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Bloomberg spending tens of millions more on new ad campaign
NEW YORK — Billionaire Democrat Michael Bloomberg is putting tens of millions of more dollars behind a new television ad casting himself as uniquely qualified to defeat President Donald Trump. The ad is set to begin running Wednesday in all 50 states, including the first four on the presidential primary...
$14.6 million lottery ticket in Arizona goes unclaimed 
Better luck next time. A lottery jackpot worth $14.6 million went unclaimed in Arizona. A winning “The Pick” ticket, which got all six numbers in the in-state game, was sold June 5 at a Circle K convenience store in Goodyear, Arizona. The ticket holder had until Monday to claim the...
Deadly swine flu outbreak breaks out in Poland near Germany
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border. The minister said Wednesday that the area is being sealed off with a 34 mile fence and local hunters have been instructed to...
Loaded gun inside baby gift bought at Florida thrift store
CRESTVIEW, Fla. — A woman who bought a baby shower gift at a Florida Goodwill store was shocked when the father-to-be opened the box and found a loaded semi-automatic rifle inside. Veronica Alvarez-Rodriguez told the Northwest Florida Daily News that she and her husband stopped by the store in Valparaiso...
Service was a way of life for World War II veteran
Carl Ross initially was rejected for World War II service because he had flat feet. But that didn’t deter the 18-year-old New Kensington native. “He just kept trying,” said his daughter, Joyce Andrews. “He tried all the branches, and nobody would take him. Then he went back to the Army...
North Dakota-based wall builder who pitched to Trump on Fox News wins $400M contract
BISMARCK, N.D. — Tommy Fisher’s ambitious plan to win a border wall contract included what could be the next best thing to making a pitch directly to President Donald Trump himself — talking to him through his favorite cable TV channel, Fox News. And it just may have worked. Fisher’s...
Report: Rudy Giuliani in frequent contact with Devin Nunes, White House 
WASHINGTON — A new report from Democrats compiling evidence on impeachment revealed contact between President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the intelligence committee. The report released Tuesday includes phone records obtained from AT&T and Verizon that show Giuliani also was...
Police: Mother tied son’s hands during California fire
SANTA PAULA, Calif. — Authorities say a woman placed a plastic bag over her 3-year-old son’s head and tied his hands as their Santa Paula home burned. Santa Paula police say 47-year-old Maricela Magana Ruiz and her son were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire on Sunday. Firefighters found...
Woman who offered $25,000 reward in husband's killing now charged with his murder
A Wisconsin woman once offered $25,000 to anyone with information about the 2006 murder of her husband. She will now be charged with the crime. Investigators say Kenneth Juedes, 58, had two fatal shotgun blasts to his chest when Cindy Schulz-Juedes of Chippewa Falls reported that she found her husband...
Trump blasts French President Emmanuel Macron at NATO meeting planned to show unity 
LONDON — President Donald Trump lit into French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, criticizing comments the French leader made about NATO as “insulting” “very, very nasty,” and “very disrespectful.” Trump’s comments were made hours before he was scheduled to meet with Macron at the start of a two-day leaders conference...
Wife learns of hubby's cheating from dining review
A food writer’s dining review did more than just satisfy his readers’ appetites. He exposed a cheating husband. A recent review by Washington Post critic Tom Sietsema was accompanied with a photograph of the establishment. But one reader spotted something rather unappetizing: Her husband dining with another woman. Last week,...
Brother of man killed by cop gets award for hugging her
PLANO, Texas — The brother of a man killed by a Dallas police officer has accepted an award from a law enforcement organization for hugging the officer after she was convicted of murder. The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration gave 18-year-old Brandt Jean the award Tuesday for his “display of...
297 Amazon packages stolen after driver leaves them outside wrong post office
This is the time of the year when boxes get swiped from front porches, but these never even made it to the post office. An Amazon courier left four pallets of packages outside the Pioneer Post Office in California on Sunday, reports FOX-40. That post office is closed on weekends....
House releases report on evidence for Trump impeachment
WASHINGTON — The House released a sweeping impeachment report Tuesday outlining evidence of what it calls President Donald Trump’s wrongdoing toward Ukraine, findings that will serve as the foundation for debate over whether the 45th president should be removed from office. The 300-page report from Democrats on the House Intelligence...
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to meet in U.S. over Nile dam dispute
CAIRO — Egypt says officials from the three Nile basin countries will meet in the United States to “assess the results” of their recent negotiations about Ethiopia’s soon-to-be-finished mega-dam project, which Cairo says threatens its water supply. Tuesday’s statement by Egypt’s irrigation ministry says the meeting in Washington next week...
Former prosecutor says corrupt congressman Duncan Hunter got ‘great’ deal 
SAN DIEGO — California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring with his wife to use at least $150,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses under a plea deal that a former federal prosecutor called “great” for the congressman who had faced 60 counts. The...
Survey: Pa. greenhouse gas emissions dropped 19% from 2005 to ’16
Pennsylvania’s net greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly 19% from 2005 to 2016, according to a new inventory prepared by the state Department of Environmental Protection. Pennsylvania was responsible for 235 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2016, which represented an 18.8% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from the...
Kamala Harris suspends Democratic presidential bid
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris told supporters on Tuesday that she was ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. “I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,”...
Study finds racial gap narrows in prison, jail, parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report by the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice says racial gaps have narrowed across the American criminal justice system between 2000 and 2016, the most recent data available. Among the findings: • The imprisonment rate for black people and Hispanic people dropped about 30% between...
Man shot to death in York County movie theater; woman wounded
Authorities say a man was shot and killed and a woman was wounded inside a movie theater in York County. West Manchester Township police said officers were called to the Regal Cinemas shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday. Police said a single shooter shot both victims in a theater and then...
Student, officer injured in another high school shooting
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A police officer confronted an armed student at a Wisconsin high school Tuesday morning and both were wounded, police said, in the second such shooting at a school in the state in as many days. The latest shooting happened at Oshkosh West High School. The student and...
Trump says world 'has to be watching' the violence in Iran
LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he supports the demonstrations in Iran and urged the world to watch the Iranian government’s violent effort to quash protests that he says have killed “thousands of people.” Speaking in London, where he is attending the NATO leaders summit, Trump said,...
Harvard grad students strike over pay, health, protections
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University’s graduate students are going on strike after failing to reach a labor contract with the administration. A union representing the school’s graduate students began picketing Tuesday after more than a year of negotiations. The labor group says Harvard has failed to offer fair pay, health...
Cincinnati Zoo names its new baby giraffe
CINCINNATI — A giraffe born recently at the Cincinnati Zoo now has a name. The male calf born Nov. 23 has been named Theo. Zoo officials said in a news release Monday that they picked that name because it means “divine gift.” “He was the gift that our team needed...
Joe Biden sees fundraising improvement after rough summer 
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president’s fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals. Biden’s campaign would not say exactly...


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