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Portland protest clashes re-emerge near U.S. courthouse
PORTLAND, Ore. — Protesters and police clashed in downtown Portland in a demonstration that lasted into the predawn hours of Thursday, with some in the crowd setting a fire and exploding commercial grade fireworks outside a federal courthouse that’s been a target in months of conflict for Oregon’s largest city....
Pompeo, in Slovenia, pushes 5G security, warns about China
BLED, Slovenia — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Slovenia to make the case for high-speed wireless networks that bar Chinese companies like Huawei. On the second leg of a four-nation tour of central and eastern Europe, Pompeo was meeting Slovenian officials in the mountain lake town of...
Thousands in Belarus form ‘lines of solidarity’ in protest
MINSK, Belarus — Thousands of people were back on the streets of Belarus’ capital on Thursday to keep protesting against a vote that extended the 26-year rule of the country’s authoritarian leader, and against a brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations. In several areas of Minsk, hundreds of women formed long...
Air Force helicopter shot at while flying over Virginia, injuring 1
WASHINGTON — An Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at a Virginia airport this week when someone shot at it, injuring a member of the crew, local and military officials said. The UH-1N Huey helicopter is assigned to the 1st Helicopter Squadron at Joint Base Andrews....
‘Kicked in the teeth’: Devastation mounts from Midwest stormVideo
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The impact of a wind storm that tore through the Midwest continued to grow Wednesday, as widespread power outages kept businesses closed, limited communication, spoiled food and caused long lines at gas stations. The rare storm known as a derecho hit Monday, devastating parts of the...
Prosecutors charge 3 with threatening women in R. Kelly case
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting fire to a vehicle in Florida. A longtime friend of the indicted singer offered to pay a victim...
Feds get more time to weigh Boston Marathon bomber appeal
BOSTON — A federal appeals court has agreed to give prosecutors another month to decide their next step after the court tossed Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week said prosecutors can have until Sept. 14 to file a petition asking...
Scottish leader says injuries reported after train derails
LONDON — Police and paramedics were responding Wednesday to a train derailment in northeast Scotland, and smoke could be seen rising from the site. The British Transport Police force said officers were called at 9:43 a.m. to the railway line near Stonehaven, about 100 miles northeast of Edinburgh, where a...
Over 1,000 detained in latest Belarus election protestsVideo
MINSK, Belarus — Police detained over 1,000 people in Belarus during the latest protests against the results of the country’s presidential election, officials said Wednesday. Rallies took place in 25 Belarusian cities on Tuesday and overnight, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova told the Associated Press. Thousands have demonstrated in the...
China blasts U.S. for Taiwan visit while virus spreads at homeVideo
BEIJING — A Chinese official lashed out at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday for visiting Taiwan amid an ongoing pandemic back home, accusing him of putting politics ahead of the lives of the American people. The comments came a day after Azar accused China of...
Powerful storm leaves 2 dead, heavy crop damage in MidwestVideo
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without electricity on Tuesday after a powerful storm packing 100 mph winds battered the region a day earlier, causing widespread damage to millions of acres of crops and killing at least two people. The storm known as a derecho...
Video: Police tried to cuff 8-year-old boy at Florida schoolVideo
KEY WEST, Fla. — Civil rights lawyers sued the police and school district Tuesday in Key West over their treatment of an 8-year-old boy with special needs who was handcuffed, booked and briefly jailed on a felony battery charge after he was accused of punching a teacher who sought to...
AP sources: Man shot near White House had shouted threatsVideo
WASHINGTON — A man shot and wounded by a uniformed Secret Service officer, prompting President Donald Trump to be abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference, had been threatening to kill people near the White House, two officials familiar with the matter said Tuesday. But...
Cow chase leads to helicopter rescue in California’s Solano County
LOS ANGELES — Two people were injured and had to be airlifted out of a Solano County park over the weekend after they fell while trying to hoof it from an ornery cow, authorities said. The confrontation took place Sunday morning when two people came across a cow and a...
New York’s true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy
NEW YORK — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed facility. The truth, according to the home, is far worse: 21 dead, most transported to hospitals before...
Police look into claims that Indian army faked Kashmir gunbattle
SRINAGAR, India — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said Tuesday they are investigating allegations by three families that three of their relatives were killed by the military in a staged gunbattle and buried as unidentified militants. Police are taking “all necessary steps to ascertain facts” in the case, said Amritpal Singh,...
Police say 19 inmates, guards killed in Somalia prison riot
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Somali police officer says at least 19 people were killed during a riot in the central prison in Somalia’s capital on Monday evening. Abdiqani Mohamed Qalaf, spokesman for the police force in charge of prisons, told reporters the dead included 15 inmates and four guards. He...
Hurricane Elida grows off northern Mexico, no threat to land
MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Elida strengthened a little off Mexico’s northwestern coast on Tuesday, but forecasters said it was not expected to pose a threat to land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said storm, which reached hurricane force the evening before, had grown to have maximum sustained winds...
Man critically hurt in Toledo shooting captured on cellphone video
TOLEDO, Ohio — A man critically wounded in a shooting at a Toledo park apparently used a cellphone to record the incident, authorities said, and the video was posted to social media. The shooting at Winterfield Park occurred around 4:45 p.m. Monday, city police said. The video recorded the sound...
Student dead in shooting at Southern Arkansas University
MAGNOLIA, Ark. — A Southern Arkansas University student was killed another wounded in an early Tuesday shooting in a campus parking lot, the school said. “The incident is under investigation, but we know one student was killed and another injured” in the shooting at the campus in Magnolia, about 110...
3 face years in Burundi prison for stone-throwing at leader
NAIROBI, Kenya — Three people have been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Burundi after being accused of throwing stones at the president’s convoy. The sentence has caused an outcry, but the governor says he thinks there will be “changes in this affair” in the coming days. The two...
Scientists uneasy as Russia approves 1st coronavirus vaccineVideo
MOSCOW — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, a move that was met with international skepticism and unease because the shots have only been studied in dozens of people. President Vladimir Putin announced the Health Ministry’s approval and said one of his two adult...
Lebanese government resigns after Beirut blast, public angerVideo
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s prime minister stepped down from his job Monday in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut that has triggered public outrage, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in the country is “bigger than the state.” The move risks opening the way to dragged-out...
Trump administration begins vaccine pilot program
WASHINGTON — After months of remaining vague about its plans to distribute a covid-19 vaccine, the Trump administration is quietly piloting distribution working groups, CQ Roll Call has learned. The plan, which has not been made public, was confirmed by four state health departments. Federal officials from the Centers for...
Powerful derecho leaves path of devastation across MidwestVideo
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A rare wind storm with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest on Monday, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving tens of thousands without power. The storm known as a derecho lasted several hours as it tore across...
