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Report: Bolton says Trump tied Ukraine funds to Biden probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told his national security adviser he wanted to maintain a freeze on military assistance to Ukraine until it aided political investigations into his Democratic rivals, according to a report in The New York Times on Sunday. The newspaper said John Bolton's...
Defense resumes in key impeachment week; Dems seek witnesses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's impeachment trial enters a pivotal week as his defense team resumes its case and senators face a critical vote on whether to hear witnesses or proceed directly to a vote that is widely expected to end in his acquittal. The articles of impeachment charge Trump with...
3 missing after barge crash on Mississippi River
LULING, La. (AP) — Three people were missing after two barge towing vessels collided Sunday on the Mississippi River in an accident that also may have released a small amount of toxic vapor into the air, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard said in a news release that the two vessels collided Sunday...
Coast Guard board to investigate deadly crab boat sinking
SEATTLE (AP) — The Coast Guard has formed a Marine Board of Investigation to determine the causes of the sinking of the Scandies Rose, a Seattle-managed crab boat that went down with five of its seven crew members on Dec. 31 in the Gulf of Alaska. The board will look into the sinking of the boat, which had...
Wounded Warriors of Collier opens house for homeless vets
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Alan Demorett acknowledges he messed up a few times while in the U.S. Navy, after coming home to Naples and while in college. “I was pretty good at shooting myself in the foot,” said Demorett, 32. That’s the past. Today is the future and he has a plan....
General: US committed to Syria fight; Missions up against IS
GREEN VILLAGE MILITARY OUTPOST (AP) — U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about? Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S Middle East commander, knows the future is not...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's impeachment defense and the facts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers opened his Senate impeachment defense Saturday with the false assertion that Democrats tried to shut the president's team out of the congressional inquiry that preceded the charges. Actually, Democrats invited Trump to participate and he declined....
Vermont guard personnel doing F-35 training in Florida
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — More than 100 members of the Vermont Air National Guard are in Florida where they are learning more about how to maintain F-35 fighter jets. The guard says its members left this week for Eglin Air Force Base for a training event known as Southern Lightning. The guard members,...
Survey: Nearly half of Afghans want US troops out after deal
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nearly half of all Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end the country's 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey released Thursday. The Institute of War and Peace Studies also found that an overwhelming 80% of Afghans...
Dems say oust Trump or he'll betray again; 'He is who he is'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Closing out their case, House Democrats warned in Donald Trump's impeachment trial that the president will persist in abusing his power and endangering American democracy unless Congress intervenes to remove him before the 2020 election. They then implored Republican senators to allow...
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