By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Growing up in Minneapolis, Isabella Tunney followed the progress of her older brother with admiration and occasional envy as he worked toward earning the Boy Scouts’ …
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Customers, staff fired back in gun store shooting; 3 dead
By STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press METAIRIE, La. (AP) — A person entered a gun store and shooting range in a New Orleans suburb and fatally shot two people Saturday, prompting customers and staff to…
FAA orders United to inspect Boeing 777s after emergency
By The Associated Press Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over De…
‘I thought we were done’: Parts fall from sky in plane scare
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and DAVID ZALUBOWSKI Associated Press BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — David Delucia was settling back into his airplane seat and starting to relax on his way to a long-awaited vacation whe…
Suspected Russian hack fuels new US action on cybersecurity
By BEN FOX and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce …
Mars landing team ‘awestruck’ by photo of descending rover
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered …
Former WWE wrestlers take brain damage case to Supreme Court
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Several former pro wrestlers who claimed in lawsuits that World Wrestling Entertainment failed to protect them from repeated head injuries are t…
UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK
BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes…
Some electricity restored in Texas, but water woes grow
By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical…
More deadly storms coming so prepare better, experts say
By MATTHEW DALY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America had better get better at dealing with it, experts said Wednesday…