Colleen Long
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Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the... → Read More
Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the "apparent winner" of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless… → Read More
300 and counting: Push by feds to arrest in US protests
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a private call with federal prosecutors across the country, Attorney General William Barr's message was clear: aggressively go after demonstrators who cause violence. Barr pushed his U.S. attorneys to bring federal charges whenever they could, keeping a grip on cases even if a defendant could be tried instead in state court, according to officials with knowledge of last… → Read More
AP sources: Man shot near White House had shouted threats
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man shot and wounded by a uniformed Secret Service officer, prompting President Donald Trump to be abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference, had been threatening to kill people near the White House, two officials familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The man, Myron Basil Berryman, 51, of Forestville, Maryland, was arrested on a charge of… → Read More
Trump floats November election delay
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is for the first time floating a "delay" to the Nov. 3 presidential election, as he makes unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud. The dates of presidential elections - the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every fourth year - are enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.… → Read More
Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it's too early to make such an ironclad guarantee. "I have to see. Look ... I have to see," Trump told moderator Chris… → Read More
Trump refuses to commit to election results if he loses
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it's too early to make such an ironclad guarantee. "I have to see. Look ... I have to see," Trump told moderator Chris… → Read More
Whistleblower: Trump official ignored warning on drug, virus
WASHINGTON (AP) - A government scientist was ousted after the Trump administration ignored his dire warnings about COVID-19 and a malaria drug President Donald Trump was pushing for the coronavirus despite scant evidence it helped, according to a whistleblower complaint Tuesday. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed the complaint… → Read More
New York struggles with coronavirus, US deaths top 1,000
NEW YORK (AP) - New York authorities mobilized to head off a public health disaster Wednesday, with the city's emergence as the nation's biggest coronavirus hot spot a warning flare - and perhaps a cautionary tale - for the rest of the country as U.S. deaths from the pandemic topped 1,000. A makeshift morgue was set up outside Bellevue Hospital, and the city's police, their ranks dwindling as… → Read More
No major Dem candidates yet seek Secret Service protection
WASHINGTON (AP) - Topless demonstrators crashed a Bernie Sanders rally in Nevada two weeks ago. On Tuesday, two animal rights activists rushed the stage where Joe Biden was giving a victory speech after a stunning primary triumph, and they were carried off, protest signs flailing. Armed and seriously dangerous threats these individuals were not. But the breaches were concerning enough to prompt… → Read More
Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. According to a new rule published in the Federal Register , asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S.… → Read More
US poised to begin immigration enforcement operation
WASHINGTON (AP) - A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by President Donald Trump. That's according to two administration officials and immigrant activists. It'll target people with final orders of removal, including families whose cases had been fast-tracked by… → Read More
Man detained in Florida in mail-bomb case
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities took a man into custody Friday in Florida in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages, the FBI and Justice Department said. The man was identified by law enforcement officials as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida. He was arrested at an auto parts store in the nearby city of Plantation. Court records show Sayoc… → Read More
Attempt to break into Democratic Party voter data thwarted
CHICAGO (AP) - An attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee's massive voter database has been thwarted, a party official said Wednesday, two years after Russian operatives sent the party into disarray by hacking into its computers and facilitating the release of tens of thousands of emails amid the presidential election. A web security firm using artificial intelligence uncovered… → Read More
Weinstein faces sex charges in prosecution amid #MeToo
NEW YORK (AP) - Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was charged Friday with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual misconduct. Seven months after the accusations destroyed his career and catalyzed the #MeToo movement, the… → Read More
Erosion unearths bones on New York's island of the dead
NEW YORK (AP) - Storms and the tides are unearthing the long-hidden bones of Hart Island, creating eerie scenes of skulls, femurs and collarbones on this sliver of land where New York City's destitute dead have for 150 years been sent off to be unceremoniously buried and forgotten. After photos of exposed bones began turning up in news reports, forensic anthropologists from the city medical… → Read More
'Pharma Bro' gets 7 years in prison in securities fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) - The smirk wiped off his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug. Shkreli, the boyish-looking, 34-year-old entrepreneur dubbed the "Pharma Bro" for his loutish behavior, was handed his punishment after a hearing in… → Read More
Crowds pack into a frigid Times Square for 2018 celebration
NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers, celebrity entertainers and tourists from around the world packed into a frigid Times Square Sunday to mark the start of 2018 with a glittering crystal ball drop, a burst of more than a ton of confetti and midnight fireworks. It was only 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius) in the city by late afternoon - already making it one of the coldest celebrations on record.… → Read More
8 killed by New York motorist in 'cowardly act of terror'
NEW YORK (AP) - A man in a rented pickup truck drove onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring several others in what the mayor called "a particularly cowardly act of terror." The 29-year-old driver was shot by police after jumping out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand, officials said. He was… → Read More
Plunging temps lead to icy conditions following storm
Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow. → Read More