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French beaches at dawn set scene for solemn D-Day observance
Jun 06, 2019 by Rick Watts
By JOHN LEICESTER and RAF CASERT OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The five beaches are silent at dawn but forever haunted. When the sun rises Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled…
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Cuba restrictions hit cruise lines at the start of summer
Jun 05, 2019 by Rick Watts
By DAVID KOENIG and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration’s new restrictions on travel to Cuba will hit hardest at the cruise industry, taking away a new and increasingly popular destination at…
Trump turns from pomp to business in UK visit
Jun 04, 2019 by Rick Watts
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and KEVIN FREKING LONDON (AP) — Moving from pageantry to policy during his state visit to Britain, President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged embattled Prime Minister Theresa May to “stick around” to…
Kevin Spacey shows up for hearing in groping case
Jun 03, 2019 by Rick Watts
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Kevin Spacey made an unusual appearance Monday at a Massachusetts courthouse where his attorney demanded access to the cellphone of the young man who has accused the…
Year-round sales of gasoline mixed with 15% ethanol OK’d
May 31, 2019 by Rick Watts
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Trump administration is following through on a plan to allow year-round sales of gasoline mixed with 15% ethanol. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the change Friday, ending a summertime ban…
The Latest: 200 Illinois guardsmen deployed amid flooding
May 30, 2019 by Rick Watts
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on flooding affecting parts of the United States (all times local): 10:45 a.m. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has deployed 200 members of the Illinois National Guard to respond to…
Door-to-door checks after tornado damage in Missouri capital
May 23, 2019 by Rick Watts
By DAVID A. LIEB JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A tornado tore apart buildings in Missouri’s capital city as part of an overnight outbreak of severe weather across the state that left at least three…
Probe inconclusive on racist picture in governor’s yearbook
May 22, 2019 by Rick Watts
By BEN FINLEY and ALAN SUDERMAN NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface…
Tornadoes flip campers, damage homes in Southern Plains
May 21, 2019 by Rick Watts
By KEN MILLER OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A tornado touched down Tuesday near Tulsa International Airport, injuring at least one person and damaging about a dozen homes, amid storms in the Southern Plains that brought…
Speaker stuns 2019 Morehouse grads, to pay off student debt
May 20, 2019 by Rick Watts
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK A billionaire technology investor stunned the entire graduating class at Morehouse College when he announced at their commencement Sunday that he would pay off their student loans __ estimated at up…
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