By GENE JOHNSON and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine, police said Tuesday. Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news ...
By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five states have agreed to accept nuclear waste from around the country in exchange for federal help developing nuclear energy to create thousands of jobs. The states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah ...
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Law enforcement officials did not inform a Virginia university of the terrorism-related conviction of a student who went on to open fire in an ROTC class in March, a report released Tuesday found. The attack injured two students ...
By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A labor union and two female prison employees filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing a U.S. civil rights agency of unlawfully halting their sexual harassment case as part of wider order to indefinitely suspend proceedings in all ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The field of Republican candidates vying to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots is set, with 12 hopefuls filing their paperwork by Tuesday and launching into a two-week sprint toward the Aug. 11 special GOP ...
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A federal appellate panel on Tuesday refused to block President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to restrict mail voting, a day after the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the proposal in a separate case. The ...
