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House committee files lawsuit for Trump tax returns
WASHINGTON — A House committee sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday for access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns, setting up a legal showdown over the records. The House Ways and Means Committee said it needs the documents for an investigation into tax law compliance by the president,...
Study: E-cigarettes may damage brain stem cells
Puffing on electronic cigarettes can damage neural stem cells important to brain function, a new study says. E-cigarettes produce a stress response in neural stem cells, researchers at the University of California at Riverside reported in a study published in the interdisciplinary open-access journal iScience. E-cigarette users may think they’re...
Blue Bell responds after video appears to shows woman licking a tub of ice cream, then putting it back on shelf
A video on social media of a woman appearing to lick a tub of ice cream and then putting it back on the shelf has drawn a response from the ice cream company. The video posted on Twitter by user Optimus Primal on Saturday shows a woman holding a tub...
14 killed in fire on Russian navy submersible
MOSCOW — A fire has erupted on one of the Russian navy’s deep-sea submersibles, killing 14 sailors, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said that the blaze broke out Monday while the vessel was performing tests in Russia’s territorial waters. It added that the fire was extinguished thanks...
Rafters rescued after becoming stuck in NC’s Cape Fear River
ERWIN, N.C. — A group of 17 rafters were rescued from North Carolina’s Cape Fear River when they became stranded after dark. News outlets report the group of adults, teenagers and children had set out to tube down the river Monday afternoon. Erwin Fire & Rescue Chief John Wilkins said...
Mom: United put teen son on the wrong international flight
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina woman says United Airlines put her teenage son on the wrong international flight, nearly sending him to Germany instead of Sweden. Christer Berg tells WRAL-TV that her 14-year-old son was traveling alone to visit his grandparents and realized something was wrong as the plane...
Maryland man charged in Drag Queen Storytime scuffle
SEVERNA PARK, Md. — A man allegedly assaulted a Maryland public library board member during a Drag Queen Storytime library event. The Capital Gazette reports 28-year-old Scott Thomas Miller was charged with assault and disorderly conduct Saturday. Anne Arundel County Libraries spokeswoman Christine Feldmann says 30 protesters prayed and talked...
Family: Former Charleroi resident Lynn Fleming dies from flesh-eating disease in FloridaVideo
MIAMI — A 77-year-old former Charleroi resident was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said Monday. Wade Fleming told The Associated Press that his mother Lynn Fleming, who retired to Florida’s Gulf...
Jury awards nearly $60 million to ex-student burned in chemistry class
NEW YORK — A former high school student disfigured by a chemistry experiment was awarded nearly $60 million Monday by a jury that had heard him testify that the fireball left him in unbearable pain and feeling like he was “hopelessly burning alive.” The Manhattan jury capped a month-long trial...
Trump says tanks will be part of July Fourth in WashingtonVideo
WASHINGTON — President Trump isn’t taking “no tanks” for an answer on the Fourth of July. He said Monday that a display of U.S. military tanks will be part of a special event he’s headlining July 4 in Washington — and an Associated Press photographer saw at least two M1A1...
AP Analysis: Trump smiles with North Korea, threatens Iran
WASHINGTON — With North Korea, President Trump puts on the charm. But with Iran, he cranks up the pressure with economic sanctions and a stronger military presence in the Persian Gulf. He warned its leaders Monday they are “playing with fire.” Nuclear weapons are at the heart of the difficult...
Border Patrol Chief: Sexist Facebook posts ‘inappropriate’Video
CLINT, Texas — Sexually explicit posts about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comments mocking migrant deaths in a secret Facebook group for agents and employees are “completely inappropriate,” the head of the U.S. Border Patrol said Monday. The sexist posts published by ProPublica came in response to Monday’s visit by...
‘Incredible’ summer hailstorm buries Guadalajara under 6 feet of iceVideo
Despite high temperatures dominating the start of the summer, people in Guadalajara, Mexico woke up Sunday to an icy existence. A bizarre hailstorm left the city buried in up to six feet of ice. Guadalajara, the capital city of Jalisco with a population of almost 1.5 million people, saw at...
Report: Don’t count fossil fuels out just yet
Fossil fuels haven’t gone the way of the dinosaur just yet. Although the fossil fuel share of total U.S. energy consumption increased slightly in 2018, it was the second-lowest share since 1902, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall energy consumption in the United States reached a record high...
After chaotic handling of Parkland, airport shootings, Broward Sheriff’s Office loses accreditation
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A state panel has voted unanimously to revoke the law enforcement accreditation of the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the largest sheriff’s office in Florida. The loss of accreditation — a voluntary certification sought by law enforcement agencies — won’t affect BSO’s operations in a major way. But...
Yellow jacket super nests appearing in Alabama
Alabama researchers are finding huge — like really, really big — yellow jacket nests across the state. Perennial yellow jacket nests are colonies that survive more than one year, have 15,000 insects (which is 3 to 4 times more than normal), and often have multiple queens. The warmer winters and...
Lawsuit challenges U.S. approvals of Keystone XL pipeline
BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists are asking a federal judge to cancel permits and other approvals issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Attorneys for the Northern Plains Resource Council, Sierra Club and other groups filed the latest lawsuit against the long-delayed...
Lawyers say fetal death charges in Alabama ‘unjust,’ motion to dismiss
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawyers defending a woman indicted for manslaughter after a gunshot wound to the stomach killed her fetus say the charges are “completely unreasonable and unjust” and should be dismissed. Marshae Jones was arrested last week after a grand jury issued an indictment saying she intentionally caused the...
Body found in London garden fell from Heathrow-bound plane
LONDON — A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday. The Metropolitan Police force said the body of an unidentified man was found in a residential...
Funeral scheduled for detective who fought for Sept. 11 fund
NEW YORK — A funeral will be held Wednesday for a former New York City police detective who was a leader in the fight for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Detective Luis Alvarez appeared with former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart last month to plead with Congress to extend...
Delay in 2020 census could gum up finely calibrated planning
ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he has asked about delaying the 2020 census over a citizenship question, but experts say any delay could gum up the U.S. Census Bureau’s finely calibrated timetable. The printing deadline was Monday. For months, the Trump administration argued that the courts needed to...
Why wealth gap has grown despite record-long economic growth
WASHINGTON — As it enters its 11th year, America’s economic expansion is now the longest on record — a streak that has shrunk unemployment, swelled household wealth, revived the housing market and helped fuel an explosive rise in the stock market. Yet even after a full decade of uninterrupted economic...
Iran says it has broken stockpile limit set by nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran acknowledged Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the accord. Iran had been expected for days to acknowledge...
Protesters in Hong Kong break into legislature, paint logos
HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature’s main building Monday night, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the walls of the main chamber. The sharp escalation in tactics came on the anniversary of the former British colony’s return...
Rules that control drive time for truckers set to be relaxedVideo
OPAL, Va. — Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. He’d reached the maximum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty. Francois couldn’t leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the...
