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Trump calls for slashing funding for toxic Superfund cleanup

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump called Monday for slashing funding for the Superfund hazardous waste program, even as the backlog of clean-ups has grown around the country for lack of money.The $113 million in Superfund clean-up cuts are part...

UK man convicted of plot to attack London tourist sites

February 10, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A former Uber driver was convicted Monday of plotting a vehicle and weapons attack on London tourist sites, just over a year after he was cleared of attacking police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace.Jurors at London’s Woolwich...

Elizabeth Warren’s challenge: Breaking out of murky middle

By WILL WEISSERT and JULIE PACE | February 10, 2020

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren isn’t struggling like Joe Biden. But she isn’t soaring, like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders.Instead, the Massachusetts senator enters a critical stretch of the campaign relegated to the murky middle. She...

Mozambique drops appeal in South Africa over former minister

By TOM BOWKER | February 10, 2020

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — The Mozambican attorney general’s office on Monday withdrew its appeal to South African courts to have former Finance Minister Manuel Chang extradited back home amid a massive debt scandal.Chang faces trial in the United...

Revolution or realism? NH tests Democrats’ call for change

By STEVE PEOPLES | February 10, 2020

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire voters are poised Tuesday to re-order the field of Democratic presidential candidates. But as important, they will also send a message about what kind of change they want their party to stand for to challenge President...

In the heart of Mexico’s violence, disillusion grows

By ASTRID GALVAN | February 10, 2020

URUAPAN, MEXICO (AP) — Alejandra Uvilla fled her home city of Apatzingan because of overwhelming violence, moving 65 miles (105 km) north to bustling, mountain-nestled Uruapan in the avocado belt of Michoacan state. Three years later, the bloodshed...

South Sudan’s leader wins dubious ‘spoiler of peace’ award

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | February 10, 2020

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monday was named the top “spoiler of peace” in a new award that seeks to shame him and others into taking serious steps to end bloody conflict in the world's youngest country.Kiir and rival...

2020 Watch: On eve of New Hampshire, is Mayor Pete for real?

By STEVE PEOPLES | February 10, 2020

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:———Days to New Hampshire primary: 1Days to general election: 267———THE NARRATIVEChaos in Iowa has sparked a deep sense...

Doubts persist for Dem voters about female nominee in 2020

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, HANNAH FINGERHUT, and MICHAEL CASEY | February 10, 2020

PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — In a perfect world, Susan Stepp, a 73-year-old retiree, would be voting vote for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, she says. But that won't be happening.“I am not...

Thai city copes with sorrowful fallout from mass shooting

By EMILY SCHMALL and PREEYAPA T. KHUNSONG | February 10, 2020

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives Monday after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country's worst mass shooting in an hourslong siege at a shopping...

Pope to visit Malta on May 31 in first foreign trip of 2020

February 10, 2020

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will visit the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on May 31, the Vatican said Monday, confirming the Pope's first foreign trip for the year.Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said he expected the visit would highlight...

UK calls virus “serious” health threat; will detain people

By DANICA KIRKA | February 10, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Britain has declared the new coronavirus that emerged from China a "serious and imminent threat to public health'' and announced new measures Monday to combat the spread of the disease.The U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said...