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2 more Puerto Rico officials fired after warehouse break-in

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Gov. Wanda Vzquez fired the heads of Puerto Rico's housing and family departments Sunday in the latest fallout over the discovery of a warehouse filled with emergency supplies ...

Jan 21, 2020

Bugs on snack menu for 1 night at Juneau movie theatre

JUNEAU, Alaska - Three boys sat rapt in their theatre seats beaming at a selection of snacks. The reason for the excitement wasn't butter popcorn or Red Vines. Orrin Noon, 10, Arlo Davis, 11 and Axel ...

Jan 21, 2020

Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors...

Jan 21, 2020

US gets 1st case of mysterious new Chinese illness

SEATTLE - A U .S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus that has sparked an outbreak and stringent monitoring around the world. The man retur...

Jan 21, 2020

Lawyer says 'loving' emails' are key to Weinstein defence

NEW YORK - Defence lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorney...

Jan 21, 2020

Violence in northern Syria kills 17, including whole family

BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of northwestern Syria and the shelling of government-held areas killed at least 17 people Tuesday, including an entire family, Syrian opposition activists said....

Jan 21, 2020

Phoenix police: 3 children found dead, mother arrested

PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her three children, who were found dead inside the family home, authorities said Tuesday. The 22-year-old mother, whose name has not...

Jan 21, 2020

Brazilian broadcast executive gets probation in FIFA scandal

NEW YORK - A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Brazilian broadcast executive Jose Margulies to two years' probation on Tuesday for acting as an intermediary in a scheme to exchange bribes for the me...

Jan 21, 2020

At 90, Native Alaska woman will be 1st counted in US Census

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska - Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing ...

Jan 21, 2020

Impeachment arguments as seen by Democrats, Trump team

WASHINGTON - Legal filings to the Senate have laid out the arguments that will be made in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, where he faces two distinct allegations of abuse of power and obst...

Jan 21, 2020