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Pentagon chief visits nuke base to highlight weapon spending

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. - Defence Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration's multibillion-dollar plan for a ...

Feb 20, 2020

Thailand unhappy with Israel's entry ban over virus concerns

BANGKOK - Thailand's government is scrambling to cope with new travel restrictions after Israel banned the citizens of Thailand and three other Asian countries and territories from entering over conce...

Feb 20, 2020

Virus limits next Tokyo Olympic test event to Japanese-only

TOKYO - A test event for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this month that would have involved some non-Japanese athletes is being revamped because of fear of the spreading virus from China. It's...

Feb 20, 2020

US sanctions Russian oil trading firm for role in Venezuela

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced sanctions Tuesday on a Russian state-controlled brokerage that has helped the Venezuelan government skirt an American oil embargo and enabled President ...

Feb 20, 2020

Can AI flag disease outbreaks faster than humans? Not quite

BOSTON - Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, the...

Feb 20, 2020

After learning of Whitey Bulger LSD tests, juror has regrets

EASTHAM, Mass. - One of the jurors who convicted notorious crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger says she regrets her decision after learning that he was an unwitting participant in a covert CIA experiment...

Feb 20, 2020

Homeland Security waives contracting laws for border wall

SAN DIEGO - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a sig...

Feb 20, 2020

Jury ends 1st day of deliberations in Weinstein's rape trial

NEW YORK - Jurors in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday with lots of questions and no verdict in the landmark #MeToo case that could put the once-powerful Hol...

Feb 20, 2020

'Sonic' speeds to $57M debut; 'Parasite' sees big Oscar bump

NEW YORK - The redesigned "Sonic the Hedgehog" showed plenty of teeth at the box office, speeding to a $57 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday, while "Parasite" saw one of the largest ...

Feb 20, 2020

Afghan president wins vote, opponent says he's the winner

KABUL - Ashraf Ghani won a second term as president of Afghanistan, the country's independent election commission announced Tuesday, but his closest opponent refused to recognize the results, declarin...

Feb 20, 2020