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  • Klobuchar pushes to defy expectations in New Hampshire

    HOLLY RAMER Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Amy Klobuchar's campaign staff initially set up 250 chairs ahead of a Sunday rally at Southern New Hampshire University. But in the moments before the Minnesota senator arrived on campus, the aides scrambled to remove most of them to accommodate a capacity crowd of more than 700 people. Klobuchar is still lagging in most polls, but the crowd was a sign of the energy surrounding her campaign as voters swamped with choices try to make a decision before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. She's hoping t... Full story

  • Sanders to seek partial recanvass of Iowa caucus results

    ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign plans to ask for a "partial recanvass" of the results of last week's Iowa caucuses. A campaign aide confirmed the plans Sunday night, ahead of a Monday deadline for candidates to ask the Iowa Democratic Party to recanvass the results. A recanvass is not a recount, but a check of the vote count against paper records to ensure the counts were reported accurately. The state party released updated results on Sunday showing Pete Buttigieg leading Sanders by two state delegate e... Full story

  • Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun's poles

    MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles. "We're on the way to the sun. Go Solar Orbiter!" said Cesar Garcia Marirrodriga, project manager for the European Space Agency. "It's a fantastic moment ... it's like, well, we're unstoppable." The $1.5 billion spacecraft will join NASA's Parker Solar Probe, launched 1 1/2 years ago, in coming perilously close to the sun to unveil its secrets. W... Full story

  • Buttigieg on defense as rivals aim to blunt his momentum

    THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Pete Buttigieg has been on defense all weekend as his Democratic presidential rivals attacked him on everything from his struggle to connect with black voters to accepting campaign contributions from large donors in an effort to blunt any momentum heading into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who essentially tied with Buttigieg in last week's Iowa caucuses, blasted the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for taking contributions from the very wealthy, suggesting Buttigieg w... Full story

  • Coast Guard brings $338M of seized cocaine to San Diego

    Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says nearly 20,000 pounds of cocaine seized in the eastern Pacific Ocean has been brought to San Diego. The drug haul estimated to be worth about $338 million is scheduled for offloading from the cutter Munro at Naval Base San Diego on Monday morning. The cocaine was seized in eight operations by the crews of four cutters between mid-November and mid-January. The Coast Guard released aerial surveillance video showing boats being pursued and boarded at sea. The Coast Guard says the c... Full story

  • Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling

    SUZAN FRASER and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey said it retaliated Monday after "intense" shelling by Syrian forces killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria's northern Idlib province, a marked escalation a week after a similarly deadly clash between the two sides. The exchange of fire came as a Russian delegation held a second round of talks in the Turkish capital of Ankara to discuss the fighting in Syria's Idlib province, which has uprooted more than a half-million people in the past two months. No immediate statement was... Full story

  • Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

    ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps and Medicaid to promise a balanced budget in 15 years — all while boosting the military and leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched. Trump's fiscal 2021 plan, to be released Monday, promises the government's deficit will crest above $1 trillion only for the current budget year before steadily decreasing to more manageable levels, rel... Full story

  • US charges 4 Chinese military members in Equifax breach

    ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans, the Justice Department said Monday, blaming Beijing for one of the largest hacks in history to target consumer data. The 2017 breach affected more than 145 million people, with the hackers successfully stealing names, Social Security numbers and other personal information stored in the company's databases. The f... Full story

  • California company plans to sell China-designed SUVs in US

    Associated Press|Updated Feb 10, 2020

    DETROIT (AP) — A California company says it will build and sell Chinese-designed automobiles in the U.S. at the end of next year or early in 2022. HAAH Automotive Holdings says it has an agreement with large Chinese automaker Chery Automobile to provide the vehicles, which will be assembled in a U.S. factory. HAAH says the first vehicle sold will be a midsize SUV. It's the latest effort to bring passenger vehicles designed in China to the United States, but other efforts so far have seen limited success. GAC Motor of China h... Full story

  • 'Parasite' wins best picture Oscar

    JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Parasite" won the best picture Oscar Sunday night, becoming the first foreign-language film to take home the biggest honor in film. Bong Joon Ho's class satire has been one of the season's darlings, despite failing to garner any Academy Award nominations for its cast. "Parasite" is the first non-English language film to win best picture. Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" made history, Brad Pitt won his first acting Oscar, Laura Dern collected best supporting... Full story

  • Oscar Predictions: Can 'Parasite' upset '1917'?

    JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    NEW YORK (AP) - Ahead of Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks but the potential for a few surprises. BEST PICTURE The Nominees: "Ford v Ferrari," "The Irishman," "Jojo Rabbit," "Joker," "Little Women," "Marriage Story," "1917," "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," "Parasite" Will Win: "Parasite" Should Win: "Parasite" Should Have Been a Contender: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"... Full story

  • Focus turns to Latino authors amid 'American Dirt' debate

    RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - When Oprah Winfrey endorsed the novel "American Dirt" for her book club last month, many Latinos took to social media to decry the selection for its stereotypes and caricatures. The novel about a Mexican mother and her young son fleeing to the U.S. border had been praised widely before its Jan. 21 release. But anger built over "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins - a writer who primarily identifies as white - and Latinos shared reading lists and pointed... Full story

