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{ "text": [ "JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced that wreckage of a sunken military ship on which five brothers died in World War II has been discovered in the South Pacific.\nA spokeswoman for Allen confirms wreckage from the USS Juneau was found Saturday off the coast of the Solomon Islands.\nThe ship was hit by Japanese torpedoes in 1942, killing hundreds of men, including the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa.\nAllen has an expedition team that has reported finding wreckage of other ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, also sunk during World War II.\nThe expedition team says in a statement it first identified the USS Juneau on Saturday using sonar technology and used a remotely operated underwater vehicle to verify the wreckage on Sunday." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BEIJING (AP) — In a story Jan. 28 about Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai, who was taken away by people who appeared to be Chinese police while traveling to Beijing by in the company of Swedish diplomats, the headline erroneously referred to Gui as a Chinese citizen. Gui is a naturalized Swedish citizen.\nA corrected version of the story is below.\nUS calls for release of missing Swedish bookseller\nBEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has joined European governments in urging China to release a Swedish citizen who sold gossipy books about Chinese leaders.\nA U.S. State Department spokeswoman called on China to disclose Gui Minhai's location and allow him to leave China if he wishes.\n\"We call on Chinese authorities to explain the reasons and legal basis for Mr. Gui's arrest and detention, disclose his whereabouts, and allow him freedom of movement and the freedom to leave China,\" spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.\nThe U.S. \"will continue to coordinate with our partners, allies and regional organizations on promoting greater respect for human rights in China,\" Nauert said.\nAround 10 Chinese police officers surrounded Gui and Swedish diplomats on Jan. 20 as they traveled by train to Beijing. Gui, a naturalized Swedish citizen, was seized and his whereabouts remain unknown.\nGui had disappeared from his home in Thailand in 2015 and reappeared months later in China after being sentenced for a decade-old traffic violation.\nIn a videotaped confession that supporters believe was coerced, Gui stated that he had turned himself in to mainland authorities over a hit-and-run accident.\nThat spurred suspicions that he had been abducted by the Chinese security services. He remained closely supervised even after his release from prison.\nHis latest detention has particularly rattled Western governments after it unfolded in the presence of diplomats.\nThe Chinese Foreign Ministry says it has no information about Gui's whereabouts, but has suggested that he may have been breaking the terms of his release. The ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.\nGui was one of five Hong Kong booksellers whose disappearances symbolized China's determination to enforce its hard line on squelching political dissent and a free press __ despite international criticism.\nHe was released into house arrest in October in the eastern city of Ningbo, living in what his daughter Angela called a police-managed apartment.\nUnder Chinese law, those convicted of a crime generally have their civil rights suspended for a period of time, although it wasn't clear whether that applied in Gui's case. The prohibitions, which are often not made public, can also include restrictions on travel.\nThe office of EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has said it \"fully supports the public statement and efforts of the Swedish government\" on Gui's behalf." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Soaring stock prices under President Donald Trump have boosted investor portfolios and corporate profits but have not eased the economic anxieties of middle-class families, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III said Tuesday night in the Democratic response to Trump's first State of the Union address.\nIn calling on Americans to reject the \"chaos\" of the Trump era, Kennedy also outlined a Democratic vision that promises a \"better deal for all who call this country home.\"\nDemocrats support a higher minimum wage, paid leave for employees and affordable child care, among other priorities, Kennedy said.\n\"We choose pensions that are solvent, trade pacts that are fair, roads and bridges that won't rust away, and good education you can afford,\" he said in a speech from a vocational high school in Fall River, Massachusetts, a onetime manufacturing hub now struggling with high unemployment and other problems.\nKennedy, 37, a three-term congressman and grandson of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has argued that Democrats should focus on the economic concerns of working-class voters who bolted the party in the 2016 elections.\nFall River, home to many blue-collar workers, \"has faced its share of storms,\" Kennedy said. \"But people here are tough. They fight for each other. They pull for their city.\"\nIn an apparent reference to Trump, Kennedy said that \"bullies may land a punch\" and leave a mark but that they have \"never managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.\"\nIn a hard-hitting speech for a political newcomer, Kennedy decried a rollback of civil rights protections, noting proposals that target Muslims, transgender people and others.\nThe Trump administration \"isn't just targeting the laws that protect us — they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection,\" Kennedy said.\nTrump's record is \"a rebuke of our highest American ideal: the belief that we are all worthy, we are all equal and we all count — in the eyes of our law and our leaders, our God and our government,\" Kennedy said.\nThe red-haired Kennedy was elected to the House in 2012, returning the family to Congress two years after the retirement of Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the son of Joe Kennedy III's great-uncle Ted.\nKnown mostly for his famous last name, Kennedy's selection has been criticized by some as tone-deaf at a time when sexual harassment of women and the Black Lives Matter movement are at the forefront of American politics. Speaking without a suit coat in front of a rebuilt car and an enthusiastic audience, Kennedy tried to defuse that Tuesday by citing the #MeToo movement and declaring, \"Black lives matter.\"\nIn a nod to \"Dreamers,\" the 700,000 young immigrants brought here as children and now here illegally, Kennedy spoke in Spanish as he said Dreamers are a part of America's story and promised that Democrats will not walk away from them.\nKennedy said Trump and his administration were breaking a core promise of America — that everyone will be treated equally under the law. He accused the administration of \"callously\" appraising Americans' worth and deciding \"who makes the cut and who can be bargained away.\"\nUnder the leadership of Trump and congressional Republicans, Americans are \"bombarded with one false choice after another,\" Kennedy said. \"Coal miners or single moms. Rural communities or inner cities. The coast or the heartland.\"\nDemocrats \"choose both,\" Kennedy said.\nA former Peace Corps volunteer, Kennedy was an assistant district attorney in two Massachusetts districts before being elected to Congress. He has focused on economic and social justice in Congress and has advocated on behalf of vocational schools and community colleges and championed issues such as transgender rights and marriage equality.\nTo illustrate that message, Kennedy invited U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, a transgender woman, as his guest to the State of the Union. King, an infantry squad leader at Fort Lewis, Washington, was the first person to have gender reassignment surgery paid for by the military.\nKennedy's speech was one of several Democratic responses. Elizabeth Guzman, one of the first Latinas elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, delivered a Spanish-language response, while former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke on Facebook Live and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., spoke on BET." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May says there is a new sense of optimism in the talks to secure Britain's departure from the European Union.\nMay is set to address the House of Commons on Monday, updating lawmakers on the negotiations just days after hammering out a deal with the EU on the so-called divorce issues, including the Irish border and Britain's financial obligations. Brexit talks are now expected to move onto trade and security cooperation.\nBut Britain's argument that nothing is settled until all is agreed upon is causing unease among other countries involved in the decision. Irish officials have rejected assertions that the deal is merely a \"statement of intent\" rather than legally binding.\nThe Irish government branded the view \"bizarre\" and insisted that an agreement is binding." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 4, 2018--Private fund management company Fortem Capital have appointed Yusef Atiyeh Navarro as their new CEO.\nMr Atiyeh joins the business from supermarket giant, Organizacion Soriana, where he was Director of Real Estate Development, Construction and Technology Innovation. He was with the retail group - Mexico’s second-largest supermarket chain - for the last 22 years and oversaw its extensive growth.\nThe appointment is part of the growth plan at Fortem Capital, which specialises in real estate investment programs across Mexico. Launched earlier this year, the firm has already helped develop a series of hotels, as well as commercial and health projects.\nFounder and previous CEO Miguel Sanchez Navarro Madero, will also take up a new role - Chairman of the Board - with immediate effect.\nAn experienced real estate developer and investment fund manager, Mr Miguel Sanchez Navarro was the founder of Grupo IPB, and helped develop commercial properties including, Via Vallejo and Plaza Chimalhuacán, Plaza Peninsula. He also developed an important Auto Dealer Group in Mexico; IPB Autos, working with major brands Honda, Toyota, BMW, KIA, Hyundai, GM, Suzuki.\nSpeaking about the changes, Mr Sanchez Navarro said they are ready for the start of a new growth plan for the business with Fortem Capital. He explained: “We are delighted to welcome Mr Atiyeh to the company and know he will be an asset during this exciting time.\n“He brings with him a wealth of experience working with one of Mexico’s most respected businesses - and we look forward to seeing how he helps to strengthen Fortem Capital’s future.”\nends\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005196/en/\nCONTACT: Fortem Capital\nBlanca Garcia\nbgarcia@fortemcapital.com.mx\nKEYWORD: MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BANKING FINANCE CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE\nSOURCE: Fortem Capital\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 07/04/2018 10:17 AM/DISC: 07/04/2018 10:16 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005196/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PARIS (AP) — French authorities have deployed boats and helicopters off the coast of southwest France to search for the chief executive of sportswear maker Quiksilver after his empty boat was found washed ashore.\nThe port authority of the Atlantic beach town of Capbreton said the search was launched after Pierre Agnes' empty boat was found washed up Tuesday in nearby Hossegor.\nMaritime authorities said two boats and three helicopters are involved in the search.\nThe area is known for intense, sometimes dangerous waves that are prized by surfers.\nQuiksilver, known for its surf wear, was founded in Australia but is now majority-owned by an American investment group and based in Huntington Beach, California. Agnes was the head of its France-based European headquarters before being named CEO of the whole company in 2015." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "New York (AP) — Coffee futures trading on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Wednesday:\n(37,500 lbs.; cents per lb.)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Didi Gregorius had another big game at Yankee Stadium with a two-run homer and three RBIs, and Gary Sanchez homered twice to help CC Sabathia and New York romp past the Minnesota Twins yet again, 8-3 on Tuesday night.\nAaron Judge hit his seventh home run as the Yankees went deep four times for the second straight night. Gleyber Torres had a pair of hits and his first RBI for New York, which extended a winning streak to four for the first time under new manager Aaron Boone and sent the Twins to their season-worst fifth consecutive loss.\nA night after a 14-1 drubbing, New York beat Minnesota for the sixth straight time and improved to 27-9 against the Twins at new Yankee Stadium, including the playoffs. Judge was a triple short of the cycle and Gregorius also had three hits.\nSabathia (1-0) rarely allowed hard contact in his second start back from the disabled list and gave up an unearned run and two hits in six innings. He is 20-9 in 39 regular-season starts against the Twins.\nGregorius hit an RBI single for a 2-1 lead in the third and pulled a changeup just inside the right-field foul pole and into the second deck for a 5-1 margin in the fifth. All eight of his home runs and 23 of his 27 RBIs this year have come at home. Babe Ruth (1921) and Alex Rodriguez (2007) are the only other Yankees with that many homers and RBIs in the first 22 games.\nJose Berrios (2-2) entered with 14 consecutive scoreless innings and had 29 strikeouts and one walk in his first four outings. He allowed five runs, six hits and two walks in four-plus innings, raising his ERA from 1.63 to 2.84.\nDellin Betances entered with a 5-1 lead in the sixth but lasted just four batters, giving up a pair of walks, a hit and another unearned run. David Robertson pitched out of two-on, one-out trouble by striking out Ehire Adrianza and retiring pinch-hitter Joe Mauer on a comebacker.\nJudge led off the bottom half with a loud, opposite-field drive to right off Tyler Duffey, who was brought up from the minors before the game for his season debut. Judge became the fastest in major league history to hit 63 career home runs, doing it in 203 games, four fewer than Mark McGwire.\nSanchez, whose second-inning home run tied the score, hit a two-run drive later in the seventh into the netting above Monument Park in center. Judge, arms crossed, gave Sanchez the silent treatment in the dugout before smiling and giving Sanchez a hug.\nErrors by Judge in right, Neil Walker at first, Torres while covering first and Betances raised the Yankees' total to 22 in 22 games, tied for the major league lead.\nEduardo Escobar had three hits, a walk and an RBI for the Twins. Brian Dozier went 0 for 4 after getting hits in Minnesota's first 17 games — 24 in a row dating to last season.\nEMERGING EMOJI\nAs the Yankees add new players, Gregorius comes up with additional emojis for his tweets that follow wins. Torres is Baby bottle, Giancarlo Stanton is Volcano and Tyler Austin is Police car. Luis Severino has grown from Baby last season to Child.\nWHIFFS\nA night after going 4 for 4, Stanton had his second three-strikeout game this season to go along with a pair of five-strikeout games.\nHE'S BACK\nReleased during spring training and re-signed last week, 1B Adam Lind made his season debut for the Yankees' Class A farm team in Tampa and went 3 for 3 with a double, walk and RBI.\nTRAINER'S ROOM\nTwins: OF Byron Buxton (migraines) will go to extended spring training after fouling a ball off his left foot Sunday during a rehab assignment with Class A Fort Myers.\nYankees: 3B Brandon Drury (migraines) is on track to start a rehab assignment Wednesday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.\nUP NEXT\nRHP Sonny Gray (1-1, 8.27 ERA), who has totaled just 16 1/3 innings in four starts, is on the mound for the Yankees on Wednesday night, when RHP Lance Lynn (0-1, 6.00) starts for Minnesota. Lynn's only previous outing against the Yankees was a five-hit shutout for St. Louis in 2014.\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "New York (AP) — Petroleum futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday:\n(1,000 bbl; dollars per bbl.)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 49 34 12 3 71 175 125 17-5-1 17-7-2 9-3-1 Boston 47 29 10 8 66 156 116 16-5-4 13-5-4 10-1-2 Washington 49 29 15 5 63 150 138 18-7-1 11-8-4 8-4-3 Toronto 51 28 18 5 61 162 146 13-8-2 15-10-3 6-4-1 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 13-8-3 12-8-5 5-6-1 Columbus 49 27 19 3 57 131 137 16-8-0 11-11-3 8-5-2 Pittsburgh 51 27 21 3 57 151 153 17-7-1 10-14-2 10-4-0 Philadelphia 49 24 17 8 56 141 141 13-9-4 11-8-4 5-2-4 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 17-8-3 8-12-2 7-6-3 N.Y. Islanders 51 25 21 5 55 173 184 13-8-3 12-13-2 7-7-1 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 11-7-4 12-12-4 6-5-3 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 11-8-3 9-14-3 6-4-1 Detroit 48 19 21 8 46 126 146 10-10-7 9-11-1 6-9-2 Montreal 49 20 23 6 46 129 156 12-10-5 8-13-1 9-6-2 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 9-11-5 6-13-4 5-8-3 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 6-13-3 8-14-6 3-5-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vegas 48 32 12 4 68 164 128 19-3-2 13-9-2 11-1-1 Winnipeg 50 29 13 8 66 164 136 17-3-1 12-10-7 7-5-2 Nashville 47 29 11 7 65 145 123 16-4-3 13-7-4 10-3-2 St. Louis 51 30 18 3 63 148 130 17-10-0 13-8-3 7-4-1 Dallas 50 28 18 4 60 155 134 17-7-1 11-11-3 7-10-0 San Jose 48 26 15 7 59 143 133 14-7-3 12-8-4 12-2-3 Calgary 49 25 16 8 58 137 135 12-11-3 13-5-5 8-5-3 Colorado 48 27 18 3 57 157 139 18-7-1 9-11-2 7-6-1 Minnesota 49 26 18 5 57 144 140 17-4-4 9-14-1 8-8-0 Los Angeles 49 26 18 5 57 139 121 12-9-3 14-9-2 6-9-3 Anaheim 50 24 17 9 57 141 141 14-9-3 10-8-6 8-5-5 Chicago 49 23 19 7 53 146 136 12-10-3 11-9-4 5-7-2 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 11-13-1 11-11-2 10-2-0 Vancouver 49 19 24 6 44 127 159 8-13-3 11-11-3 5-9-1 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172 6-15-3 6-14-6 1-7-5\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nMonday's Games No games scheduled\nTuesday's Games\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nMinnesota at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Boston, 7 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nMontreal at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nChicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.\nVegas at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.\nSan Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PHOENIX (AP) — Adam Duvall's grand slam erased an early four-run deficit, and the Cincinnati Reds rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 on Wednesday.\nScott Schebler added a tiebreaking two-run drive in the sixth, helping the last-place Reds salvage the finale of the three-game set. Joey Votto and Eugenio Suarez each had three hits.\nBoth of Cincinnati's homers came off Patrick Corbin (5-2), who gave up a season-high six runs in six innings.\nPaul Goldschmidt and John Ryan Murphy went deep for the Diamondbacks, who have dropped 16 of 20 overall." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's priority will be keeping Luiz Suarez tamed at this year's World Cup.\nAfter the striker was expelled from the 2014 tournament in disgrace for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini, Uruguay was eliminated by Colombia in the round of 16.\nSuarez promises he is a reformed character and will be better behaved in Russia than in Brazil, where he scored twice before being banned.\n\"It was my mistake,\" Suarez said. \"So I have a debt to repay to myself and Uruguay, to try to show a good image.\"\nThings were already starting to look brighter for two-time World Cup champion Uruguay, based on qualifying at least.\nAfter enduring four consecutive World Cup playoffs and only reaching three of the tournaments, Uruguay secured an automatic place in Russia by finishing second behind Brazil in qualifying.\nHere's a closer look at the Uruguay team:\nCOACH\nOscar Tabarez will lead Uruguay into his fourth World Cup after a first trip in 1990 followed by 2010 and 2014. A Tabarez team has always made it out of the group stage, including a semifinal appearance in South Africa eight years ago.\nA former school teacher and professional player, Tabarez led Uruguay to the Copa America title in 2011. As a club coach, he led Penarol to the Copa Libertadores title in 1987 and Boca Juniors to an Argentine league title in 1992.\nThe 71-year-old Tabarez has used a wheelchair since he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2016.\nGOALKEEPERS\nThere is little doubt Galatasaray goalkeeper Fernando Muslera will be between the posts for his third World Cup.\nDEFENSE\nThe Atletico Madrid partnership of Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez also anchor the heart of Uruguay's defense. Godin has made more than 100 appearances since his debut in 2005 and scored at his third World Cup with a header against Italy in 2014. The 23-year-old Gimenez offers a solid companion to a player nine years his senior and already has one World Cup under his belt.\nVersatile Lazio wingback Martin Caceres should also be sure of a starting spot unless there is a recurrence of one of his frequent injuries.\nMIDFIELDERS\nTabarez has always had doubts about his midfield's attacking qualities. While the unit has usually been capable of defending well, the midfielders have often struggled to generate chances for the forwards.\nDuring qualifying, Tabarez called up several young players who improved in this area: Federico Valverde (19), Nahitan Nandez (22) and Rodrigo Bentancur (20).\nFORWARDS\nUruguay shouldn't be short of goals. The strikers are the team's greatest strength.\nSuarez is Uruguay's all-time leading scorer with 50 goals and is coming off the back of a strong season with Barcelona. Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani is next on the list with 41, including a continent-leading 10 goals in 18 matches in South American qualifying.\nGROUP GAMES\nUruguay, which will be based in Nizhny Novgorod, will face Egypt in its first match on June 15. That will be followed by matches against Saudi Arabia on June 20 and Russia on June 25.\n___\nMore AP World Cup coverage: www.apnews.com/tag/WorldCup" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOKYO (AP) — Japanese telecommunications, internet and solar company SoftBank Group Corp. is buying U.S. investment company Fortress Investment Group for $3.3 billion.\nThe deal was announced by both sides Wednesday. New York-based Fortress, which manages global investments, said its senior professionals will stay to keep up its fund performance.\nTokyo-based SoftBank has been aggressive in global acquisitions. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son was recently seen with President Donald Trump, who praised his promise to invest and create jobs in the U.S.\nSoftBank owns the U.S. wireless company Sprint Corp. and Britain's ARM Holdings. ARM is known as an innovator in the \"internet of things,\" and in technology used in smartphones.\nIt has set up a $25 billion private fund for technology investments that it says may grow to $100 billion." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LONDON (AP) — Snow and wintry weather are still wreaking havoc on travelers in Britain, with flights cancelled, roads sheathed in ice and rail travel disrupted.\nWith temperatures dropping overnight as low as minus 11.6 Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit), hundreds of schools were closed Monday. Europe's largest airport, Heathrow, warned Monday that some flights would be cancelled as it cleared the backlog of flights delayed by Sunday's snowfall.\nHeathrow asked travelers to check with their airlines. In the world of interconnected air travel, any extended disruption quickly leaves planes and flight crews out of position, knocking them out of rotation for their next assignments.\nNational Rail said poor weather conditions are affecting travel across England and Wales. Trains on Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Great Western, and Virgin Trains will all also be affected." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian TV: President Bashar Assad met with Vladimir Putin at Hmeimeem base in Syria this morning." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with a rifle opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday near Washington, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others as congressmen and aides dove for cover. The assailant fought a gun battle with police before being shot and killed.\nA congressional aide and a volunteer also were wounded, along with two U.S. Capitol police officers.\nA look at previous security incidents at the Capitol or political violence involving members of Congress:\n— March 29, 2017: A 20-year-old woman described as \"erratic and aggressive\" drives a vehicle into a Capitol Police cruiser and is taken into custody, closing down streets near the Capitol for nearly three hours. Shots were fired during the arrest attempt, but the event appeared to be criminal in nature with \"no nexus to terrorism,\" Capitol Police said. No one was injured.\n— March 28, 2016: Police shoot a man after he pulled a weapon at a Capitol checkpoint as spring tourists thronged Washington. Congress was not in session. Police identified the man as 66-year-old Larry Dawson of Tennessee, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer while armed.\n— Jan. 14, 2015: A 22-year-old Ohio man is arrested by the FBI in an alleged plot to attack the Capitol in support of the Islamic State terror group. Christopher Lee Cornell of suburban Cincinnati pleaded guilty to three charges, including attempted murder of U.S. officials and employees. Court documents show Cornell said he wanted to attack during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.\n— Nov. 6, 2014: A former Cincinnati-area bartender is charged with threatening to kill House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Michael Hoyt, who worked at a country club in Boehner's suburban community, was accused of threatening to kill Boehner with a gun or by poisoning his drink. A federal judge ruled Hoyt was insane at the time of the offense.\n— Oct. 3, 2013: Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut, is shot and killed by Capitol Police officers in her vehicle outside the Hart Senate Office Building. Officers had pursued Carey from the White House, where she made a U-turn at a security checkpoint. Her young daughter was inside the car at the time and was unharmed. Her family later filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Secret Service and Capitol Police.\n— Jan. 8, 2011: A gunman shoots Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., in the head during a shooting rampage at a public event outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people were killed, and 13 wounded, including Giffords. Jared Loughner, 25, was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting. Giffords resigned from office in 2012.\n— Sept. 22, 2006: An armed man runs through the Capitol in an embarrassing security breach after allegedly crashing a sport utility vehicle into a police cruiser. Unarmed employees of the basement flag office subdued the man just before police arrived to arrest him.\n— July 24, 1998: A man with a history of mental illness shoots his way into the Capitol building filled with lawmakers and tourists, killing two veteran Capitol Police officers and wounding a tourist. Officer Jacob Chestnut was killed at a first-floor Capitol entrance, and Detective John Gibson died after exchanging fire with gunman Russell Weston inside a suite of offices occupied by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Weston was then wounded and captured.\n— Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb rips through the second floor of the Capitol, damaging a conference room and the offices of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. No one was injured. A caller had phoned The Washington Post warning that a bomb was about to explode. The caller claimed the action was in response to U.S. military aggression in Grenada and Lebanon.\n— Nov. 18, 1978: Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., is shot and killed while on an official visit to Guyana. He was investigating the activities of the Peoples Temple group led by Jim Jones, and was ambushed and shot multiple times by cult members while boarding a plane to leave Jonestown. Four others were also killed, three journalists and a defector, followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.\n— Jan. 30, 1973: Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., is shot twice by robbers outside his Washington home. The 71-year-old senator survived and returned to the Hill.