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Trump seeks to delay woman’s suit after request for his DNA

By JENNIFER PELTZ | February 6, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers want to put the brakes on a lawsuit filed by an advice columnist who has accused him of raping her in the 1990s and is seeking his DNA as possible evidence.Trump attorneys argued in legal papers this...

Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted on flight

February 6, 2020

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart said Thursday that she was sexually assaulted on an airplane last year while she was sleeping.Smart, now a 32-year-old mother of three, referenced her kidnapping from her Salt Lake...

Mayor: ‘Senseless’ attack leaves 4 dead in Indianapolis home

By RICK CALLAHAN | February 6, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Four young people who police say were fatally shot inside an apartment in Indianapolis were killed in an apparent targeted attack “fueled by senseless violence,” the city’s mayor said Thursday.Officers were dispatched to an...

Hawaii helicopter crash pilot lost license for 2010 drug use

February 6, 2020

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — The pilot in the December crash of Hawaii sightseeing helicopter that killed him and six passengers previously lost his professional license for a year because of drug use, officials said.The Federal Aviation Administration revoked...

Neighbor uses crossbow to save man from dogs, but kills him

February 6, 2020

ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — A man was shot and killed in his apartment by a crossbow bolt that a neighbor had fired at dogs who were attacking the man, authorities in Massachusetts said.The death Wednesday afternoon in Adams appears to be accidental, according...

Venezuela rounds up US oil executives as Guaidó visits DC

February 6, 2020

MIAMI (AP) — Six American oil executives under house arrest in Venezuela were rounded up by police hours after President Donald Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's chief opponent at the White House, according to family members of the men.Alirio...

Pablo Escobar’s hit man, known as “Popeye,” dies of cancer

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | February 6, 2020

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former hit man for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday from cancer, prison authorities said.Jhon Jairo Velásquez, known by...

Man body-slammed by police sues Chicago, officer

By MICHAEL TARM | February 6, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old man who was knocked unconscious when a Chicago police officer body slammed him onto a street curb sued the city and the officer on Thursday, saying the officer should have known the maneuver was dangerous because he is trained...

Lithuanian tourist killed in attack at Brazilian beach

February 6, 2020

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Lithuanian tourist was killed and his partner was allegedly raped in an attack near a popular seaside town south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian police said Thursday. One suspect was arrested.Police said they found the body of Adam...

NIreland police say IRA dissidents planned Brexit truck bomb

February 6, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Irish Republican Army dissidents planted a bomb on a truck that was intended to explode on the day Britain left the European Union last week, police in Northern Ireland said Thursday.The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a Belfast...

Man pleads guilty to running service that offered child porn

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | February 6, 2020

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man who spent years fighting his extradition from Ireland to the U.S. pleaded guilty Thursday in a Maryland courtroom to operating a web hosting service that allowed users to anonymously access more than 1 million files of child...

Ill Cali cartel drug kingpin seeks early prison release

By CURT ANDERSON | February 6, 2020

MIAMI (AP) — One of the world's major cocaine kingpins, a co-founder of Colombia's Cali Cartel that smuggled some $2 billion in drugs to the U.S., is seeking compassionate early release from a federal prison because of ill health.Gilberto Rodriguez-Orejuela,...