Articles from the February 7, 2018 edition
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Shutdown less likely as Senate closes in on budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) — Buoyed by encouraging prospects of a budget pact, lawmakers on Tuesday appeared increasingly likely to avoid a repeat of last month's government shutdown — though President Donald Trump unexpectedly raised the possibility of clo...
Why Trump has little influence on rising or falling stocks
WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, President Donald Trump boasted about having steered the U.S. stock markets to record high after record high. What a difference a few days can make. The market free-fall, explosive volatility and now partial recovery o...
SpaceX's big new rocket blasts off with sports car on top
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX's big new rocket blasted off Tuesday on its first test flight, carrying a red sports car aiming for an endless road trip past Mars. The Falcon Heavy rose from the same launch pad used by NASA nearly 50 years ago t...
Deadly earthquake strikes Taiwan; shelters opened
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck Tuesday near the coast of Taiwan, killing two people and injuring more than 200 others, officials said. The ground floor of the Marshal Hotel in Hualien county caved in, causing the death of one...
Girl Scouts lobby to relabel bridge named for segregationist
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of Girl Scouts from across Georgia gathered inside the state Capitol on Tuesday, offering cookies and smiles as they sought to convince lawmakers to get their founder's name affixed to a Savannah bridge that currently honors a...
Dow turns 567 point loss into 567 point gain as stocks rally
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday as a late surge helped them regain almost half their losses from the day before, when they had their biggest plunge in 6 ½ years. That came at the end of a day of heavy trading and huge swings for the ma...
Trump's bipartisan pitch long gone; now he's talking treason
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's call in the State of the Union address last week for a new era of bipartisan cooperation seems like a distant memory. Now, he's calling Democrats "un-American" and perhaps "treasonous" for not clapping d...
Tarantino expresses regret over Thurman stunt incident
NEW YORK (AP) — Director Quentin Tarantino has responded to Uma Thurman's allegation that he put her life in danger with a dangerous car stunt on "Kill Bill," calling the incident "the biggest regret of my life." But just as he was making amends for...
British judge upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange
LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Tuesday upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving him still a wanted man in the country where he has spent more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy. Judge Emma Arbuthnot r...
Hawaii emergency worker gets threats after misleading photo
HONOLULU (AP) — When an erroneous alert was sent out last month telling people in Hawaii that there was an incoming ballistic missile, Jeffrey Wong was an island away from the state's emergency management agency office where he works as an o...
On Trump's desk: Democratic memo on Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will decide whether the public will be allowed to read a memo written by House Democrats on its Russia probe. He has until the end of the week to decide whether to allow its release. White House chief of s...
They spoke out pre-#MeToo and cheer it, with note of caution
NEW YORK (AP) — The newspaper was about to come out with Leesa Perazzo's account of being raped at 16. She was relieved. And petrified. She had never told her story so publicly but thought it could help other victims. Yet Perazzo, a Schenectady c...
Rebel areas pounded by Syrian forces despite cease-fire call
BEIRUT (AP) — Russian and Syrian government forces launched a new wave of airstrikes and shelling on Tuesday, plunging the besieged area just outside of Syria's capital of Damascus into a spiral of violence and despair. At least 55 civilians were kil...
"Lady Doritos"? It's not happening, PepsiCo says
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't expect to see "lady Doritos" on store shelves. The company behind the cheesy chips said Tuesday that it's not developing a line of Doritos designed specifically for women, despite widespread online speculation that it was. T...
Polish president signs law barring some Holocaust speech
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's president on Tuesday signed legislation that outlaws blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by Nazi Germany, defying both criticism from Israel and a warning from the U.S. But in a move that appeared...
Mattis: Proposed nuke missile is a bargaining chip
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's proposal to add a sea-launched cruise missile to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, criticized by some as overkill, is meant to provide new negotiating leverage to U.S. diplomats trying to persuade Russia to end v...
Trump: 'Disgraceful' that man illegally in US killed athlete
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it's "so disgraceful" that Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson was killed by a person who is in the U.S. illegally. Trump is also prodding Democrats to work with him on illegal immigration and b...
Pence won't rule out NKorea meeting, will 'see what happens'
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said he has not ruled out the possibility of meeting with North Korean officials at the upcoming Olympics in South Korea. "Let me say President Trump has said he always believes in talking, but I haven't re...
College gymnastics offers catharsis in wake of Nassar furor
The message for a sport in crisis needed to be sent. One that pushed the narrative surrounding the highest reaches of American gymnastics away from a Michigan courtroom and toward the young women who laid their pain bare for the world to hear. One...
Lawrence district introduces 'Farm 2 School' cooking program
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Denise Johnson has a winning strategy for getting kids to eat their vegetables. It's simple as pie. Or, in this case, muffins. Johnson, the Lawrence school district's assistant director of health and wellness, tells a cafeteria...
Parents learn to talk to kids about marijuana
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eighteen-year-old Kansas City resident Keyonna Brown said that when she was growing up, her parents didn't talk to her about smoking marijuana. "Nobody had to tell me, I learned from experience," she said. "That's why I d...
Family grows to 127 from Kansas matriarch's 68-year marriage
LEWIS, Kan. (AP) — Some people have art hanging on the walls of their home; Angie Castaneda has family pictures. The living and dining rooms are covered with her progeny - all 127 of them. Framed photos are seen at every turn of the head in the h...
Wichita approves late-night March Madness parties downtown
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fans attending the NCAA basketball tournament in Wichita next month won't have to close up their downtown partying by midnight. Wichita officials on Tuesday approved an ordinance to allow after-midnight entertainment and d...
Wichita police recover stolen documents from 7 cases
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a traffic stop led to the recovery of stolen property from seven cases, many involving identity theft. Officer Charley Davidson says a vehicle was pulled over Saturday because the tag on the car was reported s...
Kansas bill would protect those saving kids, animals in cars
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill would legally protect Good Samaritans who break into vehicles to save overheating children and animals. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that lawmakers heard testimony Monday for the potential legislation. The b...
