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Redwoods survive wildfire at California’s oldest state park
BOULDER CREEK, Calif. — When a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed. But an Associated Press reporter...
Revved by Sturgis Rally, covid-19 infections move fast, far
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the coronavirus spread in bars, tattoo shops and gatherings before people traveled...
WWII surrender ceremony in Hawaii limited to local veterans
HONOLULU — A Pearl Harbor ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II — possibly the last opportunity for many elderly U.S. veterans to commemorate the day — will be limited to survivors of the war living in Hawaii because of coronavirus concerns. The plan before...
National Guard called out after police shoot Black man
KENOSHA, Wis. — Wisconsin’s governor summoned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said 125 members of the National...
Official says Falwell leaving Liberty; Falwell says he’s not
RICHMOND, Va. — Jerry Falwell Jr.’s future at evangelical Liberty University was unclear late Monday, with a senior school official saying he had resigned from his leadership post but Falwell telling at least one news outlet that he does not plan to leave permanently. A formal announcement from the school...
Falwell says he faced ’emotional toll’ after wife’s affair
RICHMOND, Va. — Jerry Falwell Jr., currently on a leave of absence as the leader of evangelical Liberty University, has released a statement saying that he is seeking help for the “emotional toll” of an affair his wife had with a man who he says later threatened his family. Falwell...
Marco collapses, sets stage for Laura to hit U.S. as hurricaneVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Tropical Storm Marco began falling apart Monday, easing one threat to the Gulf Coast but setting the stage for the arrival of Laura as a potentially supercharged Category 3 hurricane with winds topping 110 mph. The two-storm combination could bring a history-making onslaught of wind and coastal...
N.Y. attorney general probes if Trump inflated assets to gain loan advantage
NEW YORK — New York’s Democratic attorney general asked a court Monday to enforce subpoenas into an investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his businesses inflated assets on financial statements. Attorney General Letitia James filed a petition in state trial court in New York City naming the Trump Organization,...
California high court rejects Scott Peterson’s death penalty
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, but said prosecutors may try again for the same sentence if they wish in the high-profile case. It upheld his 2004 murder conviction in the killing...
Defiant DeJoy says he won’t restore mail-sorting machines
WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy refused requests by Democrats on Monday to restore mail-sorting machines or mailboxes removed from service as part of sweeping operational changes at the Postal Service, despite complaints that the changes are causing lasting damage and widespread delays. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., told DeJoy at...
Spain adds thousands of new coronavirus cases
MADRID — Fearing an even sharper surge in coronavirus infections with the opening of the school year in September, some Spanish regions moved Monday to impose new measures against the spread of the pandemic, including bans on large social gatherings. On Monday, when Spain’s Ministry of Health reported figures for...
TikTok sues Trump over his pending order to ban its app
NEW YORK — Video app TikTok is suing the Trump Administration over its efforts to ban the popular Chinese-owned service over national-security concerns. TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, insisted Monday that it is not a national-security threat and that the government is acting without evidence or due process....
Portland cops tear gas protesters attacking precinct station
PORTLAND, Ore. — Police in Portland used tear gas early Monday to scatter demonstrators who marched on a precinct station in another night of violence — hurling rocks, bottles, commercial-grade fireworks at officers and setting fires in the streets. The protests have gripped Oregon’s largest city for months since the...
‘Dead’ woman found to be breathing at Detroit funeral home
DETROIT — A young woman who was declared dead at her suburban Detroit home opened her eyes at a funeral home as she was about to embalmed, a lawyer said Monday. “They would have begun draining her blood to be very, very frank about it,” Geoffrey Fieger told WXYZ-TV. The...
Taliban negotiators visit Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push
ISLAMABAD — A Taliban political team arrived in Pakistan on Monday as efforts appear to be ramping up to get negotiations underway between the Afghan government and the insurgents. The start of the talks, envisaged under a U.S.-Taliban peace agreement signed in February, was hampered by a series of delays...
German hospital: Poisoning signs found in Russian dissidentVideo
BERLIN — Tests conducted on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny at a German hospital indicate that he was poisoned, but doctors said Monday he was being treated with an antidote and his life was not in immediate danger. The Charité hospital said in a statement that the team of doctors who...
Police shooting in Wisconsin leaves 1 man hospitalizedVideo
KENOSHA, Wis. — Neighbors confronted law enforcement at the scene of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday and crowds marched in the streets after a video posted on social media appeared to show officers shoot at a man’s back seven times as he leaned into a vehicle. Kenosha...
Kentucky police: 3 shot inside Lexington mall
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Three people were shot Sunday inside a Kentucky mall, police said. The Lexington Police Department said in a post on social media that the shooting occurred around 4 p.m. outside of a store at the Fayette Mall. Police said later that the shooting did not appear to...
Northern California firefighters dig in ahead of strong windVideo
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system. That system was packing strong wind and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes and scores of other...
Tensions heightened over fatal police shooting of Black man in LouisianaVideo
LAFAYETTE, La. — Community activists said they will present their frustrations and demand racial justice from the leaders of a Louisiana city on Sunday, following a night of violence that erupted after police shot and killed a Black man. Dozens of people took to the streets of Lafayette on Saturday...
Police arrest 5 during RNC protests in CharlotteVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police have arrested five people in Charlotte where protesters demonstrated against the Republican National Convention for a second night. The arrests happened late Saturday when a group of demonstrators left a park and began to peacefully march throughout uptown Charlotte, police said in a statement Sunday. Police...
Residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanesVideo
NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two strong storms swirled toward the U.S from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening wind and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama....
House passes bill to reverse changes blamed for mail delays
WASHINGTON — With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to shore up the agency ahead of the November election. Speaker Nancy Pelosi had recalled lawmakers to Washington over...
Special order cable ties lead officers to suspected killer
HELENA, Mont. — Special order cable ties, images from a trail camera and a history of bad blood over road access eventually added up to an arrest in a 2011 homicide in a rural neighborhood northwest of Helena, charging documents said. Leon Michael Ford, of Oak Harbor, Washington, was arrested...
N.Y. gov OKs clerical fixes on mail-in ballots, with a twist
NEW YORK — Anticipating a wave of mail-in voting this fall, New York state will now give voters a chance to correct missing signatures and other clerical errors so their absentee ballots can be counted — but the exact provisions haven’t yet been made public after last-minute negotiations between Gov....
