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Pot shops turn to highway sponsor signs amid strict ad rules

February 16, 2020

DENVER (AP) — Cannabis companies are using a loophole in Colorado's strict limits on marijuana advertising by sponsoring state highways and putting their names on roadside signs.Currently, 51 cannabis dispensaries, cultivators, manufacturers and edible...

No handshakes: Viral outbreak spooks Asian places of worship

By JIM GOMEZ | February 16, 2020

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — In a popular Catholic church in the Philippines, nearly half of the pews were empty for Sunday Mass. The few hundred worshippers who showed up were asked to refrain from shaking others' hands or holding them during prayers...

$1 million grant goes to record black women’s histories

By DEEPTI HAJELA | February 16, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — A trailblazer among black women in the business world wants to help make sure that the stories of other pioneering women like her are not forgotten.The HistoryMakers, an oral archive that's recorded the stories of more than 3,300 African...

Quarantine ends for Germans; Italy to fly citizens from ship

February 16, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — More than 100 Germans evacuated from the hard-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, were set to end their prescribed 14-day quarantine period on Sunday.They have been kept isolated at a military base in...

Palestinian PM: Trump’s Mideast plan ‘will be buried’

By Associated Press | February 16, 2020

MUNICH (AP) — The Palestinian prime minister lashed out Sunday at U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to end the Mideast conflict, saying it would be “buried very soon.”Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Mohammad Shtayyeh said the U.S....

Banksy’s Valentine’s Day mural covered after it was defaced

February 16, 2020

LONDON (AP) — The family that owns a house in southwest England where an artwork from Banksy appeared in time for Valentine's Day has covered the mural after it was defaced.Temporary fencing was also added Saturday to the home in Bristol and closed-circuit...

Powers renew pledge to uphold Libya arms embargo

By GEIR MOULSON | February 16, 2020

MUNICH (AP) — Countries with interests in Libya's civil war recommitted themselves Sunday to uphold a barely working arms embargo, four weeks after a peace summit in Berlin was followed by numerous new arms violations, officials from Germany and the...

Suspected far-right extremist on Germany’s radar for months

February 16, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — German media reported Sunday that the main suspect detained last week as part of police raids on alleged far-right extremists had been on authorities' radar for several months.Der Spiegel reported that 53-year-old Werner S. from the Augsburg...

Rockets strike near US Embassy in Baghdad; no injuries

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | February 16, 2020

BAGHDAD (AP) — At least four rockets hit near the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside the Green Zone early Sunday, but caused no casualties and only minor damage, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.The attack...

Biden in Vegas takes on Sanders’ gun votes in fiery speech

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and STEVE PEOPLES | February 16, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joe Biden, standing on a Las Vegas stage roughly 1,000 feet from the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, took on White House rival Bernie Sanders for his past vote to exempt gun manufacturers from liability...

The Latest: Sanders claims Bloomberg will not excite voters

February 16, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):10:40 p.m.Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders laced into billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Democratic Party dinner in Las Vegas while Bloomberg was campaigning...

UN official says airstrikes kill over 30 civilians in Yemen

By BY AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY | February 16, 2020

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Strikes killed more than 30 civilians in a mountainous northern Yemeni province Saturday, the U.N. humanitarian chief for the country said, calling the attack “shocking.”The Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, accused the Saudi-led...