\n— March 1, 1971: A bomb explodes in the men's room on the Senate side of the Capitol. It destroyed the restroom and a barbershop, but no one was injured. A caller said the bombing was to show opposition to the Vietnam War. The radical Weather Underground claimed responsibility, but no one was prosecuted for the act.\n— June 5, 1968: New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a young Palestinian, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after declaring victory in the California Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day. Five other people were injured in the shooting.\n— March 1, 1954: Five congressmen are shot on the floor of the House by Puerto Rican nationalists who fired shots from the visitors' gallery. The lawmakers all recovered. Four assailants were arrested.\n— July 12, 1947: Sen. John Bricker, R-Ohio, is shot at twice as he enters the Senate subway. Both shots missed. The gunman was a former Capitol policeman who had lost money when an Ohio building and loan firm was liquidated.\n— Sept. 10, 1935: Sen. Huey Long, D-La., dies in Baton Rouge two days after being shot in the Louisiana state Capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Weiss.\n— Dec. 13, 1932: A gunman enters the House gallery and demands to address the House on the Great Depression. Rep. Melvin Maas, R-Minn., convinced the gunman to drop the loaded pistol before shots were fired.\nCompiled by News Researchers Jennifer Farrar and Monika Mathur and Associated Press writer Matthew Daly." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres was placed on the 10-day disabled list on Wednesday because of a strained right hip.\nTorres was removed after striking out in his second at-bat in the fourth inning before the Yankees went on to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-2.\nBefore the series finale against the National League East leaders, Yankees manager Aaron Boone was upbeat about the status of his prized rookie.\nTorres did not start in Tuesday night's win, but entered the game late as a defensive replacement.\n\"We're hoping it's a short stint. But we think we've got to deal with it this time because there is a small strain there,\" Boone said outside the home clubhouse after the game.\n\"Hopefully it won't be something that it's too long. Probably take us up to the All-Star break.\"\nBoone said the club would assess the situation with a day off Thursday before heading to Toronto for the start of an 11-game, three-city road trip leading into the All-Star Game in Washington.\nTorres is hitting .294 with 15 home runs and 42 RBIs in his first 63 major league games.\nHe had an MRI and was not available to talk to reporters after the game.\nNeil Walker, who went over from third base to second at the start of the fifth inning, could get most of the work in Torres' absence.\nAnother option could be Ronald Torreyes, but he's been on the temporary inactive list at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for more than a week to deal with a personal issue. Brandon Drury, who started 114 games at second for Arizona last season, could also figure into the mix.\nBoone wasn't sure how the injury initially occurred, pointing out that Torres had made some \"good base running plays a couple of nights ago when he moved up on some wild pitches.\"\nThe Yankees manager also added that if the injury had occurred late in the season, it would've been \"possible\" for the phenom to be back on the field shortly.\nBut the team with the second-best record in baseball took the safe route.\n\"Anytime you're talking about groin, hamstring, quads, once you have a strain in there, you push through it you can make it a worse strain,\" Boone said.\n\"And now you're talking weeks and months. Stuff like that. So I think the wise thing is to do this now. Gleyber wants to take a couple of days, work through it. But I think he also understands this is the best thing for him and for us.\"\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "HONOLULU (AP) — The missile alert mistakenly sent on Jan. 13 by Hawaii officials came just a few minutes after a shift change at state Emergency Operations Center in Diamond Head Crater.\nHere's a timeline of what happened:\n8:05 a.m. — The midnight shift supervisor started a no-notice ballistic missile defense drill at shift change. In a phone call, the supervisor pretended to be U.S. Pacific Command to initiate the drill. The supervisor said ahead of and after the drill, \"Exercise, exercise, exercise.\" However, it also contained the language, \"This is not a drill.\" The day shift warning officers received the message on a speaker phone. The FCC says while the other officers understood this to be a drill, the person at the alert origination terminal \"claimed to believe, in a written statement\" that this was a real emergency and not a drill. The officer responds, as trained, by sending a live incoming missile alert.\n8:07 a.m. — The state emergency agency employee selects the template for a live alert from a drop-down menu, and clicks 'yes' in response to a prompt that reads, 'Are you sure that you want to send this Alert?'\n8:08 a.m. — The head of the Emergency Management Agency, state adjutant general Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, speaks to the warning center and is notified of false alert.\n8:09 a.m. — Logan calls and informs Gov. David Ige. Agency notifies counties there's no missile threat.\n8:10 a.m. — Logan confirms with U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch. Honolulu police are notified of the false alarm.\n8:12 a.m. — The state issues a cancellation that prevents the message from being sent to phones that hadn't previously received it, such as those out of cellphone coverage range or had been turned off.\n8:13 a.m. — Officials begin outreach, but phone lines become congested.\n8:19 a.m. — If there had been a real missile, this is about when it would have hit the islands. It is estimated that a missile would take about 20 minutes to reach Hawaii from North Korea. Officials say it would take about five minutes for the military to analyze the launch trajectory and notify the state, leaving only 12 to 15 minutes of warning time before impact.\n8:20 a.m. — Officials post to Facebook, Twitter accounts that there is no missile threat.\n8:24 a.m. — Gov. David Ige retweets the cancellation notice.\n8:27 a.m. — Officials determine that a Civil Emergency Message is the best way to correct this message, which the Federal Emergency Management Agency confirms three minutes later.\n8:30 a.m. — Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say they received a call from Hawaii seeking guidance on sending correction of alert. State officials say the call was about a minute long. Ige posts cancellation notice on his Facebook page.\n8:31 a.m. — An emergency management supervisor logs into alert system to start crafting false alert correction.\n8:45 a.m. — Cancellation of warning sent to cellphones: \"There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. False Alarm.\" The state said it issued the cancellation after getting authorization from FEMA. However, FEMA said its approval was not required.\nSource: Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, FCC." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.\nThe tariffs are likely to go into effect on the EU with an announcement by Friday's deadline, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The administration's plans could change if the two sides are able to reach a last-minute agreement, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.\nTrump announced in March the United States would slap a 25 percent tariff on imported steel, and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum, citing national security interests. But he granted an exemption to the EU and other U.S. allies; that reprieve expires Friday.\nEurope has been bracing for the U.S. to place the restrictions even as top European officials have held last-ditch talks in Paris with American trade officials to try to avert the tariffs.\n\"Realistically, I do not think we can hope\" to avoid either U.S. tariffs or quotas on steel and aluminum, said Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union's trade commissioner. Even if the U.S. were to agree to waive the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, Malmstrom said, \"I expect them nonetheless to want to impose some sort of cap on EU exports.\"\nEuropean officials said they expected the U.S. to announce its final decision Thursday. The people familiar with the talks said Trump could make an announcement as early as Thursday.\nU.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attended meetings at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on Wednesday, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer joins discussions in Paris on Thursday.\nThe U.S. plan has raised the threat of retaliation from Europe and fears of a global trade war — a prospect that is already weighing on investor confidence and could hinder the global economic upturn.\nIf the U.S. moves forward with its tariffs, the EU has threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. orange juice, peanut butter and other goods in return. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire pledged that the European response would be \"united and firm.\"\nBesides the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, the Trump administration is also investigating possible limits on foreign cars in the name of national security.\n\"Unilateral responses and threats over trade war will solve nothing of the serious imbalances in the world trade. Nothing,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said in an impassioned speech at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.\nIn a clear reference to Trump, Macron added: \"These solutions might bring symbolic satisfaction in the short term. ... One can think about making voters happy by saying, 'I have a victory, I'll change the rules, you'll see.'\"\nBut Macron said those \"who waged bilateral trade wars ... saw an increase in prices and an increase in unemployment.\"\nTariffs on steel imports to the U.S. can help local producers of the metal by making foreign products more expensive. But they can also increase costs more broadly for U.S. manufacturers who cannot source all their steel locally and need to import the raw material. That hurts the companies and can lead to more expensive consumer prices, economists say.\nRoss criticized the EU for its tough negotiating position.\n\"There can be negotiations with or without tariffs in place. There are plenty of tariffs the EU has on us. It's not that we can't talk just because there's tariffs,\" he said. He noted that \"China has not used that as an excuse not to negotiate.\"\nBut German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier insisted the Europeans were being \"constructive\" and were ready to negotiate special trade arrangements, notably for liquefied natural gas and industrial goods, including cars.\nMacron also proposed to start negotiations between the U.S., the EU, China and Japan to reshape the World Trade Organization to better regulate trade. Discussions could then be expanded to include other countries to agree on changes by the end of the year.\nRoss expressed concern that the Geneva-based World Trade Organization and other organizations are too rigid and slow to adapt to changes in global business.\n\"We would operate within (multilateral) frameworks if we were convinced that people would move quickly,\" he said.\nRoss and Lighthizer seemed like the odd men out at this week's gathering at the OECD, an international economic agency that includes the U.S. as a prominent member.\nThe agency issued a report Wednesday saying \"the threat of trade restrictions has begun to adversely affect confidence\" and tariffs \"would negatively influence investment and jobs.\"\n___\nCharlton and Corbet reported from Paris. Masha Macpherson and Oleg Cetinic in Paris and Paul Wiseman and Jill Colvin in Washington contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Taiwanese ultramarathon runner Tommy Chen (陳彥博) won Stage 4 of six in the ultramarathon \"Bhutan The Last Secret 200km 2018,\" but in the process he had to battle though horrific blisters on his heels, which have become excruciatingly painful.\nAt 7:27 p.m. last night (May 30) a post appeared on Chen's Facebook page announcing that Chen had taken first place in Stage 4 with a time of 4:31:18, while in second place was Guillaume Degoulet of France at 4:49:39 and third place was taken Alan Zaugy, also of France, at 4:57:41.\nAt the beginning of Stage 4, Chen said that he was already feeling the affects of the altitude and was fatigue, but in order to ensure a high ranking, he felt compelled to catch up with the main group. When he reached the second checkpoint, Chen began to feel heels of his feet stinging with \"every step feeling like stepping on needles.\"\nFearing that if he stopped, the gap between him and lead pack would widen, he pressed on. Despite feeling such intense pain that he \"wanted to scream out loud,\" he kept running at a full sprint.\nFinally, when he finished the stage, he found that he had actually taken a 28-minute lead over his closest competitor. When he finally took his socks off, he found that the skin had worn completely off his heels, making even ordinary walking difficult.\nChen said, \"When saw my socks, they were covered in blood, many staff and doctors were all shocked.\" After being disinfected and treated by a doctor, Chen said his feet are still in pain, so he can only hope now that the wound does not become infected and his injury worsen." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Depending on who is making the case, Alabama's special Senate election Tuesday is about either continuing the \"Trump miracle\" in Washington or allowing \"decency\" to prevail back home.\nAt the center is Roy Moore — \"Judge Moore,\" to his supporters. The 70-year-old Republican was twice ousted as state Supreme Court chief justice after flouting federal law, and now he's attempting a political resurrection amid accusations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s.\nIn Moore's path is Democrat Doug Jones, a 63-year-old former U.S. attorney best known for prosecuting two Ku Klux Klansmen who killed four black girls in a 1963 church bombing.\nThe winner will take the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Republicans hold a narrow 52-48 Senate majority. A routine election in Republican-dominated Alabama wouldn't be expected to alter that balance, because Alabamians haven't sent a Democrat to the upper chamber of Congress since 1992. President Donald Trump notched a 28-point win here in 2016 and remains popular in the state.\nBut Moore's baggage leaves the outcome enough in doubt that both Trump and his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, have weighed in with last-minute robocalls trying to sway voters.\nThe intensity also has spawned a steady stream of fake news stories that fill social media feeds of interested people in Alabama and beyond. An Associated Press analysis, in cooperation with Facebook, counted as many as 200 false or misleading reports heading into the weekend. One website claimed one of the women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct had recanted. She did not. Meanwhile, Moore's detractors took to social media to claim he had written in a 2011 textbook that women shouldn't hold elected office. He didn't.\nIn his final pitch before polls open, Jones called the choice a \"crossroads\" and asked that \"decency\" prevail.\n\"We've had this history in the past, going down the road that ... has not been productive,\" Jones said. \"We've lagged behind in industry. We've lagged behind in education. We've lagged behind in health care. It's time we take the road that's going to get us on the path to progress.\"\nAt his own election eve rally, Moore again denied all the allegations, calling them \"disgusting\" and offering voters a clear measure: \"If you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me.\" Earlier in the day, Moore cast himself as the victim. \"It's just been hard, a hard campaign,\" he said.\nFor Alabama, the outcome could be defining.\nDemocrats and moderate Republicans see an opportunity to reject a politician who is already regular fodder for late-night television and enough of a curiosity that Chinese leader Xi Jinping paused a presidential meeting in Beijing recently to ask Trump through an interpreter, \"Who is Roy Moore?\"\nAlabama's senior senator, Richard Shelby, confirmed publicly that he wrote in a \"distinguished Alabama Republican\" rather than vote for Moore.\nMany Republicans, however, see an opportunity to defend the state's conservative, evangelical bent in the face of unfair liberal criticism while delivering another victory for Trump and sending an anti-establishment senator into a federal government that has been reflexively unpopular among Alabama majorities for generations.\nTrump's campaign architect and former White House adviser Steve Bannon told Moore supporters Monday evening that the race is a \"national election\" that will determine whether the \"Trump miracle\" continues. Moore says he is aligned with the president and he makes similar arguments to Trump, blasting \"the elite\" in the \"swamp\" of Washington, D.C.\nFor Jones to win, he must build an atypical coalition, maximizing turnout among African-American voters and white liberals who often don't combine for more than 40 percent of the electorate, while coaxing votes from enough white Republicans who can't pull the lever for Moore.\nOne of Jones' celebrity backers framed the choice as being much less complicated.\n\"I love Alabama,\" said Leeds native and former NBA basketball star Charles Barkley, \"but at some point we've got to draw a line in the sand and say, 'We're not a bunch of damn idiots.'\"\nPolls open at 7 a.m. local time.\n___\nChandler reported from Midland City, Alabama. Follow Barrow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BillBarrowAP and Chandler at https://twitter.com/StatehouseKim ." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African city of Cape Town has made a little progress in staving off the dreaded \"Day Zero,\" the date when it might have to turn off most taps because of water shortages.\nThe country's main opposition leader said Tuesday that \"Day Zero\" had been pushed back by four days to April 16 because of efforts to save water by residents.\nMmusi Maimane, whose Democratic Alliance party runs Cape Town and the surrounding province, says residents must use fewer than 50 liters (13.2 gallons) per person daily to avoid the tap closure altogether.\nMaimane says aquifer drilling is accelerating and that authorities will reduce water pressure in the municipal system in coming weeks.\nExperts say causes of Cape Town's water shortages include climate change and huge population growth." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Southern California enters its second week engulfed in flames, fire officials anticipate more growth and danger due to continued strong wind gusts, no rain and decades-old dry vegetation.\nA powerful flare-up on the western edge of the largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames ripped down hillsides toward coastal towns northwest of Los Angeles. New evacuations were ordered as the fire sent up an enormous plume near Montecito and Carpinteria, seaside areas in Santa Barbara County.\n\"The winds are kind of squirrely right now,\" said county fire spokesman Mike Eliason. \"Some places the smoke is going straight up in the air, and others it's blowing sideways. Depends on what canyon we're in.\"\nSouthern California's gusty Santa Ana winds have long contributed to some of the region's most disastrous wildfires. They blow from the inland toward the Pacific Ocean, speeding up as they squeeze through mountain passes and canyons.\nGusts of up to 40 mph (64 kph) are expected through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.\nContainment increased Sunday on other major blazes in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties. Resources from those fires were diverted to the Santa Barbara foothills to combat the 270-square-mile (699-sq. kilometer) fire that started Dec. 4 in neighboring Ventura County.\nAs of late Sunday, the Thomas Fire had destroyed 790 structures and damaged 191.\nFires are not typical in Southern California this time of year but can break out when dry vegetation and too little rain combine with the Santa Ana winds. Though the state emerged this spring from a yearslong drought, hardly any measurable rain has fallen in the region over the past six months.\n\"This is the new normal,\" Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown warned Saturday after surveying damage from the deadly Ventura fire. The governor and experts said climate change is making wildfires a year-round threat.\nHigh fire risk is expected to last into January.\nThe air thick with acrid smoke, even residents of areas not under evacuation orders took the opportunity to leave, fearing another shutdown of U.S. 101, a key coastal highway that was closed intermittently last week. Officials handed out masks to residents who stayed behind in Montecito, the wealthy hillside enclave that's home to celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bridges and Rob Lowe.\n\"Our house is under threat of being burned,\" Ellen DeGeneres tweeted at midday Sunday. \"We just had to evacuate our pets. I'm praying for everyone in our community and thankful to all the incredible firefighters.\"\nOjai experienced hazardous levels of smoke at times and officials warned of unhealthy air for large swaths of the region. The South Coast Air Quality Management District urged residents to stay indoors if possible and avoid vigorous outdoor activities.\nIn San Diego, which is 130 miles (209 kilometers) to the south, the Lilac Fire was 75 percent contained. The flames erupted suddenly Thursday in the Fallbrook area, known for its avocado groves and horse stables in the rolling hills.\nThe fire swept through the San Luis Rey Downs training center, where it killed more than 40 elite thoroughbred race horses, and destroyed more than 100 homes — most of them in a retirement community. Three people were burned trying to escape the fire that continued to smolder Sunday.\nDespite the size and number of wildfires burning in the region, there has only been one confirmed death: A 70-year-old woman, who crashed her car on an evacuation route, is attributed to the fire in Santa Paula, a small city where the Thomas Fire began.\nMost of last week's fires were in places that burned in the past, including one in the ritzy Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air that burned six homes and another in the city's rugged foothills above the community of Sylmar and in Santa Paula.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Elliot Spagat in Fallbrook and Brian Melley and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.\n___\nFollow Weber at https://twitter.com/WeberCM .\n___\nFor complete coverage of the California wildfires, click here: https://apnews.com/tag/Wildfires." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 29 21 6 2 44 110 74 13-2-1 8-4-1 5-2-0 Toronto 31 20 10 1 41 106 88 10-5-0 10-5-1 5-1-1 Columbus 30 19 10 1 39 86 73 11-5-0 8-5-1 6-4-0 N.Y. Islanders 30 17 10 3 37 108 100 9-1-2 8-9-1 5-3-1 Washington 31 18 12 1 37 95 91 12-5-0 6-7-1 5-3-0 New Jersey 29 16 9 4 36 89 91 6-5-2 10-4-2 2-3-0 N.Y. Rangers 30 16 11 3 35 99 89 12-5-3 4-6-0 5-4-2 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 104 10-5-1 6-8-2 4-2-0 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 78 75 9-4-2 5-5-2 1-1-2 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 99 8-7-3 5-7-1 8-1-1 Carolina 28 11 10 7 29 78 88 6-4-3 5-6-4 2-3-2 Philadelphia 29 11 11 7 29 83 86 4-6-4 7-5-3 1-0-3 Florida 30 12 14 4 28 90 105 6-6-3 6-8-1 4-3-1 Detroit 30 11 13 6 28 81 99 5-6-5 6-7-1 3-7-1 Ottawa 28 9 12 7 25 77 98 4-5-5 5-7-2 2-2-1 Buffalo 30 7 17 6 20 64 102 3-9-1 4-8-5 2-4-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div St. Louis 31 21 8 2 44 104 78 11-5-0 10-3-2 5-1-1 Los Angeles 31 20 8 3 43 97 68 10-5-2 10-3-1 3-3-2 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 11-2-2 7-5-2 8-1-1 Vegas 29 19 9 1 39 103 91 11-2-0 8-7-1 9-1-0 Winnipeg 30 17 8 5 39 102 86 10-2-1 7-6-4 5-1-1 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 9-6-2 7-4-1 4-1-2 Dallas 31 17 13 1 35 91 90 10-4-0 7-9-1 4-8-0 Calgary 30 16 12 2 34 88 94 8-8-0 8-4-2 5-3-0 Minnesota 29 15 11 3 33 87 87 8-3-2 7-8-1 4-5-0 Chicago 30 14 11 5 33 90 82 8-5-2 6-6-3 2-5-2 Vancouver 30 14 12 4 32 81 85 5-6-3 9-6-1 3-5-0 Anaheim 30 12 11 7 31 80 89 7-7-3 5-4-4 3-2-4 Colorado 29 14 13 2 30 92 95 8-5-1 6-8-1 4-5-1 Edmonton 30 12 16 2 26 86 99 5-9-0 7-7-2 4-1-0 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114 3-8-1 4-13-4 1-5-3\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nChicago 3, Arizona 1\nSt. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, OT\nToronto 1, Edmonton 0\nMinnesota 4, San Jose 3, OT\nMonday's Games\nColorado 2, Pittsburgh 1\nDallas 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO\nN.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1\nFlorida 2, Detroit 1, OT\nVancouver at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nCarolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m.\nTuesday's Games\nEdmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Washington, 7 p.m.\nLos Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nCalgary at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.\nCarolina at Vegas, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nBoston at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nNashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nBuffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nWashington at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.\nChicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nAnaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nToronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Colorado, 9 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nNashville at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nSan Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nPittsburgh at Vegas, 10 p.m." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MEXICO CITY (AP) — A leader of the Gulf drug cartel has been killed along with three of his associates in a clash with marines in Mexico's northern border city of Reynosa.\nThe government of Tamaulipas state said Monday that Humberto Loza Mendez died over the weekend in the clash.\nLoza Mendez and his three companions were believed to be members of a faction of the Gulf cartel who were fighting turf battles with other factions.\nAuthorities had offered a reward of 2 million pesos (about $108,000) for Loza Mendez, who was also known as Steven and \"Betillo.\"\nThe government said Loza Mendoza was one of the drug gang leaders who had caused much of the violence in Reynosa, which has been hit by running gun battles and street blockades." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Gonzalo Higuain and Gianluigi Buffon combined to help Juventus beat Atalanta 1-0 for a crucial away victory in the first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal on Tuesday.\nAfter three minutes on a foggy night, Higuain finished off a counterattack by dribbling around a defender and scoring from the center of the area.\n\"It was important to score and also keep a clean sheet,\" Higuain said. \"We took a big step toward the final.\"\nMidway through the first half, the video assistant referee awarded Atalanta a penalty for a hand ball by Medhi Benatia, but Buffon guessed correctly and lunged to his left to smother Alejandro \"Papu\" Gomez's spot kick.\nTwo days earlier, Buffon celebrated his 40th birthday.\nJuventus is aiming to win its fourth straight Italian Cup while Atalanta is looking to reach the final for the first time in 22 years, since losing in 1996 to Fiorentina.\nIn the quarterfinals, Atalanta eliminated Napoli.\nAC Milan hosts Lazio in the other semifinal Wednesday.\nThe return legs are scheduled for Feb. 28." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "STREETSBORO, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy has fatally shot his 11-year-old brother in suburban Cleveland, and police are describing the shooting as an apparent \"premeditated act.\"\nStreetsboro police say officers were called to a home around 9:30 p.m. Monday. The 11-year-old died at a hospital.\nPolice say the 13-year-old has been charged with aggravated murder in Portage County Juvenile Court. Police say the gun used in the slaying was stolen from his grandfather's home.\nPolice have not said what prompted the teen to shoot his brother.\nStreetsboro is roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of downtown Cleveland." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow movie theater that had been showing a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban canceled further screenings Friday.\nThe Pioner theater's announcement came several hours after Moscow police visited the theater. Police didn't declare the purpose of their visit, but it followed the Russian Culture Ministry's warning that the theater could face sanctions including fines.