Dual Capitol Hill briefings focus on Trump’s Iran policy shifts

Competing closed-door sessions on Capitol Hill Tuesday, unusual and potentially polarizing, come after weeks of escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf.

Official apologizes for comment about driving while blonde

A suburban Kansas City school board president has apologized for equating treatment of blondes to racist treatment of black people during a conversation about racial diversity.

US delays Huawei ban 90 days to give tech sector time to adjust

The United States is delaying some restrictions on U.S. technology sales to Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei in what it calls an effort to ease the blow on Huawei smartphone owners and smaller U.S. telecoms providers.

Cohen campaign finance probe remains active, say prosecutors

Prosecutors aren’t quite finished investigating campaign finance violations by President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer. A judge is keeping some search warrants sealed.

New abortion laws sow confusion, uncertainty, fear at clinics

Abortion clinics are facing protesters emboldened by a flurry of restrictive new state laws as they reassure confused patients that the laws have yet to take effect.

California reporter wants cops to return his seized property

A San Francisco reporter is seeking the return of his property confiscated by police after officers with a sledgehammer raided his home and his office amid an investigation to determine the source of a leaked police report into the death of the city’s public defender.

‘Medicare for All’s’ rich benefits surpass most other nations

A “Medicare for All” plan embraced by leading 2020 Democrats appears more lavish than what other advanced nations offer, compounding the cost but also potentially broadening its appeal.

Coca-Cola to bring back New Coke drink from 1985

Coca-Cola drinkers will get a chance to relive one of the company’s darker chapters as New Coke makes a comeback under a partnership with the Netflix drama “Stranger Things,” the companies announced Tuesday.

Aretha Franklin may have penned 3 wills, left in home

Three handwritten wills have been found in the suburban Detroit home of Aretha Franklin, months after the death of the “Queen of Soul.”

Chicago-area hospital’s role in baby-cutting case questioned

A local sheriff’s office wants to know if a suburban Chicago hospital violated state law by not immediately reporting that a woman who claimed to be the mother of a newborn had not given birth. The woman was later charged with strangling the baby’s mother and cutting the newborn from her womb.

Speedier cleanup of closed nuke plants raises concerns

Companies specializing in nuclear demolition and radioactive waste storage are buying up aging U.S. reactors and promising to decommission them in dramatically less time than their utility owners had planned.

Dressbarn to close all of its 650 stores

Dressbarn, the women’s clothing chain that’s been around for nearly 60 years, is closing all 650 of its stores.

Driver flees 6-vehicle injury crash in east Las Vegas

A collision Tuesday morning triggered a chain-reaction that saw one of the cars strike four other vehicles, a fire hydrant and a utility pole before coming to a stop.

Documents give rare look inside Syrian government crackdown

Documents purportedly found in abandoned Syrian government offices during the civil war reveal the reach of President Bashar Assad’s security agencies, according to a report.

Rescued from boneyard, transport plane to join D-Day anniversary

Filled with paratroopers, a U.S. warplane lumbered down an English runway in 1944 to spearhead the World War II D-Day invasion with a message for Adolf Hitler painted in bright yellow across its nose: “That’s All, Brother.”

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