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Life sentence issued for murder of Muslim teen in Virginia

FAIRFAX, Va. - A man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping and killing a Muslim teenager in Virginia as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services. The life...

Mar 28, 2019

'It doesn't open': Mosque survivors describe terror at door

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - When the gunman began to attack the Al Noor mosque, Ahmed Alayedy scrambled to get to the nearest emergency exit. He was the first one there. "I tried to open the door," he s...

Mar 28, 2019

Legal hemp, pot's look-alike, creates quandary for police

PORTLAND, Ore. - Federal legalization of hemp arrived in the U.S. late last year and expanded an industry already booming because of the skyrocketing popularity of CBDs, a compound in hemp that many s...

Mar 28, 2019

Close advisers try to steer Trump away from issuing pardons

NEW YORK - The end of the special counsel's investigation sparked fresh speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon some of those charged in the probe. It's also spawned a don't-go-there chor...

Mar 28, 2019

Ostrich jacket, hard drives in Mueller's trove of evidence

WASHINGTON - Democrats say they want "all of the underlying evidence" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation . But what is all of that evidence? Mueller's team issued more than 2,800 subpoe...

Mar 28, 2019

UK leader Theresa May makes final push on EU divorce deal

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May made a final push Thursday to save her European Union withdrawal agreement after her promise to step down gained the deal some support but failed to win ove...

Mar 28, 2019

Abortion-rights group sues Mississippi over 'heartbeat' law

JACKSON, Miss. - An abortion-rights group is asking a federal judge to block a Mississippi law that will ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The ...

Mar 28, 2019

Algerian army chief calls for president to be declared unfit

ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's powerful army chief called Tuesday for starting the constitutional process to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit for office, possibly paving the way for th...

Mar 28, 2019

Backlash, questions follow dismissal of Jussie Smollett case

CHICAGO - Prosecutors still insist Jussie Smollett faked a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in the hopes that the attention would advance his acting career. The "Empire" star still says he was assau...

Mar 28, 2019

AP sources: Mueller report is more than 300 pages long

WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report is more than 300 pages long. That's according to a Justice Department official and another person familiar with the report. Th...

Mar 28, 2019