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Dozens injured as Delta flight hits turbulence at 37,000 feet, diverts to Twin Cities

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MINNEAPOLIS — A Delta flight heading from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam encountered “significant” turbulence after take off Wednesday, sending beverage carts and other items flying through the cabin and leaving at least 25 people hurt.

Nine of the injured were taken to Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis after the Airbus A330-900 ...Read more

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Trump gives Mexico 90-day reprieve from higher tariffs

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump extended Mexico’s current tariff rates for 90 days to allow more time for trade negotiations, again relenting after threatening to raise levies on a major trading partner.

Earlier this month, the U.S. president had signaled plans to hike tariffs on Mexico’s exports to 30% from 25% starting Friday, ...Read more

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Magnitude 4.3 earthquake in San Bernardino County sends shaking across Southern California

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LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rumbled through Muscoy in San Bernardino County on Thursday morning, triggering shaking across the Inland Empire region, Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred at 9:32 a.m. at a depth of about 3.3 miles and was followed by a magnitude 3.1 quake...Read more

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'Least safe it has ever been,' witness says of Reagan airspace at NTSB hearing

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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — A witness criticized the safety of the airspace around Ronald Reagan National Airport since a mid-air crash in January, as National Transportation Safety Board officials examined whether the air traffic control tower at the airport was ill-equipped to handle the area’s heavy congestion.

“The airspace system, ...Read more

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Trump is getting his way in his global trade war, like it or not

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WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump rocked the economy with an unprecedented attack on global trade in April, the plan was dismissed as swaggering, capricious and unsustainable. Market meltdowns and price increases would teach the White House the true cost of its mistakes, economists warned.

Yet, four months later, Trump is largely ...Read more

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The 2 Florida girls who died in sailboat crash drowned, medical examiner says

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MIAMI — The two girls who died after a barge slammed into sailboat carrying five children and a camp counselor in Miami Beach accidentally drowned, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday.

The medical examiner identified the girls as Mila Yankelevich, 7, and Erin Victoria Ko Han, 13.

Mila was the granddaughter of two ...Read more

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Teacher charged in double murder at state park in Arkansas

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A teacher has been arrested for allegedly murdering a couple in Arkansas as they hiked with their two young daughters over the weekend, state police announced.

James McGann, a teacher who was recently hired by Springdale Public Schools for the upcoming school year, was getting his haircut at a salon in Springdale when he was arrested Wednesday ...Read more

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More than 1,000 National Guard troops leaving LA. Newsom says Trump's 'political theater backfired'

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LOS ANGELES — Nearly two months after President Donald Trump took the extraordinary step of deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell public unrest over immigration raids, the Pentagon on Wednesday announced that it was withdrawing more than 1,000 troops.

The departure of about 1,350 members of the National Guard, ordered by ...Read more

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Dozens injured as Delta flight hits turbulence at 37,000 feet, diverts to Twin Cities

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MINNEAPOLIS — A Delta flight heading from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam encountered “significant” turbulence after take off Wednesday, sending beverage carts and other items flying through the cabin and leaving at least 25 people hurt.

Nine of the injured were taken to Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis after the Airbus A330-900 ...Read more

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Emergency mental crisis holds won't stop gun purchases in Nevada

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LAS VEGAS — In Nevada, being placed on an emergency mental health crisis hold is not enough to prevent you from purchasing a gun in the future, experts say.

Questions have been raised about how Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old Las Vegas man, obtained a gun to carry out a mass shooting in a New York City skyscraper on Monday, killing a New York ...Read more

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs moves to throw out guilty verdicts in NYC sex crimes case

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NEW YORK — In an effort to get Sean “Diddy” Combs out from behind bars, lawyers for the hip-hop mogul have asked the judge presiding over his Manhattan sex crimes case to set aside the recent guilty verdicts against him or grant him a new trial.

In a late-night motion Wednesday, Combs’ legal team argued that his July 2 conviction in ...Read more

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2 weeks ago, she left a doctor's appointment with her baby. They haven't been found since

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The search continues for a California woman and her 8-month-old daughter who vanished while on their way home after a doctor's appointment, authorities and family said.

It's been more than two weeks since Whisper Owen and her daughter, Sandra McCarty, were last seen, according to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities say they have ...Read more

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Leftist lawmakers gather to answer a question: How to beat the global right?

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MEXICO CITY — In recent years, the far right has been remarkably organized, with leaders from far-flung countries sharing advisors, strategies and talking points.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, a gathering of right-wing activists and elected officials that started in the United States, has gone global, hosting mega-events in ...Read more

New York gunman said football damaged his brain. How at risk are youth athletes?

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LOS ANGELES — Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and padded shoulder pads to play high school football. But this year, questions are intensifying over the risk youth athletes face from repeated head injuries after a gunman who played football in Southern California claimed he suffered from a degenerative brain disease....Read more

Trump renews Powell feud over rate decision, fed renovation

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President Donald Trump resumed his criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after the central bank declined to cut interest rates, ending a short-lived détente.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell has done it again!!! He is TOO LATE, and actually, TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job of Fed Chair,” Trump wrote on his ...Read more

Trump voters wanted relief from medical bills. For millions, the bills are about to get bigger

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President Donald Trump rode to reelection last fall on voter concerns about prices. But as his administration pares back federal rules and programs designed to protect patients from the high cost of health care, Trump risks pushing more Americans into debt, further straining family budgets already stressed by medical bills.

Millions of people ...Read more

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How Florida missed out on $2.2 billion in Medicaid funding for schools

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TAMPA, Fla. — Florida lawmakers reached a rare consensus after the deadly Parkland school shooting: More money was needed for mental health counseling at schools.

“We haven’t put enough resources into mental health issues,” said then-Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples. “And look what happens.”

Two years later, lawmakers passed a ...Read more

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How ICE is using the LAPD to track down immigrants for deportation

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LOS ANGELES — When Los Angeles police arrested Jose Juarez-Basilio in March on suspicion of threatening his ex-wife’s new romantic partner, he was released after spending less than 24 hours in jail.

The short stay behind bars was all it took to trigger his deportation roughly three months later.

Even though no charges were filed against ...Read more

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Once-routine US attorney nominations become embroiled in politics

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has increasingly gone around the Senate to extend the tenures of temporary federal prosecutors — a trend indicative of the tensions over the Senate’s role in confirming officials in the second Trump administration.

U.S. attorney nominees are frequently noncontroversial and are often voice-voted ...Read more

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Commentary: How do we help America's national parks? Make global visitors pay more

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This summer, millions of people from around the world will visit America’s national parks, eager to marvel at iconic landscapes such as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Old Faithful. These places aren’t just national treasures — they’re global ones. But the growing crowds and aging infrastructure in many parks tell a difficult story...Read more