LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace says the Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces (3.8 kilograms). The palace says the child was born at 11:01 a.m. (1001 GMT), a few hours after Kate was admitted to London’s St. Mary’s Hospital in labor. Prince William was…
By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS , Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The “Great Kate Wait” entered its final stages Monday, as the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to a London hospital in labor with a third child for her and Prince William. The 36-year-old duchess and her husband traveled by car from their Kensington…
By SHEILA BURKE , Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As an intensive manhunt continued Monday for a half-naked man suspected in the slayings of four people at a Waffle House restaurant, authorities shared reports of previous efforts to contain the gun-loving man with paranoid delusions. More than 80 Nashville police officers continued to search…
HOUSTON (AP) — Former first lady Barbara Bush has been laid to rest at her husband’s presidential library in Texas. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says the ceremony was “a very brief but poignant and beautiful ending to a very moving and incredible day. It would have been exactly what Barbara Bush wanted.” About 1,500 people…
By JUAN A. LOZANO , Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush was remembered as the “first lady of the greatest generation” during a funeral Saturday attended by four former U.S. presidents and hundreds of other people who filled a Houston church with laughter as much as tears, with many recalling her quick wit and…
By CURT ANDERSON , Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Panic and fear gripped another Florida school Friday when a gunman who carried a shotgun in a guitar case opened fire, wounding one student before he was taken into custody on a day planned for a national classroom walkout to protest gun violence, authorities…
By WILL WEISSERT , Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On a hot summer day in 1978, as her husband mulled his first presidential run, Barbara Bush headed to Houston’s leafy Memorial Park for a jog while she thought about what issues she’d like to focus on should she become first lady. Bush was concerned…
By PHILIP ISSA , Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government took control of a town northeast of Damascus on Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria — the latest in a string of handovers by rebels to the government. Residents in the town of Dumayr welcomed security forces into their town in a…
By CHAD DAY , Associated Press Eds: APNewsNow. WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining the legal team defending President Donald Trump in the special counsel’s Russia investigation. That’s according to a statement from Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow. The addition of Giuliani adds an experienced litigator and former U.S.…
By CLAUDIA LAUER and DAVID KOENIG , Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engine explosion aboard a Southwest Airlines jetliner puts new pressure on airlines and regulators to act faster to inspect fan blades like the one that snapped off and triggered an accident that killed a passenger. The initial findings from investigators show that Tuesday’s…