\nThe Culture Ministry on Tuesday rescinded the permit allowing Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci's \"The Death of Stalin\" to be shown in theaters. The decision came after communists and others criticized the movie as a mockery of Russian history.\nThe film was scheduled to premiere in Russia on Thursday, and the Pioner theater screened it as planned. Showing an unlicensed film is punishable by a fine of up to 100,000 rubles (about $1,800) and could lead to a theater's closure in case of a second violation.\nIn announcing it was pulling the movie, the theater said on its Facebook page that pre-purchased tickets would be refunded and \"for all further questions, we ask you to turn to the Ministry of Culture.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Every few years, my cousin Molly Carpenter and I plan a trip together to somewhere we've never been. Our priorities: sightseeing, shopping, good food and wine. This year, Savannah checked all those boxes for us.\nSavannah is on Georgia's Atlantic coast, just south of the South Carolina state line. Hilton Head, South Carolina, is less than an hour away, and Tybee Island, Georgia, is a half-hour drive.\nMolly and I were focused on Savannah's historic district, though, and we needed to have a conversation about our feet. The district is only 2 square miles (5 square km), but hours of walking would surely take a toll on our north-of-age-60 legs. Could we get by without renting a car?\nAs it turned out, a car would have been superfluous. We discovered the free shuttle called \"the dot,\" which makes 12 stops on its purple line around the historic district, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. A shuttle stop was just a few blocks from our rented two-bedroom cottage on the eastern edge of the historic district. After hours, an Uber was minutes away. In fact, after spending more than $30 (with tip) on a taxi ride from the airport, we took an Uber back for less than $18.\nOur first full day in Savannah, we got our bearings with the Famous & Secret East Side Food Tour, a three-hour walking tour that combined history lessons with stops for a tasty bite at six off-the-beaten-path restaurants. Highlights included pulled pork at Wall's BBQ, blueberry sausage at Smith Brothers Butcher Shop and pimento cheese croissants at Our Daily Bread Cafe.\nUnlike some Southern cities ravaged by the Civil War, Savannah retains abundant antebellum charm. Historical sites are numerous, including Fort Jackson, the oldest standing brick fortification in Georgia. Savannah's Green-Meldrim House, a National Historic Landmark, was used by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman as the Union Army's headquarters in December 1864, when Sherman famously sent President Abraham Lincoln a telegram offering up the city as a Christmas gift.\nIn the historic district, 22 squares offer monuments to famous locals. It was actually quite pleasant walking through the shady squares every few blocks. We could take a break and sit on a bench by a fountain beneath the live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss.\nThe Savannah College of Art and Design's influence can be felt beyond the campus, from the SCAD Museum of Art and the ShopSCAD store to the whimsical murals of former student Allyson Burke at the Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant.\nWe didn't partake in a tour inspired by the 1994 best-seller \"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.\" But the book by John Berendt, about a local murder, and the movie that followed, helped put Savannah on the tourism map and has drawn untold numbers of visitors for more than two decades.\nThe Savannah River borders the north side of the historic district, dividing Georgia from South Carolina. Riverboats cruise up and down the river, past Old Fort Jackson, where cannon fire greets cruisers, and the Port of Savannah, a major U.S. seaport. One of the best views of the river is from the restaurant Rocks on the Roof, atop the Bohemian Hotel. Another is from the Top Deck bar on the roof of the Cotton Sail hotel.\nSavannah's seafood is fresh and delicious. We dined on she-crab soup, shrimp and grits, huge sea scallops. We had lunch at The Olde Pink House, an institution in an 18th-century mansion. We also were impressed by Cha Bella, a farm-to-table restaurant on the northeastern fringe of the historic district.\nWe found some shopping gems, too. The Village Craftsmen, a co-op of local artisans, is on the west end of River Street, away from the kitschy tourist shops. City Market comprises four blocks of former warehouses with galleries, shopping and al fresco dining. And we were crazy for the Liquid Sands Glass Gallery, which custom-made a pair of earrings for Molly.\nI tormented my husband daily by texting photos of the fabulous food we ate. Next time, I might have to take him with me.\n___\nIf You Go...\nVISIT SAVANNAH: Tourism information, https://www.visitsavannah.com/\nFAMOUS & SECRET EAST SIDE FOOD TOUR: $57, https://savannahtasteexperience.com/famous-secret-east-side-food-tour/\nVILLAGE CRAFTSMEN: http://www.villagecraftsmensavannah.com/\nSCAD MUSEUM OF ART: https://www.scadmoa.org/" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Airlines has updated its policy on emotional support animals.\nStarting May 1, customers flying with psychiatric service animals must provide animal health and behavioral documents and a signed document from a medical professional at least 48 hours prior to departure.\nThe airline will also stop allowing amphibians, goats and animals with hooves, tusks or horns.\nAlaska Airlines spokesman Tim Thompson said there will be an exception for trained miniature horses, though.\nThompson said the changes are in response to increasing problems with emotional support animals on planes. He said there have been incidents where animals have bitten customers and employees.\n\"Most animals cause no problems,\" Ray Prentice said, Alaska Airlines director of customer advocacy. \"However, over the last few years, we have observed a steady increase in incidents from animals who haven't been adequately trained to behave in a busy airport setting or on a plane, which has prompted us to strengthen our policy.\"\nAlaska Airlines in recent years has handled about 150 support animals every day.\nThe new policy does not affect certified service animals, which are typically dogs helping owners with physical disabilities. The new restrictions only apply to animals assisting emotional, psychiatric, cognitive or psychological disabilities." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Israel's president has met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a visit to Athens that will include a foundation stone-laying ceremony for a Holocaust museum.\nReuven Rivlin also met with his Greek counterpart, Procopis Pavlopoulos, in the capital on Monday.\nOn Tuesday, Rivlin and Tsipras will travel to the northern city of Thessaloniki for the museum ceremony.\nThessaloniki's 55,000-strong Jewish population was deported by Nazi forces during World War II and most of its members were murdered in German concentration camps.\nThessaloniki's new museum will be built next to the railway station where the city's Jews boarded the trains taking them to the camps." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — Helen Mirren says her new film \"Winchester \" isn't a horror flick, but rather a ghost story with foreign roots and a distinct American element — the psychological impact of gun deaths.\nMirren plays the real-life Sarah Winchester, a 19th-century heiress who inherited a massive fortune from her husband's creation of the Winchester repeating rifle shortly after the Civil War. In the film, Winchester believes she is haunted by those killed by the firearm, which allowed for more rapid firing than previous rifles.\n\"It's a ghost story, hopefully in the tradition, the very grand tradition, of Japanese ghost stories, ghost films,\" Mirren said in a recent interview. \"You know, the Japanese love ghost stories and have great belief in the power of the ancestor spirits, of the ancestors, as many cultures do.\"\nPart of the film was shot at Winchester's mansion in San Jose, California, where she moved after the death of her husband in 1881. Now known as the \"Winchester Mystery House,\" it is a popular tourist attraction and has more than 160 rooms, 10 thousand windows, two thousand doors and forty staircases.\nAccording the lore around Winchester's life, she ordered constant construction on the home to try to confuse the ghosts she believed were haunting her.\n\"There are many theories why she did this,\" Mirren said. \"And one of the theories that we explore in the film. She was trying to placate the ghosts of the people who'd been killed by the Winchester rifle. She felt their deaths very strongly. She felt responsible. She felt the weight of their deaths upon them. And she was trying, in her own way, to placate their spirits.\"\nDespite \"Winchester's\" themes, Mirren, 72, said the film isn't trying to make any broad statements about gun ownership in America.\n\"What I like about it and I think ... about America is that it doesn't deal with whether you can carry guns or not. That's kind of not the issue,\" she said. \"The issue is more putting the question mark or the weight of moral decision upon the people who make a fortune from making arms — whether they're guns, bombs, grenades ... or whatever it is. It puts a moral decision upon the people who make huge fortunes from making and then I would say the armaments dealers in the world I would like to see it... I see it personally in a much more global way.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear are joining \"House of Cards\" for the political thriller's final season.\nNetflix said they'll play siblings in the show's sixth season, which resumed production Wednesday.\n\"House of Cards,\" Netflix's first original series, halted production last October amid sexual misconduct allegations against star Kevin Spacey.\nSpacey was suspended from the show by producer Media Rights Capital after Netflix said it wouldn't continue with it if he remained. A representative for the actor said previously that he was seeking unspecified treatment.\nRobin Wright, who co-starred as wife to Spacey's Francis Underwood, will be the focus of the final season. A debut date has yet to be announced.\nFurther details on the new characters played by Lane and Kinnear weren't available." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Newspaper publisher Tronc has named CEO Justin Dearborn as its chairman of the board, replacing Michael Ferro, who is retiring.\nThe change announced Monday shortly before Fortune magazine published a story about two women who allege that Ferro made unwanted sexual advances during 2013 and 2016 before he become Tronc's chairman.\n\"Michael Ferro has had no claims filed against him while leading Tronc as chairman,\" Tronc said in a statement. \"Further, we are aware of no claims filed against Mr. Ferro throughout his career. As Mr. Ferro has retired after leading a financial turnaround of Tronc, we wish him well in his private life and will have no further comment.\"\nFerro struck it rich as an entrepreneur involved in two startups that were sold for more than $1 billion. In 2016, he bought a stake in the Tribune Co, which was subsequently renamed as Tronc.\nChicago-based Tronc Inc., which operates newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and The Baltimore Sun, announced last month it had sold the Los Angeles Times and other papers for $500 million and an additional $90 million in pension benefits.\n\"Michael retires having created considerable shareholder value for the company in just two years as chairman of the board,\" Dearborn said, adding that the company had tripled its market capitalization, quadrupled its cash holdings and reduced its debt under Ferro's leadership.\nDearborn was appointed CEO of Tronc in February 2016. He previously led Merge Healthcare until its acquisition by IBM for $1 billion in October 2015." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the new season of \"The Handmaid's Tale,\" there are tantalizing flashbacks to what preceded the Republic of Gilead, the bleak shredding of a flawed but free society. There also are suggestions that a fight is brewing against the oppressive state and its enslavement of women.\nIf the awards-lavished Hulu drama is indeed poised for an explosive second season, it will be in part because the male characters — some of them — step up their rebellion against the hellish Gilead drawn from author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel.\n\"This season expands from the original (story) and also in pace and stakes. There seems to be a volatility underlying everything that happens this season, bubbling anarchy and resistance that brings out a lot of tension,\" said O-T Fagbenle, who plays husband Luke to Elisabeth Moss' June, dubbed Offred in this dystopian future world.\nJune remains the hero of the saga, one of the handmaids forced to bear children for the state's ruling class bedeviled by infertility. When season two arrives Wednesday, June's refusal to join in stoning a rebellious handmaid inspires a small but brave stand.\nThe consequences appear dire, with a ghostly, abandoned stadium that's set for a mass hanging and representative of a wrenching season. Central to it: June's determination to break free from Gilead and the household of Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski).\nBut who will help her to fight Gilead, which some have deemed a metaphor for our time? Her husband, who managed to flee the East Coast republic to the safe zone of Canada? Better positioned is Nick (Max Minghella), who was tapped by infertile Serena to stand in with June for the apparently sterile Fred. The now-pregnant June and Nick form an emotional bond.\nLuke and Nick resist in \"very, very different ways,\" said executive producer Bruce Miller. \"One from the inside, pulling strings to keep (June) alive, the other from the outside. And they're both at some times thwarted in frustrating ways as the season goes on.\"\nBut neither can shake \"the dogged nature of hope,\" Miller said.\nHolding back spoilers, the men of \"The Handmaid's Tale\" weighed in on what they see for their characters and the story's direction over season two's 13 episodes on the streaming service. How many seasons to come remains to be determined, Miller said.\nPREPARE TO BE SUPRISED\n\"We are now very far away from the novel, and so there is an unpredictability which as a viewer and a reader I found to be very satisfying,\" said Minghella. \"I didn't, however, anticipate where we were going to go next and I was often wrong in my predictions.\"\nMinghella's Nick is \"somebody who's trying to control an uncontrollable circumstance, and he can't. He has to face some obstacles that are not surmountable,\" he said. \"That's true of all the characters in the show, so we're all thrown into the drama.\"\nIn Canada, Fagbenle's Luke is grappling with the loss of his family and in the company of escaped handmaids Moira (Samira Wiley) and Erin (Erin Way), both deeply traumatized.\n\"He's trying to manage that dynamic to some extent, deal with impotency and his lack of ability to get back to his wife,\" Fagbenle said. \"And then things unfold during the series which reinvigorate his drive and determination to make a difference, no matter the cost.\"\nFiennes said that with Fred, a window opens into where he stands in the hierarchy of the commanders' world amid the pressure to be recognized and promoted.\n\"When he feels his masculinity amongst other men is being questioned or lessened, he invariably comes back into his own household and inflicts his feelings against the women,\" said Fiennes, calling it \"one of many complicated roots causes to the way people and men behave\" in the quest for power.\nBRUTAL HONESTY\nWhile the handmaids gut it out under horrific conditions, including in the environmentally toxic Colonies, the men of Gilead must come to grips with their own nature. The truth isn't always pretty.\nFiennes sees his character and his wife as \"architects of their own demise.\"\nFred fell in love with a \"strong-voiced\" woman and brilliant writer in Serena, one who shared his principles and philosophies, Fiennes said. \"What's fascinating is that Fred never stood up for her when he was given an opportunity to be a commander,\" accepting power in a society in which he knew she wouldn't be allowed to \"have that voice.\"\nFor his part, Fagbenle is reluctant to accept June's husband as \"a good guy.\"\n\"If in the face of such repression (the reaction) is to do nothing, is to give lip service, is that good? I don't know if I could give Luke that much credit. ... He's a guy who loves his wife but in terms of what's been faced, did he step up early enough and did he step up actively enough? In my estimation, I don't think he's done enough.\"\nNick is a worthy man, Minghella said, but in an impossible spot.\n\"He's a spy on a spy on a spy. As a result he ends up often being complicit in actions that are morally reprehensible. But to say that he personally endorses them, that would be a misrepresentation.\"\nAmong the many failed men of Gilead, Fiennes gives Nick and Luke a shout-out as \"wonderful components of the male psyche as husband and lover and supporter.\"\n___\nLynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber@ap.org and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- An interactive exhibition space titled [stil laif] featuring the creations of Korean artist Choe U-Ram is held in Taichung City from June 3 through Sept. 3, 2017.\nThe National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) has been developing projects focusing on digital technology as well as interdisciplinary art. In the wake of exploring the concept and development of interdisciplinary art, the NTMoFA has been holding international thematic exhibitions and progressing the exchange between Taiwan’s creativity and international thinking.\nThis time, the NTMoFA invites the Korean artist Choe U-Rom, who recently has been receiving significant attention on the international stage of art, to hold his largest exhibition in Taichung under the theme of [stil laif].\nChoe, 47, is a Seoul-based kinetic artist whose mechanical sculptures move freely as defying gravity, filling their surroundings with soft breathe and life as if their existence were as old as the dawn of time.\nThe special exhibition at the NTMoFA is titled [stil laif] which can be phonetically interpreted as “Steel Life,” “Steal Life,” or even “Still Life.” The artist does not tell the implied meaning of the title while aiming to convey his art to be not only having a singular, fixed meaning but layers of different meanings." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 4, 2018--Mirego, a Canadian digital strategy and transformation leader, proudly announces the appointment of Élisa Ève De Serres as Partner and Lead Product Owner of the Mirego Montreal office. Élisa Ève joined the Mirego team in 2015 as Product Manager and has been overseeing the operations of the Montreal office since early 2018. From the moment she joined the team, Élisa Ève has played a key role in the development of over a dozen innovative digital products for Mirego clients such as Groupe Capitales Médias, SAQ, IGA, Safeway, and Sobeys.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005122/en/\nÉlisa Ève De Serres (Photo: Mirego)\n\"Élisa Ève is an accomplished professional whose natural leadership skills, charismatic personality, and great discernment are recognized by members of our team and our clients. Since joining Mirego, she has demonstrated a consistent commitment to customer service excellence and the development of high-quality digital products. We know that an inspiring leader like Élisa Ève will propel our growth and we are pleased to have her as a partner,\" noted Albert Dang-Vu, Co-President and CEO of Mirego. The company aims to double its workforce in Montreal within the next two years.\nÉlisa Ève has been working in the digital realm for over ten years. Prior to joining Mirego, she managed the French CBC’s application portfolio where she oversaw the development of ICI Tou.tv, ICI Première, and RC Info. Élisa Ève also has significant communications and advertising experience.\nAbout Mirego\nMirego helps its clients innovate and reinvent themselves in order to prosper in the digital era. As a strategic partner, Mirego plans, conceptualizes and develops innovative digital products for such clients as SAQ, Toys’R Us, Bell, The CFL and Sobeys. Its team of over one hundred experts based in Montreal and Québec City is one of the most experienced in Canada in terms of strategy, user experience and mobile application development with over 200 applications in assets since 2007. Canadian Business and PROFIT ranked Mirego no 53 in the 2016 PROFIT 500. To learn more, visit www.mirego.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005122/en/\nCONTACT: Mirego\nFlorence Petit-Gagnon, 1-888-437-4258, #770\nflorence@mirego.com\nKEYWORD: NORTH AMERICA CANADA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING MARKETING PUBLIC RELATIONS/INVESTOR RELATIONS OTHER COMMUNICATIONS\nSOURCE: Mirego\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 07/04/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 07/04/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005122/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jason Day calmly sank an 18-inch birdie putt at 8:17 a.m. Monday in front of empty grandstands on No. 18 at Torrey Pines for his first PGA Tour win in 20 months.\nThere were no roars, just cheers from Day's family and a handful of mates.\nIn a rare Monday morning finish, Day took all of 13 minutes to navigate the par-5, 570-yard 18th on the South Course to finish a six-hole playoff against Alex Noren to win the Farmers Insurance Open.\nDay and Noren had to return after grinding through five playoff holes Sunday before it got too dark to continue.\nSpectators weren't allowed in the next day because organizers said they didn't have time to arrange for security.\n\"It was a little strange, but we did have a few people up in the stands, which was nice,\" Day said. \"It's great to finish the tournament and all, but it would have been nice to finish yesterday with all the people there.\n\"I'd play until Wednesday if I needed to get that win,\" Day said. \"It's why we get up every morning and practice. This win is just as special as the first one.\"\nDay also won here in 2015, in a four-man playoff that took only two holes. That victory propelled him to a five-win season, including the PGA Championship, and the world's No. 1 ranking.\nAfter contending with a balky back the last few weeks, he hopes this victory also is a springboard after a dreadful 2017 season.\nDay's tee shot landed in the right rough and Noren's in the first cut to the left.\nNoren tried an aggressive second shot, but his ball landed short of the green and rolled into Devlin's Billabong, a pond that protects the hole.\nDay shot over some trees and laid up onto the fairway before hitting a lob wedge approach of about 85 yards, with the ball rolling down several feet to set up the winning putt.\n\"It was really unfortunate for him to hit it in the water because I know how good of a shot he actually hit there because that's really tough to go with a 3-wood into a green like that,\" Day said.\n\"I think it's almost a blessing that I actually missed the fairway knowing that I had to lay up and knowing that I kind of worked on that number before. I was on the range hitting that exact same number.\"\nNoren, a 35-year-old Swede trying for his first PGA Tour win, bogeyed the hole.\n\"I had a perfect yardage,\" said Noren, who played at Oklahoma State and has nine victories on the European Tour. \"And the greens are not super firm in the morning like this so I thought it was the perfect play in the middle of the green and have a putt at eagle and a few yards short, so it's tough.\"\nDay and Noren matched each other with birdie, birdie, par, par and birdie through five playoff holes in the twilight Sunday on the blufftop course overlooking the Pacific Ocean.\nRyan Palmer was eliminated on the first extra hole with a par.\n\"Myself, Ryan and Alex all hit some nice shots coming down the stretch in the playoffs,\" Day said. \"Going shot for shot with Alex was pretty cool over that five-hole stretch, and unfortunately we just couldn't get it. We just didn't want to give it up.\"\nDay was on his \"third-string\" caddie. He said Luke Reardon, who caddied for him at the end of last year, and David Lutterus, who was going to be on the bag, had trouble securing visas.\nHis third in line, childhood friend Rika Batibasaga, \"he's marrying an American and I knew that he's in here already,\" Day said. \"So I was like, 'I've got to grab someone, either grab him or grab someone out of the crowd.'\"\nDay hopes this victory leads to a turnaround from a miserable 2017, which included his mother recovering from lung cancer and a game that lost some discipline and focus.\n\"I think last year was a good kick in the butt, you know, not really being talked about and being talked about for the wrong reasons,\" the 30-year-old Australian said. \"Obviously take my mum and stuff out of the equation, but just I see the guys winning, Jordan (Spieth), and Dustin (Johnson) is playing some tremendous golf, Jon Rahm's playing some tremendous golf, and I feel like I should be there as well, winning.\"\nDay is currently ranked No. 10 in the world. Getting back to the top is the goal.\n\"I got there for 51 weeks, but I've always wanted to be a dominant No. 1 player in the world and that is going to take time,\" he said. \"That's going to take a lot of hard work and dedication because I know how hard it is to get to No. 1 in the world and I know the quality of play that is fighting to get to No. 1 as well.\"\n___\nFollow Bernie Wilson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/berniewilson" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister says that Sri Lankan asylum seekers held on Pacific island camps who could potentially settle in the United States are free to return home without fear of persecution.\nPrime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made the comments on Wednesday during a visit to Australia in which he discussed bilateral cooperation on combating people smuggling. No Sri Lankan asylum seeker has reached Australia by boat since 2013.\nBut Sri Lankans, Iranians and Afghans are the largest national groups among more than 2,000 asylum seekers who are kept at Australia's expense on the Pacific islands nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.\nAustralia refuses to resettle any of them and President Donald Trump has agreed to honor an Obama administration deal to resettle up to 1,250 of them." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LONDON (AP) — Watched by the Premier League's biggest-ever crowd, Tottenham scored one of the competition's fastest goals.\nManchester United hadn't even had a chance to touch the ball when Christian Eriksen put the ball in the net after 10.5 seconds at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday.\nOn a night when Jose Mourinho's side was outrun and new recruit Alexis Sanchez struggled to make an impact, United's pitiful performance was summed up by the own-goal that gifted Tottenham a second goal in a 2-0 victory. Phil Jones inadvertently turned Kieran Trippier's cross into his own net in the 28th minute when the United defender was under no immediate pressure.\nIt was a damaging defeat for Jose Mourinho's team, with Manchester City allowed to surge 15 points clear of its second-place neighbor by beating West Bromwich Albion 3-0.\nThis was rarely a contest in front of 81,978 at Tottenham's temporary north London home for the season.\nTottenham set the tone with its explosive start, producing the third fastest goal since the Premier League's inception in 1992.\nAfter the kickoff, Jan Vertonghen's high, long pass from inside his own half reached Harry Kane who headed to Dele Alli and the midfielder flicked the ball across for Eriksen to finish.\nIt was timed at only 0.1 seconds slower than Alan Shearer's 2003 10.4-second goal for Newcastle against Manchester City. Tottenham does hold the record, with Ledley King netting after 9.9 seconds at Bradford in 2000.\nFor a Tottenham side that couldn't even beat fourth-tier Newport in the FA Cup on Saturday — drawing 1-1 — beating United so convincingly reasserted its top-four credentials. Tottenham is two points outside the Champions League places in fifth." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BOSTON (AP) — Adam Henrique scored twice and the Anaheim Ducks ended Boston's 18-game point streak with a 3-1 victory over the Bruins on Tuesday night.\nJakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks, the first team to beat the Bruins in regulation since Washington's 5-3 win Dec. 14 at Boston. Cam Fowler and Rickard Rakell had two assists apiece.\nJohn Gibson made 25 saves before leaving in the third period with an undisclosed injury. Ryan Miller played the final 7:25 and nearly completed a shutout for the Ducks before Ryan Spooner scored for Boston with 41 seconds left.