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Gunman dead, 2 officers hurt in shooting at Arkansas Walmart

By ADRIAN SAINZ | February 10, 2020

FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) — Two police officers were wounded and a gunman was killed Monday morning in an exchange of gunfire at a Walmart store in eastern Arkansas, authorities said.Forrest City Police Chief Deon Lee said one of the officers was taken...

Trump seeks big increase in career-technical education money

By JEFF AMY | February 10, 2020

President Donald Trump is proposing a $900 million increase in education spending to teach skills and trades, in what would be a historic federal infusion into a spending area that's been stagnant for years.The announcement Monday follows Trump's State...

Trump meets Parkland families to discuss school safety

By AAMER MADHANI and TERRY SPENCER | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met Monday with several family members of the victims of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to discuss school safety.Parents from the group Stand with Parkland were briefed on a new school safety...

Barr: Justice Dept. is collecting Ukraine info from Giuliani

By MICHAEL BALSAMO | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Monday the Justice Department is taking information that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is gathering in Ukraine about the president’s Democratic rival Joe Biden and his...

Trump, Manchin trading barbs as impeachment feud boils over

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE | February 10, 2020

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A post-impeachment spat between President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has sunk to name-calling and insults.The moderate Democrat took to cable news Monday to hurl barbs at the president after a weekend of back-and-forth...

Former Chicago cop sentenced to 10 years in fatal shooting

February 10, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer found guilty of second-degree murder in the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man in 2017 was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.Lowell Houser, 60, sat slumped in a chair between his lawyers as Cook County...

Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

By ANDREW TAYLOR | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan on Monday that recycles deep, previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and housing as the recipe for wrestling the federal budget...

AP Explains: Why isn’t there a winner of Iowa’s Dem caucuses

By The Associated Press | February 10, 2020

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, how can it be there is still no winner of last week's Iowa caucuses?Final results of the Democratic caucus were released late Sunday, after the Iowa Democratic Party made a series of corrections to a tally initially...

Amazon wants to question Trump over losing $10B contract bid

By MATT O'BRIEN | February 10, 2020

Amazon wants President Donald Trump to submit to questioning over the tech company's losing bid for a $10 billion military contract.The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump's interference...

Buttigieg, Sanders campaigns request Iowa caucus recanvass

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' and Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaigns filed requests Monday for a partial recanvass of the results of Iowa's Democratic caucuses.The Sanders campaign cited "mathematical errors and inconsistencies" in more than...

Police: 9 homicides in Chicago’s deadliest weekend of year

By DON BABWIN | February 10, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago recorded nine homicides between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday, a weekend police said was the deadliest of the year for a city that has seen the number of fatal shootings surge this year after a previous decline.Twenty-three...

State reviews LA police use of California gang database

By STEFANIE DAZIO | February 10, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Department of Justice is reviewing the Los Angeles Police Department's records and policies regarding use of the state's gang member database after allegations emerged that officers in an elite crime suppression team...