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Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn’t expect a new shutdown
WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appeared to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he’s been demanding for his Mexican border wall. Trump said Tuesday he...
King the wire fox terrier takes Westminster’s best in show
NEW YORK — Wire fox terriers are still King at Westminster. A wire fox from Brazil who’s won big in Europe became America’s top dog Tuesday night, beating out a crowd-pleasing longhaired dachshund and popular Sussex spaniel. There were some boos — along with modest cheers — when judge Peter...
Before Bezos fight, National Enquirer publisher AMI faced steep losses
NEW YORK — The publisher of the National Enquirer, currently under attack by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, has been facing steep financial losses that have left the once-loyal keeper of Donald Trump’s secrets with more than $1 billion in debt and a negative net worth. The closely held American...
Police detective killed by friendly fire in New York City
NEW YORK — A New York City police detective was shot and killed by friendly fire Tuesday night as officers confronted a robbery suspect who turned out to be armed with a replica handgun, Commissioner James O’Neill said. “This appears to be an absolutely tragic case of friendly fire,” an...
Police: Ohio State student and her abductor killed in Kentucky chase
CRESTWOOD, Ky. — A female student from an Ohio State University campus and a man suspected of abducting her both died after a police chase and shooting, Kentucky State Police said Tuesday. The chase began Monday afternoon in northern Kentucky as police responded to a call about a person in...
NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for 8 months
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is trying one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, before calling it quits. The rover has been silent for eight months, victim of one of the most intense dust storms in decades. Thick dust darkened the sky last summer and, for months,...
Kansas declares staffing emergency at most crowded prison
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas declared an emergency Tuesday at its most crowded maximum-security state prison over what Gov. Laura Kelly called “serious staffing shortages” inside a lockup that’s had multiple inmate disturbances over the past two years. But Kelly acknowledged that the most immediate effect of the declaration — longer...
World’s oldest known wild bird hatches chick on Midway Atoll
HONOLULU — The oldest known wild bird in the world has become a mother again at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. wildlife officials said. The Laysan albatross named Wisdom hatched a chick earlier this month at the remote atoll northwest of Hawaii, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday. Wisdom...
Ex-boyfriend confesses to slaying of woman found dead inside suitcase
GREENWICH, Conn. — An ex-boyfriend of Valerie Reyes is in federal custody after prosecutors say he confessed to the slaying of the 24-year-old New Rochelle, N.Y., woman, whose body was stuffed inside a suitcase and dumped on the side of the road in Greenwich a week ago. Detectives from Connecticut...
Wisconsin judge tosses wrestler’s suspension, worrying refs
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin judge overturned a high school wrestler’s suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct after the student’s parents took legal action, worrying referees and the state’s athletic association that officiating decisions could be undermined by courts. At issue is a Feb. 2 wrestling contest in which the victor was suspended...
Texas sheriff: 2 malnourished children found in dog cage
DECATUR, Texas — Sheriff’s deputies discovered four malnourished children, including two locked inside a dog cage, when they responded to a domestic disturbance at a Northeast Texas home. Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin says deputies found the children aged 5 and younger Tuesday morning at the home near Rhome, about...
At major colleges, sexual assaults most likely off-campus
WASHINGTON — At some of the nation’s largest universities, the vast majority of sexual assaults take place not in dorm rooms or even on school property, but in the neighborhoods beyond campus boundaries, according to data obtained by The Associated Press. But the schools’ obligation to investigate and respond to...
Man who dumped 400-pound, headless tuna in woods pleads guilty, fined $16,000
A fisherman’s plans went adrift when he caught a fish out of season and disposed of the evidence in the woods. Harold Wentworth, 41, of Gloucester, Mass., pleaded guilty on Monday for catching a bluefin tuna worth an estimated $10,000, The Salem News reports. Surveillance footage showed the fish being...
Scientists reveal climate forecast for 2080 — and it’s a whole lot warmer
Scientists have just revealed the climate forecast for the year 2080 in hundreds of cities across North America, and — surprise! — it looks like it’s going to get a whole lot warmer in all of them. If humanity continues to emit greenhouse gases at the same rate it does...
Rare, tiny monkey stolen from Palm Beach Zoo
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Police in Florida are on the lookout for a little monkey, stolen from the Palm Beach Zoo. Zoo spokeswoman Naki Carter announced Tuesday that 12-year-old Kali, a rare Goeldi’s monkey, was taken from the zoo in West Palm Beach on Monday. A zookeeper discovered the...
U.S. jury convicts Mexican drug lord El Chapo on all counts
NEW YORK – Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a...
Police investigating shots that broke synagogue’s windows
LIMA, Ohio — Police are investigating several shots that broke windows at a synagogue in Ohio. Officers in Lima say they believe it’s a case of vandalism and not a hate crime. They say it appears that several windows at the Temple Beth Israel-Shaare Zedek synagogue were broken Friday night...
Archaeologists discover ancient workshop in Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO — Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered an ancient workshop used to build and repair ships that dates back to the Ptolemaic era (332 B.C.-30 B.C.) in the Sinai Peninsula. The Antiquities Ministry says Tuesday that excavations took place in the Tel Abu Saifi archaeological site in Northern Sinai. The...
Police: Man charged with DUI in funeral procession crash
LILBURN, Ga. — A hearse was struck and flipped several times during a funeral procession in metro Atlanta and police say the man who hit it is charged with DUI, drug and traffic offenses. News outlets cite a Lilburn police report as saying Troy Hickey is accused of ignoring officers...
Trump undecided on tentative border deal in Congress, official says
President Donald Trump hasn’t decided if he’ll support the bipartisan congressional agreement on border security that’s contingent on him accepting less wall construction money than he’s been demanding as a way to avert another government shutdown, an administration official said. The White House is waiting to review the full language...
Police: Pot smokers find caged tiger in abandoned house
HOUSTON — Houston police say some people who went into an abandoned home to smoke marijuana found a caged tiger. They called police on Monday and the major offender animal cruelty unit and animal shelter volunteers arrived on the scene. Authorities nicknamed the tiger “Tyson” after the movie “The Hangover.”...
2 Parkland moms now divided over guns
PARKLAND, Fla. — It’s an image that has become emblematic of the Parkland school massacre : two terrified moms outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, one of them a tall, weeping blonde with the black smudge of Ash Wednesday on her forehead, the other a petite redhead crying in despair on...
Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the talks. Republicans were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. They tentatively agreed Monday night to...
Historians challenge Va. governor’s ‘indentured servants’ remark
NORFOLK, Va. — Historians say they were “shocked” and “mystified” when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam wrongly used the term “indentured servants” Sunday in reference to the first Africans to arrive in English North America 400 years ago. Most historians abandoned use of the term in the 1990s after historical records...
Iranians mark anniversary of victory day in 1979 revolution
TEHRAN, Iran — Waving Iranian flags, chanting “Death to America” and burning U.S. and Israeli flags, hundreds of thousands of people poured out onto the streets across Iran on Monday, marking the date that’s considered victory day in the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. On Feb. 11 that year, Iran’s military...
