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The Latest: Facebook penalizes Netanyahu page over poll post
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israeli election (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Facebook has penalized a chatbot on the page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because it violated a law prohibiting the publication of public opinion polls in the days leading up to an election. It was the second...
Renzi splits Italy's Democrats, shaking govt coalition
ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ago by the center-left Democrats and the populist 5-Star Movement. Renzi announced his departure with...
Judge refuses to toss charge over threat to Muslim candidate
A federal judge refused on Monday to throw out a case in which a North Carolina man is charged with anonymously threatening to lynch a Muslim-American man campaigning for a state Senate seat in Virginia. Joseph Cecil Vandevere is charged with interstate communication of a threat to injure a person in connection...
The Latest: Trump disputes ground rules of meeting with Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on the tensions in the Persian Gulf a day after Iran-backed Yemeni rebels attacked major oil sites in Saudi Arabia (all times local): 4 a.m. President Donald Trump appears to be disputing the comments of senior aides, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
Embattled Israeli PM fights for survival in do-over election
JERUSALEM (AP) — A visibly frantic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life as the country heads to national elections for the second time this year. With Netanyahu locked in a razor tight race and facing the likelihood of criminal corruption charges, a decisive victory in...
The Latest: At least 22 people injured in deck collapse
WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on a deck collapse at the Jersey Shore (all times local): 9:55 p.m. Hospital officials say at least 22 people were injured when decks collapsed on one another at a three-story home at the Jersey Shore. Cape May Regional Health System says 21 people are being treated there...
Egypt's el-Sissi dismisses corruption allegations
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Saturday angrily dismissed corruption allegations made by a businessman-in-exile against the country's military as "sheer lies and defamation." In viral social media videos posted over the past week, the entrepreneur alleged large-scale misuse of public funds in the...
Works of art or monuments to ego? Rock-stacking stirs debate
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — To some along the north shoreline of Lake Superior in Minnesota, building stacks of rocks, or cairns, is akin to making sand castles and can even be meditative. To others, these manmade rock formations despoil nature's beauty and stand as monuments to the human ego. Those who live...
Spying claims spur calls for Washington lawmaker ouster
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington state's liberal reputation is well-known, but voters in a conservative legislative district have re-elected Republican lawyer Matt Shea to the Legislature six times — as he has raged against Communists and atheists he thinks will destroy the U.S. and lobbied for a...
Bahamians look for loved ones as 1,300 missing after Dorian
MCLEAN'S TOWN, Bahamas (AP) — They scan social media, peer under rubble, or try to follow the smell of death in an attempt to find family and friends. They search amid alarming reports that 1,300 people remain listed as missing nearly two weeks after Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas. The...
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