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Defense Secretary orders military leaders to address extremism in ranks
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is ordering military leaders to spend time talking to their troops about extremism in the ranks, after a number of former and current military members took part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month. Chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Austin met...
Feds: ‘Sergeant of Arms’ of Proud Boys arrested in Washington state
SEATTLE — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man who describes himself as the “Sergeant of Arms” of the Seattle chapter of the far-right group Proud Boys, after he was charged in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month. Ethan Nordean, who is also known as Rufio...
Wisconsin prosecutors seek Kyle Rittenhouse’s arrest, higher bond
MADISON, Wis. — Prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday for a new arrest warrant for an Illinois teen charged with shooting three people, killing two of them, during a protest over police brutality in Wisconsin after he apparently violated his bail conditions. Kyle Rittenhouse failed to inform the court of his...
Congress honors Officer Brian Sicknick’s heroic defense of the CapitolVideo
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, top military brass, President Joe Biden and hundreds of Capitol Police officers paid their respects to officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered fatal injuries when defending the Capitol from the violent insurrection on Jan. 6. A wooden box with Sicknick’s remains was carried up the illuminated...
Canada designates the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity
TORONTO — The Canadian government designated the Proud Boys group as a terrorist entity on Wednesday, noting they played a pivotal role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The Proud Boys have faced increased scrutiny after seizing on the former Trump administration’s policies and was a...
Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in U.S. courts over claims that property was taken from Jews during the Nazi era. The justices sided with Germany in a dispute...
Justice Department drops its Yale discrimination lawsuit
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action, filed in October under the Trump administration. A...
U.S. extends sole remaining nuclear arms treaty with Russia
The United States joined Russia on Wednesday in extending the two countries’ last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement the U.S. would use the five years of the New START...
China not convinced by Canada’s Wu-Tang Clan explanation
BEIJING — A ruckus brought by China over Canadian T-shirts bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang clan continued Wednesday, with China’s Foreign Ministry saying it didn’t buy Canada’s explanation that the shirts were not an insult linked to the coronavirus. Canada’s Foreign Ministry said this...
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood faces allegations of illegal voting
ATLANTA — Georgia election officials opened an investigation Tuesday into whether L. Lin Wood, a prominent attorney who has promoted conspiracy theories about the presidential election, voted illegally in November. The secretary of state’s office confirmed the investigation after WSB-TV first reported that Wood had moved to South Carolina. Wood...
Capitol Police officer who died after riot lies in honorVideo
WASHINGTON — Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor Tuesday night in the U.S. Capitol, allowing his colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects and to remember the violent attack on Congress that took his life. Sicknick died after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6...
SpaceX’s 2nd Starship test flight ends with another kaboomVideo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s second full test flight of its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship ended in another fiery crash landing Tuesday. Elon Musk’s company launched its latest Starship prototype from the southeastern tip of Texas, two months after the previous test ended in an equally explosive belly flop. The full-scale...
Pentagon chief purges defense boards; Trump loyalists out
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen last-minute appointments under the Trump administration. During the last two months of his tenure, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher...
Vaccinations resume as not-quite-historic snowstorm fadesVideo
BOSTON — Coronavirus vaccination sites across the Northeast ramped back up Tuesday after a two-day snowstorm that also shut down public transport, closed schools and stranded travelers with canceled flights. Some officials said that since vaccine supplies were thin to begin with, they didn’t anticipate having big problems getting caught...
Boy, 11, told cops who killed his mom, sister before he died
MINNEAPOLIS — An 11-year-old Minnesota boy who had been shot five times was able to tell officers before he died that his mother’s boyfriend shot him and killed his mother and sister, according to criminal charges filed Tuesday. Tekeith Jones, 26, was charged with three counts of second-degree intentional murder...
Oklahoma man jailed for shooting deaths of 5 kids, brotherVideo
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A 25-year-old Oklahoma man remained in custody Wednesday on first-degree murder complaints for the killings of his brother and five young children, police said. Police in Muskogee said they don’t yet know why Jarron Deajon Pridgeon fatally shot Javarion Lee, 24, or the children, the oldest of...
2 FBI agents fatally shot, 3 wounded while serving warrant in FloridaVideo
SUNRISE, Fla. — Two agents were shot and killed and three wounded while serving a warrant at a Sunrise home Tuesday morning, the FBI confirmed. After barricading himself in the home for several hours, the suspected gunman is believed to have shot and killed himself, one law-enforcement source said. Sunrise...
Explainer: Why did the military stage a coup in Myanmar?Video
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A coup in Myanmar has left the military in control under a one-year state of emergency, while the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians have been detained. Here’s a look at what could be behind the military’s actions. Why now? Monday...
Police: 6 killed at Oklahoma home, person taken into custody
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Six people were killed early Tuesday in Oklahoma, including five children, and a person with a gun was taken into custody, police said. Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to a call of multiple people shot at a home in Muskogee, about 45 miles southeast of Tulsa, police...
Iran: Sailors from seized South Korean tanker to be released
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s foreign ministry said Tuesday the sailors from a South Korean tanker seized in the Persian Gulf by Iranian troops last month are free to leave the country, state TV reported. Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said a legal investigation into the tanker and its captain would continue....
Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to prison
MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings...
Rochester suspends officers who pepper-sprayed 9-year-old girlVideo
The city of Rochester has suspended police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical “irritant” in the face of a distraught and handcuffed 9-year-old girl, officials announced Monday. The city did not specify how many officers were suspended. The suspensions will last at least until an internal police investigation...
Devoted Browns fan cuts hair after 6 years to celebrate winning season
SANDUSKY, Ohio — For years, Cleveland Browns season ticket holder and devoted fan, Jeff Panovich, has let his hair grow as his team saw losing season after losing season. That changed this year with the Browns ending the regular season 12-5, so Panovich got his first hair cut in six...
St. Louis police: Carjacker tossed 1-year-old out of vehicleVideo
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police are looking for suspects after armed robbers stole a woman’s car then threw her 1-year-old son out of the vehicle. The crime occurred around 3 a.m. Sunday. Police say a 22-year-old woman was sitting at a stoplight in north St. Louis with two men...
‘A long two days’: Major storm pummels Northeast with heavy snowVideo
NEW YORK — A sprawling, lumbering winter storm walloped the Eastern part of the country on Monday, shutting down coronavirus vaccination sites, closing schools and halting transit as snow piled up from the Appalachians to New England, with the heaviest accumulations yet to come in many places. With flakes falling...