\nHenrique scored into an empty net with 6.1 seconds remaining to seal it for the Ducks, who halted Boston's five-game winning streak and a stretch of 18 games with at least one point (14-0-4), which tied for the second-longest in franchise history.\nAnton Khudobin stopped 24 shots for the Bruins, who never recovered after being outshot 15-5 in the first period and falling behind 2-0 on goals by Silfverberg and Henrique.\nThe Ducks have won eight straight against the Bruins, who haven't beaten Anaheim since a 3-2 shootout win on Oct. 21, 2013.\nAnaheim took a 1-0 lead when Khudobin couldn't quite hang onto a long backhand by Fowler. The puck fell from Khudobin's glove and slid across the crease, where it appeared to be knocked in by Bruins captain Zdeno Chara as he went crashing into his own net 9:04 into the game. Silfverberg was credited with the goal and assists went to Fowler and Rakell, who set up the Ducks' second goal a few minutes later when Henrique scored.\nThe Ducks were on a power play and worked the puck around the corners, then to Henrique in the right circle for a wrist shot that beat Khudobin on the stick side at 13:59.\nGibson needed a few minutes to regroup after a hard shot from Patrice Bergeron hit him in the ribs early in the third, then ended up leaving with 7:25 left and was replaced by Miller.\nNOTES: The Ducks opened a five-game road trip against Atlantic Division teams. ... Boston LW Anders Bjork left after the first period with an upper-body injury. ... Boston was without leading scorer Brad Marchand, who sat out the second of a five-game suspension for throwing an elbow last week against New Jersey.\nUP NEXT\nDucks: Visit the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.\nBruins: Host the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night.\n___\nMore AP hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Brian Orser, figure skating coach extraordinaire, took a break from his first class: adults ranging from middle age into their 80s.\n\"Actually, it's my favorite thing I do,\" the two-time Olympic silver medalist says with a laugh.\nOrser will be taking a lengthy break from teaching those folks in Toronto. He has some business to attend to in South Korea: the Pyeongchang Games, where he'll have three gold medal threats in his charge.\nHis resume as a coach is as sterling as it was as a competitor in the 1980s. Eight years ago, in Vancouver, he guided Yuna Kim to the women's title. The image of Orser behind the end boards, twisting and turning to Kim's every move, is as indelible as the South Korean's own brilliant performances.\nThen, at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, he worked with Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, who like Kim won his country's first gold medal in his discipline. Hanyu will be back again, though he has been battling a serious ankle injury.\nOrser could help another skater break through at the games: Spain's Javier Fernandez, a six-time European champion and two-time world winner whose country never has medaled in figure skating.\nAnd just to make sure he stays busy, Orser also will work with Canadian champ Gabrielle Daleman.\nHow does he manage it?\n\"I think the secret is we have to treat everybody as individuals,\" Orser says. \"Different personalities and different cultures. We do have a plan for everybody on paper and we try to follow that best as we can.\n\"They walk into the rink and there is an energy we have to gauge, and then based on the plan, maybe get the energy level up. Sometimes we can't ... we're not doing it cookie-cutter style.\"\nOrser hardly is alone as he works with both world-class and lower-level skaters.\n\"No one can do this without a great support team,\" he notes, mentioning in particular Tracy Wilson, an Olympic and world medalist when she competed. \"There's so much that goes into it, on the ice and off the ice.\"\nOn the ice is where the spotlight shines, of course. This is, as Orser explains, \"a really delicate time.\"\nAn Olympic season is different from others in the sport. Not only is the timing of events skewed — U.S. nationals were held three weeks early in 2018 — but the pressure ratchets up throughout the end of the calendar for one year and the beginning of a new one.\nSimply putting yourself in position to get on the national team for the Olympics is difficult. Then comes the intense stress of actually qualifying.\nIf you make it, well, then there's the buildup to the big one.\n\"For me, I think this is where we are on kind of on high alert as far as our awareness goes,\" Orser says. \"You can't peak too soon, but this is also a good time to do a little bit of a test run.\n\"We have those three or four days before competing when we are at the Olympics and you must rev it up. And this is the time to begin to rev it up and see if we can do it — mentally, physically. If we achieve it, then we go back to our regular programming. If not, then we work on making it work.\n\"With Yuzuru and Javi, they are kind of coming into the Olympics from a different angle. Obviously due to circumstance,\" Orser says, referring to Hanyu's injury. \"Javi has just been going along at his own pace.\"\nOrser sat down with his medal contenders in October to offer them some advice. He says, with no trace of bitterness or regret, that he was ready too early for the 1984 and '88 Olympics, when he finished second to Scott Hamilton and then to Brian Boitano.\n\"Sometimes we have to guide them along the way,\" he says.\nDaleman might be his most impressive project this season. She underwent surgery last May for an abdominal cyst and entered the Olympic campaign with some huge question marks. She's answered them so well that she now must be considered a threat to the Russian and Japanese women in Pyeongchang.\n\"Gaby had a slow start, surgery, and she has revved it up,\" Orser says. \"She needed a good skate at nationals, and now has a good skip to her step.\"\nOrser likely will be seen skipping and stepping at the end boards again in South Korea. He wasn't sure he'd take well to coaching. Today, he recognizes that he has, and he finds it fulfilling.\n\"I have to say now, I have a lot of confidence in what I am doing and relying on my team,\" he concludes. \"It was not anything specific with Yuna or Yuzuru, I believe in what I am doing and who I am working with. There is the odd time I would second-guess some things, but I look around and see we are doing good stuff.\n\"People see the star skaters in the forefront. But we look out on the ice with the novice and intermediate skaters and their progression. That gives me confidence and it gives me great satisfaction. I worked hard when I was a skater, I was on time and focused, and that is something that never changes.\n\"I love skating and love seeing skaters do well.\"\n___\nMore AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Inbee Park's 12th U.S. Women's Open already stands out for a gloomy reason: the rain-soaked course at Shoal Creek.\nThe picturesque course in suburban Birmingham had been drenched by nearly five inches of rain this week as of Wednesday afternoon, with the effects of Subtropical Storm Alberto adding onto earlier rains.\n\"This is probably the wettest conditions I have ever seen in a U.S. Women's Open,\" said Park, a Korean who won in 2008 and 2013. \"We just don't know what's going to happen.\n\"Coming into the U.S. Women's Open, I always try to play the ball with the mud or try to play with like a wet ground condition because we've never played lift, clean and place. We just play from wherever it is and however the condition is.\"\nPractice rounds were canceled Tuesday and the course closed, other than some late-afternoon trips to the driving range. More rain followed overnight and into Wednesday on the eve of the major championship , when the course finally reopened by early afternoon in time for some of the 156 players to get in practice.\nThe field will be cut to the low 60 scorers and ties after two rounds.\nJohn Bodenhamer, USGA's senior managing director, said officials didn't plan to use lift, clean and place for the first time in one of the organization's championships.\n\"It remains our intention to play 72 holes and play the ball as it lies,\" Bodenhamer said Wednesday.\nThe LPGA Tour's Kingsmill Championship two weeks ago was shortened to 54 holes because of rain. The field, which includes 10 past Open champions, arrived in Alabama hoping to avoid a similar fate.\nPernilla Lindberg won the year's first major at the ANA Inspiration, the 11th consecutive women's major with a different winner.\nThe LPGA Tour has not had a multiple winner through 13 tournaments this season.\nKorean Sung Hyun Park won last year at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, by two strokes over amateur Hye-Jin Choi.\nSome players, including Inbee Park, Karrie Webb and No. 3-ranked Lexi Thompson, got a full 18 holes in Monday.\nThompson said some parts of fairways were \"a little muddy and a little patchy.\" After that experience, she was hoping to play under lift, clean and place rules.\n\"I think it will be a little unfair if they don't, but you never know,\" she said. \"I mean if they don't, everybody has to play it down and it is what it is, but it's their choice. The rain has not helped that situation, so I guess come Thursday we'll see, though.\"\nThis will be the third USGA championship at Shoal Creek but the first Women's Open. Buddy Alexander won the 1986 U.S. Amateur and Cameron Peck won the 2008 U.S. Junior.\nShoal Creek also hosted the PGA Championship in 1984 and 1990, when the club drew criticism for not having black members. That led the PGA Tour to change its policy on going to courses that didn't allow minority members.\nThe Regions Tradition, a PGA Tour Champions major, was held at Shoal Creek from 2011-2015.\nThis time the primary concern is the weather and course conditions.\nWebb, who won back-to-back championships in 2000 and 2001, is playing in her 23rd consecutive Women's Open. She got a special exemption from the USGA.\n\"It'll be the softest U.S. Open course I've played,\" Webb said.\nThe conditions could potentially help long hitters like Thompson and Sung Hyun Park. But distance, of course, isn't the only important factor.\n\"I think it could set up for anyone that's just hitting lots of fairways and greens,\" Webb said.\nSome players were fine with the unscheduled downtime of canceled practice rounds. Two-time U.S. Women's Amateur champion Danielle Kang played only the back nine on Monday and her scheduled practice round for Wednesday was pushed back too late to get it in, barring an earlier slot opening.\nA friend, PGA Tour player and Birmingham native Trey Mullinax, gave her a rundown of the course over the phone.\nOtherwise, Kang took advantage of the free time by seeing the movie \"Solo,\" then sleeping until 10 a.m. Wednesday, enjoying brunch and not sweating the minimal practice time at Shoal Creek.\n\"I feel more prepared than ever,\" Kang said. \"That's why I think I'm so kind of relaxed about it.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "When the Jalen Ramsey vs. A.J. Green, and Aqib Talib vs. Michael Crabtree in-game tussles played out, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott thought back to advice he received decades ago, before his San Francisco 49ers faced the Dallas Cowboys.\n\"A buddy of mine, Dennis Thurman, who played for the Cowboys, called me up before we played them and said, 'Do not get into a talking match with (receivers) Butch Johnson or Drew Pearson.' So I didn't. He was like, 'Stay focused on the game,'\" Lott said. \"I'm sure that some coach or somebody said, 'Don't get caught up in that' to the guys involved in things this season.\n\"Whatever the coaches said didn't work.\"\nSeems conflicts between cornerbacks and wideouts are simply unavoidable. It is a unique dynamic in NFL games week after week: On play after play, they match up 1-on-1, with plenty of grabbing and shoving and, yes, yapping mixed in. The tension escalates, especially if one is really outplaying the other.\n\"It can be like an Ali-Frazier moment,\" said Lott, a cornerback and safety from 1981-94. \"My rookie year, I remember having confrontations. They could be around the biggest or the littlest thing.\"\nBroncos cornerback Talib and Raiders receiver Crabtree served one-week suspensions after getting into a fight during a game — a reprise of their skirmish last season. Both times, Talib ripped a gold chain off Crabtree's neck. In another much-discussed episode, Jacksonville's Ramsey and Cincinnati's Green were ejected after a clash that looked straight out of a wrestling ring.\n\"There's a lot of passion and emotions out of those two positions. It happens a lot in training camp and things like that, same deal,\" Minnesota Vikings receiver Adam Thielen said. \"Even when you're going against your own teammates, it brings a lot of emotion out of you, especially when you're a competitor and you don't like to lose.\"\nThe two episodes this season brought to mind other high-profile dustups. Josh Norman vs. Odell Beckham Jr. Or Andre Johnson vs. Cortland Finnegan.\nThese spats are at least in part a result of what Redskins cornerback Norman describes as a world of constant chatter, gamesmanship and one-upmanship.\n\"If you stop them, you come back and say something. Then they catch the ball, and they come back and say something. You play sound, fundamental defense and you get aggressive with guys. They don't like it and they push back. You push back,\" Norman said. \"And before you know it, there you go.\"\nHe was a Panthers cornerback in 2015 when he engaged in a violent back-and-forth with Giants receiver Beckham.\nNorman sees these CB vs. WR flare-ups through the prism of his job, which he says is made harder by the NFL's anti-defense rules and officiating.\n\"They don't want defenders to be successful. And (fans) don't want a guy to stop their man that they put in fantasy football. When we do, we're the 'worst ever.' We're 'trash.' But if we let someone catch the ball, we're 'trash,' too. It's ridiculous,\" Norman said. \"We can't win as defensive backs. It's not set up for us to. But when we do win, and there is that little success that we have for ourselves, then we need to show it. Like, 'Look! Take that!'\"\nPlayers on both sides of the ball say the physical and mental back-and-forth both contribute to bad feelings.\n\"There's a lot that goes out there on the field that's behind the scenes,\" Raiders cornerback TJ Carrie said. \"You really don't pay attention to it until there's an altercation.\"\nWhether it's a cornerback constantly jamming a receiver off the line, or a run-blocking wideout doing the shoving, those plays add up. That's aside from when a receiver isn't getting his catches, or even his targets. Or a DB keeps giving up gains.\nIt all can lead to frustration — and lashing out.\n\"It's been going on for centuries,\" Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald said.\nHe knows some defenders will \"try to add unnecessary brutality to the game,\" he said, and there's no way to avoid that.\nBut when it comes to trash talk, Fitzgerald said: \"I'm not about that. If you call out my name, I'm not even going to acknowledge you. I just walk away.\"\nCertainly, these conflicts happen at other positions.\nStill, as Redskins cornerback-turned-safety DeAngelo Hall noted, it's harder to notice individual matchups along the line of scrimmage.\n\"We are kind of out there by ourselves, so when we're talking or battling, you can really see two guys face to face — as opposed to five vs. five, having the whole O-line and whole D-line there. I don't know if there's more confrontation there than a defensive end and a left tackle, for example, but it's definitely more noticeable when receivers and DBs get to chirpin', because we're isolated,\" Hall said.\n\"At the end of the day, it's me vs. you on that island.\"\nHall, whose 43 career interceptions lead active players, remembers when he was with the Falcons and faced the division-rival Panthers and now-retired receiver Steve Smith.\n\"Me and Steve had to be separated a couple of times,\" Hall said. \"It was always almost to blows. Then, after or before the game, it was all cordial. Just that competitiveness of me and him wanting to beat each other down sparked those intense exchanges.\"\nAs for some of his other past foes?\n\"Me and (Terrell Owens) didn't do a lot of talking. We just tried to rip each other's heads off. Me and Chad Johnson did a lot of talking, but it was all jokingly,\" Hall said and paused, before adding with a chuckle: \"And, of course, we tried to rip each other's heads off.\"\n___\nAP Pro Football Writers Dave Campbell and Josh Dubow and Sports Writers Joe Kay and Bob Baum contributed to this report.\n___\nFor more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_NFL\n___\nFollow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PARQUE PATAGONIA, Chile (AP) — Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed decrees Monday creating vast new national parks using lands donated by a U.S. conservation organization in what is believed to be the largest private donation of land ever from a private entity to a country.\nThe agreement was signed by Bachelet and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the widow of Doug Tompkins, a founder of the North Face outdoor wear company who accumulated the land before his death.\nIt will create the new Pumalin and Patagonia national parks while expanding others to help create a \"Route of Parks.\" The string of 17 parks will span more than 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) across the South American nation, stretching from Puerto Montt to Cape Horn.\nIn all, the plan ultimately seeks to increase Chile's national parkland by more than 15,600 square miles (40,400 square kilometers). Bachelet said that would expand national parklands in Chile by 38.5 percent.\n\"This is not only an unprecedented preservation effort,\" Bachelet said at a ceremony surrounded by pristine lands.\n\"It's also an invitation to imagine other ways of rationally occupying our lands, of creating other economic activities, of using natural resources without preying on them. In other words, it's about generating sustainable development.\"\nTompkins Conservation, which is led by McDivitt Tompkins, said the area that will be protected is three times the size of the United States' Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks combined, or about the size of Switzerland.\n\"Today is a historic day for Chile and for the world. Today, Patagonia is protected with a new network of Parks,\" said Rodrigo Catalan, head of conservation at the World Wildlife Fund in Chile.\nThe lands will safeguard millenary forests, unique fauna and flora species, and one of the purest reservoirs of water in the world, he said. But they also present daunting challenges for conservation, including how they will be financed and how they will benefit local communities.\n\"It's a day to celebrate, but tomorrow, we have to think how we're going to make this conservation real,\" he said. \"How are we going to manage and finance this great legacy. It's a tremendous conservation legacy that we have to take care of for the world.\"\nSince her husband's death in a 2015 kayaking accident, McDivitt Tompkins worked to permanently protect from development the millions of acres the couple acquired over a quarter century.\nHer husband was an American conservationist and co-founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing companies, and he used much of his fortune to buy huge tracts of land in Patagonia, a lightly populated region of untamed rivers and other natural beauty straddling southern Chile and Argentina.\nAt first, his purchases of land to preserve swaths of wilderness caused suspicion and strong opposition by local politicians, loggers, power companies and nationalists who stirred rumors that he was trying to steal water and other resources. But he promised he would eventually return the land to both governments to be preserved as nature reserves or parks.\n\"This is a reflection of the power of dreams and ideas, built path by path,\" said McDivitt Tompkins.\n\"We're proof that nothing is impossible. No dream should go unfulfilled.\"\n___\nAssociated Press video journalist Mauricio Cuevas reported this story in Parque Patagonia and AP writer Patricia Luna reported from Santiago. AP photographer Esteban Felix contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PACARAIMA, Brazil (AP) — Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela's unrelenting political and economic crisis are trying their luck in Brazil — a country where they do not speak the language, conditions are often poor and there are few border towns to receive them.\nMany arrive weak from hunger and with no money for a hotel, food or the $9 bus ride to Boa Vista, the capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima, known in Venezuelan circles as a place that offers three meals a day. In dozens of interviews over four days, many said they had not had more than one meal a day for the last year.\nSome wore baggy clothes, had emaciated faces and complained of medical issues ranging from children with measles to diabetics with no insulin.\nKritce Montero tried to shush 6-month-old Hector, who cried from hunger even after breast-feeding while his family and several hundred other Venezuelans waited to be processed at the border.\nMontero, who said she lost 57 pounds (26 kilograms) the last year from eating just one meal a day, traveled with Hector and her 7-year-old daughter 18 hours by bus from Maturin, a city in northeast Venezuela. After spending the night sleeping on the ground in Pacaraima, a dusty border town in the Amazon, they took another bus 130 miles (210 kilometers) to Boa Vista.\n\"We are desperate. We could no longer buy food,\" said 33-year-old Montero, adding it had been months since Hector had any formula or diapers.\nWhile in recent years millions of Venezuelans have immigrated, until recently Brazil received relatively few of them. Hundreds of thousands have gone to Colombia, but authorities there and elsewhere in South America are tightening their borders.\nPortuguese-speaking Brazil has become the latest alternative for Venezuelans. But they are not finding much comfort there.\nOn a recent day, Militza DonQuis, 38, sat under a tree on the side of the main road in Pacaraima. In the two months since she and her husband arrived from Puerto Cabello, they have not been able to find work. With no money, they can't take the bus to Boa Vista, so they sleep on the ground and scrounge for food during the day.\n\"This is horrible,\" said DonQuis through tears, adding that in two months she had been unable to send money home to her children, ages 12 and 14, who she left with a sister.\nWith no money for a bus, Jose Guillen, 48, and wife July Bascelta, 44, decided to begin the journey to Boa Vista at night on foot, setting off with 9-year-old twins Angel and Ashley along a road surrounded by forest.\n\"God will provide,\" said Guillen when asked how the family would eat during a trip that can take five days.\nAfter walking 4 miles (6 kilometers), a Brazilian driver stopped agreed to give them a lift to Boa Vista, where the situation is arguably more desperate. Thousands of Venezuelans are living in the streets. They sleep in tents and on benches in central squares, have taken over abandoned buildings and cram dozens of people into small apartments.\nThe largest of three shelters in the city, Tancredo, has 700 people despite being equipped for 200. Half-naked children roam the former gymnasium while groups of men and women chat about their hopes for finding work and worry about the families they left in Venezuela.\nCharlie Ivan Delgado, 30, said he came to Brazil several months ago with hopes of earning enough money so he and his high school sweetheart could finally afford a wedding. But each time he called home to El Tigre, he would hear the situation was getting worse, that their three children, ages 9, 5 and 1, were always hungry. So he decided to abandon wedding plans and bring his family.\n\"Kids in Venezuela today don't think about playing with their friends or what they might study\" in the university, said Delgado, sitting with his children and partner in a tent. \"It's more, 'What am I going to eat today?\"\nWhile the shelter offers three meals a day, the family's prospects are bleak.\nThe soccer referee has only been able to officiate a handful of games in rural areas outside Boa Vista, the kids are not in school and it's hard to imagine how the family might leave the shelter.\n\"It's like Tarzan being in New York,\" said Delgado.\nBrazilian authorities estimate 40,000 Venezuelans are living in Boa Vista, accounting for over 12 percent of the population in a city that was already poor and unable to offer many opportunities to its residents.\nMost have arrived in the last several months, putting intense pressure on the public health system, the jails and volunteer organizations and churches that are carrying the largest burden when it comes to keeping Venezuelans fed.\nPolice say Venezuelans are sometimes working for as little as $7 a day in everything from construction to yard work, putting downward pressure on wages. For many, even offering to work for less isn't enough: Several interviewed said many employers have told them flat out they won't hire Venezuelans.\nMilene da Souza, one of a group of volunteers who periodically serve food, said many Brazilians were increasingly angry at the situation.\n\"Brazil has many of its own problems,\" she said. \"Roraima has its own problems.\"\nLast month, fears of a backlash intensified when an arsonist set fire to two Boa Vista houses filled with Venezuelan immigrants, injuring dozens, several severely. A man originally from neighboring Guiana has been arrested, and police have said he was motivated by anger at Venezuelans in the city.\nOn the Plaza Simon Bolivar, named after the South American independence leader who was the inspiration for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' \"socialist revolution,\" throngs are camping in tents or simply sleeping on the grass. When trucks pull up with food, hundreds run toward them, elbowing each other in a mad scramble to get a meal before they run out. Tempers flare as men accuse women and children of using their advantage to get extra portions.\nRoraima's governor has declared a state of emergency to free up funds for overwhelmed public hospitals, where health officials estimate that 8 in 10 patients are Venezuelan. Last month, President Michel Temer canceled activities during Carnival to make an emergency trip to Boa Vista.\nBut residents say the federal government's plans, which include building a field hospital in Pacaraima and relocating a few thousand immigrants to bigger cities, are not enough. Between Jan. 1 and March 7 of this year, 27,755 Venezuelans crossed into Brazil from Pacaraima. Authorities estimate at least 80,000 are currently in Brazil, most of them in Roraima state.\nBrazil, Latin America's largest nation, has one of the region's most inclusive immigration policies. Venezuelans are allowed to enter with just a national identification card, a lifeline for many who say that getting a passport in Venezuela has become impossible. Many immigrants who don't have identification cards but can show a birth certificate are allowed in if they request and are granted refugee status.\nBeing designated \"refugees\" can be problematic because such immigrants can't return to Venezuela; President Nicolas Maduro has called them \"traitors\" of the state.\nMany say that as long as Maduro is in power they have no reason to return.\nDespite skyrocketing inflation and a collapse of many businesses, Maduro has refused to allow humanitarian aid to enter Venezuela. He denies there is a crisis and says international relief would lead to foreign intervention.\n\"Maduro's solution is that we just eat each other,\" said Diana Merida sarcastically while washing her clothes in a Boa Vista river. The 34-year-old from Maturin said she recently sent $3 home to her 16-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, which would allow them to buy some rice.\nWhile it took her three days of selling coffee to earn that, it was more than she could earn in a month as a saleswoman in a clothes store back home.\nOn the Plaza Simon Bolivar, Kritce Montero sits with baby Hector, who now has on a diaper and has spent the last two days gobbling up formula, all donated by volunteers.\nIt's been two days since the family crossed the border in Pacaraima. The first night they slept under a tree in the plaza, but then the second night somebody offered them a tent because of the baby.\n\"At least here, I'm able to feed my kids,\" said Montero. \"Even if I'm living under a bridge, I would feel OK if my kids have food.\"\n____\nFollow Peter Prengaman: twitter.com/peterprengaman" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Residents of a Boston suburb have voted to rename the elementary school once attended by John F. Kennedy because it was named for a former slave owner.\nTown meeting members in Brookline voted Tuesday 171-19 to change the name of the Edward Devotion School.