  • Weinstein's many accusers follow trial anxiously from afar

    MARYCLAIRE DALE and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial has unfolded this month in a 15th-floor courtroom in New York, but its reverberations are being felt far beyond, as his many accusers anxiously await the outcome. They wonder how the disgraced mogul's wealth and power might affect the verdict. They wince at the way fellow accusers have been treated while testifying. They recoil at the painfully familiar descriptions of Weinstein's behavior. And they wonder if they will ever see justice done. The former Hollywood studio boss insists that... Full story

  • China's virus death toll surpasses SARS but new cases fall

    JOE McDONALD Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    BEIJING (AP) — China's virus death toll rose by 89 on Sunday to 811, passing the number of fatalities in the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, but fewer new cases were reported in a possible sign its spread may be slowing as other nations stepped up efforts to block the disease. Some 2,656 new virus cases were reported in the 24 hours ending at midnight Saturday, most of them in the central province of Hubei, where the first patients fell sick in December. That was down by about 20% from the 3,399 new cases reported in the previous 2... Full story

  • Iran again fails to put satellite into orbit amid US worries

    AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, state television reported, the latest setback for a program the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program. The launch happened at 7:15 p.m. local time at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's Semnan province, some 230 kilometers (145 miles) southeast of Iran's capital, Tehran. A Simorgh, or "Phoenix," rocket couldn't put the Zafar 1 communications satellite into orbit, however, due to a low speed, Iranian state TV r... Full story

  • Trump budget to face skepticism, be overwhelmed by politics

    ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted with trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, President Donald Trump is offering a budget plan that rehashes previously rejected spending cuts while leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched. Trump's fiscal 2021 budget plan, expected to be released Monday, isn't likely to generate a serious Washington dialogue about what to do, if anything this election year, about entrenched fiscal problems that have deficits surging despite a healthy economy. It was being r... Full story

  • Padres acquire reliever Emilio Pagán from Rays

    Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres acquired reliever Emilio Pagán from the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday in exchange for outfielder Manuel Margot and a minor leaguer. The 28-year-old Pagán went 4-2 with a 2.31 ERA in 66 games last year. The right-hander spent the first two weeks of the season with Triple-A Durham and still managed to lead the Rays bullpen with 20 saves and 96 strikeouts. Margot batted .234 with 12 homers and 37 RBIs in 151 games in 2019. He also had a career-high 20 steals. The 25-year-old Margot, who was...

  • Graham: DOJ has process to review Giuliani's Ukraine info

    DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a close ally of President Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Justice Department has established a way to review information gathered in Ukraine by Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has targeted Democrat Joe Biden and his son. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Attorney General William Barr told him during a conversation Sunday that the department has "created a process that Rudy could give information and they would see if it's verified." "Rudy G... Full story

  • From Pitt to '1917,' what to anticipate at the Oscars

    JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Oscars are here, already. After the shortest awards season in decades, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will get underway Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The red carpet is being rolled out two to three weeks earlier than usual in a bid to freshen up a ceremony and potentially boost ratings. The truncated time table has put the normally bloated Oscars season on a diet (Sunday's show will also, for the second straight year, be hostless)... Full story

  • Flashing signs, cheering fans as Dems make NH closing pitch

    KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND HUNTER WOODALL Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The battle for momentum in New Hampshire, for at least one night, came down to how expressive fans in the cheap seats could be. Democrats made an effort to project an aura of unity at a party dinner Saturday designed to pump up the party base and each campaign's core supporters three days ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. But there was little love between supporters of Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, the leading delegate winners in Iowa's caucuses. One side stared down the other... Full story

  • Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

    KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    CHICAGO (AP) — Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology. It was their Illinois addresses, though, that put the trio's names atop a lawsuit that Facebook recently agreed to settle for $550 million, which could lead to payouts of a couple hundred dollars to several million Illinois users of the social networking site. The l... Full story

  • Outrage after gunman ambushes NYC police twice in 12 hours

    SOPHIA ROSENBAUM and DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman is in custody after he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, wounding two in attacks that ignited outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was captured after he walked into a police station in the Bronx and started shooting early Sunday, hitting a lieutenant in the arm and narrowly missing other police personnel before he ran out of bullets, lay down and tossed his pistol, police s... Full story

  • 'QAnon' conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics

    MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena. The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter "Q" with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, "Did you see the 'Q'?" "He just did it?" asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin. "... Full story

  • Hurricane-force winds pound UK and Europe, upend travel

    SHEILA NORMAN-CULP Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    LONDON (AP) — Storm Ciara battered the U.K. and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains Sunday, halting flights and trains and producing heaving seas that closed down ports. Soccer games, farmers' markets and cultural events were canceled as authorities urged millions of people to stay indoors, away from falling tree branches. Named by the U.K. Met Office weather agency, the storm brought massive gusts that hit 93 mph (150 mph) at the northern Welsh village of Aberdaron and 86 mph (138 kph) at the Welsh t... Full story

  • Thailand mourns victims of country's deadliest mass shooting

    PREEYAPA T. KHUNSONG and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press|Updated Feb 9, 2020

    NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — As mourning began for the victims of Thailand's worst mass shooting, the country counted its losses: a mother shot dead at the wheel of her car as her son sat beside her, a 13-year-old student gunned down as he was riding his motorbike home and more than two dozen other people. Authorities said the attack was carried out by a single gunman — a disgruntled soldier who opened fire on strangers before he was fatally shot Sunday at a shopping mall. Another 58 people were wounded. The dead were m... Full story

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