The Associated Press MANCHESTER, Pa.–Pandemonium broke out at a southern Pennsylvania supermarket when a rogue deer smashed through its glass entrance and briefly ran amok. The doe burst into a Giant grocery store in the borough of Manchester on Monday, The York Daily Record reported. Once surprised shoppers figured out […]
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The Associated Press MANCHESTER, Pa. — Pandemonium broke out at a southern Pennsylvania supermarket when a rogue deer smashed through its glass entrance and briefly ran amok. The doe burst into a Giant grocery store in the borough of Manchester on Monday, The York Daily Record reported (http://bit.ly/2lsjYCT ). Once […]
By Tom Hays And Jake Pearson The Associated Press NEW YORK — A prolific foreign hacker behind cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million is facing sentencing by a U.S. judge in a conviction considered an unusual win for law enforcement officials who have identified hundreds of others like him […]
By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations is on hold after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban, allowing previously barred travellers to […]
By Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON — With Jeff Sessions sworn in as the nation’s attorney general, the Trump administration signalled some of its priorities for a revamped Justice Department in a series of executive orders aimed at reducing crime and drug trafficking and protecting police officers. One executive […]
The Associated Press NEW DELHI — A textbook has sparked outrage in India for instructing fourth-graders to put a kitten in an unventilated box and wait for it to die to show that living beings need air. The experiment described in the environmental science textbook for 9-year-olds tells the students […]
By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK — After many years of divisiveness, the Boy Scouts of America have opened their ranks to gay and transgender boys. Yet a different membership dispute persists: a long-shot campaign to let girls join the BSA so they have a chance to earn […]
The Associated PressVivian SalamaKen Thomas WASHINGTON–U.S. President Donald Trump’s extended criticism of the judiciary prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court, who told a senator the president’s comments were “demoralizing and disheartening.” Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump to the nation’s high court last week, […]
The Associated PressMary EschDavid Klepper ALBANY, N.Y.–Growing evidence of a link between football hits and brain injuries has led all 50 states to pass laws aimed at protecting young people from concussions. But a New York lawmaker wants to go even further: banning tackle football. “Football is the only major […]
By Josh Lederman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Two U.S. government-funded news outlets are launching a global Russian-language TV network aimed at providing an alternative to slick, Kremlin-controlled media that critics say spread propaganda and misinformation. Current Time, run by Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with help from Washington-based Voice […]
The Associated Press HENRYETTA, Okla. — A small Oklahoma town is echoing the story line of ‘80s movie “Footloose” by cancelling a Valentine’s Day dance because of an arcane city ordinance enforcing a strict moral code. KTUL-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2logzET ) that the organizer cancelled the dance in Henryetta because it […]
By Vivian Salama And Ken Thomas The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s extended criticism of the judiciary prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court, who told a senator the president’s comments were “demoralizing and disheartening.” Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump to the […]
