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Amazon fires fall sharply in September
RIO DE JANEIRO — Official figures show that the number of fires in the Amazon fell in September after an alarming rise in July and August. Data from the National Institute for Space Research released Tuesday show a 35.5 percent decline from August, with 19,925 fires recorded last month. Official...
Arch bridge falls in Taiwan bay, divers search for victimsVideo
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending a burning oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. An air force helicopter, fishing vessels and more than 60 military personnel including divers were searching for possible victims. Six people, all...
Russia: Our approval is needed to publish Trump’s calls with Putin
MOSCOW — The Kremlin said Monday that transcripts of calls between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can only be published by mutual agreement. The White House has severely restricted the distribution of memos detailing Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Putin. Asked about Congress’ push for the...
Pornographic video plays on interstate billboard in MichiganVideo
DETROIT — A pornographic video played on an electronic billboard on the I-75 and M-59 interchange in Auburn Hills on Saturday night, police say. Auburn Hills Police Department started receiving calls about the graphic images at about 11 p.m., sent officers to the scene and contacted the billboard operator, Canadian-based...
Report: Global CO2 emissions will continue to increase through 2050
In the wake of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, a federal agency is projecting that global carbon dioxide emissions from energy-related sources will continue to grow in the coming decades. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its 2019 International Energy Outlook, released last week, that global energy-related...
U.S. targets yacht, planes of Russian for election meddling
WASHINGTON — The United States sought to punish Russia on Monday for interfering with the November 2018 midterm elections by placing the yacht and private planes of a Russian financier on an international sanctions list along with employees of the Internet Research Agency that he has funded to spread false...
8 Germans on trial over plan to start violent uprising
BERLIN — Eight suspected far-right extremists went on trial Monday in Germany, accused of planning to start a violent uprising in response to a stabbing in the eastern city of Chemnitz last year. The men, aged between 21 and 32, appeared before a regional court in Dresden on charges of...
Student gets email scammer to send him money
A 22-year-old from Ireland has managed to do the miraculous: Getting an email scammer to give him money. And, according to a story in the Irish Times, it’s not the first time that Ross Walsh has done it. Twice before, the University of Limerick student has managed to scam a...
Trump warns of treason, civil war; GOP congressman outraged
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is warning that the Democrat-driven impeachment proceedings and any move to oust him from office amount to “treason” and would spark a civil war, prompting outrage from a Republican congressman. Trump tweeted a conservative pastor’s comment that removing him would provoke a “civil war-like fracture”...
Greek police seize loot from ancient wrecks, arrest 3
ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say they have arrested three men on the Aegean island of Kalymnos for allegedly plundering ancient shipwrecks and removing more than two dozen intact pottery vases. In a statement Monday, police said the antiquities dated from the 4th century B.C. to the late Middle Ages....
Convicted murderer escapes again from Arkansas prison
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas prison officials say a convicted murderer who escaped from prison in 2009 while wearing a guard uniform has escaped again. The Arkansas Department of Corrections said Monday that 49-year-old Calvin Adams was confirmed missing after a search of the East Arkansas Regional Unit in the...
Saudi crown prince denies ordering journalist’s murder
NEW YORK — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a television interview that he takes “full responsibility” for the grisly murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but denied allegations that he ordered it. “This was a heinous crime,” the 34-year-old crown prince told “60 Minutes” in an interview...
Official: Man jumps to his death at Grand Canyon Skywalk
GRAND CANYON WEST, Ariz. — Authorities are trying to locate the body of a man who climbed over a safety barrier at the Grand Canyon Skywalk and apparently jumped to his death. They say the 28-year-old visitor to the tourist spot on the Hualapai reservation outside Grand Canyon National Park...
More violence grips Hong Kong ahead of China’s National Day
HONG KONG — Protesters and police clashed in Hong Kong for a second straight day on Sunday, throwing the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s business and shopping belt into chaos and sparking fears of more ugly scenes leading up to China’s National Day holiday this week. Riot police repeatedly fired blue liquid...
Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood
UNITED NATIONS — The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a “bloodbath.” Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness. “The problems of our times are extraordinary,” Ibraham...
Electoral gains revive old dilemma for Israeli Arabs
NAZARETH, Israel — When election results confirmed that an Arab alliance had emerged as the third largest bloc in Israel’s parliament, its leader Ayman Odeh reached for the Old Testament, tweeting in Hebrew from Psalm 118 that the stone which was rejected had become the cornerstone. His message: The Arab...
Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints
Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a group for black female judges. “I can do that, too,” she thought. Hill has since become a leading civil rights...
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes off Chilean coast
SANTIAGO, Chile — A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the coast of Chile on Sunday, swaying buildings in the capital of Santiago. The national emergency agency said there were no reported injuries or damage to basic services. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 10:57 a.m. local time...
Georgia man gets 140 years in prison for restaurant arson
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A Georgia man who crashed his vehicle into a restaurant where he once worked and set it on fire amid the lunchtime rush has been convicted of arson. Jurors in Richmond County Superior Court found 37-year-old Roland Croyle guilty but mentally ill Friday on 24 counts of...
NYPD officer shot and killed during struggle with suspectVideo
NEW YORK — A New York City police officer grappling with an armed man died early Sunday in the Bronx after being shot three times, possibly with his own gun. The 27-year-old suspect also died after five officers fired at him, police officials said. He has not been publicly identified...
Man with 18 DUIs gets prison time for serious injury crash
HASTINGS, Minn. — A 60-year-old Minnesota man with 18 drunken-driving convictions will serve 20 months in prison for causing a crash that seriously injured two people in 2017. Marshall A. Knoll pleaded guilty to first-degree driving while impaired in exchange for the dismissal of two more-serious charges. Prosecutors say Knoll...
Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back
BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly. In a livestreamed speech from SpaceX’s launch facility near the southern tip of Texas,...
Snowstorm slams northern Rocky Mountains; Montana gets brunt
HELENA, Mont. — Areas of the northern Rocky Mountains looked more like mid-winter rather than early fall on Sunday as a snowstorm dumped record amounts of wind-driven snow that caused hazardous travel conditions and scattered power outages. Winter storm warnings were posted for parts of western Montana, northern Idaho and...
Student journalist scores big scoop in Trump-Ukraine story
PHOENIX — A 20-year-old student at Arizona State University broke the news that a key State Department official who was involved in talks between President Trump and the Ukrainian government had stepped down from his post. Andrew Howard, a managing editor of The State Press student newspaper, reported Friday evening...
Head of U.N. nuclear test ban group: Teach your children well
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear test ban treaty organization says that in his “wild dreams,” very young children around the world will be taught that nuclear testing isn’t good — and that the world should be free of nuclear weapons. In an interview on the sidelines...