\nIt will be known as the Coolidge Corner School, after its neighborhood, until a new name can be approved at next spring's town meeting.\nDeborah Brown, who proposed the change, said, \"No child should have to walk into a school named for someone who enslaved people.\"\nOpponents called the name change an empty gesture that doesn't address racism's underlying causes.\nDevotion, who died in 1744, left money to the town on the condition it is used for a school.\nThe future president attended from kindergarten through third grade." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration let a top Russian spy official visit the United States last week for meetings with U.S. intelligence officials even though there are sanctions against him that typically prohibit such visits, officials said Tuesday.\nThe Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, said on Russian state TV that Sergei Naryshkin, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, met with his U.S. counterparts about the fight against terrorism.\nThe visit came less than a week before President Donald Trump decided not to issue any new sanctions against Russian politicians and oligarchs over Russian meddling in the U.S. election.\nSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a frequent critic of Trump's treatment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government, said the timing of the trip was suspicious.\n\"This is a serious national security issue,\" Schumer told reporters. \"Russia hacked our elections. We sanctioned the head of their foreign intelligence, and then the Trump administration invites him to waltz through our front door. This is an extreme dereliction of duty by President Trump, who seems more intent on undermining the rule of law in this country than standing up to Putin.\"\nSchumer wants to know whether sanctions were discussed, whether Naryshkin also met with White House or national security officials and whether other sanctioned Russian officials were along on the trip. Naryshkin was sanctioned in 2014 in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea.\nThe CIA released a statement saying that while it does not discuss the schedules of U.S. intelligence leaders, \"rest assured that any interaction with foreign intelligence agencies would have been conducted in accordance with U.S. law and in consultation with appropriate departments and agencies.\"\nJonathan Schanzer, a sanctions expert at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said that typically, people who have been sanctioned have their assets frozen and are barred from entering the United States. He said there are cases where individuals from sanctioned countries enter the United States after getting permission to attend meetings at the United Nations.\nSituations like Naryshkin's visit are more unusual, Schanzer said.\n\"We don't see this sort of thing being reported very often,\" he said.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Richard Lardner in Washington and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16-year-old stalemated war is going.\nThe crackdown on information comes just months after President Donald Trump announced a new Afghanistan strategy aimed at breaking a battlefield stalemate by accelerating Afghan-led operations against the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the country. Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any U.S. discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.\nThe auditing agency, established by Congress and known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, revealed the new gag order in its latest three-month assessment of conditions in Afghanistan. The restrictions fly in the face of Pentagon assertions over the past year that it was striving to be more transparent about the U.S. war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.\nOver the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the U.S., including instances of contractor fraud. Since January 2016 it had published data on the number of governing districts controlled by Kabul, the number controlled by the Taliban, and the number that are contested.\nJohn F. Sopko, head of the auditing organization, expressed disappointment that the Pentagon had forbidden release of the data on relative control of the governing districts.\n\"This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time SIGAR has been specifically instructed not to release information marked 'unclassified' to the American taxpayer,\" Sopko wrote.\n\"Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports_and for the American public of how the 16-year-long U.S. effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,\" he added.\nIn response, the Pentagon said the U.S.-led coalition of NATO and allied nations in Afghanistan made the decision to restrict the public release of the information.\nThe Defense Department told SIGAR this month that it doesn't \"have the authority to overrule the classification determination made by NATO Resolute Support,\" said Lt. Col. Michael Andrews. He said that similar information was included in the department's December 2017 semi-annual report to Congress, and the Pentagon encouraged SIGAR to use that data.\nThe Defense Department report said the Afghan government has control or influence over 60 percent of the population, while insurgents had control or influence over approximately 10 percent of the population, with the remainder contested.\nIn November, Gen. John Nicholson described the Afghan government control during remarks to reporters at the Pentagon. He said it remained \"roughly the same\" as in 2016. \"About 64 percent of the population is controlled by the government, about 24 percent live in contested areas, and the Taliban control the remaining 12 percent,\" he said. He did not reveal the number of districts held by each side.\nSopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — \"a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.\"\nThe war effort has sometimes faded from U.S. public attention, even though the U.S. has invested about $120 billion in reconstructing Afghanistan since 2002.\nSopko said in his report that the Pentagon also classified or otherwise restricted information that his organization had previously reported publicly, including such \"fundamental metrics\" of the Afghan military and police performance as Afghan casualty figures and most measurements of the battlefield capabilities of the Afghans military." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A distraught father seething over sexual abuse suffered by three daughters tried to attack former sports doctor Larry Nassar in a Michigan courtroom after a judge rejected his request to confront the “demon” in a locked room, a stunning rush that reflected the anguish felt by parents who trusted him with their children.\nRandall Margraves was blocked by an attorney, tackled by sheriff’s deputies and hauled out of court Friday. He later apologized, saying he had lost control. Eaton County Judge Janice Cunningham said there was “no way” she would fine him or send him to jail under her contempt-of-court powers.\n“I don’t know what it would be like to stand there as a father and know that three of your girls were injured physically and emotionally by somebody sitting in a courtroom. I can’t imagine that,” the judge said.\nNonetheless, she added, it is “not acceptable that we combat assault with assault.”\nThe incident occurred during the third and final sentencing hearing for Nassar, who has admitted to sexually assaulting girls under the guise of medical treatment. This case focuses on his work at Twistars, an elite gymnastics club southwest of Lansing.\nTwo sisters detailed experiencing sexual abuse by former sports doctor Larry Nassar in a Michigan courtroom on Friday, along with another sister of theirs, before their father tried to attack Nassar. (Feb. 2)\nNassar, 54, already will spend the rest of his life in prison. He was sentenced last week to 40 to 175 years in prison for assaults at Michigan State University and his home and was ordered in December to spend 60 years in a federal prison for child pornography crimes.\nNassar pleaded guilty to molesting nine victims in Eaton and Ingham counties, but the courts have been open to anyone who says she was assaulted during his decades of work at Michigan State, Twistars and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. More than 200 accusers so far have spoken or submitted statements in the two counties, and at least 80 percent have agreed to be publicly identified.\nMargraves’ dramatic move occurred after he listened to two of his daughters speak in court for 10 minutes. Lauren Margraves, a college student, said her parents were “filled with regret” because they took three daughters to see Nassar for sports injuries.\n“I see the look in their faces and I know they want to be able to do something but they can’t,” she told Nassar. “The guilt they have will never go away. All this is because of you.”\nHer father then stepped up and asked the judge if she would grant him “five minutes in a locked room with this demon.” Cunningham declined and also turned down his request for “one minute.” That is when Randall Margraves rushed toward Nassar.\nThere were gasps and tears in the courtroom. Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis turned to the gallery and told families to “use your words,” not violence.\n“This is letting him have this power over us,” she said. “We cannot behave like this.”\nDuring a return to court, Margraves told the judge that he just snapped. He said he had not known what exactly his daughters were going to say about their abuse.\n“I look over here and Larry Nassar’s shaking his head, no, like it didn’t happen. ... I’m embarrassed,” Margraves said of his conduct. “I’m not here to upstage my daughters. I’m here to help them heal.”\nAbout 30 more people spoke in person, by video or had statements read after the incident. The case will end Monday with final remarks from the prosecutor, defense and Nassar, followed by the judge’s sentence. Nassar faces a minimum of 25 to 40 years in prison.\nAt a news conference, Margraves repeated his apology and insisted he’s “no hero.”\n“My daughters are the heroes, and all the victims and the survivors of this terrible atrocity,” he said.\nMelissa Alexander Vigogne, who traveled from France to speak, said she was surprised that an attack had not been attempted earlier.\n“It’s not that that’s how we should respond. But it’s truly understandable — the amount of pain that we’ve all gone through,” Vigogne said outside court.\nSheriff Tom Reich said his officers will investigate what happened in court and send a report to the local prosecutor.\nThe judge started the day by addressing comments made by a Nassar lawyer who said she had doubts about the large number of women and girls who say they were assaulted by Nassar. Cunningham called Shannon Smith’s remarks “unfortunate” and said Nassar did not authorize them.\nSmith told Detroit radio station WWJ that it is “really unfortunate” if some people stepped forward only because of all the recent attention. Nassar released a statement saying Smith’s comments were a distraction and that his accusers’ remarks “have pierced my soul.”\nMany of Nassar’s accusers have blamed Michigan State, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee for not doing more earlier to stop him. The USOC announced Friday that it hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation. And the coordinator of the women’s national team for USA Gymnastics, Valeri Liukin, said he was stepping down." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp says Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain likely sustained a \"really bad\" injury in the 5-2 win over Roma in Champions League on Tuesday, potentially jeopardizing his chances of playing in the World Cup for England.\nThe midfielder came off on a stretcher in the 18th minute at Anfield after injuring his right leg in a tackle on Aleksandar Kolarov.\nKlopp says it was \"probably a really bad injury. That is bad news for us. The squad doesn't get bigger at the moment so we need to be creative in the next few games.\"\nLiverpool is also currently without midfielders Emre Can and Adam Lallana.\nOxlade-Chamberlain has become an established member of England coach Gareth Southgate's squad after settling well at Liverpool following his move from Arsenal at the end of last year's summer transfer window." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University have walked off the job to try to pressure the university to recognize their decision to unionize.\nThe graduate students set up a picket line outside the main campus administration building Tuesday. They say their strike will last one week.\nTeaching and research assistants at Columbia voted overwhelmingly in 2016 for representation by the United Auto Workers. The university said in January that it would not bargain with the graduate students.\nProvost John Coatsworth said the university would instead ask a federal appeals court to rule on whether student assistants are workers with the right to collective bargaining.\nColumbia administrators did not immediately comment on the strike.\nThe last day of classes at Columbia is April 30. Finals start May 4." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government says the oceanic whitetip shark will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act to help the species recover.\nThe shark lives along the East Coast of the United States, off southern California and in international waters. Conservation group Defenders of Wildlife called on the government to list the species.\nScientists say the sharks have declined by 80 to 90 percent in the Pacific Ocean since the 1990s. They've fallen 50 percent to 85 percent in the Atlantic Ocean since the 1950s.\nConservationists blame commercial fishing and demand for their fins.\nA statement in the Federal Register about the listing of the shark says a threatened species is \"not presently in danger of extinction, but is likely to become so in the foreseeable future.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general says an investigation looking into two corruption allegations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in its \"final stretch.\"\nSpeaking at a meeting of the Israel Bar Association Wednesday, Avichai Mandelblit says dozens of witnesses have been questioned in various countries as part of the probe. He says authorities will \"not be afraid to take difficult decisions\" if needed.\nOne probe reportedly concerns allegations Netanyahu improperly received lavish gifts from Hollywood and business figures.\nAnother is over secret talks with the publisher of a major Israeli newspaper in which Netanyahu allegedly requested positive coverage in exchange for reining in a free pro-Netanyahu daily.\nNetanyahu has denied wrongdoing and has dismissed the accusations as a witch hunt orchestrated by a hostile media." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERLIN (AP) — A 20-year-old German man has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing a child and a 22-year-old acquaintance.\nNews agency dpa reported Wednesday that the Bochum state court chose to sentence the defendant as an adult, though it could have judged him under milder juvenile law.\nMarcel Hesse, through his lawyer, admitted during his trial to the two killings. In March, he allegedly lured a 9-year-old neighbor out of his home in the western city of Herne and then stabbed him. The discovery of the body prompted a three-day manhunt before Hesse turned himself in.\nPolice later found the body of a former school friend of Hesse's at a nearby apartment, while pictures of the crimes, allegedly posted by Hesse, surfaced online.\nThe motive remains unclear." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Monty McCutchen's father raised an interesting point not long ago, and it resonated right away with the former NBA referee who decided to hang up his whistle earlier this season.\n\"He told me that no decision is real if it is easy,\" McCutchen said.\nMcCutchen's move off the floor and into the NBA office was certainly not easy. But instead of calling a few games a week, McCutchen sees his job now as one where he could have a say in how they all get officiated. About a month into his job as an NBA vice president overseeing referee development and training, McCutchen is jumping in with both feet.\nHe and fellow NBA executive Michelle Johnson are going to be instrumental in the league's plan to improve how players and referees get along. There's going to be more education, more studying, more explaining and more listening — and McCutchen truly believes it will work.\n\"I'm invigorated by the people I'm working with, Michelle Johnson,\" McCutchen said. \"I'm invigorated by the people in our office who work closely with referee operations. When you work with good people and you work for a good purpose, that invigorates our lives.\"\nAsk players and coaches who the best ref in the game was, and the majority of them would likely say McCutchen. His on-court retirement means this season's NBA Finals will be the first since 1985 where the refereeing corps for the series will not include either him, Joey Crawford or Danny Crawford — all recent retirees.\n\"It would be disingenuous of me to say I did not miss it,\" McCutchen said.\n___\nROOKIES EVERYWHERE\nThe addition of two-way contracts seems to be helping more rookies get some NBA run.\nThere's been 97 rookies on the floor already this season, the most since 1949-50 — the fourth season of the NBA.\nRoughly half of this season's rookies were undrafted. And 14 players taken in the 2017 draft have yet to make their NBA debut, including No. 1 overall pick Markelle Fultz of Philadelphia.\nBoston and Dallas have each used seven rookies. The Clippers and the Lakers have both played six.\nMinnesota and Washington are the exceptions, with no rookies yet to take the floor for either club this season. The Timberwolves have two rookies on the roster, with Amile Jefferson on a two-way and Justin Patton recovering from surgery. The Wizards' lone rookie is Devin Robinson, also on a two-way.\n___\nREMEMBERING HANK\nWhen Dwyane Wade got drafted in 2003, agent Henry Thomas was right at his side.\nFitting. Wade never left Thomas' side, either.\nThomas died Saturday, after battling health issues for years. He didn't have a huge stable of clients, but his impact was enormous in Miami — with Wade, Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem all represented by Thomas for years.\nHe meant so much to Wade and Haslem that when Thomas fell gravely ill last week, they both rushed to be at his bedside and missed games in the process. They did so with the blessing of the Cavaliers and Heat.\n___\nLOVE HURTS\nKevin Love's broken hand means he will miss the All-Star Game for the second consecutive season because of injury.\nThis won't make him feel any better, but he's in good company. The only other players in the last 20 years to miss two consecutive All-Star contests because of injuries are Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.\n___\nTHE WEEK AHEAD\nA game of note for each of the next seven days:\n— Miami at Cleveland, Wednesday: Dwyane Wade playing against Miami will always look strange.\n— Houston at San Antonio, Thursday: The Rockets scored 124 points against the Spurs back in December.\n— Portland at Toronto, Friday: A guard showdown, Lillard and McCollum versus Lowry and DeRozan.\n— Chicago at L.A. Clippers, Saturday: Both teams were written off early, but are clearly clicking now.\n— Charlotte at Phoenix, Sunday: No OT, please — the game should end shortly before the Super Bowl.\n— Washington at Indiana, Monday: First of three meetings this season between the East hopefuls.\n— Oklahoma City at Golden State, Tuesday: Thunder held the Warriors to 91 points earlier this season.\n___\nBOOGIE'S YEAR\nNew Orleans' DeMarcus Cousins was having a year for the record books. Cousins tore his left Achilles' tendon last week, meaning his season will end with him averaging 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists.\nThat puts him in a most elite club.\nThe only other NBA players to average at least 25 points, 12 rebounds and five assists in a season are Wilt Chamberlain (twice), Elgin Baylor, Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson.\n___\nRECORD GONE\nLance Stephenson no longer has the most points scored in New York boys high school basketball history.\nJoseph Girard III of Glens Falls High School passed Stephenson — who has followed JG3's exploits closely — on Tuesday night. Girard III now has 2,952 points, six more than Stephenson.\nStephenson had been New York's record-holder since Feb. 15, 2009. He passed Sebastian Telfair for the mark, and before Telfair, the record-holder was Kenny Anderson.\n___\nSTAT LINE OF THE WEEK\nJames Harden, Houston: A Rockets-record 60 points, with 11 assists and 10 rebounds in Houston's win over Orlando on Tuesday night. It was the first 60-point triple-double in NBA history.\n___\nMore AP basketball: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two men have been arrested in the 2010 theft of a museum's 17th-century gold bar, valued at $550,000.\nA U.S. Department of Justice statement says 41-year-old Richard Steven Johnson, of Rio Linda, California, and 32-year-old Jarred Alexander Goldman, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, were arrested Monday and charged with conspiring to steal and stealing the gold bar from the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West.\nBoth await arraignment. It wasn't known if they have lawyers.\nThe 74.8-ounce (2.1-kilogram) bar was found in 1980 on a 1622 Spanish galleon wreck off the Florida Keys by the late shipwreck salvor Mel Fisher. Authorities say it hasn't been recovered.\nThe artifact was long displayed in an acrylic museum case, allowing visitors to touch and lift it.\n___\nOnline: Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, http://www.melfisher.org" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 49 34 12 3 71 175 125 17-5-1 17-7-2 9-3-1 Boston 48 29 11 8 66 157 119 16-6-4 13-5-4 10-1-2 Washington 49 29 15 5 63 150 138 18-7-1 11-8-4 8-4-3 Toronto 51 28 18 5 61 162 146 13-8-2 15-10-3 6-4-1 Pittsburgh 52 28 21 3 59 156 155 18-7-1 10-14-2 10-4-0 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 13-8-3 12-8-5 5-6-1 Columbus 50 27 19 4 58 133 140 16-8-1 11-11-3 8-5-2 Philadelphia 49 24 17 8 56 141 141 13-9-4 11-8-4 5-2-4 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 17-8-3 8-12-2 7-6-3 N.Y. Islanders 51 25 21 5 55 173 184 13-8-3 12-13-2 7-7-1 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 11-7-4 12-12-4 6-5-3 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 11-8-3 9-14-3 6-4-1 Detroit 48 19 21 8 46 126 146 10-10-7 9-11-1 6-9-2 Montreal 49 20 23 6 46 129 156 12-10-5 8-13-1 9-6-2 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 9-11-5 6-13-4 5-8-3 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 6-13-3 8-14-6 3-5-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vegas 48 32 12 4 68 164 128 19-3-2 13-9-2 11-1-1 Winnipeg 50 29 13 8 66 164 136 17-3-1 12-10-7 7-5-2 Nashville 47 29 11 7 65 145 123 16-4-3 13-7-4 10-3-2 St. Louis 51 30 18 3 63 148 130 17-10-0 13-8-3 7-4-1 Dallas 50 28 18 4 60 155 134 17-7-1 11-11-3 7-10-0 San Jose 49 26 16 7 59 145 138 14-7-3 12-9-4 12-2-3 Minnesota 50 27 18 5 59 147 142 17-4-4 10-14-1 8-8-0 Anaheim 51 25 17 9 59 144 142 14-9-3 11-8-6 8-5-5 Calgary 49 25 16 8 58 137 135 12-11-3 13-5-5 8-5-3 Colorado 48 27 18 3 57 157 139 18-7-1 9-11-2 7-6-1 Los Angeles 49 26 18 5 57 139 121 12-9-3 14-9-2 6-9-3 Chicago 49 23 19 7 53 146 136 12-10-3 11-9-4 5-7-2 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 11-13-1 11-11-2 10-2-0 Vancouver 49 19 24 6 44 127 159 8-13-3 11-11-3 5-9-1 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172 6-15-3 6-14-6 1-7-5\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nMonday's Games No games scheduled\nTuesday's Games\nMinnesota 3, Columbus 2, SO\nPittsburgh 5, San Jose 2\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nAnaheim 3, Boston 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nTampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nMontreal at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nChicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.\nVegas at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.\nSan Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's says it has reached a settlement with a U.S. labor agency over a lawsuit that could have decided if the fast-food company should be liable for hiring, pay and other decisions made at its franchised restaurants.\nThe lawsuit, filed in 2016 by the National Labor Relations Board, contended that McDonald's should be considered a \"joint employer\" with its franchises. But the settlement, if approved by a judge, would squash that.\nNLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\nMcDonald's Corp., based in Oak Brook, Illinois, says the settlement is the first step toward ending \"wasteful multi-year litigation.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Below is the statement the Fed released Wednesday after its policy meeting ended:\nInformation received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a solid rate. Gains in employment, household spending, and business fixed investment have been solid, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. On a 12-month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have continued to run below 2 percent. Market-based measures of inflation compensation have increased in recent months but remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.\nConsistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. The Committee expects that, with further gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labor market conditions will remain strong. Inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to move up this year and to stabilize around the Committee's 2 percent objective over the medium term. Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced, but the Committee is monitoring inflation developments closely.\nIn view of realized and expected labor market conditions and inflation, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 percent. The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting strong labor market conditions and a sustained return to 2 percent inflation.\nIn determining the timing and size of future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate, the Committee will assess realized and expected economic conditions relative to its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments.\nThe Committee will carefully monitor actual and expected inflation developments relative to its symmetric inflation goal. The Committee expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant further gradual increases in the federal funds rate; the federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run. However, the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data.\nVoting for the FOMC monetary policy action were Janet L. Yellen, Chair; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Thomas I. Barkin; Raphael W. Bostic; Lael Brainard; Loretta J. Mester; Jerome H. Powell; Randal K. Quarles; and John C. Williams." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DETROIT (AP) — The women's gymnastics coach at Michigan State University suddenly announced her retirement Tuesday, a day after she was suspended for what her boss described as her \"passionate defense\" of a sports doctor accused of sexually abusing female athletes for years.\nKathie Klages has also been mentioned in lawsuits by two women who claim she brushed off complaints of abuse by Dr. Larry Nassar in the late 1990s.\nKlages is \"extremely distressed\" by the allegations and would never do anything to put athletes in \"harm's way,\" her attorney, Shirlee Bobryk, said in a statement.\n\"Out of respect to the university and the gymnastics program in particular, Ms. Klages believes it is in everyone's best interests for her to retire from her current position at MSU,\" Bobryk said.\nIt's one of the biggest developments on campus since Nassar was fired by Michigan State in September and more than two dozen women and girls filed lawsuits against him. In two separate criminal cases, he's charged with sexually abusing a girl at his Lansing-area home and possessing child pornography.\nNassar has pleaded not guilty and denied the assault allegations by female athletes in Michigan and elsewhere. He was also a longtime doctor with Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.\nKlages' suspension after 27 years as gymnastics coach was announced Monday without any elaboration from Michigan State. But the school shed more light Tuesday in a letter written by athletic director Mark Hollis, who acknowledged her retirement.\nHollis explained to Klages that she was suspended because of what he had learned about her Sept. 12 meeting with her gymnasts.\n\"You shared with the team your highly emotional sense of shock regarding the allegations against Dr. Nassar. That resulted in several student-athletes leaving the meeting feeling that they had received mixed messages,\" Hollis wrote.