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Florida lawmakers approve gun bill restricting rifle sales

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state’s Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools. The 20-18 vote came after three hours of often emotional debate. Support and opposition crossed party lines, and it was clear many of…

Millennials more likely to fall for online scams, study says

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Passengers restrain woman who tried to open cabin door midair

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Shaquem Griffin shows the NFL he can do anything he puts his mind to

Can a one-handed linebacker make it in the NFL? Shaquem Griffin made his case that he can with an electrifying performance before scouts and coaches at the NFL Scouting Combine. The event can get repetitive, literally. Hundreds of prospects lifting, jumping, and running, day after day. But Griffin elevated everything — bench pressing 225 pounds 20 times with a prosthetic…

Mid-air scare as passenger tries to open cabin door

WASHINGTON — Passengers onboard United Express Flight 5449 restrained a Boise, Idaho, woman who was ranting about being God. Video posted online purportedly shows a passenger working to tie up the woman’s feet as another man holds her down in the aisle. “I am God, I am God, I am God,” she was heard screaming in the video. Moments earlier…

Botched execution was “torture” for inmate, attorney says

This image shows Doyle Lee Hamm, an inmate to be executed in Alabama. Alabama Department of Corrections MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A lawyer for an Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted after staffers could not connect an intravenous line says his client should not face a second date in the death chamber. An attorney for Doyle Lee Hamm wrote in state…

Millennials more likely than seniors to fall for online scams

LOS ANGELES — Older people are often warned they could be the targets of con artists, but a surprising new report from the Federal Trade Commission says younger Americans — those in their 20s and early 30s — are even more vulnerable to scammers. Twenty-nine-year-old David Sigman of Los Angeles says he never thought he would fall victim to a scam. …

Trump tariffs expose rifts in GOP as Paul Ryan warns of trade war

WASHINGTON — The battle over tariffs and whether they could start a trade war has not stopped making headlines. President Trump stood by his plan to put tariffs on imported steel and aluminum on Monday, despite criticism from the highest levels of his own party. Mr. Trump may focus on China when he talks about trade deficits, but China provides…

Man accused of stealing Oscar bragged about winning on social media

LOS ANGELES — For two-time Academy Award winner Frances McDormand, there was drama last night at the Oscars — and after. McDormand hit a high note when she won best actress and called for every nominated woman in the audience to stand up. Her speech captured a movement focused on diversity and women’s empowerment.   “We all have a story…

Hundreds protest white nationalist’s speech on college campus

Demonstrators at Michigan State University protest a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right,” on March 5, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. Scott Olson / Getty Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in East Lansing, Michigan, on Monday to protest a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at Michigan State University (MSU), where students are currently…

On the front line of Turkey’s fight with Kurds in Syria

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Doctors in Syrian city struggle to treat flood of airstrike victims

AFRIN, Syria — In Syria, some food and medicine finally reached civilians in Eastern Ghouta Monday, the rebel-held town outside Damascus, where 700 people have been killed by Syrian airstrikes in the past two weeks. In the north, it’s ally versus ally: the Kurds — America’s most effective partner against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — are…

Endangered tiger killed, disemboweled in Indonesia

Villagers in an Indonesian community killed and disemboweled a Sumatran tiger after it apparently attacked locals, a conservation official told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency on Monday. Locals in northern Sumatra’s Hatorangan village reportedly put the endangered tiger on display by hanging it from a ceiling. The tiger had been spotted roaming around the village since February and the…