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2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (369+ words) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department’s history. “When…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (436+ words) WASHINGTON – An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (224+ words) SAN ANTONIO – A man who died in a shooting outside a hookah lounge in east Bexar County over the weekend has been identified, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said. Thomas Wesley Jr., 33, was shot multiple times in the upper body…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (516+ words) Francisco Javier Cruz And Martín Silva Rey ENSENADA – The death toll from Hurricane Simon and the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel rose to six Tuesday after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast, authorities said. Hurricane Simon…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (443+ words) SEATTLE – A Washington state resident charged with conspiracy in one of the worst school shootings in Canada’s history has been ordered detained pending further hearings in the case. Melody Bryant, also known as James Cody Bryant, of Bellingham, Washington, was…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (714+ words) MIAMI – The Trump administration is cutting the time refugees have to contest the termination of their status, a move critics say could put tens of thousands of people who fled persecution and wars in their home countries on a path…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (300+ words) COLOGNE – German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said. Police in the western city of Cologne…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago   (948+ words) Wyoming Game and Fish Department Wyoming wildlife managers are reporting that no black-footed ferrets are being detected in the cradle of the species’ conservation: the Absaroka Range foothills outside of Meeteetse, where the ferrets were saved after presumed extinction in…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (381+ words) WASHINGTON – U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course until Oct. 26, putting a further pause on work at the historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump’s…...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago   (297+ words) BUNIA – Confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Health Ministry reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths, with…...