\n\"Others felt confused about who they could or should speak with about the situation. While I acknowledge you provided student-athletes with information about reporting to the Office of Institutional Equity, your passionate defense of Dr. Nassar created an emotionally charged environment for the team,\" Hollis said.\nA message seeking comment about Hollis' letter wasn't immediately returned by Klages' attorney.\nEarlier, Bobryk said Klages will cooperate fully in any police investigation of Nassar or lawsuits against him.\n\"Dr. Nassar was trusted by Ms. Klages to competently and ethically treat her team members. Had she ever received any information to cast doubt on the appropriateness of that trust in Dr. Nassar, she would have reacted immediately to protect her gymnasts,\" Bobryk said.\n___\nFollow Ed White at http://www.twitter.com/edwhiteap" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — English winger Jack Harrison has been transferred from Major League Soccer's New York City FC to Manchester City, which is owned by the same parent company.\nNYC said Tuesday that Harrison, who made his debut for England's Under-21 team last year, has been lent to Middlesbrough of the second-tier League Championship through the end of this season.\nHarrison, who turned 21 in November, had 14 goals in 59 matches during two seasons with NYC, which is part of City Football Group." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 000 002 002—4 6 1 Boston 001 012 02x—6 11 1\nGaviglio, Oh (7), Tepera (8) and Maile; Rodriguez, Barnes (7), B.Johnson (9), Kimbrel (9) and C.Vazquez. W_Rodriguez 6-1. L_Gaviglio 2-1. Sv_Kimbrel (18). HRs_Toronto, Hernandez (8). Boston, Nunez (4), Martinez (18).\n___\nChicago 000 000 001—1 5 2 Cleveland 205 200 00x—9 13 0\nLopez, Volstad (3), Avilan (4), Rondon (5), Fry (6), N.Jones (7), Soria (8) and Narvaez; Kluber, Beliveau (7), Marshall (8), B.Taylor (9) and Gomes. W_Kluber 8-2. L_Lopez 1-4. HRs_Chicago, Sanchez (3). Cleveland, Ramirez (17), Encarnacion (13).\n___\nHouston 000 020 001—3 7 0 New York 100 022 00x—5 8 1\nKeuchel, McHugh (6) and Stassi; L.Severino, Dav.Robertson (8), A.Chapman (9) and Romine. W_L.Severino 8-1. L_Keuchel 3-7. Sv_A.Chapman (12). HRs_Houston, Stassi (5).\n___\nLos Angeles 001 000 000—1 7 0 Detroit 100 005 00x—6 9 0\nOhtani, Bedrosian (6), J.Johnson (6), Morris (8) and Maldonado; Fiers, Jimenez (8), Greene (9) and Greiner. W_Coleman 2-0. L_Bedrosian 1-1.\n___\nMinnesota 001 124 000— 8 11 0 Kansas City 270 000 11x—11 16 0\nRomero, Slegers (2), Pressly (8) and B.Wilson; Keller, Oaks (4), B.Smith (5), Flynn (6), McCarthy (7), Hill (8), Herrera (9) and S.Perez. W_McCarthy 4-2. L_Romero 2-2. Sv_Herrera (12). HRs_Minnesota, Dozier (8), Adrianza (1). Kansas City, Moustakas (12), Soler (8), Dozier (1).\n___\nTampa Bay 013 000 020—6 10 0 Oakland 000 000 000—0 1 4\nEovaldi, Font (7), Nuno (9) and Sucre; Manaea, Ramirez (6), Coulombe (8), Hatcher (9) and Lucroy. W_Eovaldi 1-0. L_Manaea 5-6. HRs_Tampa Bay, Refsnyder (2), Field (5).\n___\nINTERLEAGUE Washington 001 000 100—2 7 0 Baltimore 000 000 000—0 4 0\nScherzer, Doolittle (9) and P.Severino; Hess, M.Castro (7), Hart (8), Wright Jr. (9) and Sisco. W_Scherzer 9-1. L_Hess 2-2. Sv_Doolittle (13). HRs_Washington, Harper (18).\n___\nNATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 000 200—2 8 1 Milwaukee 000 010 20x—3 10 1\nA.Reyes, Gant (5), Lyons (7), Tuivailala (7) and Kelly; Guerra, Jeffress (7), Hader (8), Knebel (9) and Kratz, Pina. W_Jeffress 5-0. L_Tuivailala 1-1. Sv_Knebel (5). HRs_St. Louis, Bader (5). Milwaukee, Yelich (7).\n___\nCincinnati 000 402 001—7 12 0 Arizona 301 000 000—4 13 1\nRomano, W.Peralta (6), Hughes (7), Garrett (7), R.Iglesias (8) and Barnhart; Corbin, Salas (7), Chafin (8), McFarland (9) and Murphy. W_Romano 3-6. L_Corbin 5-2. Sv_R.Iglesias (9). HRs_Cincinnati, Schebler (6), Duvall (10). Arizona, Goldschmidt (7), Murphy (7).\n___\nChicago 100 000 000—1 9 1 Pittsburgh 110 000 00x—2 9 0\nHendricks, R.Rosario (6), Mazzoni (7), J.Wilson (7) and Contreras; Musgrove, Crick (8), F.Vazquez (9) and Cervelli. W_Musgrove 2-0. L_Hendricks 4-4. Sv_F.Vazquez (10). HRs_Pittsburgh, Harrison (2).\n___\nNew York 000 100 111—4 9 1 Atlanta 000 000 100—1 5 0\nVargas, T.Peterson (6), Familia (8), Gsellman (9) and Plawecki; Teheran, Carle (8), S.Freeman (8), Socolovich (9) and Suzuki. W_Vargas 2-3. L_Teheran 4-3. Sv_Gsellman (2). HRs_Atlanta, Camargo (4).\n___\nSan Francisco 020 220 010—7 11 0 Colorado 310 000 000—4 11 0\nHolland, Moronta (6), Watson (7), S.Dyson (8), Strickland (9) and Posey; Gray, Musgrave (4), Oberg (6), McGee (8), Rusin (9) and Wolters. W_Holland 3-6. L_Musgrave 0-1. Sv_Strickland (11). HRs_Colorado, Arenado (11).\n___\nMiami 000 200 000—2 4 1 San Diego 000 100 002—3 6 0\nUrena, Steckenrider (7), Barraclough (8), Ziegler (9) and Realmuto; Richard, Strahm (8) and Lopez. W_Strahm 1-2. L_Ziegler 0-5. HRs_Miami, Castro (3). San Diego, Reyes (4)." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Even in surrender, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is going out fighting.\nWhen he steps down Friday, the former Navy SEAL officer will be conceding political defeat amid allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign violations while still defiantly asserting that he's done nothing worthy of being forced out of office.\nHe's even hinted at a possible political comeback, declaring during his resignation announcement Tuesday that \"this is not the end of our fight.\" But political analysts say the man who had aspirations of becoming president could find a political revival challenging, especially in a #MeToo environment where he would be vulnerable to attack for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman during an extramarital affair in 2015.\nGreitens' resignation comes just two weeks after a speech in which he recalled his grueling SEAL training and asserted he would never stop fighting. But his departure was days in the making, as Greitens wrestled with mounting legal bills and the emotional pressures of defending against possible impeachment and a criminal trial.\nOn Wednesday, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dismissed a felony charge accusing Greitens of tampering with computer data for providing his political fundraiser with the donor list of a veterans' charity he founded. The dropped charge was the result of a deal proposed Saturday by Greitens' defense attorneys offering his resignation in exchange, said Gardner spokeswoman Susan Ryan.\nThe governor on Saturday also called Republican consultant Jeff Roe, who headed Greitens' aggressive public relations campaign, to inform Roe that he had decided to resign. Greitens' legal bills had grown to a couple of million dollars, and his campaign staffers also were facing legal bills because of subpoenas from a House investigation.\nThough Greitens had believed he could beat both a criminal charge and impeachment, \"he couldn't see the end without an immense financial and personal price to pay,\" Roe told The Associated Press on Wednesday.\nEven though he's quitting amid scandal, some Greitens voters said they still like him. Retiree Wilma Nelson said she would be open to voting for Greitens again if he sought to re-enter politics.\n\"I can't fault him for giving up. So much money, so much stress, such strain on his young family. You can't deal with such hate,\" said Nelson, of Platte City.\nPolitical science professor Jeremy Walling, of Southeast Missouri State University, said Greitens' pledge to keep fighting seemed to be \"some face-saving.\"\nWalling said several factors would make a political revival tougher for Greitens than for other scandal-plagued politicians. He said Greitens lacks deep support among Missouri's Republican power brokers, and his acknowledged extramarital affair included claims of sexual misconduct. The allegations also extended to political fundraising violations.\n\"I think a comeback is going to be kind of difficult for this guy,\" Walling said.\nGardner, the St. Louis prosecutor, said her decision to drop the data-tampering charge against Greitens was no indication that she believed he was innocent.\n\"I remain confident we have the evidence required to pursue charges against Mr. Greitens, but sometimes pursuing charges is not the right thing to do for our city or our state,\" said Gardner, a Democrat.\nHad the governor been convicted, Gardner said, it was unlikely that he would be sentenced to prison, given the type of charge he faced and the fact that he would be a first-time offender.\nJim Martin, an attorney for Greitens, acknowledged reaching out to Gardner to resolve the issue.\nA St. Louis judge approved the agreement, which has seven stipulations, two of which are sealed and unavailable to the public. One of the open stipulations states that Greitens has agreed to release Gardner and everyone in her office from civil liability.\nFormer Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Wolff said the agreement between Greitens' attorneys and Gardner's office is highly unusual because it protects Gardner and her staff from being sued for their actions and because Greitens did not have to plead guilty to any lesser charge.\n\"Here's a guy who gets to get out of a felony charge just by agreeing to quit his job,\" Wolff said. \"Most people don't get this deal.\"\nJean Paul Bradshaw II, a former U.S. attorney for western Missouri, said the agreement to drop the case represents a \"fair resolution\" because Greitens' resignation accomplished \"the greatest public benefit\" possible.\nThe governor also was indicted on an invasion-of-privacy charge in February in St. Louis for allegedly taking the photo of the woman who had been his hairdresser during their affair in 2015, before he was elected. That charge was dropped earlier this month, but a special prosecutor is considering whether to refile it.\nMartin said he expected the remaining charge to be resolved soon, but he offered no details.\n\"I think what folks need to know is it's now time to leave the governor alone and let him and his family heal,\" Martin said.\nThough Greitens had apparently decided to resign days earlier, he began the week as though he would continue his fight. On Monday, he spoke with attorney Catherine Hanaway about her legal defense of Greitens' campaign, which already had turned over thousands of documents to a House investigatory committee.\nOn Tuesday morning, a Cole County judge ordered the campaign and a pro-Greitens group called A New Missouri to comply with a House subpoena seeking more records about potential coordination between the nonprofit organization, Greitens and his campaign. The judge said the names of any donors to A New Missouri could be redacted.\nHouse Speaker Todd Richardson said Wednesday that he didn't know whether the House still has the power or desire to enforce the subpoena now that Greitens is resigning.\nHanaway described the judicial ruling as \"pretty innocuous,\" adding that she did not think the order \"had any effect on the decision\" to resign.\nRoe said Greitens had been prepared for a two-stage fight. He was first focused on the invasion-of-privacy charge, which was dropped during jury selection. Greitens had hoped to be acquitted, which Roe said would have allowed him to mount a full defense against the potential House impeachment proceedings. But the specter of those charges being refiled hampered what Greitens could say and do on both fronts, Roe said.\nRoe also said it appeared likely that the House would vote to impeach Greitens, a step that would have prolonged his fight for several more months until a trial could be held on whether to remove him from office.\n\"The human and financial toll was too great,\" Roe said. \"And it was going to go on for too long.\"\n___\nSalter reported from St. Louis. Associated Press writers Blake Nelson in Jefferson City and John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a breach of peace charge filed against conservative commentator Lucian Wintrich after a confrontation with protesters last month during an appearance at the University of Connecticut.\nWintrich, the White House correspondent for the right-wing website Gateway Pundit, was charged after grabbing a woman who took his notes from the lectern as he prepared to give a speech titled \"It's OK To Be White.\"\nThat woman, 35-year-old Catherine Gregory, of Willimantic, turned herself in Sunday to face charges of attempted larceny and disorderly conduct.\nGregory, who is free on a $1,000 bond, is due in court on Wednesday.\nWintrich, who had argued that he had every right to retrieve his property, tweeted on Monday that justice was finally being served." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An appeals court in Cambodia has for the second time denied a request for the release on bail of opposition leader Kem Sokha, who has been charged with treason.\nThe Thursday court appearance in Phnom Penh by Kem Sokha, head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was his first since his arrest last September. His hearing was held behind closed doors and journalists and other onlookers were kept away.\nHis prosecution by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen is widely seen as part of a concerted effort to cripple the opposition ahead of a general election this year.\nKem Sokha's lawyer, Choung Choungy, says the court cited concerns for his client's security in denying bail.\nThe government has expressed fears of political protests by Kem Sokha's supporters." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Deandre Ayton scored 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Allonzo Trier added 24 points as No. 9 Arizona beat cold-shooting Washington State 100-72 on Wednesday night to remain in first place in the Pac-12.\nRawle Alkins scored 16 points for Arizona (19-4, 9-1 Pac-12), which has won seven games in a row. The Wildcats have lost just one time since Nov. 24.\nRobert Franks scored 25 points for Washington State (9-12, 1-8), which has dropped 13 in a row to Arizona. It was the Cougars' first home game since Jan. 13.\nArizona shot 61 percent in the game, while Washington State managed just 41 percent, and was only up that high because of a late spurt.\nThis one was over early.\nWith the score tied at 20, Arizona went on a 25-5 run over the next seven minutes to build a 45-25 lead. Alkins hit three consecutive 3-pointers during that run, while the Cougars made just 2 of 14 field goals during one stretch.\nArizona led 53-34 at halftime after holding the Cougars to three field goals in the final 12 minutes of the half. The Wildcats outshot the Cougars 67 percent to 33 percent in the first.\nAyton scored the first seven points of the second half for Arizona, and the Wildcats used a 20-2 run to push their lead to 75-40.\nWashington State's shooting woes continued in the second as they went long stretches without a field goal.\nBIG PICTURE\nArizona: The Wildcats have won 16 of their past 17 games, losing only at Colorado on Jan. 6. Trier and Ayton both came in averaging better than 19 points per game. Ayton also averages 10.7 rebounds.\nWashington State: The Cougars are shooting .386 from 3-point range and are third in the nation with 11.6 made 3-pointers per game. The Cougars came in with an all-time record of 7-129 against teams ranked in the Top 10. They have slumped since winning the Wooden Legacy early in the season, dropping seven of their previous eight games.\nUP NEXT\nArizona plays at Washington on Saturday.\nWashington State hosts No. 25 Arizona State on Sunday.\n___\nMore AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tour captain Sam Warburton has been picked on the bench in a surprising selection by the British and Irish Lions for their match against the New Zealand Maori at Rotorua on Saturday.\nCoach Warren Gatland had indicated he would unveil a test-strength starting lineup to face the Maori, a week out from the series-opening test against New Zealand. But if the team Gatland announced on Thursday is his test lineup, it contains some surprises.\nWarburton has been struggling with an ankle injury on tour and played 68 minutes, scoring a try in the Lions' 23-22 loss to the Dunedin-based Highlanders on Tuesday. He still seems short of match fitness and Sean O'Brien has been selected ahead of Warburton on the openside flank.\nIreland's Peter O'Mahony will captain the team from the blindside flank; the fourth captain the Lions will have used in five matches on tour after Warburton, Alun Wyn Jones and Ken Owens.\n\"Peter is a proven captain with Munster who never takes a backward step and we believe that those leadership qualities will serve us well on Saturday against a quality and determined Maori All Blacks team,\" Gatland said.\nThe Lions also sprung a surprise at flyhalf, naming Jonathan Sexton to combine with Ireland scrumhalf Conor Murray and leaving England No. 10 Owen Farrell on the bench.\nThe backline otherwise looks a preview of the Lions' test lineup with Leigh Halfpenny at fullback, Anthony Watson and George North on the wings and Jonathan Davies and New Zealand-born England center Ben Te'o in midfield.\nIn the forwards, hooker Jamie George will pack between props Tadhg Furlong and Mako Vunipola while George Kruis and Maro Itoje combine in the second row. Wales' No. 8 Taulupe Faletau joins a strong backrow with O'Mahony and O'Brien.\nGatland has changed the entire starting 15 that lined up against the Highlanders, continuing the policy of sweeping rotation that he has used throughout the tour.\n\"We were obviously disappointed with the loss against the Highlanders and realize that we need to improve in several areas including our discipline,\" Gatland said. \"But we feel that overall we are building well towards the test matches.\n\"Every game is a big challenge which is what we wanted and this is an experienced Lions team with eight of the starting 15 involved in the last test in Australia in 2013.\"\nThe Lions beat Australia 2-1 in their last test series.\n___\nBritish and Irish Lions: Leigh Halfpenny, Anthony Watson, Jonathan Davies, Ben Te'o, George North, Johnny Sexton, Conor Murray; Taulupe Faletau, Sean O'Brien, Peter O'Mahony (captain), George Kruis, Maro Itoje, Tadhg Furlong, Jamie George, Mako Vunipola. Replacements: Ken Owens, Jack McGrath, Kyle Sinckler, Iain Henderson, Sam Warburton, Greig Laidlaw, Owen Farrell, Elliot Daly." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LAS VEGAS (AP) — Boxer Floyd Mayweather says on Instagram that he'll fight UFC star Conor McGregor on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Wizards point guard John Wall is expected to miss about six to eight weeks after having arthroscopic surgery on his left knee.\nThe team announced the predicted timeline after Wall's operation on Wednesday.\nIf Wall is sidelined for two months, he would sit out more than 25 games and return for the last half-dozen or so of the regular season.\nHe already missed Washington's past two games, both victories, including 102-96 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night.\nIn all this season, Washington is 7-6 without their All-Star guard, and 28-22 overall, which puts them fifth in the Eastern Conference.\nWall is second on the Wizards in scoring, averaging 19.4 points, and is second in the league with 9.3 assists per game.\n___\nMore AP NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of Jason Day's goals at the start of the year was to stay at No. 1 for the entire calendar year. The year is not even two months old, and already he is facing his first big challenge.\nAnd not just from one player.\nDustin Johnson, coming off a third-place finish at Pebble Beach, and Phoenix Open champion Hideki Matsuyama both have a mathematical chance to reach No. 1 in the world by winning the Genesis Open at Riviera. Johnson would need Day to finish around fourth or worse, while Matsuyama could reach the top only by winning and Day finishing about 25th or worse.\nTiger Woods in 2009 was the last player to start and finish a year at No. 1.\nRory McIlroy was the last player to stay at No. 1 for longer than a year, starting with his victory at the 2014 Bridgestone Invitational and ending when Jordan Spieth passed him with a runner-up finish in the 2015 PGA Championship.\nJust don't get the idea Day is consumed with the ranking.\n\"I said earlier that a calendar year would be great to go No. 1, but I need to just focus on what I need to do because you can't really focus on staying No. 1,\" Day said. \"The more you focus on the actual target itself, the more you attach yourself to it, you make mental errors out there, you get more frustrated, you do silly things on the golf course that you shouldn't be doing.\"\nJohnson also had a mathematical chance to get to No. 1 last week, but he would have had to win Pebble and have Day finish out of the top 50. Day tied for fifth. Johnson also had a chance at the PGA Championship last summer, but he missed the cut and Day was runner-up.\nDay doesn't have a lot of history at Riviera. The only reason he is playing is because of the tour's new \"strength of field\" regulation that requires most players to compete at an event they haven't been to in four years.\nHis best finish is a tie for 62nd.\nHe keeps reminding himself that he didn't have a great history at Bay Hill and The Players Championship, and he won them both last year.\n___\nDAVE MUSGROVE: The European Tour lost another legendary caddie when Dave Musgrove died Monday at age 74.\nMusgrove and Dave Renwick, who died last year, are the only caddies to work for three major champions. Musgrove was on the bag when Seve Ballesteros won his first British Open in 1979. He worked for Sandy Lyle when the Scot won the Open in 1985 and the Masters in 1988, and he was alongside Lee Janzen when he won his second U.S. Open title at Olympic Club in 1998.\nMusgrove renewed his partnership with Janzen in 2001 so that he could caddie in his 40th consecutive British Open.\nAmong the many players paying tribute on Twitter was Lyle, who said, \"We wrote history together at The Open, The Masters and The Players Championship. We'll miss your humour and your stories.\"\n___\nNICKLAUS TRIBUTE: The end of the Masters coincides with the start of Golf Channel's latest project, a three-part series on Jack Nicklaus.\nThe Golf Films project is called \"Jack,\" and it will air over three straight nights in prime time starting at 9 p.m. on April 9. It will feature nearly 100 interviews and hundreds of hours of archived film.\n\"'Jack' is a project that Golf Films has spent years developing in order to comprehensively capture the career and legacy of golf's most accomplished champion,\" said Mike McCarley, president of golf for the NBC Sports Group.\nThe first part will be the early part of his career, including the relationship with his father, meeting his wife and early success. The second part will look at the his playing career, highlighted by his 18 major championships. The final part looks at his legacy in the game, from the priority he placed on family to his golf course design and work with Nicklaus hospitals.\nIt is being produced by Israel DeHerrera, who also produced the three-part series on Arnold Palmer that was broadcast in 2014.\n___\nRACE FOR MEXICO: The first World Golf Championships event is around the corner in Mexico City, and this week will start determining who gets there.\nThe field will be determined by the top 50 in the world ranking after this week. Thomas Pieters (No. 47) and Shane Lowry (No. 51) are among those playing the Genesis Open at Riviera, which has the strongest field of the year so far.\nThe tighter race is the FedEx Cup standings. The top 10 after the Honda Classic will be exempt. Hudson Swafford at No. 8 and Gary Woodland at No. 11 are separated by only 61 points with two weeks to go. Rod Pampling, currently No. 10, has not played in a WGC event since 2009.\nOn the European Tour, Pablo Larrazabal is holding down the 10th spot. He has to stay there at the end of this week to make the Mexico field.\nMuch like Chinese players in the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, the WGC-Mexico Championship is reserving a spot for the highest-ranked Mexican player. That would appear to go to Roberto Diaz, who lost in a playoff on the Web.com Tour last week in Colombia. That enabled Diaz to move from No. 719 to No. 462. He currently is 36 spots ahead of the next Mexican player, Rodolfo Cazuabon Jr.\nAmong those playing the Web.com Tour event in Panama this week who could pass Diaz are Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer.\n___\nBODY LANGUAGE: Hideki Matsuyama doesn't always look happy with his golf shots, even when they turn out well. Such was the case at the Phoenix Open, when the Japanese star would finish with one hand on the club only for the ball to finish in reasonable range for birdie, or his shoulders would slump and the ball would split the middle of the fairway.\n\"Sometimes how you're playing and the results don't coincide,\" Matsuyama said. \"So for me, when I do a one-handed finish, to me it's a missed shot. It's just the result was good.\"\nWhen he was jokingly asked if he did that to confuse the television announcers, Matsuyama smiled and said, \"No. That would be fun.\"\n___\nDIVOTS: Jordan Spieth's nine PGA Tour victories have come at eight tournaments. The only place he repeated was the John Deere Classic. Tiger Woods did not win the same PGA Tour event until his 10th victory at the 1999 Western Open. ... The first team event on the PGA Tour since 1981 will have official prize money, but not world ranking points. The Official World Golf Ranking board denied a PGA Tour request to offer points at the Zurich Classic this year. ... Charles Howell III has had 46 finishes in the top 10 since his last PGA Tour victory at Riviera 10 years ago. ... Sahith Theegala of Pepperdine earned a spot in the Genesis Open with a 69 at Riviera on Monday to win the Genesis Open Collegiate Showcase.\n___\nSTAT OF THE WEEK: Brandt Snedeker has earned $6,821,882 at Torrey Pines and Pebble Beach, or 21.7 percent of his career earnings.\n___\nFINAL WORD: \"He's a rock star. And I can say that, because I know quite a few rock stars.\" — Country singer Jake Owen on Jordan Spieth." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "In a story Jan. 28 about the shooting deaths of four people at a car wash, The Associated Press, relying on information from state police, misspelled the first name of one of the female victims. She was Cortney Snyder, not Courtney.\nA corrected version of the story is below:\nPolice, family say jealous shooter killed 4 at car wash\nFamily members of the victims of a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash say the suspect was driven by jealousy\nBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI\nAssociated Press\nA shooter driven by jealousy opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania, while a woman hiding in the back of a pickup truck suffered only minor injuries, according to state police and family of the victims.\nPolice said Timothy Smith, 28, was on life support and not expected to survive after suffering a gunshot wound to his head during the attack at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said it was possible that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.\nArmed with a semi-automatic rifle, a .308-caliber rifle and a handgun and wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted, police said Smith killed 27-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Cortney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline.\nPolice would not go into details about how Smith knew the victims, but Chelsie Cline's half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Smith had developed an obsession with Cline.\nCline shared a meme on her Facebook page last week that read, \"After this week, I rlly (sic) need to get taken out ... on a date or by a sniper either one is fine w me at this point.\" A Facebook friend of hers named Tim Smith replied, \"I could do both.\"\nPorterfield's pregnant wife, Jenna Porterfield, 24, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a state police investigator told her that Smith was a jealous former boyfriend of Cline.\nPorterfield said that she was told by family members of other victims that her husband and Cline had spent the past two days together after Cline ended a relationship with Smith. Porterfield said that she and her husband — who were married in November — had been \"having some troubles\" this month.\n\"I'm not holding that against Will. We weren't fighting. We were fixing. And if he was with someone else while we were having problems, honestly, I don't care what he did. I'm not going to hold that against him,\" Porterfield told the newspaper. \"I'd give anything to have him back.\"\nSmith was first to arrive at the scene and was parked on the side of the two-bay car wash when Porterfield and Cline arrived, police said. Smith shot them when they got out and walked to the side of the car wash, they said.\nSnyder and Seth Cline arrived at the same time and police said Smith opened fire on them. Another woman in the rear seat of the extended cab pickup truck only suffered injuries from broken glass.\nPolice said Smith had several magazines for the semi-automatic rifle and the handgun.