Articles from the May 2, 2018 edition
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Loredo wins third GAC Freshman of the Week award
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - For the third time this season, Arkansas Tech freshman Paty Loredo has been honored as the Great American Conference's Freshman of the Week, the league office announced Monday. In the inaugural year of the weekly honor, Loredo...
Zach Beasley Named GAC Baseball Co-Player of the Week
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the weekly awards for the final week of the baseball season. Harding's Zach Beasley and Southeastern Oklahoma State's Austin Ferguson shared the Player of the Week honor while Henderson...
Rosenstein: Justice Department won't be extorted by Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won't be extorted or give in to...
Next steps for caravan will unfold mostly out of public view
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States sought the world's attention as scores of migrants traveled through Mexico on a journey to escape their violent homelands. Now that the group has arrived...
Texas suing to end 'Dreamers' program once and for all
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas and six other states are suing to end once and for all a program that would protect some young immigrants from deportation. The lawsuit announced Tuesday comes a week after a federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump...
What about those questions for Trump? Will he answer?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is angrily protesting a leaked list of questions the Justice Department's special counsel wants to ask him, while at the same time contending the list shows anew there was no crime or collusion with the...
Dozens with ties to supremacist gangs arrested in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Federal authorities say dozens of people associated with white-supremacist gangs in Texas have been indicted on drug trafficking charges, including four accused in a kidnapping in which a hatchet was used to chop off a victim's...
Comey: Trump's attacks on the FBI make America less safe
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's political attacks on the FBI make America less safe because they undermine public confidence that the bureau is an "honest, competent and independent" institution, fired director James Comey told The...
Brazil firemen lament failing to save man as building fell
SAO PAULO (AP) — They just needed 30 seconds more, a firefighter sergeant said. He had thrown a rope with an improvised harness to a man hanging from a burning building in Sao Paulo's old downtown, and the man managed to secure his leg and...
US: Vet implanted heroin in puppies for Colombia drug ring
NEW YORK (AP) — A veterinarian pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he implanted liquid heroin in puppies to turn them into drug mules for a Colombian trafficking ring. Andres Lopez Elorza appeared in federal court in Brooklyn after...
Trump hails bravery of crew, passengers aboard damaged plane
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed the "tremendous bravery" of the crew and passengers aboard a damaged Southwest Airlines plane that was forced into an emergency landing in Philadelphia last month, saying, "Everybody's...
2 of Pruitt's top aides leave EPA amid ethics investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic-waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers his subordinates were to blame...
Morocco cuts ties with Iran over Sahara weapons dispute
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco severed relations with Iran Tuesday, accusing the Mideast country of providing funds, training and weapons to Polisario Front independence fighters in the disputed Western Sahara. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser...
Pompeo vows to reinvigorate diplomacy, restore US 'swagger'
WASHINGTON (AP) — He didn't mention Rex Tillerson by name. But the contrast was clear as new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived at the State Department on Tuesday vowing to reinvigorate American diplomacy and help the United States get "back...
Man on a 'jihad' sentenced to life without parole for murder
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former Seattle resident who admitted killing four people on a self-proclaimed "jihad" to avenge U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East received a life sentence without parole Tuesday for the 2014 ambush of a college student...
California sues over plan to scrap car emission standards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plan to scrap Obama-era auto-emissions standards that would require vehicles to get significantly higher gas mileage by 2025. At issue is a...
May Day protests focus on Trump's migrant record, elections
NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrants say President Donald Trump's administration has become almost everything they feared, but while they rally across the United States on May Day, their focus is less on huge turnout Tuesday than on the first Tuesday in...
Sean Hannity's battle of sourcing with New York Times
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Hannity urged his viewers to put a New York Times article on the special counsel investigation of President Donald Trump "in your fireplace and burn it." Instead, he offered a tutorial on the importance of reading. The Times'...
Workers, activists mark May Day with defiant rallies
MOSCOW (AP) — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies and other events to press their governments to address labor issues. International Workers' Day is a public holiday in many countries, though activities...
Israel's Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique
*JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's seizure of Iran's purported nuclear program archive and the dramatic display of the documents taken from a facility in the heart of Tehran marked a rare case of Israel going public about the operations of its top-secret...
Annual Supreme Court guessing game: Will Kennedy stay or go?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Anthony Kennedy has his law clerks lined up for next year. He plans to teach in Salzburg, Austria, in July, as he has done almost every summer for more than two decades. In short, there are no outward signs that the...
Pension problems help drive US protests for teacher raises
DENVER (AP) — The loudest rallying cries from Colorado teachers protesting for more education dollars were about dwindling paychecks that are steadily losing ground to the state's rising cost of living. Teachers usually say a persistent funding...
Leaders of South Korea, Japan, China to discuss North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea, Japan and China will meet next week for a summit expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program and other regional issues. The three Asian countries have been holding regular trilateral summits...
2 Koreas dismantle propaganda loudspeakers at tense border
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas dismantled huge loudspeakers used to blare Cold War-style propaganda across their tense border on Tuesday, as South Korea's president asked the United Nations to observe the North's planned closing of its...
Netanyahu nuclear presentation gets cool reception in Europe
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest accusations about Iran's past nuclear activities received a warm welcome in Washington but a far cooler reception in Europe on Tuesday — deepening divisions among Western allies...