Trump: Don’t fall for Democrat Lamb’s moderate talk
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump told western Pennsylvania voters Saturday night that his new tariffs were saving the steel industry and urged...
Vet in California attack had trouble after return from war
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The man who killed three women after a daylong siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular...
Trump uses page from ‘smart policymaking 101′ on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — A smartphone app that lets Medicare patients access their claims information. Giving consumers a share of drug company rebates for their prescriptions....
The Latest: Guardian: Shooter had been person of integrity
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting at a California veterans center (all times local): 6:45 p.m. The former guardian of an...
China’s move to end Xi term limits blanketed in censorship
BEIJING (AP) — The day China’s ruling Communist Party unveiled a proposal to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely as Mao Zedong did a...
Shooter saw vets program as path to heal after deployment
When Albert Wong returned from an Army deployment in Afghanistan in 2013, he knew it had affected him. He had trouble adjusting to regular life,...
Gun background check system riddled with flaws
SEATTLE (AP) — Recent mass shootings have spurred Congress to try to improve the nation’s gun background check system that has failed on numerous occasions...
Critics across partisan divide assail Florida’s new gun law
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The political and legal fallout from Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s decision to sign a sweeping gun bill into law following a...
Veterans home workers remembered as devoted caregivers
After a work conference, Maura Turner was looking forward to a girls’ weekend with her close friend, Christine Loeber, a social worker and executive director...
Afghanistan war impacted Army vet behind California attack
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Army veteran who killed three women after a siege in California had long dreamed of serving his country in the...
Trump: Voters must support GOP in Pittsburgh-area House race
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump told western Pennsylvania voters Saturday night that his new tariffs were saving the steel industry and urged...
Trump believes North Korea will keep word on missile tests
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes North Korea will abide by its pledge to suspend missile tests while he prepares for...
Trump’s cheeseburger in Japan still drawing lines
TOKYO (AP) — Haruyuki Sano traveled 1 ½ hours for a taste of the same cheeseburger U.S. President Donald Trump ate with Japan’s prime minister...
Bank robber with poor spelling skills pleads guilty
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man authorities dubbed the “spelling bee bandit” because the notes he passed to tellers during multiple bank robberies in the...
Cards Against Humanity says it’s fighting border wall
HOUSTON (AP) — The party game Cards Against Humanity says it’s bought U.S.-Mexico border land and hired a lawyer to try to stop President Donald...
Drive-thru-window becomes squeeze-thru for McDonald’s thief
COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — A McDonald’s drive-thru window became a squeeze-thru window for a woman who apparently needed a fast food fix. A surveillance video...
Small town Connecticut election decided by coin toss
BOLTON, Conn. (AP) — An election for the governing board of a small Connecticut town has been decided by a coin toss. The Journal-Inquirer reports...
Correction: MOMA-Stolen Art story
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Nov. 12 about the theft of photographs from a museum in New York, The Associated Press erroneously reported...
California woman leads officers on second chase in 2 days
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say the same woman led officers on vehicle chases through Southern California on back-to-back days. The Orange County Register reports...
Billionaire Norwegian given $30,400 drunken driving fine
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner ($30,400) fine for drunken driving — but can still count herself lucky....
Suspect dances for Texas officers before police dog ends jig
HOUSTON (AP) — A man who led police on a nearly 20-mile chase through Houston was taken into custody only after dancing for a time...
Man gets his dying wish: To be buried with 2 cheesesteaks
PLAINS, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who always joked that he wanted to take something to eat when he died has gotten his wish....
Navy plane traces obscene sky drawing over Washington town
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Residents of the town of Okanogan, Washington, got quite an air show courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Officials for Naval Air...
Man gets his dying wish: To be buried with cheesesteaks
PLAINS, Pa. (AP) — A man who always joked that he didn’t want to venture into the afterlife hungry got his wish when he was...
NYC taxi drivers camp it up in playful pinup calendar
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City cabbies have been called a lot of things over the years … courteous, reckless, sometimes rude. But sexy?...
Phoenix man tries turning locomotive into a runaway train
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix man was close to turning a locomotive into his own runaway train. Police say 20-year-old Julio Rodriguez was arrested earlier...
