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Harvard professor charged with hiding China ties, payments

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER | January 28, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University professor was charged Tuesday with lying about his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program and concealing payments he received from the Chinese government for research.Charles Lieber, chair of the department of chemistry...

Sheriff: Man stirs the pot by lighting joint in court

January 28, 2020

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — The rapper Afroman famously sang about how getting high on marijuana prevented him from going to court. A Tennessee man decided to combine the two when he lit a marijuana cigarette in the courtroom, authorities said.Spencer Alan...

The most VIP Super Bowl weekend costs $1.5M, includes butler

By KELLI KENNEDY | January 28, 2020

MIAMI (AP) — Private jet service, a personal butler, or how about a meal with former Patriots star Rob Gronkowski to top off Super Bowl weekend? From legendary nightclubs to exclusive parties, no place caters to the rich and famous quite like glitzy...

Remains of 2 US troops recovered from Afghanistan crash site

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS | January 28, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Tuesday recovered the remains of two American service members killed in the crash of an Air Force plane in Afghanistan, the U.S. military command in Kabul said. They also retrieved what they believe is the plane's flight...

Barr says there will be ‘zero tolerance’ on anti-Semitism

By MICHAEL BALSAMO | January 28, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Attorney General William Barr ordered federal prosecutors across the U.S. to step up their efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate crimes as he met with Jewish leaders in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday.Barr said he has been “extremely...

Review finds heavy use of commando forces led to ethics slip

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR | January 28, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Episodic misconduct and ethical lapses among U.S. special operations forces, like the Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets, stem from a culture that puts too much emphasis on fighting and too little on developing good leaders, an in-depth...

Court hears request to proceed with Trump travel ban cases

By DENISE LAVOIE | January 28, 2020

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Tuesday as civil rights groups sought to allow legal challenges to President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries to move forward despite a 2018 U.S. Supreme...

Airbus nears settlements with US, UK, French investigators

January 28, 2020

PARIS (AP) — Airbus said Tuesday it has reached preliminary settlement deals with authorities in the U.S., Britain and France investigating alleged fraud and bribery. While it did not disclose the size of the settlements, it put aside 3.6 billion euros...

Fresh anti-Semitic writings appear in Italian cities, towns

By COLLEEN BARRY | January 28, 2020

MILAN (AP) — Fresh anti-Semitic writings appeared in Italian cities and towns as the country marked the 7 5 th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, officials said Tuesday.The incidents included a racist placard tacked onto...

Judge rejects Sandusky’s latest request for shorter sentence

By MARK SCOLFORO | January 28, 2020

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky's latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday.Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an...

Dog and goat vie for honorary mayor of Vermont town

By LISA RATHKE | January 28, 2020

FAIR HAVEN, Vt, (AP) — It's Lincoln the goat versus Sammy the dog in the race for honorary mayor of one Vermont town.The Nubian goat had won the post in Fair Haven, Vermont, last year after the town manager came up with the pet mayor election to raise...

Lawsuit: Winter wonderland is neighbor’s spring nightmare

January 28, 2020

NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says the operators of a seasonal attraction of ice structures failed to control runoff and flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water — and she worries it will happen again this spring.Kelly...