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$6,000 in stolen quarters found in California baby stroller
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Authorities say a woman stole $6,000 worth of quarters and her getaway car was a baby stroller. Bakersfield police officers noticed the woman Friday struggling to push the stroller but quickly realized there was no baby inside, according to the Bakersfield Californian . Police discovered the quarters,...
U.S. official meets in Lebanon over anti-Hezbollah sanctions
BEIRUT — A senior U.S. Treasury official was visiting Beirut on Monday, where he’s explaining the motives behind recent U.S. sanctions targeting Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, Lebanon’s central bank governor said. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea met with the prime minister and the speaker of parliament, as well as...
British tour company Thomas Cook collapses, leaving 150,000 strandedVideo
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of travelers were stranded across the world Monday after British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed, immediately halting almost all its flights and hotel services and laying off all its employees. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed Thomas Cook, a 178-year-old company that helped create the package...
Trump, Modi show unity between world’s largest democracies
HOUSTON — Deafening drums marked the entrance of President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi as they clasped hands and walked across the stage in a packed Texas stadium Sunday, sending a message of unity between the world’s two largest democracies despite trade tensions. Instead of dwelling on...
Area 51 festival wraps up in Nevada; Earthlings head home
HIKO, Nev. — Festivals are over and Earthlings are heading home from the Nevada desert, where people from around the globe took selfies — but didn’t actually “storm” — a remote U.S. military base long the focus of UFO and space alien lore. They left in peace. Authorities reported no...
Trump says he discussed corruption with Ukraine’s presidentVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that he raised former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son in a summer phone call with Ukraine’s new leader, as Democrats pressed for investigations into whether Trump improperly used his office to try to dig up damaging information about a political rival....
How the past informs Trump’s vision of America’s future
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vision of America’s tomorrows looks much like its yesterdays. He loves “beautiful” coal. “Beautiful” warships. And “those four beautiful words: MADE IN THE USA!” He speaks of the country’s might as measured by its steel mills, farms and cars rolling off Detroit assembly lines. He’s...
Louisiana man drowns while proposing to girlfriend underwater in Tanzania
A Louisiana man drowned during a dream vacation to Tanzania as he proposed to his attorney girlfriend, who never even got the chance to give him her answer. Kenesha Antoine revealed in a heartbreaking Facebook post on Friday that her boyfriend, Steven Weber Jr., died while he popped the big...
Iran’s Guard says ready for ‘any scenario’ amid US standoff
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is ready for combat and “any scenario,” its chief commander said Saturday, as the country’s nuclear deal with world powers collapses and the U.S. alleged Iran was behind a recent attack on major oil sites in Saudi Arabia that shook global energy markets....
Charge against airline mechanic highlights ‘insider threat’
The arrest of an airline mechanic suspected of being sympathetic with terrorists and charged with sabotaging a jetliner has renewed fear about the “insider threat” to aviation security. Despite security upgrades since the hijacking terror attacks of 2001, breaches including a gun-running operation at the nation’s biggest airport illustrate the...
5th death linked to storm that walloped Houston area
BEAUMONT, Texas — The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history came into broader view Saturday, as floodwaters receded to reveal the exhausting cleanup effort that lies ahead for many communities and homeowners. Hundreds of homes and other buildings in...
2 dead, at least 8 wounded in South Carolina bar shooting
Two men died and eight people were injured in a shooting at a crowded sports bar near Lancaster, S.C., early Saturday, authorities said. The shooter or shooters have not been found. “I believe it was one person targeting another,” Sheriff Barry Faile said at a news conference Saturday afternoon. “Unfortunately,...
Billionaire who pledged to wipe out Morehouse College grads’ loans extends offer to their parents
Remember back in May when billionaire Robert F. Smith promised to pay off nearly 400 Morehouse graduates’ student loans? That endeavor was going to cost around $34 million, according to the Washington Post. Now, he’s added to his tab by extending that offer to their parents as well. The billionaire...
U.S. police assess rise in threat tips after 3 mass killings
LOS ANGELES — It had all the makings of a massacre. Six guns, including a Colt AR-15 rifle. About 1,000 rounds of ammunition. A bulletproof vest. And an angry Southern California man who threated to kill his co-workers at a hotel and its guests. But a concerned colleague intervened, alerting...
Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action
UNITED NATIONS — Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations Saturday to demand radical moves to fight climate change. “We showed that we are united and that we, young...
Trial to start for Georgia cop who shot naked, unarmed man
DECATUR, Ga. — A police officer responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex arrived on the scene, exited his vehicle and shot the man almost immediately. Now a jury must decide if he’s guilty of murder. Robert “Chip” Olsen, then a DeKalb...
History buff finds ships that sank in 1878 in Lake Michigan
DETROIT — A diver and maritime history buff has found two schooners that collided and sank into the cold depths of northern Lake Michigan more than 140 years ago. Bernie Hellstrom, of Boyne City, Michigan, said he was looking for shipwrecks about 10 years ago when a depth sounder on...
Civil rights group: Airline forced girl, 12, to remove hijab
SAN FRANCISCO — A Muslim civil rights advocacy group is demanding changes at Air Canada after a 12-year-old U.S. Squash Team player says she was forced to remove her hijab while boarding at San Francisco International Airport. The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said...
Sheriff: 1 officer dead, 1 injured in Louisiana shooting
MANDEVILLE, La. — One police officer was fatally shot and another wounded Friday after a vehicle chase north of New Orleans. At a news conference, Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker confirmed one officer’s death and the other’s injury from gunfire in his community on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain,...
Child dials 911 to report ‘drunk’ school bus driverVideo
A boy suspected that his school bus driver was drunk so he called the police to turn her in. A student in Longview, Washington, told police his regular bus driver was behaving oddly, reports KING-5 News. Besides her unusually laid back attitude toward seating on Sept. 12, the driver allegedly...
Officials: Tour bus crash near national park in Utah kills 4
SALT LAKE CITY — A tour bus carrying Chinese-speaking tourists crashed near a national park in southern Utah, killing at least four people and critically injuring up to 15 others, authorities said Friday. The morning wreck near Bryce Canyon National Park, known for its distinctive landscape of narrow red rock...
Imelda leaves 4 dead in Texas, others stranded and trapped
HOUSTON — Emergency crews in the Houston area took advantage of receding floodwaters Friday to begin to assess the damage from one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history, a storm that led to the deaths of four men and displaced hundreds of people from their homes. The aftermath...
Minibus bombing outside Iraq’s Karbala kills 12, injures 5
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security officials said the death toll in an explosion on a minibus Friday outside the Shiite holy city of Karbala has climbed to 12. According to the officials, five passengers were also wounded in the blast, which occurred as the bus was passing through an Iraqi army...
Hurricane Lorena nears Mexico’s resort-studded Los Cabos
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Hurricane Lorena neared Mexico’s resort-studded Los Cabos area Friday as owners pulled their boats from the water, tourists hunkered down in hotels, and police and soldiers went through low-lying, low-income neighborhoods urging people to evacuate. Lorena was forecast to pass over or near the southern...
Delta pilot accused of attempting to fly under the influence of alcoholVideo
A Delta Air Lines pilot is facing charges of attempting to fly an aircraft under the influence of alcohol. Gabriel Schroeder, 37, was charged Friday over a July 30 incident when Schroeder was due to fly from Minneapolis to San Diego, KARE 11 reported. According to the complaint, officials were...
