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New storm Zeta a hurricane threat to Mexico, U.S. Gulf CoastVideo
MIAMI — Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and will probably become a hurricane before hitting Mexico’s resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast in coming days. Zeta was the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded in an already historic hurricane season. The system...
Trump aide says ‘we’re not going to control the pandemic’Video
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — The coronavirus has reached into the heart of the White House once more, less than a week before Election Day, as it scorches the nation and the president’s top aide says “we’re not going to control the pandemic.” Officials on Sunday scoffed at the notion of dialing...
Pope Francis names first Black cardinal in the U.S.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a surprise announcement from his studio window to faithful standing below in St. Peter’s Square, Francis said the...
1 million could lose power as California winds whip up
SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California officials urged residents to leave homes in the hills, secure backyard furniture and other loose items and have an evacuation plan ready ahead of powerful winds that could lead to widespread electricity outages and leave more than 1 million people in the dark. Pacific Gas...
Chief: Illinois officer who shot Black couple in car fired
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A suburban Chicago police officer who shot a Black couple inside a vehicle — killing a 19-year-old man and wounding his girlfriend — has been fired, the police chief announced late Friday. The officer who fatally shot Marcellis Stinnette and the wounded Tafara Williams following what authorities...
California prosecutors again seek death for Scott Peterson
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California prosecutors said Friday they again will seek the death penalty for Scott Peterson even as a county judge considers throwing out his conviction for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, because of juror misconduct during a 2005 trial that riveted the nation. Stanislaus County Assistant District...
Family of slain Utah college student confronts her killer
SALT LAKE CITY — Family members of a Utah college student who was found strangled and burned last year following a search for her that captured the nation’s attention called the man who pleaded guilty to her murder a “monster” Friday as they confronted him before he was sentenced to...
Navy training plane crashes in Alabama; injuries unclear
FOLEY, Ala. — A U.S. Navy training plane that took off from Florida crashed Friday in an Alabama residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, authorities said. Officials did not immediately release information about possible fatalities, but said no one on the ground was hurt. Foley Fire Chief Joey Darby said...
FBI joins investigation into fatal Illinois police shooting
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The FBI will join Illinois State Police in investigating a police shooting in suburban Chicago that killed a Black man who was a passenger in a vehicle and wounded the Black female driver, a prosecutor announced Friday. Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim said he asked the...
Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first...
Judge: Michigan agency can evaluate Great Lakes tunnel plan
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The Michigan Public Service Commission has some authority over Enbridge’s plans to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the channel that connects two of the Great Lakes, a state administrative law judge ruled Friday. The agency can evaluate the need for the project and whether it...
Some hospitals in crisis as U.S. nears high for covid-19 cases
BOISE, Idaho — The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease’s grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to the Rocky Mountain West reel under the surge. The impact is being felt in every...
Art exhibit in Chadwick Boseman’s hometown honors legacy
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s a hole in Anderson, South Carolina. It opened suddenly in August when Chadwick Boseman, one of the city’s favorite sons and an international star for his role as the Black Panther, died after a quiet battle with cancer at just 43 years old. Two months later,...
Poles vent fury at court’s further restrictions on abortions
WARSAW, Poland — Throngs of protesters vented anger Friday across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. Police vans and units in riot gear were dispatched to guard the Warsaw home of the leader...
Ohio announces pandemic grants, governor denounces threats
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Small businesses, bars and restaurants, low-income renters, arts groups, and colleges and universities are among those eligible for $429 million in federal pandemic dollars being released by the state next week, Gov. Mike DeWine and his fellow Republican legislative leaders announced Friday. The aid package, which the...
Washington state discovers 1st ‘murder hornet’ nest in U.S.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees, officials said. Workers with the state Agriculture Department spent weeks searching, trapping and using dental floss to tie tracking...
U.S. suicide rate fell last year after decade of steady rise
The U.S. suicide rate fell slightly last year, the first annual decline in more than a decade, according to new government data. It’s a small decrease and the data is preliminary, but the decline is “really exciting,” said Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide...
Trump tells Congress of intent to take Sudan off terror list
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he has informed Congress of his intent to formally remove Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for the African nation transferring $335 million into an escrow account for American terror victims and their families. The move...
Battleground postal delays persist with mail voting underway
U.S. Postal Service records show delivery delays have persisted across the country as millions of Americans are voting by mail, raising the possibility of ballots being rejected because they arrive too late. Postal data through Oct. 9, the latest numbers available, show nearly all the agency’s delivery regions missing its...
White House Halloween event Sunday tweaked for coronavirus
WASHINGTON — Ghosts, goblins and other costumed kids are welcome to trick or treat at the White House on Sunday during a Halloween event that has been reworked to include coronavirus precautions. The gates to the South Lawn will be opened to children from military families, frontline workers and others,...
Census takers fall short of target goal in areas of U.S.
ORLANDO, Fla. — From tribal lands in Arizona and New Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana, census workers who go door to door were unable to reach all the households they needed for a complete tally of the U.S. population, a count that ended abruptly last week after a Supreme Court ruling....
Man arrested in 1976 slaying in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man has been charged with rape and murder in the slaying of a South Carolina woman who was killed more than 40 years ago after DNA evidence linked him to the case, authorities said. Charles Ugvine Coleman, 65, was arrested Thursday and jailed in Fairfield County...
Georgia teen pleads guilty in plot to kill worshippers at Black church
ATLANTA — A teenage girl who plotted to kill members of a predominantly Black church in Gainesville pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon and apologized for her actions. Caitlyn Pye, now 17, was arrested last fall after authorities foiled her plan to attack worshippers at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. She entered...
2nd group of judges blocks Trump order on House seats count
For the second time in two months, a panel of federal judges on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted during the process of divvying up congressional seats by state. The decision from a panel of three district judges in California...
Another body found in search for Tulsa race massacre victims
OKLAHOMA CITY — The search for remains of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims on Thursday revealed another body in an unmarked mass grave at a Tulsa cemetery before coming to an end, Oklahoma’s state archaeologist said. “We are now able to confirm that we have at least 11 individual...
