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Check your compass: The magnetic north pole is on the move
WASHINGTON — North isn’t quite where it used to be. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. On Monday, they released an update of where magnetic north really was,...
Hurricane Michael recovery has a big problem: People aren’t donating
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — More than three months after Hurricane Michael bludgeoned the beachside communities in the Panhandle, dozens of people crammed into the Messiah Lutheran Church on a recent Thursday. They were there to address enormous questions that hang over their largely lower-income part of the state. “Affordable Housing,”...
Colorado deputies charged with manslaughter in man’s death
DENVER — Two Colorado sheriff’s deputies were charged with manslaughter Monday in the death of a 23-year-old man they handcuffed and placed face-down on the floor of a police van while he was taken to a detox facility in Boulder, prosecutors said. The man spent 16 minutes in that position...
Iraqi leaders reject Trump’s plan to use their country as a base against Iran
Iraq’s constantly squabbling politicians were united in umbrage Monday when President Trump said the United States would maintain a military presence in Iraq to keep an eye on Iran. “Don’t overburden Iraq with your own issues. … Do not pursue your own policy priorities, we live here,” said Iraqi President...
$10M bond set for man accused of shooting Ohio deputies
BATAVIA, Ohio — A man accused of luring authorities with threats of killing himself and then fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy and wounding another deputy who tried to help him during a 12-hour standoff in Ohio had his bond set at $10 million Monday. A shackled Wade Edward Winn, who...
Video aids recapture of MMA fighter suspected in killings
DALLAS — An MMA fighter suspected in two murders who escaped from a prison van near Houston was recaptured less than a mile away still wearing his jail-issued orange jumpsuit in part thanks to a local company’s surveillance video, police said Monday. Cedric Joseph Marks escaped from the van Sunday...
U.S. prepares to start building portion of Texas border wall
HOUSTON — The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property. Heavy construction equipment was expected to arrive starting Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. A photo...
5 reasons why autonomous cars aren’t coming anytime soon
PITTSBURGH — In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon. An optimistic assessment...
41 Virginia college athletes escape bus before explosion
WILSON, N.C. — Dozens of athletes from a Virginia college were able to evacuate a charter bus before it exploded in North Carolina. News outlets cite a statement from Wilson County Emergency Management that says 41 track and field athletes from Hampton University were traveling home on Saturday night from...
Iraqi president slams Trump’s remarks about staying in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s president on Monday criticized Donald Trump for saying he wants to keep U.S. troops in Iraq “to watch Iran,” saying the U.S. leader did not ask Iraq’s permission to do so. “We find these comments strange,” said Barham Salih, speaking at a forum in Baghdad. Salih said...
Virginia gov. resists resignation call over blackface photo
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was clinging to office Monday morning amid nearly unanimous calls from his own party to resign over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, after a bizarre weekend in which he first admitted he was in the picture, and then denied...
5 die, 2 hospitalized when plane parts hit California house
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighborhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said Sunday. The male pilot, who was the only person in the twin-engine...
Detainee on hunger strike details force-feeding
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed there are now nine men — up from six earlier this week — being force-fed under court order in a detention center in El Paso. One of the hunger strikers, a 22-year-old man from India who called The Associated Press on Friday, described...
Boy, 4, finds gun and shoots pregnant mom in the face
SEATTLE — A 4-year-old boy in a Washington state apartment found a loaded gun under a mattress and used it to shoot his pregnant mother in the face, authorities said Sunday. The 27-year-old woman and her boyfriend were watching television in bed Saturday when their son found the gun between...
Pope Francis in United Arab Emirates for historic trip
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis landed Sunday in Abu Dhabi on the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula, where he is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while ministering to an unusual, thriving Catholic community. Francis earlier Sunday called for the urgent observation of...
Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage in U.S. immigration custody
ATLANTA — Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was taken into federal immigration custody early Sunday, authorities said. The artist, whose given name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested in a targeted operation in the Atlanta area involving local and federal law enforcement officers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan...
Kansas judge calls children the ‘aggressor’ in sex with 67-year-old man
Can children ages 13 and 14 years old be the aggressors in a sexual encounter with a 67-year-old man? A Leavenworth County, Kan., judge said he thought so when he reduced the prison sentence for a man who paid for sex with young girls he solicited on the internet. District...
Trump: NFL people thankful he signed criminal justice bill
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said “a lot of people” from the NFL have been calling and thanking him for signing legislation addressing concerns with the criminal justice system. Trump also said during an interview broadcast Sunday that he and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have set aside...
Trump expecting Patriots to capture 6th Super Bowl trophy
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump expects the New England Patriots to win a sixth Super Bowl trophy Sunday. He calls quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick the best ever and says the New Orleans Saints were victims of a “terrible” call that possibly kept them...
Changed Supreme Court weighing Louisiana abortion clinic law
WASHINGTON — The outcome of a fight over a Louisiana law regulating abortion providers could signal whether a fortified conservative majority on the Supreme Court is willing to cut back on abortion rights. The high court is expected to decide in the next few days whether the state can begin...
Virginia governor digs in, says he wasn’t in racist photo
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s insistence that no, on further consideration, that’s not him in the racist photo that appeared on his 1984 medical school yearbook page did nothing to quell the clamor from his own party Sunday for him to resign. In fact, the Democrat’s stunning about-face...
MMA fighter wanted in killings captured after escaping van
CONROE, Texas — An MMA fighter suspected of killing two people, including an ex-girlfriend, was captured Sunday after escaping from a prisoner transport van in Texas, authorities said. Cedric Marks was taken into custody after a nine-hour manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies, Conroe police Lt. Scott Spencer said in...
1 deputy killed, another wounded in 12-hour standoff in Ohio
CINCINNATI — A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during a 12-hour standoff at an apartment complex in Ohio that left another deputy wounded and a suspect in custody, authorities said Sunday. Capt. Jeff Sellars of the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office said officers responded about 7 p.m. Saturday to the...
Trump says he wouldn’t steer son Barron toward football
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he wouldn’t steer son Barron toward football, saying it’s “a dangerous sport,” but also wouldn’t stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads. The NFL fan tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview taped before the...
Protesters pushed back at New York federal jail where power went out
NEW YORK — Some demonstrators protesting the lack of heat and electricity at a federal detention center in New York City attempted to enter the facility Sunday, and witnesses said guards drove them back with pushes, shoves and pepper spray. A reporter and photographer for The Associated Press were at...