Lawsuit: Couple detained after hibiscus mistaken for pot
SARVER, Pa. (AP) — A couple who say they were handcuffed for hours in a police patrol car after their hibiscus plants were confused for...
Finns scramble to calculate path of blazing Arctic meteorite
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finnish experts are scrambling to calculate the trajectory of a blazing fireball that lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland...
Navy grounds air crew that made vulgar drawing in sky
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The air crew who used their U.S. Navy warplane to create a vulgar sky writing above the town of Okanogan, Washington,...
‘Cone Weed’ gets Christmas makeover in North Carolina town
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — At first, it was an orange traffic cone with a weed growing out of it. Now, the roadside attraction dubbed “Cone...
100 full moons: Blazing fireball lights up Arctic sky
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was “the...
Welcome to Gattaca: Your employer has all your medical records!
(Bloomberg)- Documents stolen from Sony Corp. by hackers include detailed and identifiable health information on more than three dozen employees, their children or spouses —...
Nazi’s example of “Perfect Aryan Child” was Jewish
(Washington Post)- The newlyweds came to Berlin as students, a pair of Latvian Jews who wanted to make it big in singing. In 1934, just after Adolf Hitler took...
Planned Parenthood Gives Clinic Award for ‘Exceeding Abortion Visits’ of Previous Year
(CNS News)- Proving once and for all that Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains gave its Aurora abortion clinic an...
‘Reading Rainbow’ breaks Kickstarter record for most backers
(USA Today)- Reading Rainbow‘s Kickstarter campaign has the most backers ever for the online crowdfunding site. The campaign to create a Web version of the...
NOAA changes climate records after they get nailed manipulating them
(Daily Caller)- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, criticized for manipulating temperature records to create a warming trend, has now been caught warming the past...
BRAZIL BEAT: Americans on edge of their seats
SAO PAULO (AP) — Actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson shared a family photo on Twitter, everybody on the edges of their seats for the...
As Israel buries teens, new threats against Hamas
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister threatened Tuesday to take even tougher action against Hamas following an intense wave of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip,...
BRAZIL BEAT: Trains delayed before Sao Paulo match
SAO PAULO (AP) — Passengers were briefly walking along the tracks when a train in Sao Paulo broke down Tuesday morning, delaying the start of...
Regulators accuse T-Mobile of bogus billing
WASHINGTON (AP) — T-Mobile US became the target of a federal investigation and lawsuit Tuesday amid allegations that it bilked potentially hundreds of millions of...
Militant urges Muslims to build Islamic state
BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of the extremist group that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria has called on Muslims around the world to...
Belgium and US 0-0 at halftime at World Cup
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — The United States held tough against Belgium’s pressure and went into halftime even at 0-0 in the second round of the...
Pro-Russian rebels capture police HQ in Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Interior Ministry headquarters in eastern Ukraine’s largest city fell to pro-Russia separatists Tuesday after a five-hour gunbattle that erupted hours...
BRAZIL BEAT: Friendly waffles-for-pancakes wager
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — In the great tradition of food bets between political leaders, Matthew Barzun, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, has challenged his Belgian...
Justices sometimes do agree: Your privacy matters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling...
Dems hope decision will energize female supporters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their Senate majority in peril, anxious Democrats have seized the Supreme Court decision that some companies need not provide birth control to...
Fighting engulfs key city as Ukraine truce ends
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rifle shots rang out Tuesday in the streets of the largest city in eastern Ukraine and panicked residents fled gunbattles as...
BRAZIL BEAT: Technical difficulties for Deschamps
RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil (AP) — France coach Didier Deschamps had a spot of microphone trouble during his World Cup news conference Tuesday. First, the sound...
Kompany fit to start for Belgium against US
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Belgium captain Vincent Kompany will start the World Cup match against the United States after struggling with a groin strain for...
BRAZIL BEAT: Argentina fans take over Sao Paulo
SAO PAULO (AP) — Every time Pele was shown on the giant video screen, the crowd booed. More than 20,000 Argentina supporters made the Sao...