\nCayleigh Myers said she was friends with Seth Cline, Chelsie Cline's half-sibling, and described the construction worker as \"very outgoing, very funny and very smart.\"\n\"You always had fun when you were around him,\" Myers said. \"He would give his shirt off his back for you, anything, it didn't matter what it was, what time it was, if you need him, you could call him. He was everything.\"\nEd Bukovac, who owns the car wash, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a neighbor called him around 4 a.m. Sunday and said something was wrong at his business. Bukovac said police were on the scene by the time he arrived and that he had few other details about what happened.\nA man who lives nearby told the newspaper that he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.\n___\nThis story has been corrected to change the number of fatalities to four, based on updated information from state police." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018-- market research analysts forecast the to grow at a CAGR of over 5% during the period 2018-2022, according to their latest report.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006259/en/\nTechnavio has published a new market research report on the global potassium sulfate market from 2018-2022. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nRising population in developing countries is a key trend that is expected to impact the market. The rising population in developing countries will lead to increased demand and consumption of food and drinks. This coupled with the rising per capita income will lead to an increase in demand for consumer goods, which in turn will lead to the growth of the market during the forecast period.\nThis report is available at a USD 1,000 discount for a limited time only:\nSave more with Technavio. Buy2 reports and get the third for FREE:\nIn this report, Technavio analysts highlight the rising middle-class population as a key factor contributing to the growth of the global potassium sulfate market:\nRising middle-class population\nThe growing middle-class is population is expected to drive the growth of the global potassium sulfate market. Numerous factors such as strong economic growth and increased urbanization are helping the middle-class population to grow. It is estimated that close to 54% of the middle-class population will originate from APAC by 2020. This will lead to an increase in demand for food which in turn, will lead to an increase in demand for potassium sulfate from the agriculture industry.\nAccording to a senior analyst at Technavio for research, “ Potassium sulfate or sulfate of potash is a premium quality nutrient required for the growth of high-value crops. SOP has superior qualities as compared to potassium chloride or muriate of Potash.”\nLooking for more information on this market?\nTechnavio’s sample reports are free of charge and contain multiple sections of the report such as the market size and forecast, drivers, challenges, trends, and more.\nGlobal potassium sulfate market segmentation\nThis market research report segments the based on processes (mannheim process, sulfate salts reaction, and salt-lake brine processing) and key regions (the Americas, APAC, and EMEA).\nAPAC was the leading region for the global potassium sulfate market in 2017, accounting for a market share of close to 53%. APAC was followed by EMEA and the Americas. The Americas is the only geographic region which is expected to witness a slight increase in its market share during the forecast period.\nAbout Technavio\nis a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.\nWith over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 10,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.\nIf you are interested in more information, please contact our media team at .\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006259/en/\nCONTACT: Technavio Research\nJesse Maida\nMedia & Marketing Executive\nUS: +1 844 364 1100\nUK: +44 203 893 3200\nwww.technavio.com\nKEYWORD:\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS\nSOURCE: Technavio Research\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 02:14 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 02:14 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006259/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors decided Wednesday not to retry Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges that ended in a hung jury last fall, lifting the legal cloud hanging over the New Jersey Democrat as he gears up for re-election this year.\nProsecutors filed a motion with the court on Wednesday to throw out the case after a judge threw out some of the counts last week. The first trial for Menendez and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen ended in a hung jury last November.\nMenendez, 64, was charged with trading his political influence for gifts and campaign donations from Melgen, 63. Both had denied the charges.\nLast week the judge threw out the bribery counts related to Melgen's campaign donations. Eleven charges remained before Wednesday's decision, including bribery, fraud and conspiracy.\nDefense lawyers had argued Melgen's donations had to be tied to specific acts by Menendez to be considered bribes. That's a higher standard than the one applied to gifts Melgen gave to Menendez over the years that are the basis for the bribery charges that remain.\nU.S. District Judge William Walls' ruling essentially overrode the jury, which couldn't reach a verdict after several days of deliberations in November.\nAfter the mistrial, several jurors said as many as 10 of the 12 panel members were in favor of acquittal, leading some experts to speculate the government wouldn't pursue a retrial." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago masseuse is suing Marvel Comic's Stan Lee, accusing him of inappropriate behavior during two massages in 2017.\nMaria Carballo filed the lawsuit Monday seeking more than $50,000 in punitive damages and attorney fees from the 95-year-old comic book writer.\nThe Chicago Tribune reports that Lee's attorney, Jonathan Freund, called the lawsuit \"a shakedown\" and says Lee denies the allegations.\nCarballo also filed a complaint with Chicago police, who are investigating.\nAccording to the complaint, Lee fondled himself during the first massage and moaned so much during the second that Carballo stopped the treatment. Lee stood up and angrily demanded Carballo keep massaging him.\nThe complaint also says Carballo was massaging Lee with her feet when he grabbed her foot and touched it to his genitals.\n___\nInformation from: Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's drive to wean poor people from government benefits by making them work has been slowed by a federal judge framing a fundamental question: Are poverty programs meant to show tough love or to help the needy?\nU.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington last week halted Kentucky's first-in-the-nation experiment with Medicaid work requirements, ruling that the Trump administration glossed over potential coverage losses. He sent the state's plan back to federal authorities for a harder look.\nThe debate goes well beyond Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income and disabled people.\nThis spring, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing cabinet agencies to add or strengthen work requirements for programs including subsidized housing, food stamps and cash welfare. The government's biggest assistance program for low-income people — the Earned Income Tax Credit — is already designed to supplement earnings from work.\nBoasberg found that \"medical assistance\" is by law a \"central objective\" of Medicaid. While work requirements might be allowable if that's what a state wants, \"there may be limits to how much (coverage) loss is too much,\" he wrote.\nKentucky's Republican Gov. Matt Bevin wanted to impose work requirements on some 428,000 state residents who got Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act's expansion. Optional for states, the expansion passed under former President Barack Obama covers about 12 million people nationally, mainly adults.\nKentucky expanded Medicaid under a Democratic governor. Bevin argues that the cost is unsustainable for his state, even with Washington paying at least 90 percent of the bill, because many more people signed up than initially expected. The state estimated that work requirements would save money, reducing the Medicaid rolls by about 95,000 people over five years.\nThat number got the judge's attention.\nBoasberg ruled that the federal Health and Human Services department didn't dig deeply enough into the potential coverage losses. The department \"paid no attention to that deprivation,\" he wrote, and \"this oversight is glaring,\" amounting to rubber-stamping the state's request.\nAlthough state and federal officials contend that many people leaving Medicaid would find private coverage, Boasberg said there was no hard analysis, no \"bottom-line estimate.\"\nThe ruling seemed to catch the Trump administration unprepared.\nSeema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called it \"disappointing.\" The administration may appeal, or it may re-run its evaluation of the Kentucky plan to meet the judge's concerns. Medicaid work requirements in a few other states are unaffected.\nHowever, the ruling may make it much harder to approve work requirements in states that have not expanded Medicaid. In such states, Medicaid recipients would face a high risk of losing health care because even paltry earnings could make them ineligible for continued coverage.\nVerma said the administration won't be deterred from nudging the poor to go to work.\n\"We will continue to support innovative, state-driven policies that are designed to advance the objectives of the Medicaid program by improving health outcomes for thousands of low-income Americans,\" she said in a statement. Work improves health, the administration argues.\nThe nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that about 60 percent of adults with Medicaid are already working, and among those not working, most either have health problems, are taking care of home or family or are students.\nAdvocates for low-income people say they feel like a corner has been turned, even if the issue is far from settled.\n\"What's particularly significant is that the judge basically said you have to look at the purpose of Medicaid, which is to provide coverage,\" said Judy Solomon of the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Work requirements \"were outside the core objectives of the Medicaid program, and he basically said you can't ignore the core objectives.\"\nOthers point out that the judge stopped short of deciding the merits of the case, focusing instead on problems with the process that HHS followed in approving Kentucky's request.\nMatt Salo, executive director of the nonpartisan National Association of Medicaid Directors, said work requirements may serve the purposes of Medicaid in some states, particularly if that helps convince conservative lawmakers to expand coverage to more uninsured people.\n\"There's a broader issue at play here about maintaining political support and the sustainability of the program,\" said Salo. \"Does the inability to do a work requirement lead to a scenario where Kentucky is going to get rid of the entire expansion?\"\nSo far that hasn't happened, but Bevin did cut Medicaid dental and vision coverage in response to the judge's ruling.\nThe case is Stewart vs. Azar." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOKYO (AP) — Charles Jenkins, a U.S Army deserter to North Korea who married a Japanese abductee and lived in Japan after their release, has died. He was 77.\nA group representing families of Japanese abductees to North Korea said Tuesday that Jenkins died the day before.\nJenkins, of Rich Square, North Carolina, was found collapsed outside his home in Sado, northern Japan, rushed to a hospital and later pronounced dead. The cause of death wasn't released.\nJenkins disappeared in January 1965 while patrolling along the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea. He came to Japan in 2004 to be with his wife Hitomi Soga, who was kidnapped to North Korea in 1978 but allowed to visit home in 2002 and stayed. The two met in North Korea and had two daughters." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new U.S. homes jumped 4 percent in March, propelled by a surge of buying in the West.\nThe Commerce Department says sales last month were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 694,000. The two prior months had their sales revised upward with the annual rate being 667,000 in February and 644,000 in January. For the first three months of the year, sales are running 10.3 percent higher than a year ago.\nThe March increase was driven almost entirely by a 28.3 percent leap in sales in the West. New-home purchases rose slightly in the South, fell in the Midwest and plunged in the Northeast.\nThe median sales price of a new home rose 4.8 percent from a year ago to $337,200." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — A Macedonian court has overturned the more than decade-old terrorism convictions of 10 ethnic Albanian men, many of whom served long prison terms over a mine attack on a NATO vehicle.\nThe Skopje criminal ruled that there was no evidence linking the men to the 2003 blast in northern Macedonia that killed two Polish soldiers and their Macedonian translator.\nEarlier Monday, special prosecutor Katica Janeva had called for them to be cleared.\nFour of the men evaded arrest and were convicted in absentia, but the others served between 3.5 and seven years in prison. Their lawyers said the men would now seek compensation.\nNATO troops were deployed during ethnic conflict between government forces and ethnic Albanian rebels in 2001. Some stayed on to monitor implementation of the peace deal." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina regulators are discussing tests to measure how much of a little-studied industrial compound may have gotten into backyard garden vegetables near a plant that's been producing that and similar chemicals for decades, a state environmental official said Monday.\nState agencies are discussing how to structure any test of vegetable gardens near The Chemours Co. plant near Fayetteville, state waste management director Michael Scott told a scientific advisory panel. The talks come after Dutch researchers recently reported finding GenX and some older, related chemicals in vegetables near one of the company's factories in the Netherlands.\nThe Dutch study released earlier this month concluded that the chemicals released into the air were found in about 40 percent of the food samples collected within about 2 ½ miles (4 kilometers) of the European factory. The report concluded that garden crops were safe to eat, but the national public health institute advised people living closest to the plant to limit how much they consumed.\nGenX and related chemicals also have been made for years at the Fayetteville complex.\nThe inter-agency discussions in North Carolina haven't yet concluded whether to test nearby gardens or how any test would be conducted. The talks came in response to neighbors wanting answers about their potential health risks from plants, fish and venison, Scott said. Later steps could lead to further testing of commercial agricultural production.\n\"Our focus has been on the home gardens, at least initially,\" Scott told the board, which is studying ways to protect public health from new and emerging chemicals, including GenX and hexavalent chromium.\nTests on fish collected from waterways near both the North Carolina and Dutch Chemours plants should be available within a couple of months, he said.\nGenX has been used since 2009. It replaced perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA — a chemical that was shown to stay in the body longer and which was blamed for increased cancer risks. Both compounds were used in making non-stick Teflon and other materials.\nStudies point to GenX and related chemicals as having toxic effects in animals, but its effects in humans aren't known. There are no federal health standards for GenX and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies it as an \"emerging contaminant\" to be studied.\nSpokesmen for Wilmington, Delaware-based Chemours did not respond to a request to comment.\nMichael Watters said he's quit eating any of the wide variety of fruits and vegetables he grows on his five-acre lot about a mile (.6 kilometers) from the Chemours plant. Tests of his well water found GenX and more than a dozen other chemicals, and something he can't explain has forced him to replace spouts on his shower and bathtub twice in nine months, he said.\n\"Something's really gone weird in the water,\" he said.\nLack of information about GenX, its prevalence and health effects has disturbed people across eastern North Carolina. The chemical was detected in the treated drinking water for about 200,000 people in Wilmington, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) downstream from the plant along the Cape Fear River.\n___\nFollow Emery P. Dalesio at http://twitter.com/emerydalesio. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/emery-p-dalesio" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security officials say the country's prime minister is preparing to flee after separatists seized the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden in fierce battles overnight.\nThe officials say fighters loyal to the so-called Southern Transitional Council fought all way to the gates of the Palace of Maashiq — Arabic for \"lovers\" — in the district of Crater in Aden. The palace is the seat of Yemen's internationally backed government.\nThey say Prime Minister Ahmed Obaid Bin Daghar is to leave the country imminently. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations.\nThe fighting in Aden first erupted on Sunday, when a deadline issued by the separatists for the government to resign expired.\nPresident Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has described the separatists' action as a \"coup.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump (all times local):\n2:55 p.m.\nThe White House is pushing back on sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump, saying he has already denied them.\nThree women who previously accused Trump of sexual harassment shared their stories Monday on NBC's \"Megyn Kelly Today.\" They're calling for a congressional investigation.\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump \"has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations.\" She says the people decided in November to elect him regardless.\nJessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks are among the women who have alleged harassment by Trump.\nThe White House has called the claims false and \"totally disputed in most cases.\"\nThe U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has said the women should be heard.\n___\n10:30 a.m.\nThree women who have previously accused President Donald Trump of sexual harassment are sharing their stories on NBC's \"Megyn Kelly Today.\"\nJessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks on Monday told of alleged harassment by Trump spanning decades.\nThe White House called the claims false and \"totally disputed in most cases.\" It said \"the timing and absurdity of these false claims speak volumes.\"\nOne of the accusers, Rachel Crooks, called the White House statement \"laughable.\"\nCrooks says of sexual misconduct: \"I think politicians seem to be immune to this.\"\nThe women, who first shared their stories before the November 2016 election, were holding a press conference later Monday to call for a congressional investigation into Trump's alleged behavior." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MELCROFT, Pa. (AP) — In a story Jan. 28 about the shooting deaths of four people at a car wash, The Associated Press, relying on information from state police, misspelled the first name of one of the female victims. She was Cortney Snyder, not Courtney.\nA corrected version of the story is below:\nThe Latest: Victims' family says suspect driven by jealousy\nFamily members of the victims of a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash say the suspect was driven by jealousy\nMELCROFT, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting outside a Pennsylvania car wash (all times local):\n6:45 p.m.\nFamily members of the victims of a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash say the suspect was driven by jealousy.\nState police say 28-year-old Timothy Smith fatally shot four people at Ed's Car Wash around 3 a.m. in Saltlick Township, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.\nTwenty-seven-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Cortney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline were all killed.\nSmith is on life support and not expected to survive after suffering a gunshot wound to his head. State police say it's possible the gunshot wound was self-inflicted.\nAuthorities would not immediately say how Smith knew the victims but family members tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Smith had developed an obsession with Chelsie Cline.\n____\n4:45 p.m.\nState police say a man suspected of fatally shooting four people at a car wash in Pennsylvania is on life support.\nAuthorities initially had said that five people had died in the shootings early Sunday in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. Another person was injured.\nBut state police now say the suspect, Tim Smith, is on life support at a hospital.\nAuthorities have identified the four people killed as 27-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Cortney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline.\nAuthorities say a woman who was injured survived by hiding in the back seat of a truck.\nA motive for the shooting remains under investigation.\n____\n2:15 p.m.\nFamily members say a domestic dispute spurred the shooting deaths of five people at a Pennsylvania car wash.\nBut state police say they haven't yet confirmed that or a motive for the shootings that occurred early Sunday in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. WPXI-TV reports they spoke with family members.\nThe victims were identified only as three men and two women in their 20s and 30s. Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Another died at a hospital.\nAn injured person was hospitalized. His or her condition and identity is not yet known.\nThe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports a man who lives near the scene said he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.\n___\nThis story has been corrected to show that the TV station is WPXI-TV, not WXPI-TV.\n___\n12:20 p.m.\nState police say three men and two women have been found dead in a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash.\nThe shooting occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh.\nPolice said Sunday they have no motive yet for the deadly shooting. Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while another died at a hospital.\nTwo victims died inside a vehicle and two were found outside in the car wash's parking lot.\nAn injured person was taken to a hospital. Authorities say it's not clear if that person was shot. Details on that person's condition were not immediately released.\nAuthorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found at the scene.\n___\n10:20 a.m.\nState police say at least five people were killed in a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash.\nWPXI-TV reports the shooting occurred around 2:45 a.m. Sunday in Melcroft.\nMelcroft is about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh\nThe victims were identified only as three men and two women. At least one other person was wounded and was taken to a hospital, but further details on that person's condition were not immediately released.\nAuthorities were trying to determine if the shooter was among those found at the scene.\nA motive for the shooting remains under investigation." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Latest on the apparent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother in Malaysia (all times local):\n5:50 p.m.\nMalaysian police say they have arrested a woman in connection with the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother.\nWednesday's statement says the woman was arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. She was carrying Vietnamese travel documents.\nKim Jong Un's half brother died Monday after suddenly falling ill at the airport. According to a Malaysian government official, Kim told medical workers before he died that he had been attacked with a chemical spray." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "New York (AP) — Copper futures trading on the NY Merc Wed:\n(25,000 lbs., cents per lb.)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Arizona man named in court documents as a \"person of interest\" during the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said he had met the shooter one time and sold ammunition to him.\nDouglas Haig told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had been contacted earlier by investigators in the case.\nSpeaking at his suburban home in Mesa, Haig said he planned to hold a news conference later this week to answer questions about his name surfacing in the investigation.\n\"I am the guy who sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock,\" Haig said without disclosing any details. Police say Paddock was the gunman and killed himself as officers converged on him.\nA law enforcement official told the AP in October that Paddock bought 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition from a private seller he met at a Phoenix gun show. The official spoke anonymously because they weren't authorized to disclose case information. It was not immediately clear if that person was Haig.\nRecords show Haig owns Specialized Military Ammunition LLC. The company's website says it sold tracer and incendiary ammunition but is now \"closed indefinitely.\"\nHaig's name emerged by mistake Tuesday when court documents were released nearly four months after the shooting.\nThe documents did not disclose why authorities considered Haig a person of interest.\nPolice officials did not respond to telephone, text and email messages about Haig from AP. FBI and U.S. attorney's office spokeswomen in Las Vegas declined to comment.\nThe documents show that early in the investigation, police believed Paddock must have had help.\n\"Given the magnitude of the incident, it is reasonable to believe multiple suspects and months of planning were involved in this premeditated massacre,\" said one search warrant request submitted to a judge nine days after the shooting stopped.\nHowever, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo released a preliminary report on Jan. 19 saying police and the FBI believe Paddock acted alone before he killed himself as police closed in.\nIt did not answer the key question: What made Paddock stockpile a cache of assault-style weapons and fire for about 10 minutes out the windows of Mandalay Bay hotel-casino into a crowd of 22,000 people.\nHaig's name was blacked out in the more than 270 pages of search warrant records released by a Nevada judge to The Associated Press, but remained on one page of documents provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.\nThe newspaper published the name online. Clark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish later ordered the full document not be published without redactions, but she acknowledged she couldn't order the newspaper to retract the name.\nAuthorities previously said an unnamed person could face unspecified federal charges in shooting that also injured more than 800 other people.\nThe warrants show that investigators found 23 rifles and a handgun in Paddock's 32nd-floor hotel suite and an adjoining room. Police also found five suitcases, five rifle cases, binoculars, a spotter scope, portable solar generator and 1,050 empty bullet casings.\nPolice reported finding just $273 in cash in the room of the 64-year-old retired accountant who amassed a millionaire's fortune, owned homes in Reno and Mesquite, Nevada, and earned casino perks wagering thousands of dollars on high-stakes video poker.\nAuthorities previously characterized Paddock as a gambler on a losing streak who was obsessed with cleanliness, may have been bipolar and was having difficulties with his live-in girlfriend.\nThe name of Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, was not redacted from documents released Tuesday in response to a public records lawsuit filed by media companies including AP and the Review-Journal.\nDanley was in the Philippines at the time of the attack and is cooperating with investigators.\nShe was initially considered a person of interest but authorities later said she is not likely to face criminal charges.\nSeparately, Clark County District Court Judge Timothy Williams ruled Tuesday that the coroner in Las Vegas should release autopsy records of Paddock and the people killed by gunfire, with victims' names blacked out. Those documents were not immediately made public.