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Anchorage school district backs high school swimmer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Anchorage School District says it won’t tolerate discrimination — including that based on body shape — after a high school swimmer was disqualified for wearing a team-issued swimsuit that exposed too much of her buttocks. The school district said in a written statement that the decision...
NYPD: 10-year-old boy fatally struck by SUV at bus stop
NEW YORK — Police say a 10-year-old boy standing by a bus stop was struck and killed by an out-of-control SUV in Brooklyn. Police say the Lexus was traveling northbound on Ocean Avenue near Avenue L just after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday when it mounted the sidewalk and struck the boy...
White House disputes accounts of Russian CIA informantVideo
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday disputed reports of a Russian official who was recruited as a spy for the CIA and then evacuated to the United States after revealing information about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley...
‘Storm Area 51’ originator pulls out of Nevada desert event
LAS VEGAS — The originator of the “Storm Area 51” internet hoax is citing concerns about organization and funding and has withdrawn from an event called “Alienstock” scheduled next week in the remote Nevada desert. Matty Roberts said in interviews Tuesday in Las Vegas that he was worried the event...
Blast heard near U.S. Embassy in Kabul on 9/11 anniversary
KABUL — A large explosion rocked Afghanistan’s capital near the U.S. Embassy just minutes into Wednesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. A plume of smoke rose over Kabul just after midnight and sirens could be heard. Inside the embassy, employees heard this message over the...
Beer shortage may hit Utah as law changesVideo
Some brands of beer could disappear from store shelves as Utah adjusts to new beverage laws. Consumers in the state will soon be allowed to buy beer with more alcohol — 4% by weight instead of current 3.2% — at grocery and convenience stores but restocking may take some time,...
Pope says U.S. critics use ‘rigid’ ideology’ to mask failings
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Tuesday he wasn’t afraid of a U.S. Catholic Church schism led by his conservative critics, but sees a “rigid” ideology opponents use to mask their own moral failings has already infiltrated the American church. Francis said during an airborne news conference that...
TV anchor gives on-air rebuttal to viewer critique of attire
PORTLAND, Ore. — A weekend news anchor and TV reporter in Portland, Oregon, is doubling down on her preference for high-waisted pants after a male viewer told her to “dress like a normal woman” in a message sent to her Facebook work account. Maggie Vespa, who works at Portland’s NBC...
Trump fires national security adviser John Bolton
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he fired national security adviser John Bolton, citing strong disagreements on a number of policy issues. Trump tweeted that he told Bolton Monday night his services were no longer needed at the White House and said Bolton submitted his resignation on Tuesday morning....
Share of uninsured Americans rises for 1st time in a decade
WASHINGTON — The proportion of Americans without health insurance edged up in 2018 — the first increase in nearly a decade after coverage had significantly increased under President Barack Obama’s health care law. The Census Bureau also said in an annual report Tuesday that household income rose last year at...
Mother charged with neglect after 42-pound teen son dies
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee mother is facing child neglect charges following the death of her 42-pound teenage son. A criminal complaint says Iraida Pizarro-Osorio brought her 16-year-old son to a medical clinic in Milwaukee last week after he became unresponsive. The teen died at the clinic. The complaint says he...
Tennessee lawmaker Kerry Roberts calls for removal of higher educationVideo
NASHVILLE — A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says he supports getting rid of higher education because he argues it would cut off the “liberal breeding ground.” Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield called for eliminating higher education while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show...
Hurricane Dorian reshaped part of the Outer Banks shoreline, National Park Service says
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dorian’s landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina did more than flood coastal communities — it reshaped parts of the barrier islands, early damage assessments show. The National Park Service Incident Management Team said it deployed 68 employees to take stock of the aftermath and found...
Judge reinstates nationwide halt on Trump asylum policy plan
OAKLAND, Calif. — A U.S. judge in California on Monday reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration’s plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in Oakland that an injunction blocking the administration’s policy from taking effect should apply...
Juul warned over claims e-cigarette safer than smoking
WASHINGTON — Federal health authorities Monday blasted vaping company Juul for illegally pitching its electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products. The Food and Drug Administration also upped its scrutiny of a number of key aspects of...
9 Florida students hospitalized for eating ‘THC-laced candy’
COOPER CITY, Fla. — Authorities say nine students from a Florida charter school ate marijuana-infused candy and were hospitalized with stomach pains. News outlets report students between the ages of 10 and 11 from Renaissance Charter School at Cooper City were hospitalized Friday. News outlets say the students were expected...
Rescuers pull 4th and final crewman alive from cargo shipVideo
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship Monday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a Georgia port. All four were reported as being alert and...
Todd Palin files for divorce from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Todd Palin appears to have filed for divorce from former Alaska governor and onetime vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, his wife of 31 years. In a document filed Friday in Anchorage Superior Court, Todd Palin, 55, asked to dissolve the marriage, citing an “incompatibility of temperament between...
U.S. News ranks colleges for 2020
College leaders across the country took a deep breath as they opened their email Monday, looking for something to brag about in the new 2020 America’s Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report. The much anticipated annual report that covers about 1,900 colleges and universities purports to identify the...
Cops: Store clerk memorized 1,300 credit card numbers; went shoppingVideo
Try memorizing your credit card number, expiration date and security code. Now, try it in the time it takes to process a sale at the mall. That’s what a store clerk in Japan reportedly did 1,300 times. Then he went online and bought some things for himself. Yusuke Taniguchi, 34,...
Schools face backlash for not reporting threats to parents
RALEIGH, N.C. — When officials at a Catholic high school in South Carolina learned that a 16-year-old student made videos of himself firing a gun and using racial slurs, they alerted police, but not parents. After the videos made it into the news over the summer, the backlash came quickly....
Man dressed as Elmo accused of groping Times Square tourist
NEW YORK — A man dressed as the children’s character Elmo has been charged with groping a 14-year-old girl who posed for a photo with him in Times Square. The New York Post says the man, Inocente Andrade-Pacheco, has denied the allegations through his lawyer. The Post says the 54-year-old...
British Airways grounds nearly all flights as pilots strike
LONDON — British Airways says it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots’ 48-hour strike over pay. In a statement Monday, the airline said it had “no way of predicting how many (pilots) would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to...
Man streams chase before Minnesota police fatally shoot him
RICHFIELD, Minn. — Police near Minneapolis shot and killed a driver following a chase after he apparently emerged from his car holding a knife and refused their commands to drop it. The chase started late Saturday night in Edina and ended in Richfield with officers shooting the man, Brian J....
Dorian death toll reaches 44 in the Bahamas as thousands wait to be rescuedVideo
As relief and evacuation efforts ramped up Saturday for the hurricane-scarred islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, the Bahamas health minister Duane Sands reported that at least 44 people have died in the Bahamas — though the number is expected to rise with hundreds of people still missing. Some...
