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Water testing gap may expose school kids to lead

Children drinking from water fountains at the nation’s schools – especially in aging facilities with lead pipes and fixtures – might be unwittingly exposing themselves to high levels of lead...

World Briefs

Paris attacks suspect said to be planning new acts BRUSSELS – The top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks told investigators after he was captured that he was planning new operat...

IS suffers blows in Iraq, Syria but still launches attacks

BAGHDAD – After months of losing ground in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is showing signs of wear and tear, and its opponents say they have seen an increase in desertions among the...

Istanbul bomber identified as militant with IS links

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s interior minister on Sunday identified the suicide bomber who killed four foreign tourists in Istanbul as a militant with links to the Islamic State group. Min...

AP Investigation: Suspected rapist goes AWOL; no Army search

WASHINGTON – Army Pvt. Jameson T. Hazelbower went AWOL after learning he was suspected of raping a 15-year-old girl. Despite the potential threat to the public that he posed, the self-descri...

Trump and Cruz tap their inner fishermen to reel in voting bloc

Donald Trump favors bespoke suits, jets, gilded New York towers and once declared on Twitter: “I’m not a hunter and don’t approve of killing animals.” Yet Sportsmen for Trump is rallying beh...

Gaffe Proof? Trump vs. Clinton tests political pitfalls

WASHINGTON – When is a gaffe not a gaffe? When Donald Trump says it. Over 72 hours earlier in the month, the Republican front-runner faced a campaign crisis after unrest at his ev...

Nation Briefs

Mystery surrounds Flint City Hall break-in FLINT, Mich. –Days before the federal government opened an investigation into the Flint water crisis, someone broke into a vacant City H...

Migrants keep arriving in Greece despite deal to return them

ATHENS, Greece – Hundreds of mostly Syrian asylum-seekers continued to arrive in Greece by sea Sunday despite the start of an international agreement to send migrants back to Turkey. ...

With visit, Obama aims to push acrimony with Cuba into past

HAVANA – Stepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba on Sunday, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties wit...

3 foreigners among 5 killed in Istanbul bomb attack

ISIS or Kurdish militants suspected

Prosecutor: Suspect backed out of being Paris suicide bomber

Salah Abdeslam fighting extradition to France