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DC gala shooting suspect aired grievances against Trump in writings to family
The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner railed against Trump adminis…
California cities crack down on ride-sharing firms
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ride-sharing companies Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are being threatened with legal action in San Francisco and Los Angeles over how they screen drivers and charge passengers, along with other busine…
Vitamin D variant may be key to treating pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is nasty, sneaky and nearly impervious to the effects of chemotherapy, and its dispiriting five-year survival rate of 6 percent has budged not at all in decades. But researchers at the Salk Instit…
Holder leaves mixed legacy
WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t difficult for Barack Obama and Eric Holder to be in the same orbit. Both were sons of immigrants, Columbia Ivy Leaguers, basketball fans and prominent African-American political figures.
Vegas sidewalk-chalk arrests spawn lawsuit
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The arrests of several protesters for writing anti-police messages with chalk on a sidewalk last year have spawned a federal civil rights lawsuit against Las Vegas police.
Virus probed in paralysis cases in children
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.
Ferguson police chief apologizes in video to Brown family
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri police chief whose officer fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old last month released a video Thursday apologizing to the family and the community, acknowledging that Michael Brown’s body…
Attorney General Eric Holder resigns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder, America’s first black attorney general and an unflinching champion of civil rights in enforcing the nation’s laws, announced his resignation Thursday after leading the Justice Departm…
Pilot avoids beach crowd, crash-lands in ocean
HONOLULU (AP) — A former Alaska bush pilot safely avoided beachgoers when he crash-landed his small airplane in the ocean just off a beach on Oahu’s North Shore after running out of fuel.
Teen crash victims' families drop suit against GM
DETROIT (AP) — The families of two Wisconsin teenagers killed in a car crash involving a faulty General Motors ignition switch have dropped their lawsuit against the company and are seeking a settlement with the au…
Cops: We saw ambush suspect, found his dirty diapers in woods
A suspect in the fatal ambush of a trooper has occasionally made himself visible to officers before melting back into the forest, and police found empty packs of Serbian-branded cigarettes and soiled diapers believ…
Pirate: $1.6 million ransom paid for journalist
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Negotiators paid a $1.6 million ransom for the release of a German-American journalist who was kidnapped in Somalia and held for two years and eight months, a commander of pirates who held…
Fisherman rescued after a week at sea
MEXICO CITY (AP) — People aboard a Mexican pleasure boat rescued a fisherman who had been adrift at sea for a week after his boat was swamped by Tropical Storm Polo.
Islamic extremists surrender in Nigeria, Cameroon
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Military authorities say hundreds of Islamic extremists have surrendered in Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon following the military’s recent victories with air and ground attacks.
Renewable energy plan hinges on huge caverns in Utah
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A proposal to export twice as much Wyoming wind power to Los Angeles as the amount of electricity generated by the Hoover Dam includes an engineering feat even more massive than that famous st…
Three charged with assault; lawyer denies homophobia as reason
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A defense lawyer for one of three young adults charged with beating a gay couple during a night on the town insisted the men were injured when a “fist fight ... got out of hand,” and not, as Phi…