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Tennessee newspaper investigating ‘horrific’ end of times ad
A Tennessee newspaper said Sunday it is investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist attack in Nashville next month. The paid advertisement that appeared in Sunday’s editions of The Tennessean from the group Future For America claims Donald Trump “is...
Webb Simpson wraps up RBC Heritage victory in dark, sets recordVideo
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Nothing can top the first time Webb Simpson won on Father’s Day, a U.S. Open title eight years ago at Olympic Club and hearing his father’s laughter on the phone to share the joy. Harbour Town was special in its own right. Dressed in his...
U.K. police: Park stabbing that killed 3 was a terror attackVideo
READING, England — A stabbing rampage that killed three people as they sat in a British park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack, police said Sunday. A 25-year-old man who is believed to be the lone attacker was in custody, but officials said the motive for...
TSA insider faults agency’s response to coronavirus
A Transportation Security Administration official charges that the agency helped spread covid-19 by failing to provide enough protective gear for airport screeners who are in close contact with travelers every day. The top TSA official in Kansas, Jay Brainard, says the agency didn’t train staff for the pandemic and barred...
N.Y. museum to remove Roosevelt statue decried as white supremacy
NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West...
Balk in MLB coronavirus talks as negotiations drag onVideo
NEW YORK — An email from baseball commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed season. The executive committee of the players’ association was set to vote and reject MLB’s latest offer for a 60-game season Sunday. Players...
Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China’s customs agency has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees. A Tyson spokesman said Sunday that the plant in question is in Springdale, Ark. “At Tyson,...
Body of Army soldier missing since 2019 found near Fort Hood
KILLEEN, Texas — Skeletal remains found in Texas have been identified as those of a soldier from Oklahoma who was missing from Fort Hood, the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command in Quantico, Va., said Sunday. The body of Pvt. Gregory Scott Morales, 24, of Sapulpa, Okla., was found Friday in...
No record set, but new Florida covid-19 cases stoke worryVideo
TALLAHASSEE — Florida reported nearly 3,500 more new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, a dip from the record-breaking numbers of recent days, as public health officials reissued advisories urging social distancing and some businesses reevaluate their decisions to reopen for business. Some also had to rethink their Father’s Day...
WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus casesVideo
GENEVA — The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours. The UN health agency said Brazil led the way with 54,771 cases tallied and the United States next at 36,617....
Arizona passes 50,000 mark in confirmed coronavirus casesVideo
PHOENIX — Arizona has now passed the 50,000 mark in confirmed covid-19 cases. The state Department of Health Services reported 2,592 additional cases as of Sunday, increasing the statewide total to 52,390. Health officials also reported one more known death, pushing Arizona’s total so far to 1,339. The state’s surge...
Did TikTok teens, K-Pop fans punk Trump’s comeback rally?Video
OAKLAND, Calif. — Did teens, TikTok users and Korean pop music fans troll the president of the United States? For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in Tulsa on Saturday night, these tech-savvy groups opposing the president mobilized to reserve tickets for the rally they had...
U.S. trade adviser Peter Navarro links coronavirus to China governmentVideo
WASHINGTON — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is calling the coronavirus a “product of the Chinese Communist Party” and suggesting without evidence it may have been intentionally created by the Chinese government. Navarro says on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it remains unclear how the virus started and...
Rise in coronavirus cases brings new concerns in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — William Boyd was at the funeral Saturday morning for a relative who had died after contracting the new coronavirus when he got the call with the news. His brother had also passed away from covid-19. “The virus is real. It’s real. If they don’t know it’s real,...
Pirated editions of John Bolton memoir have appeared onlineVideo
NEW YORK — John Bolton’s memoir officially comes out Tuesday after surviving a security review and a legal challenge from the Justice Department. But over the weekend, it was available in ways even his publisher is hoping to prevent. A PDF of “The Room Where It Happened” has turned up...
Thunderstorms postpone NASCAR race at Talladega SuperspeedwayVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Thunderstorms on Sunday forced NASCAR to postpone the Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway that was to mark the return of more fans to the track. The race, which was pushed back to 3 p.m. Monday, is the first amid the coronavirus pandemic in which NASCAR opened...
1 man dead, 11 people wounded in Minneapolis shootingVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — A shooting in a popular Minneapolis nightlife area early Sunday left one man dead and 11 people wounded in a chaotic scene that sent people ducking into restaurants and other businesses for cover. The shooting broke out shortly after midnight in the city’s trendy Uptown neighborhood, a nightlife...
Playwright August Wilson to get Hollywood Walk of Fame star
August Wilson is going Hollywood, after a fashion. The famed playwright from Pittsburgh will be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles. Wilson was among the Hollywood Walk of Fame’s 2021 honorees announced last week. Also announced...
2nd wave of virus cases? Experts say we’re still in the 1st
What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases? In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus. Many public health experts, however, suggest...
Trump’s intended show of political force falls short of mark
TULSA, Okla. — President Donald Trump used his his comeback rally to try to define the upcoming election as a choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism, but his intended show of political force during the pandemic drew thousands short of a full house and was partly overshadowed by new...
Kurt Cobain ‘MTV Unplugged’ guitar sells for sky-high $6 million
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Grunge became gold Saturday as the guitar Kurt Cobain played on Nirvana’s 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance months before his death sold for an eye-popping $6 million at auction. The 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain played in the band’s rare acoustic performance and subsequent live album was...
Temperature hits 100 F degrees in Arctic Russian town
MOSCOW — A Siberian town with the world’s widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires. The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 F) on Saturday, according to Pogoda i Klimat, a website that compiles Russian meteorological...
Deaths prompt Alaska officials to remove ‘Into the Wild’ bus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness where a young man documented his demise over 114 days in 1992 has been removed by officials, frustrated that the bus has become a lure for dangerous, sometimes deadly pilgrimages into treacherous backcountry. An Alaska National Guard Chinook helicopter flew...
George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep U.S.
They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police. George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused...
1 man dead, 11 people wounded in Minneapolis shooting
MINNEAPOLIS — One man is dead and 11 people suffered non-life-threatening wounds in a shooting in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday. Minneapolis police had first said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total upward in a tweet posted just after 3...
