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Part of the ceiling collapses at Atlanta airport restaurant

ATLANTA — Part of a restaurant ceiling collapsed inside Atlanta’s airport, and one person asked to be treated by emergency crews, airport officials said. The collapse happened shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday in Concourse A, one of the closest concourses to the main domestic terminal, the airport said in a...
Flooding forces Alabama school system to shut downVideo

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama school system called off classes Thursday because flooding affected its public water supply, and officials asked residents to conserve water. Hartselle schools canceled for the day because water from a rising creek flooded a water pumping station, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said in a...
Tampon tax break faces resistance in Tennessee

NASHVILLE — A proposal to include feminine hygiene products during Tennessee’s annual sales-tax holiday faced resistance this week from lawmakers concerned about the lack of limit on on such purchases. The legislation is the latest evolution of a push to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax” on items such as tampons...
‘Canned’ lions still on offer at U.S. trophy hunting conventionVideo

WASHINGTON — An undercover video recorded by animal welfare activists shows vendors at a recent trophy-hunting convention promoting trips to shoot captive-bred lions in Africa, despite past public assurances by the event’s organizers that so-called canned hunts wouldn’t be sold. Investigators for the Humane Society of the United States captured...
Lawmakers want Ivanka Trump’s women’s program to become law

WASHINGTON — Two senators — one Republican and one Democrat — are leading a legislative effort to have a global women’s initiative spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka written into law. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are behind the effort, the senior White House adviser announced...
2 officers injured, suspect dead in Baltimore shootingVideo

BALTIMORE — Two law enforcement officers with a fugitive task force were injured and a suspect died in a shooting Wednesday in Baltimore, the U.S. Marshals Service said. One officer was injured in the leg and the other in the stomach, U.S. Marshals Service spokesman David Lutz said in an...
Jury finds Mar-a-Lago intruder not guilty of trespassingVideo

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida jury acquitted a Chinese woman Wednesday of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after she testified she didn’t understand a security guard who told her to leave. However, jurors did find Jing Lu, 56, guilty of resisting a police officer without violence...
Scientists discover mysterious outer space radio waves that repeat every 16 days

Something, somewhere, about a half-billion light-years away in space, is sending out mysterious radio signals that form a set pattern. Fast radio bursts (FRB) are rare but not unheard of, according to CNN, but they normally are emitted once by whatever the source. When they do repeat, it’s in short...
Coronavirus has many U.S. firms waiting for products to ship

NEW YORK — When the factory in China that makes Romy Taormina’s anti-nausea wristbands closed for the Lunar New Year in late January, she expected production to resume by early this month. But many factories across China are still closed to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus, leaving...
Pope avoids question of married priests in Amazon document

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis declined Wednesday to approve the ordination of married men to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon, sidestepping a fraught issue that has dominated debate in the Catholic Church and even involved retired Pope Benedict XVI. Francis, in an eagerly awaited document, did not...
Record-setting astronaut feels good after near year in space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new record-setting astronaut said Wednesday that aside from sore muscles and trouble with balance, she’s readjusting well to gravity after nearly 11 months in space. Christina Koch met with reporters in Houston six days after returning to Earth from the International Space Station. Her 328-day...
Embattled Boy Scouts seek to boost support for abuse victims

NEW YORK — Facing a possible bankruptcy resulting from sex-abuse litigation, the Boy Scouts of America issued a new apology Tuesday to survivors of abuse and announced plans for expanded services to support them. The Boy Scouts are teaming up in a five-year partnership with 1in6, a national nonprofit that...
Private funeral held for Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna

NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant have been laid to rest. The Los Angeles Lakers icon and his daughter were reportedly buried Friday in a private funeral in Los Angeles, according to Entertainment Tonight. Kobe and Gianna died in a Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas with...
Even before Iowa fiasco, caucuses were on their way out

WASHINGTON — It didn’t take the high-profile disaster that was last week’s Iowa caucus for state political parties to move away from the party-run presidential preference system. Even before the Iowa debacle, caucuses were on their way out across the country. Ten states that hosted caucuses in 2016 — Alaska,...
Unlikely allies push the White House to back cleaning pollution from the Tijuana River

For decades, millions of gallons of raw sewage and trash have flowed from the Tijuana River to the Pacific Ocean, fouling beaches, angering Southern Californians and getting worse by the year. An estimated 143 million gallons of waste from Tijuana spilled into the river valley in 2017, overwhelming a treatment...
Police: Driver traveling 79 mph when Oklahoma students hit

OKLAHOMA CITY — A pickup truck was traveling 79 mph in a 25 mph zone when it struck members of a high school cross-country team on a sidewalk in suburban Oklahoma City, killing two and injuring the others, a police sergeant said Tuesday. A police report said the driver, Max...

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