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Virus stretches limits of strained public health systems

By ELAINE KURTENBACH | February 10, 2020

BANGKOK (AP) — The virus outbreak that began in China and has spread to more than 20 countries is stretching already-strained public health systems in Asia and beyond, raising questions over whether everyone can get equal access to treatment.Authorities...

Pentagon: 109 troops suffer brain injuries from Iran strike

By LOLITA C. BALDOR | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday, as more troops suffer the aftereffects of the Iranian ballistic missile attack early last month in Iraq.The...

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...

Air Force discloses drug investigation at nuke missile base

By ROBERT BURNS | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Security guards at an Air Force base responsible for protecting strategic nuclear missiles in three states are under investigation for alleged marijuana use, Air Force officials said Monday. They are part of the same security force...

Highlights of President Trump’s 2021 budget plan

February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2021 budget plan doesn't have many fans — among either his GOP allies or opposition Democrats — but it's a measure of the president's priorities as he seeks a second term.News flash: It's short on...

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...

More than 450 civilians killed in central Mali last year

By KRISTA LARSON | February 10, 2020

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Islamic militants and ethnic-based militias killed more than 450 civilians in central Mali last year, making it the deadliest year in the region since the country's crisis began in 2012, Human Rights Watch said in a new report...

Schumer wants to protect whistleblowers amid Trump payback

By LISA MASCARO | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the nation's 74 inspectors general to protect government whistleblowers amid President Donald Trump’s ouster of key government officials in the impeachment probe.In a letter Monday...

US says 2 soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Afghanistan attack

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON | February 9, 2020

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded in a so-called insider attack in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province late Saturday when an Afghan dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire, the U.S. military said.Afghanistan's...

Payback: Trump ousts officials who testified on impeachment

By DEB RIECHMANN, COLLEEN LONG, and NANCY BENAC | February 8, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exacting swift punishment against those who crossed him, an emboldened President Donald Trump ousted two government officials who had delivered damaging testimony against him during his impeachment hearings. The president took retribution...

Air Force suicides surged last year to highest in 3 decades

By ROBERT BURNS | February 8, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the active-duty Air Force surged last year to the highest total in at least three decades, even as the other military services saw their numbers stabilize or decline, according to officials and unpublished preliminary data.The...

Bolton reviewing letter from White House about manuscript

February 7, 2020

Former national security adviser John Bolton's team on Friday accused the White House of trying to suppress his unpublished book after word surfaced that the National Security Council had sent him a letter expressing concerns that the manuscript contained...