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Philippines notifies US of intent to end major security pact

By JIM GOMEZ | February 11, 2020

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing American forces to train in the country, in the most serious threat under President Rodrigo Duterte to their 69-year treaty...

How the Iowa caucuses ‘broke down in every way possible’

By RYAN J. FOLEY | February 11, 2020

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic Party activist Lindsey Ellickson prepared to run her Cedar Rapids precinct by downloading the new smartphone app designed to calculate and report results.But her planning ran into a problem:...

Coast Guard officer accused of terror plot appeals sentence

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | February 11, 2020

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling guns and targeting Supreme Court justices, prominent Democrats and TV journalists is appealing his prison sentence of more than 13 years.Christopher Hasson’s defense attorneys...

Charity founded by disgraced cyclist announces relaunch plan

By JIM VERTUNO | February 11, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The cancer charity whose yellow wristbands became a global brand under founder Lance Armstrong is seeking to reinvent itself, years after donations and revenues crashed along with the disgraced cyclist's career.Armstrong was nowhere...

Appeals court halts deportation of child with head injury

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 11, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in California temporarily halted the deportation of a 5-year-old child who injured his head before immigration agents arrested his family and whose advocates say needs to be seen by a neurologist.The 9th U.S. Circuit...

Many winter residential evictions banned in pricey Seattle

February 11, 2020

SEATTLE (AP) — Many residential evictions in pricey Seattle have been banned for the city's coldest and wettest months of December, January and February but city leaders decided against invoking the ban for November and March.The move aimed at helping...

Couple weds in Northern Ireland’s first same-sex marriage

February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Two women tied the knot Tuesday in Northern Ireland’s first same-sex wedding, after the region became the last part of the United Kingdom to legalize gay marriage.Care worker Robyn Peoples, 26, and waitress Sharni Edwards, 27 married...

Man convicted of killing woman in church lot sentenced

February 11, 2020

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man accused of running over and killing a woman who tried to stop him from stealing her family's van in a church parking lot has been sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility in 23 years.The sentencing on Monday came...

Congressman Lewis to receive NAACP honor at awards show

February 11, 2020

ATLANTA (AP) — The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.The nation's oldest civil rights organization announced Tuesday that it will bestow the Chairman's Award on the Georgia Democrat...

Spanish government renews efforts to legalize euthanasia

By BARRY HATTON | February 11, 2020

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s new Socialist-led government has launched another attempt to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.After early elections twice last year thwarted the government's efforts to change the law, the Socialist party...

Mandela’s release 30 years ago birthed a new South Africa

By ANDREW MELDRUM and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE | February 11, 2020

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years of imprisonment by South Africa's apartheid regime and instantly galvanized the country, and the world, to dismantle the brutal system of racial oppression.Raising...

More US firms are boosting faith-based support for employees

By DAVID CRARY | February 11, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) —It has become standard practice for U.S. corporations to assure employees of support regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation. There’s now an intensifying push to ensure that companies are similarly supportive and inclusive...