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LINCOLN, Neb. — Authorities say the remains of twin brothers killed in the Pearl Harbor attack have been identified and will be returned to Nebraska. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Thursday in a news release that the remains of Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Leo Blitz and Fireman 1st Class...

ANDERSON, S.C. — Buffalo Bills defensive end Shaq Lawson says he will pay for the funeral of an 11-year-old South Carolina girl who died after someone fired more than 35 shots at her home. News outlets report a family member announced Lawson’s contribution Wednesday evening at a vigil for Ja’Naiya...

WASHINGTON — Same stage. Same rules. But the Democrats’ second back-to back debate is fueled by star power. Debate night No. 2 marks the first time top-tier presidential candidates will confront one another in person over who is best fit to lead the Democratic effort to oust President Donald Trump...

NEW YORK — Two women have confirmed that the writer E. Jean Carroll told them in the 1990s that she’d been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in the dressing room of a New York City department store. The women, both journalists who were friends with Carroll, spoke publicly for the...

SELAH, Wash. — An appeals court says a piano teacher in Washington state deserved the $40,000 she was awarded in a dispute with a neighbor who revved his pickup truck engine for months to drown out the sound of her lessons. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the appeals court ruled Tuesday...

SALT LAKE CITY — Police investigating the case of a college student who went missing in Utah 10 days ago said Thursday that the owner of a home they searched in connection with the disappearance is a “person of interest” and that they are trying to find a mattress that...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia man is facing criminal charges after his 15-foot python escaped into a wooded area and has been missing for about a month. Police in Morgantown announced Thursday that 19-year-old Shane Stevens has been arrested and charged with allowing an animal to run at large....

MIRAMAR, Fla. — Police in South Florida say an 18-year-old man drugged and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met at a party and posted a naked video of her on Instagram. Miramar police say Jorge Martinez gave the girl Percocet on Monday and took her to a home where...

NEW YORK — Apple is recalling some MacBook Pro laptops due to a fire hazard. The batteries in the laptops can overheat, posing a safety risk. The recalled MacBook Pros have a screen that measures 15-inches diagonally and were sold between September 2015 through February 2017 in the United States...

LONDON — Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will make an official visit to South Africa in the fall. The trip announced Thursday would likely be one of Meghan’s first international trips since the birth of the couple’s son Archie in May. The...

MIAMI — Jose Garcia carried a drawstring backpack full of used syringes as he walked into the converted shipping container that serves as the base for Florida’s only hypodermic needle exchange program. The 57-year-old carefully counted as he dropped 115 syringes one-by-one into a locked biohazard bin brimming with hundreds...

BRUSSELS — NATO allies gave the United States no firm commitments that they will participate in a global effort to secure international waterways against threats from Iran, Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday, wrapping up his first alliance meeting. Esper said the United States will come back next month...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems in the public interest, but which violate the service’s rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation. Users will have to tap through the warning to see the...

GEORGIA, Vt. — Deputies have arrested a Vermont man who is accused of stealing more than two dozen street signs. Mynbc.com reports 19-year-old Joshua Hanselman has been charged with larceny and unlawful mischief after acknowledging that he and others stole the 26 street signs. The signs were stolen between April...

Three people were injured by lightning strikes during heavy storms in Hawaii, a report said. A 10-year-old boy and two men sustained serious injuries in two separate lightning strikes on Oahu Tuesday, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Wednesday. As heavy rain continued Wednesday, a brown-water advisory warning the public to avoid...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which have urged the company to make sure users know what they...

HARRISBURG — Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature are inserting some pet policy objectives into hundreds of pages of just-unveiled legislation with the annual budget deadline days away, forcing Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to make hard choices. Amid the deadline brinksmanship, measures expected to advance Thursday included a $34 billion...

Minutes into the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential election, late-night host Trevor Noah said he suspected that “half of America thought they flipped to Univision by mistake.” Why? Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke had suddenly started speaking Spanish. In the middle of his opening answer to a question...

A Massachusetts man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a resort island bar in 2016 has filed a lawsuit against the actor. The lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks unspecified damages for “severe and permanent mental distress and emotional injuries.” Spacey also faces a criminal charge of indecent assault and...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Carmaker Ford said Thursday it is shedding 12,000 jobs in Europe to increase profitability, part of a global trend of cost cuts by automakers facing shifting consumer tastes and heavy investments in electric cars. The job losses amount to about a fifth of Ford’s work force in...

HOUSTON — The Pittsburgh Pirates were hoping to give rookie Dario Agrazal a little early run support against Houston in his second career start. They ended up giving him much more than that to help him earn his first major league win. Josh Bell hit his 21st homer, Corey Dickerson...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Jozy Altidore scored on an overhead kick in his first start for the national team in 20 months, lifting the United States over Panama, 1-0, Wednesday night as the Americans finished first in their CONCACAF Gold Cup group. Altidore got the goal from 2 yards following...

MIAMI — Ten Democrats railed against a national economy and Republican administration they said exists only for the rich as presidential candidates debated onstage for the first time in the young 2020 season, embracing class warfare as a defining theme in their fight to deny President Trump a second term...

OMAHA, Neb. — Mason Hickman and Jake Eder combined for 14 strikeouts, Vanderbilt knocked out Michigan ace Karl Kauffmann in the fourth inning and the Commodores won the College World Series with an 8-2 victory in Game 3 of the finals Wednesday night. Vandy (59-12) won its second title in...