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Mexican American group MEChA eyes name change amid furor

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - MEChA, a Mexican American student group founded 50 years ago at the end of the turbulent 1960s, is considering a name change, highlighting the divisions between older civil rights ...

Apr 05, 2019

Police to charge W.Va. mom after abduction tale

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A woman will be criminally charged for falsely reporting that an Egyptian man tried to kidnap her daughter from a West Virginia shopping mall, a police detective told The Associate...

Apr 05, 2019

With Brexit, Britain is in crisis and not for the first time

LONDON - Few would argue that Britain is in what is often referred to as a bit of a pickle. A crisis in fact, undoubtedly of historic proportions. With the country mired in confusion and recrimination...

Apr 05, 2019

Trump drops border shutdown threat and proposes auto tariffs

WASHINGTON - Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead that he'd slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do m...

Apr 05, 2019

Biden to make 1st appearance since complaints about behaviour

WASHINGTON - In countless conversations over the past year, former Vice-President Joe Biden, his advisers and his broad network of friends and family have openly discussed the vulnerabilities he would...

Apr 05, 2019

Man's claim gives false hope in yearslong missing boy case

CINCINNATI - A day of false hope has given way to questions about why a man would claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago. The FBI declared the man's story a hoax Thursday one day ...

Apr 05, 2019

Gone in 6 minutes: an Ethiopian Airlines jet's final journey

From nearly the moment they roared down the runway and took off in their new Boeing jetliner, the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 encountered problems with the plane. Almost immediately, a dev...

Apr 05, 2019

Attorney general defends handling of Mueller's Russia report

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr is defending his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation, saying the confidential document contains sensitive grand j...

Apr 05, 2019

New Zealand mosque suspect to undergo mental health check

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A New Zealand judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of killing 50 people at two Christchurch mosques undergo two mental health assessments to determine if he's fit t...

Apr 05, 2019

US condemns 'broken' Alabama prison system

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama has the nation's deadliest prisons, where violence is "too common, cruel, of an unusual nature, and pervasive" the Department of Justice found Wednesday in a scathing report...

Apr 05, 2019