PARIS (AP) — A French judicial official says the young man who stabbed people in a lively Paris neighborhood didn’t have an arrest record but was on a watch list for potential radicalism. The official said the parents of the alleged attacker, a 20-year-old French citizen who was born in the Russian republic of Chechnya,…
By AUDREY McAVOY and JAE C. HONG , Associated Press VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spawned a new lava fissure Saturday, emitting minor lava spatter less than a mile from a geothermal energy plant. The U.S. Geological Survey said 16 fissures have now opened up on the Big Island. The latest arose around…
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana rescuers pulled a man from raging floodwaters and authorities warned of dangerous debris being swept downstream as water levels continued rising Friday in rivers and streams across the western half of the state. The Clark Fork River in Missoula was expected to crest more than a foot (30 centimeters) above…
By SOPHIA YAN and SETH BORENSTEIN , Associated Press PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — If Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano blows its top in the coming days or weeks, as experts fear, it could hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air, shutting down airline traffic and endangering lives in all directions, scientists said…
By MATTHEW LEE, JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER , Associated Press JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) — Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Speaking early Thursday on an…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on his way back from North Korea with three American detainees, saying they “seem to be in good health.” Trump made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday, saying “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from…
By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ , Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Less than three months ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went before the news cameras to announce a lawsuit accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his former studio of abusing and intimidating a multitude of women. “We have never seen anything…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal (all times local): 5:10 p.m. Congressional leaders are split, but not neatly along party lines, over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Some are welcoming the pullout, believing the 2015 accord was unsound. But others…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is playing the supportive spouse as Melania Trump unveils her initiatives as first lady. Trump sat in the front row in the Rose Garden Monday as his wife outlined her plan, dubbed “Be Best,” to support children, with a focus on well-being, cyber-bullying and opioid addiction. At the conclusion…
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say George Zimmerman threatened a private investigator working for a documentary filmmaker. Court records show Zimmerman was issued a summons for a May 30 arraignment on a charge of misdemeanor stalking. A sheriff’s report says the investigator contacted Zimmerman in September on behalf of Michael Gasparro, who is making a…