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Alaska man pleads guilty in Florida airport shooting

MIAMI — An Alaska man pleaded guilty Wednesday in exchange for a life prison sentence in the Florida airport shooting that killed five people and wounded six, blaming his rampage on severe mental illness a psychologist said is now under control.
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Air Force trainer jet crashes in Mississippi; 2 eject safely

COLUMBUS, Miss. — A U.S. Air Force training jet crashed Wednesday in northeast Mississippi with both pilots ejecting safely. The T-38C Talon II crashed about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Columbus Air Force Base officials said in a statement.
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FBI raids house, storage unit of former Ohio House speaker

FBI raids house, storage unit of former Ohio House speaker

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal agents searched former Republican Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger's southwest Ohio home and a nearby storage unit Wednesday, apparently part of an investigation into the money behind his international travel and lavish l
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Pompeo 'very hopeful' N. Korea talks will still take place

Pompeo 'very hopeful' N. Korea talks will still take place

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he was "very hopeful" that the U.S.-North Korean nuclear summit would take place as planned next month, although he laid the meeting's fate squarely on Kim Jong Un.
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Macedonian court sentences former PM Gruevski to 2 years

Macedonian court sentences former PM Gruevski to 2 years

SKOPJE, Macedonia — A Macedonian criminal court sentenced former conservative prime minister Nikola Gruevski to two years in prison Wednesday for unlawfully influencing officials at the interior ministry over the purchase of a luxury bulletproof car.
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3 more teens charged in death of Maryland police officer

3 more teens charged in death of Maryland police officer

PERRY HALL, Md. — Three more teens have been charged as adults with first-degree murder in the death of a Maryland police officer, authorities said Wednesday.
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Trump seethes over Russia probe, calls for end to 'SPYGATE'

Trump seethes over Russia probe, calls for end to 'SPYGATE'

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation Wednesday, saying the FBI has been caught in a "MAJOR spy scandal" over its use of a secret informant to determine whether some of Trump's campaign aides
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Pompeo: US will fight Russian interference in 2018 elections

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the Trump administration will not tolerate Russian interference in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
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Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles has died

Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles has died

MIAMI — Former CIA operative and militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who was accused of organizing a string of 1997 Havana hotel bombings and a 1976 Cuban airline bombing that killed 73 people, has died. He was 90.
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Poland hails its first Man Booker International winner

Poland hails its first Man Booker International winner

WARSAW, Poland — Poland's deputy culture minister said Wednesday he is happy that author Olga Tokarczuk is the first Pole to win the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
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