made landfall Friday evening...
Anti-police ‘satanist’ runs for sheriff as Republican in NH
With more than 4,200 votes, Republicans in one New Hampshire county nominated an unconventional candidate for sheriff: a self-described satanist whose campaign slogan disparages the police. Since then, Aria DiMezzo, a transgender woman in her early 30s, has become a minor celebrity — and the target of online attacks, vandalism...
28 arrests in Wisconsin protests over police slaying of teen
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Police arrested 28 people during a third straight night of protests over the lack of charges against a suburban Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a Black teen, authorities said Saturday. About 100 people gathered outside City Hall on Friday past Wauwatosa’s 7 p.m. curfew and refused...
Man in prison for murder admits to killing Minnesota guard
STILLWATER, Minn. — A man already imprisoned in Minnesota for murder has been sentenced to life behind bars after admitting to killing a guard in 2018. Edward Muhammad Johnson, 44, pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder for killing Joseph Gomm. A judge immediately sentenced him under a state law that...
Whitmer plot could affect fight for battleground Michigan
Gretchen Whitmer knew she’d have the spotlight Thursday. And she decided not to waste it. Hours after the FBI revealed a group of anti-government vigilantes had plotted to kidnap her, the Democratic governor of Michigan addressed her state — and the nation — with a message that didn’t mince words...
Hurricane Delta makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Hurricane Delta crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier. The center of the hurricane made landfall about 6 p.m. near the town of Creole with top winds...
Paris Hilton protest calls for closure of Utah school
PROVO, Utah — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors. Hilton organized a protest in a park near Provo Canyon School, along with several hundreds of...
Embattled Texas AG drops case that set off staff revolt
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday dropped an investigation sought by a wealthy donor that set off an extraordinary revolt by the Republican’s top deputies, who accused him of bribery and abuse of office, and fueled new calls for his resignation. The announcement came hours after...
Michigan building inspector cut by razor-embedded Trump sign
OAKLAND, Mich. — A Commerce Township building inspector needed 13 stitches after cutting his hand on a booby-trapped political sign. The Trump sign was lined with taped-on razors at the bottom, and the 52-year-old worker cut his hand as he tried to move it. The sign tampering is the latest...
Court allows NY virus restrictions ahead of Jewish holidays
ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge refused Friday to block New York’s plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in covid-19 hot spots. U.S. District Judge Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling after an emergency hearing in a lawsuit brought by rabbis and synagogues, arguing the restrictions were...
Wisconsin police defend arrests of slain Black teen’s family
MILWAUKEE — Police on Friday defended the arrests of family members of a Black teen killed by a suburban Milwaukee officer, saying they were driving recklessly during a protest and refused officers’ demands to leave their vehicles. Alvin Cole’s mother, Tracy Cole, and his sisters, Taleavia and Tristiana Cole, were...
AG: Michigan Gov. Whitmer, family were moved as plotters tracked
LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her family were at times moved around by authorities as law enforcement tracked the men who allegedly plotted for months to kidnap her, Michigan’s attorney general said Friday. Dana Nessel disclosed the detail to “CBS This Morning.” She said the Democratic governor was...
Battered Louisiana coast braces for 1 more: Hurricane Delta
ABBEVILLE, La. — Boarded windows and empty sidewalks made parts of Louisiana’s Acadiana region look like empty movie sets as major Hurricane Delta roared ever closer to the U.S. Gulf coast, apparently on track to smash into the same southwestern part of the state where Hurricane Laura blasted ashore six...
Korean group must remove Berlin tribute meant to ‘comfort women’
BERLIN — A Berlin district has ordered a local Korean group to remove a statue commemorating women used as sex slaves by Japan during World War II, saying Friday it goes beyond what had been approved. The issue of sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women,” has been a major source...
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UN World Food Program
ROME — The United Nations’ World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to fight hunger in regions of conflict and hardship around the globe. From air-dropping food in South Sudan to creating an emergency delivery service to keep aid flowing despite coronavirus travel restrictions,...
U.S. hits all of Iran’s financial sector with sanctions
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector, dealing another blow to an economy that is already reeling under U.S. sanctions. The move will deepen tensions with European nations and others over Iran. Thursday’s move hits 18 Iranian banks that had thus far escaped the...
Facebook removes fake accounts linked to conservative group
Facebook has removed 276 accounts that used fake profiles to pose as right-leaning Americans and comment on news articles, often in favor of President Donald Trump, the company announced Thursday. The platform also permanently banned an Arizona-based digital communications firm that it said was behind the fake accounts. The move...
Waymo removing backup drivers from its autonomous vehicles
Waymo is allowing the general public to hitch a ride in its driverless autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, expanding a service it had been quietly offering to a select group of riders for the past year. The service launches to the general public Thursday. The vehicles, which will have no back-up...
West Virginia site chosen for high-speed travel facilityVideo
Virgin Hyperloop One will build a certification center in West Virginia for the high-speed transportation concept that uses enclosed pods to zip passengers underground at over 600 mph. The company had received bids from more than a dozen states in the past year to build a 6-mile testing track and...
After 46 years, Cypriot ghost town’s beach opens to public
The pristine, azure waters lapping at the skirts of uninhabited Varosha contrast sharply with the dilapidated, crumbling buildings lining the beachfront of this abandoned suburb of Famagusta. For the first time in 46 years, members of the public were permitted on Thursday to access the beach of Varosha in the...
Brazil strains at quarantine as coronavirus cases pass 5 million
Dozens of people converged on the cobblestone streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro for its traditional Pedra do Sal samba party — the first since the pandemic began — and it seemed Brazil was returning to normal. Among those dancing Monday were Luana Jatobá and two friends, all of whom...
Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of the nation’s most troubling hotspots. The three states now lead all others in new cases...
13 charged in plots against Michigan Gov. Whitmer, policeVideo
DETROIT — Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home. Six men were charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap...
Armenia says cathedral shelled in clashes with Azerbaijan
YEREVAN, Armenia — Armenia accused Azerbaijan on Thursday of shelling a historic cathedral in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where nearly two weeks of heavy fighting has killed hundreds of people. The Holy Savior Cathedral, also known as the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, suffered interior and exterior damage, according to the state-run...
‘Sheer anxiety’: Louisiana braces itself for Hurricane Delta
MORGAN CITY, La. — Louisiana residents still recovering from the devastation of a powerful hurricane less than two months ago braced for another hit as Hurricane Delta steamed north through the Gulf on Thursday after swiping Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Forecasters warned that the storm could blow ashore Friday with winds...
