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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...
Florida city commissioner chastises cop at his own honors ceremonyVideo
Talk about irony. A Broward County, Fla. police officer who was expecting to be honored as “Officer of the Month” during a ceremony earlier this week was unexpectedly met with criticism when he got up to receive his award. According to the Sun Sentinel, sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Gallardo was headed...
Police: 5 hurt, knife-wielding suspect dead at Maryland mall
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Four people at an outdoor shopping mall were stabbed and a fifth person was beaten before officers shot and killed a suspect, police in Maryland said. The victims were rushed from the Hunt Valley Towne Centre north of Baltimore to hospitals Saturday afternoon but didn’t appear to...
Iran slams U.S. for barring Zarif from New York hospital visit
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran slammed the United States on Saturday for what it called an “inhumane” decision to bar its foreign minister, who was attending the U.N. summit meetings in New York, from visiting a hospitalized Iranian diplomat in the city. U.S. authorities were not allowing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad...
Judge blocks sole use of databases to detain immigrants
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Friday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from relying solely on flawed databases to target people for being in the country illegally, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birrote Jr. issued a permanent injunction barring ICE from relying only on the...
Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead
DALLAS — A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above hers, telling jurors that she has to live with the guilt every day and that she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger tearfully told...
Member of secretive church gets probation in benefits scheme
RALEIGH, N.C. — A member of a secretive North Carolina church received 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation. Diane McKinny, 66, of Rutherfordton, was sentenced by a federal judge in Asheville on Thursday, several months after...
Sheriff’s deputy slain near Houston was first Sikh officer
JERSEY VILLAGE, Texas — A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced...
Iran releases seized U.K.-flagged tanker
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday released a British-flagged oil tanker it had seized in July, while the country’s president, returning from an annual United Nations meeting, said he had been told the United States had offered to lift sanctions if Tehran returned to the negotiating table over its nuclear...
Take this bridge, get a million bucks. No one didVideo
There’s an old joke about selling bridges to people but this one was free. And it came with a million bucks. But no one would take it. The bridge had carried traffic over the Puyallup River in Washington State since 1925, according to KIRO-7. But two new bridges replaced it...
Florida teacher probed as quiz refers to Trump as ‘idiot’
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Florida middle school teacher is being investigated after a parent complained a quiz she gave students referred to President Donald Trump as an “idiot.” The principal at the Palm Beach Gardens school sent a letter to parents apologizing and saying the teacher has been...
Santa Barbara Zoo’s elderly elephant Little Mac euthanizedVideo
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Santa Barbara Zoo’s 48-year-old Asian elephant, Little Mac, has been euthanized after a sharp decline in her health. The zoo says Little Mac was euthanized Wednesday night in her exhibit yard, surrounded by keepers and staff. View this post on Instagram Last night we said...
