PHOENIX (AP) — A 16-year-old Boy Scout who collapsed last month on a troop hiking trip in the southern Arizona desert died of dehydration and overheating, an autopsy shows.
Joshua Michael White’s April 27 death at Picacho Peak State Park was an accident, the Pinal County medical examiner said in a report released this week to The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $19 billion disaster aid bill that’s still crawling through Congress highlights the inconsistency of lawmakers, mostly conservatives, who stood resolute against such aid six years ago but demand it now that their states are under water.
TORONTO (AP) — The NBA is closely monitoring the ongoing trade dispute and tariff rift between the U.S. and China, though the league is not yet worried that it will interfere with any business happening with the world’s most populous nation.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver even went as far Thursday night to suggest that the sport could provide a reprise of sorts to the phenomenon known as “pingpong diplomacy” — when table tennis players from the U.S. and China played in the early 1970s and essentially began a major mending of relations between the two countries.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s announcement on new tariffs for Mexican imports in response to heavy flow of migrants (all times local):
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his foreign relations secretary will lead a delegation to seek a peaceful and negotiated solution to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose stiff tariffs on goods from Mexico if the country doesn’t do more to slow irregular migration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn’t ready to impeach President Donald Trump.
Even after special counsel Robert Mueller essentially called on Congress to pick up where his investigation left off, Pelosi isn’t budging. Scores of her Democratic lawmakers do want to start impeachment proceedings. Outside groups say it’s time. But Pelosi is carrying on as she has since taking the speaker’s gavel in January, promising the House will methodically pursue its investigations of Trump -- wherever they lead.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump angrily assailed special counsel Robert Mueller’s motives on Thursday, a day after Mueller bluntly rebuffed Trump’s repeated claims that the Russia investigation had cleared him of obstructing justice.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise announcement that could compromise a major trade deal, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is slapping a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.
He said the percentage will gradually increase — up to 25% — “until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied.”
30 May 2019; DW: Baby Saybie weighed little more than an apple when she was born. Doctors said she wouldn't survive long. But after five months in intensive care, she's been given the all-clear to go home with her family.
A baby thought to be the world's tiniest surviving infant has been discharged from a San Diego hospital after five months in intensive care.
THE UNITED NATIONS, May 29. /TASS/: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Sochi helped to move forward in the political process in Syria, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told reporters on Wednesday after closed-door consultations on Syria at the United Nations Security Council.
"Secretary of State Pompeo's visit to Sochi, I think, is very important and is a positive opening for a way to move forward on the political process," Pedersen said.
NEW YORK, May 29 (APP):The Myanmar military units, which committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims in 2017, are still committing atrocities against the minority group, according to a new report from Amnesty International, a leading human rights group.
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