By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On a frigid February morning, Vanity Cordero, a Philadelphia police officer, heard a call over the radio for a man threatening to jump from a bridge. The details sounded familiar. When Cordero arrived, she realized she’d met him months earlier on the same bridge, where she talked
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in
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By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 3 Evening” game were: 3, 4, 5 (three, four, five) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 1, 4, 8 (zero, one, four, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Kansas Pick 3 Evening” game were: 5, 6, 6 (five, six, six) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro, Salman Rushdie and Sandra Cisneros were honored Monday night at an Authors Guild dinner gala that celebrated the written word and its vital role in the preservation of democracy. “The world we live in is a house on fire and people we love
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 3” game were: 2, 3, 3 (two, three, three) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 4 Evening” game were: 5, 5, 8, 9 (five, five, eight, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 3 Evening” game were: 3, 5, 9 (three, five, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 5, 8, 30, 31, 34 (five, eight, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-four) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing of the “Missouri Show Me Ca$h” game were: 6, 8, 28, 33, 35 (six, eight, twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-five) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf y-Boston 58 20 .744 — 9-1 W-2 26-13 32-7 36-12 x-New York 50 28 .641 8 7-3 W-2 27-12 23-16 33-15 Toronto 29 50 .367 29½ 5-5 W-1 17-23 12-27 20-31 Brooklyn 25 53 .321 33 2-8 L-2 11-27
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China said Tuesday it would “fight to the end” and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S.‘s imposition of “so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’” on China is “completely groundless and is a
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The growing ranks of New Mexico voters with no party affiliation will be allowed to vote in primary elections without changing their nonpartisan status, under a bill signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The change runs counter to outcomes of election
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing of the “Missouri Cash Pop” game were: 1 (one) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID BILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict, according to the organization and officials who spoke to The
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies, Guatemala’s Culture and Sports Ministry announced Monday. The enormous city-state of
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By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press BEMMEL, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands expanded a government-run initiative on Monday allowing legal cannabis sales. While growing cannabis is still illegal, cannabis shops — known as coffeeshops — in 10 municipalities will be allowed to sell marijuana from 10 licensed producers. “Weed was sold here legally for 50 years,
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BOBRYK, Ukraine (AP) — As uncertainty in U.S.–Ukraine relations grows, informal ties with some U.S. philanthropists built over three years of war with Russia are holding firm. One such benefactor is Howard G. Buffett, a Republican and son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. He’s making his 18th
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation’s capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the administration had reached out to the
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over
Continue Reading By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that a special election to fill the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s seat won’t be held until November and defended the timing by renewing criticism of past Houston-area elections. Abbott’s announcement that the special election will be on
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