Category: National
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Floods expose threat to military posed by climate change
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.
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Trump says he’s nominating campaign adviser, conservative economist Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve board
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump says he’s nominating campaign adviser, conservative economist Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve board.
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Escaped wallaby goes on walkabout in Dallas neighborhood
DALLAS (AP) — A wallaby who apparently escaped his owners went on a walkabout in an east Dallas neighborhood before being recaptured.
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White House: All Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been ‘100 percent eliminated’
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — White House: All Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been ‘100 percent eliminated’
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Mother Russia: South Florida sees a boom in ‘birth tourism’
MIAMI (AP) — Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship.
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Trump policy of sending asylum seekers to Mexico faces judge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge in San Francisco will scrutinize the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico during a court hearing Friday to help him decide whether to block the practice.
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Stocks move broadly higher, led by technology companies
SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower on Friday as caution set in ahead of U.S.-China trade talks in Beijing next week.
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AP News in Brief at 12:09 a.m. EDT
Imam says New Zealand is broken-hearted but not broken
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Waves of migrant parents and children enter overtaxed system
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — A mother cradled a crying toddler as she waited in line with 20 other women to shower. Dozens of fathers quietly held their children’s hands in an enclosure made of chain-link fencing.
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Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — In a story March 17, The Associated Press reported that the deaths of six young men connected with the 2014 anti-police protests in Ferguson have drawn attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister is at play. The headline referred to the deaths as “puzzling” without providing attribution. This version of the story replaces the headline to focus on the fact that activists are unnerved by the deaths.