\nCounty Coroner John Fudenberg later released a statement later promising victims' autopsy reports \"as soon as possible.\" But Paddock's autopsy report was not final and would not be released until it is, the coroner said.\nFudenberg maintains the records are confidential, and restricts release to families and to police investigating deaths. The coroner and county attorneys didn't immediately say whether they would appeal Williams' ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court.\nMargaret McLetchie, an attorney representing AP and the Review-Journal in the autopsies case, noted in court that Nevada state public records law does not directly address autopsies and that a deceased person has no legal right to privacy.\nIn Nevada, records are public unless the law says otherwise, she said.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; Anita Snow in Mesa, Arizona; Alina Hartounian in Phoenix and researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — The 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's \"Schindler's List\" and the 35th anniversary of Brian De Palma's \"Scarface\" will be celebrated with reunion screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival.\nThe New York festival announced Monday that Spielberg will join Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Embeth Davidtz for a post-screening conversation April 26 at the Beacon Theatre. The \"Scarface\" event will reunite De Palma, Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer on April 19 at the Beacon Theatre.\nThe festival will also host an anniversary screening of 1992's \"In the Soup,\" an acclaimed independent film directed by Alexandre Rockwell. The largely forgotten release, starring Steve Buscemi and Seymour Cassel, has been restored following a Kickstarter campaign to repair the remaining, damaged print.\nAlso slated for on-stage interviews at Tribeca are Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Spike Lee and Alec Baldwin.\nThe festival runs April 18-29." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "iBook charts for week ending April 22, 2018: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher :\niBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books\n1. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey - 9781250192462 - (Flatiron Books)\n2. The Fallen by David Baldacci - 9781538761373 - (Grand Central Publishing)\n3. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz - 9780345546784 - (Random House Publishing Group)\n4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson - 9780393609400 - (W. W. Norton & Company)\n5. Come As You Are by Lauren Blakely - No ISBN Available - (Lauren Blakely Books)\n6. After Anna by Lisa Scottoline - 9781250099679 - (St. Martin's Press)\n7. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 9781501154669 - (Atria Books)\n8. I've Got My Eyes on You by Mary Higgins Clark - 9781501171697 - (Simon & Schuster)\n9. Just One Look by Harlan Coben - 9781101146644 - (Penguin Publishing Group)\n10. Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand - 9780316375153 - (Little, Brown and Company)\n(copyright) 2018 Apple Inc.\n____" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with a rifle opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday near Washington, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others as congressmen and aides dove for cover. The assailant fought a gun battle with police before being shot and killed.\nA congressional aide and a volunteer also were wounded, along with two U.S. Capitol police officers.\nA look at previous security incidents at the Capitol or political violence involving members of Congress:\n— March 29, 2017: A 20-year-old woman described as \"erratic and aggressive\" drives a vehicle into a Capitol Police cruiser and is taken into custody, closing down streets near the Capitol for nearly three hours. Shots were fired during the arrest attempt, but the event appeared to be criminal in nature with \"no nexus to terrorism,\" Capitol Police said. No one was injured.\n— March 28, 2016: Police shoot a man after he pulled a weapon at a Capitol checkpoint as spring tourists thronged Washington. Congress was not in session. Police identified the man as 66-year-old Larry Dawson of Tennessee, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer while armed.\n— Jan. 14, 2015: A 22-year-old Ohio man is arrested by the FBI in an alleged plot to attack the Capitol in support of the Islamic State terror group. Christopher Lee Cornell of suburban Cincinnati pleaded guilty to three charges, including attempted murder of U.S. officials and employees. Court documents show Cornell said he wanted to attack during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.\n— Nov. 6, 2014: A former Cincinnati-area bartender is charged with threatening to kill House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Michael Hoyt, who worked at a country club in Boehner's suburban community, was accused of threatening to kill Boehner with a gun or by poisoning his drink. A federal judge ruled Hoyt was insane at the time of the offense.\n— Oct. 3, 2013: Miriam Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Connecticut, is shot and killed by Capitol Police officers in her vehicle outside the Hart Senate Office Building. Officers had pursued Carey from the White House, where she made a U-turn at a security checkpoint. Her young daughter was inside the car at the time and was unharmed. Her family later filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Secret Service and Capitol Police.\n— Jan. 8, 2011: A gunman shoots Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., in the head during a shooting rampage at a public event outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people were killed, and 13 wounded, including Giffords. Jared Loughner, 25, was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting. Giffords resigned from office in 2012.\n— Sept. 22, 2006: An armed man runs through the Capitol in an embarrassing security breach after allegedly crashing a sport utility vehicle into a police cruiser. Unarmed employees of the basement flag office subdued the man just before police arrived to arrest him.\n— July 24, 1998: A man with a history of mental illness shoots his way into the Capitol building filled with lawmakers and tourists, killing two veteran Capitol Police officers and wounding a tourist. Officer Jacob Chestnut was killed at a first-floor Capitol entrance, and Detective John Gibson died after exchanging fire with gunman Russell Weston inside a suite of offices occupied by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Weston was then wounded and captured.\n— Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb rips through the second floor of the Capitol, damaging a conference room and the offices of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. No one was injured. A caller had phoned The Washington Post warning that a bomb was about to explode. The caller claimed the action was in response to U.S. military aggression in Grenada and Lebanon.\n— Nov. 18, 1978: Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., is shot and killed while on an official visit to Guyana. He was investigating the activities of the Peoples Temple group led by Jim Jones, and was ambushed and shot multiple times by cult members while boarding a plan to leave Jonestown. Four others were also killed, three journalists and a defector, followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.\n— Jan. 30, 1973: Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., is shot twice by robbers outside his Washington home. The 71-year-old senator survived and returned to the Hill.\n— March 1, 1971: A bomb explodes in the men's room on the Senate side of the Capitol. It destroyed the restroom and a barbershop, but no one was injured. A caller said the bombing was to show opposition to the Vietnam War. The radical Weather Underground claimed responsibility, but no one was prosecuted for the act.\n— June 5, 1968: New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a young Palestinian, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after declaring victory in the California Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day. Five other people were injured in the shooting.\n— March 1, 1954: Five congressmen are shot on the floor of the House by Puerto Rican nationalists who fired shots from the visitors' gallery. The lawmakers all recovered. Four assailants were arrested.\n— July 12, 1947: Sen. John Bricker, R-Ohio, is shot at twice as he enters the Senate subway. Both shots missed. The gunman was a former Capitol policeman who had lost money when an Ohio building and loan firm was liquidated.\n— Sept. 10, 1935: Sen. Huey Long, D-La., dies in Baton Rouge two days after being shot in the Louisiana state Capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Weiss.\n— Dec. 13, 1932: A gunman enters the House gallery and demands to address the House on the Great Depression. Rep. Melvin Maas, R-Minn., convinced the gunman to drop the loaded pistol before shots were fired.\nCompiled by News Researchers Jennifer Farrar and Monika Mathur and Associated Press writer Matthew Daly." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MADRID (AP) — Police say they were called to investigate an altercation involving Diego Maradona and a woman at a hotel in Madrid.\nAuthorities said officers were dispatched Wednesday after a call from the hotel, but found no evidence of any disturbance after talking to Maradona and the woman.\nAuthorities said they couldn't confirm if the woman was a hotel guest or Maradona's girlfriend.\nSpanish media on Tuesday released a video of Maradona threatening a reporter who tried to talk to him at the hotel in Madrid.\nMaradona is in the Spanish capital to watch former club Napoli play Real Madrid in the Champions League." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BARBERTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio woman shot her husband multiple times earlier this year and dismembered his body.\nForty-nine-year-old Marcia Eubank has been charged with murder in the death of 54-year-old Howard Eubank. Records don't show an attorney for her.\nThe Summit County sheriff's office says in a release that deputies went to the couple's home in Coventry Township in suburban Akron on Saturday when the couple's adult son called about possible remains. The deputies found deteriorating remains tentatively identified as those of Howard Eubank. The release says investigators believe Eubank was killed earlier this year in a \"domestic-related incident.\"\nAuthorities say Marcia Eubank was arrested later Saturday in a store parking lot. A Barberton Municipal Court judge on Monday set bond for her at $1 million." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Used to be that Roger Federer simply could not win a match, let alone a championship, at major tournaments.\nThat might be hard to imagine now that Federer owns 20 Grand Slam trophies. But you can look it up: He lost in the first round on three of his first four trips to Wimbledon, and three of his first five appearances at the French Open.\nSo let's recall what Federer said at the All England Club on the day he collected his very first Grand Slam title, all the way back in July 2003.\n\"I hope,\" Federer said, \"it's not going to be my last.\"\nSeems silly nowadays, doesn't it?\nBecause there he was, nearly 15 full years later, tears dotting his cheeks as he spoke to an adoring Australian Open crowd after beating 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in Sunday's final in Melbourne. Holding his most recent prize, Federer declared, \"The fairy tale continues.\"\nIt's hard to decide what is most remarkable about Federer's career.\nCilic's take?\n\"The passion to compete, season after season, especially at this high level,\" said the man who has lost two of the last three Grand Slam finals to the Swiss maestro. \"Also, being able to challenge himself, first physically and then mentally, as well, to be at the top almost every single week.\"\nThe sheer volume of it all does stand out. Federer has won exactly 10 percent of the 200 major tournaments contested in the professional era. Before Federer started collecting his 20, the most any man managed to accumulate was the 14 for Pete Sampras; he now stands No. 3, behind Federer and Rafael Nadal with 16.\nThere's also that constant work to evolve and improve, most notably during his recent renaissance by adding versatility to his backhand side with a flatter, more powerful shot than his long-preferred slice.\nAnd there's the longevity, which is particularly impressive in light of the recent injury woes for the younger members of tennis' elite: Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka.\nAt 36½, Federer is now the second-oldest man to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era — Ken Roswell won Australia in 1972 at 37. And after going more than four years without a trophy, he's added three in the span of four appearances at majors (he skipped last year's French Open and sounds like someone contemplating doing so again in a few months' time).\n\"I don't think age is an issue, per se. It's just a number,\" he said Sunday. \"But I need to be very careful in my planning, really decide beforehand what are my goals, what are my priorities. I think that's what's going to dictate how successful I will be.\"\nFederer was asked how long he thinks he can continue playing at this level.\n\"No idea. Honest, I don't know. I have no idea. I've won three Slams now in 12 months. I can't believe it myself,\" he said. \"I just got to keep a good schedule, stay hungry, then maybe good things can happen.\"\nTake a look at the way Federer earned his sixth Australian Open championship, tying the men's record for most in history, to go along with his unprecedented eight Wimbledons, five U.S. Opens (tied for the most in the professional era) and one French Open.\nAfter letting a lead slip away and getting outplayed by Cilic the fourth set, Federer faced some danger in the opening game of the decider in the form of two break points.\n\"Momentum,\" Cilic would say later, \"was on my side.\"\nRight when nerves would figure to be most frayed, Federer was steadier. On the initial break chance there, Cilic got a look at a 104 mph second serve and dumped a forehand return into the net. On the next, Cilic pushed a forehand return wide off a 119 mph first serve up the \"T,\" and Federer yelled out in Swiss German. Two points later, Federer conjured up a cross-court backhand winner that clipped the outside of a line to cap a 15-stroke exchange and grab that game.\nIn the next, Cilic double-faulted twice and Federer took advantage, breaking en route to a 3-0 lead. And that was pretty much that.\nFederer was on his way, just like so many times before.\n\"It's always very, very challenging to play him,\" Cilic observed.\nWasn't always that way at the very beginning, actually. Yet it very much is, all these years later.\n___\nFollow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich\n___\nMore AP tennis coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/apf-Tennis" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Organizers of the North American bid to host the 2026 World Cup insist FIFA members have not expressed concern about President Donald Trump's harsh words about foreigners or the U.S. Justice Department prosecuting corrupt soccer officials.\n\"Look, this is not geopolitics,\" new U.S. Soccer Federation President Carlos Cordeiro said Monday during a conference call. \"We're talking about football and what fundamentally at the end of the day, what's the best interests of football and our footballing community, and we've had no backlash. We're very focused on the merits of our bid.\"\nA joint bid by the United States, Mexico and Canada was submitted to FIFA on Friday along with a proposal by Morocco. The 207 other members of the international soccer governing body will vote on June 13 in Moscow.\nCordeiro, Mexican Football Federation President Decio de Maria and Canadian Soccer Association President Steven Reed spoke from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where they were meeting with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, a subset of the Asian Football Confederation.\nA solo bid by the U.S. for the 2022 World Cup was favored going into the 2010 vote but lost to Qatar. FIFA then changed the vote rules to give the decision back to the entire membership, which chose hosts prior to 1986, when the choice started being made by the roughly two dozen members of its executive committee.\n\"We believe that the member associations are going to judge us on the quality of the bids, on the merits of our bid, and that's it,\" Reed said. \"We're very confident about what we're putting forward, and I don't think that we're concerned about politics.\"\nSixty games would be played in the U.S. under the bid plan, including all from the quarterfinals on. Three cities were included from Mexico and Canada, and both of those nations would host 10 games.\nHolding a tournament in the U.S. would subject many of the documents generated to subpoena by U.S. federal prosecutors, who have secured numerous guilty pleas to corruption charges from soccer officials since 2015 and obtained convictions at trial last year against Juan Angel Napout, the former president of South American soccer's governing body, and Jose Maria Marin, the former president of Brazil's soccer federation.\n\"We haven't had any of those concerns raised by any of the members that we've met so far,\" Cordeiro said. \"The reforms that FIFA undertook some years ago I think were spot on and we feel very confident that ultimately the right decision will be made.\"\nMorocco's bid envisions spending almost $16 billion, including $3 billion to construct nine new stadiums, refurbish five others and build or renovate 130 training grounds.\nThe North American bid proposed venues be selected from among 23 stadiums that exist or already are under construction, including three each in Mexico and Canada. Sixteen of the U.S. stadiums are sites of NFL teams.\n\"The split of matches that we have proposed to FIFA frankly reflects the resources of the three countries,\" Cordeiro said. \"We in the United States are blessed with some very substantial resources in terms of stadium infrastructure, of cities and so on, and that reflects the 60 matches that we have on the table. But at the end of the day there is a reason why FIFA have asked for or have encouraged joint bids and we do think that our joint bids taken together provide for a vastly superior bid than our competition.\"\n___\nAP Sports Writer Rob Harris contributed to this report." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Scoreboard on Wednesday at the end of the T20 tri-series match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Harare Sports Club:\nZimbabwe\nCephas Zhuwao b Ashraf 24\nSolomon Mire c Khan b Talat 94\nHamilton Masakadza b Khan 2\nTarisai Musakanda c Malik b Amir 33\nElton Chigumbura not out 5\nMalcolm Waller not out 0\nExtras: (1lb, 3w) 4\nTOTAL: (for 4 wickets) 162\nOvers: 20.\nFall of wickets: 1-49, 2-82, 3-146, 4-161\nDid not bat: Peter Moor, Tendai Chisoro, Chris Mpofu, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani.\nBowling: Shoaib Malik 1-0-12-0, Mohammad Amir 4-0-25-1, Hasan Ali 4-0-37-0, Faheem Ashraf 4-0-24-1, Shadab Khan 3-0-28-1 (1w), Mohammad Nawaz 3-0-25-0, Hussain Talat 1-0-10-1 (2w)\nPakistan\nFakhar Zaman c Mpofu b Mire 47\nHaris Sohail c Mire b Wellington Masakadza 16\nHussain Talat c Zhuwao b Mpofu 44\nSarfraz Ahmed not out 38\nShoaib Malik not out 12\nExtras: (6w) 6\nTOTAL: (for 3 wickets) 163\nOvers: 19.1.\nFall of wickets: 1-58, 2-95, 3-138\nDid not bat: Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Amir\nBowling: Tendai Chisoro 4-0-38-0, Blessing Muzarabani 4-0-31-0 (1w), Chris Mpofu 3.1-0-31-1 (4w), Wellington Masakadza 4-0-30-1, Malcolm Waller 2-0-18-0, Solomon Mire 2-0-15-1 (1w)\nToss: Pakistan.\nResult: Pakistan won by 7 wickets.\nUmpires: Langton Rusere, Zimbabwe, and Iknow Chabi, Zimbabwe\nTV umpire: Russell Tiffin, Zimbabwe. Match referee: Jeff Crowe, New Zealand." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday.:\nSettle WHEAT (5,000 bu ; cents per bushel) Mar 457 1-4 May 470 3-4 Jul 483 1-2 Sep 496 3-4 Dec 515 3-4 Mar 531 1-4 May 536 1-2 Jul 536 1-2 Sep 545 Dec 558 1-2 Mar 569 May 566 1-2 Jul 555 CORN (5,000 bu ; cents per bushel) Mar 361 1-2 May 369 3-4 Jul 377 1-2 Sep 384 3-4 Dec 393 1-2 Mar 401 3-4 May 406 3-4 Jul 411 Sep 407 1-4 Dec 409 1-4 Mar 416 May 419 1-2 Jul 424 1-2 Sep 424 1-4 Dec 413 3-4 Jul 421 3-4 Dec 419 1-2 OATS (5,000 bu ; cents per bushel) Mar 270 May 264 1-2 Jul 267 1-2 Sep 269 1-2 Dec 267 1-4 Mar 267 1-4 May 267 1-4 Jul 267 1-4 Sep 268 1-2 Dec 268 1-2 Jul 267 Sep 267 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu ; cents per bushel) Mar 1000 1-4 May 1011 1-4 Jul 1021 Aug 1022 1-4 Sep 1015 1-2 Nov 1013 1-2 Jan 1019 3-4 Mar 1020 3-4 May 1024 1-4 Jul 1029 3-4 Aug 1024 3-4 Sep 1013 3-4 Nov 1001 3-4 Jan 1006 1-2 Mar 1007 May 1014 1-2 Jul 1018 3-4 Aug 1011 1-4 Sep 1009 1-4 Nov 992 Jul 992 Nov 992 SOYBEAN OIL (60,000 lbs; cents per lb) Mar 33.08 May 33.28 Jul 33.49 Aug 33.55 Sep 33.60 Oct 33.60 Dec 33.74 Jan 33.83 Mar 33.92 May 34.02 Jul 34.14 Aug 34.11 Sep 34.08 Oct 33.73 Dec 33.70 Jan 33.81 Mar 34.02 May 34.03 Jul 34.23 Aug 34.23 Sep 34.23 Oct 34.23 Dec 34.23 Jul 34.23 Oct 34.23 Dec 34.23 SOYBEAN MEAL (100 tons; dollars per ton) Mar 340.50 May 343.90 Jul 345.80 Aug 344.70 Sep 343.20 Oct 340.20 Dec 340.90 Jan 341.20 Mar 342.10 May 343.50 Jul 345.10 Aug 344.70 Sep 343.50 Oct 339.10 Dec 338.90 Jan 339.60 Mar 340.60 May 340.60 Jul 342.10 Aug 342.10 Sep 342.10 Oct 342.10 Dec 343.30 Jul 343.30 Oct 343.30 Dec 343.30" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is cooperating with U.S. government inquiries into its secret slowdown of older iPhones, further complicating its efforts to move past an issue that irked customers whose devices bogged down.\nThe company acknowledged the probes after both The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg had reported the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating how investors have been affected by Apple's handling of the situation.\nA software update released in 2016 began to slow down older iPhones when their batteries weakened to prevent them from abruptly turning off, but Apple didn't fully disclose what it was doing until December.\nApple has since apologized for not being more forthcoming and is replacing batteries on older iPhones for $29, a $50 discount." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore school police officer caught on video slapping and kicking a teen at a school while another officer stood by has accepted a plea deal.\nNews media outlets report Anthony Spence entered an Alford plea on Tuesday to a second-degree assault charge, not admitting guilt, but acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence to convict.\nInstead of facing jail time, Spence will get probation before judgment and 18 months of supervised probation. He must also resign from the school police force within 90 days.\nDocuments show a witness to the March 1 encounter said a second officer, Saverna Bias, told Spence to hit the youth, and Spence then hit and kicked the teen.\nSpence's attorney, Warren Brown, says the student spat on Spence.\nBias will go to trial on assault charges." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has thrown out a 2016 California law allowing terminally ill people to end their lives after finding that the Legislature unconstitutionally approved it during a special session.\nState Attorney General Xavier Becerra asked an appeals court to block and reverse last week's decision by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia.\nThe court denied the request to immediately block the ruling. But experts say Becerra has other legal options and could ask the state Supreme Court to weigh in to try to restore the law.\nFor now, there are many questions on the impact of the ruling. Here are some of them:\nWHAT DID THE LAW ALLOW?\nAdults could obtain a prescription for life-ending drugs if a doctor determined they had six months or less to live. To ensure they didn't have a change of heart, patients had to make two verbal requests at least 15 days apart and submit a written request.\nCalifornia health officials reported 111 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in the first six months the law was in effect.\nCompassion & Choices, a national organization that supports the law and wants it reinstated, estimated that 504 Californians requested prescriptions in the law's first year.\nThe next state report on the number of people who took the drugs is expected in July.\nWHAT DID THE JUDGE DECIDE?\nOttolia didn't address the legal issue of whether it was proper to allow people to end their own lives. Rather, he found the law should not have been passed during a special session in 2015.\nThose who supported the measure say state lawmakers were justified in taking up the issue because the session was devoted to health-related topics.\nThe appeals court that refused to block Ottolia's order has not yet considered the state's request to reverse the ruling. Ottolia on Wednesday rejected a request by Compassion & Choices to vacate his decision and scheduled a June 29 hearing on a similar request from the attorney general's office.\nWhat does all this mean for now?\n\"We are in the world that we were before the law went into effect,\" said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.\nWHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO PLANNED TO USE THE LAW?\nPatients who have not obtained prescriptions for life-ending medications can't legally get them now, said Dr. Lonny Shavelson, whose practice was solely focused on those cases.\nShavelson said he still is meeting with patients and taking their initial requests for drugs but not issuing prescriptions. And he said he can't guarantee their requests will count toward the required waiting period should the law be restored.\nShavelson said patients who previously obtained prescriptions can take their medication if they choose to. But with the law not in effect, it's possible a medical examiner could declare the death a suicide, which could create challenges for family members claiming insurance payments.\n\"I am spending a lot of time calming down really freaked-out patients,\" he said.\nCOULD DOCTORS FACE PROSECUTION?\nShavelson said he and his colleagues met recently and determined they were no longer in business because of the judge's ruling. Similarly, Kaiser Permanente halted the health network's end-of-life program.\nWhat would happen to a doctor who wrote a prescription? Experts said that's largely up to prosecutors and can vary by jurisdiction.\nMatt Valliere, executive director of the Patients' Rights Action Fund that wants the law thrown out, said he believes doctors who write prescriptions can and should be prosecuted for assisting in a suicide, which is a felony under California law.\nKathryn Tucker, executive director of the End of Life Liberty Project, said she doubts prosecutors would go after doctors who continue to treat pre-existing patients. But she said she doesn't expect doctors to issue new prescriptions without greater legal certainty.\nCAN LAWMAKERS PASS ANOTHER LAW?\nIt's possible for lawmakers to propose another measure, but it took years for the state's now-blocked law to be passed. A new proposal on such an emotional issue would not sail through the Legislature.\nTucker said legal wrangling in the courts will likely take less time than another legislative push.\n\"What's at stake is of a very time-sensitive nature,\" she said.\nBecerra's office asked the appeals court to consider the case on a quicker timeframe than the average appeal." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — \"Incredible\" and \"kinetic\" are just a few of the loving words that people are using to describe and praise Marvel's \"Black Panther.\"\nThe film from director Ryan Coogler had its first screenings Monday night and a premiere in Los Angeles. Official reviews won't go out until Feb. 6, but audiences at the select screenings were able to share non-spoiler reactions on social media.\nLos Angeles Times writer Jen Yamato tweets that it is incredible and kinetic and the first Marvel movie about something real. The film features a largely black cast including Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong'o. Vulture editor Kyle Buchanan singles out actress Letitia Wright who he calls hilarious and ebullient. Buzzfeed's Adam Vary calls the film astonishing.\n\"Black Panther\" hits the multiplex on Feb. 16." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday as investors stepped back after several days of advances, erasing early gains. Markets are awaiting the Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday and the outcome of a major Chinese planning conference.\nKEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.3 percent to 22,866.17 while South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.5 percent to 2,458.56. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong shed 0.2 percent to 28,894.58. The Shanghai Composite index shed 0.7 percent to 3,300.24. The S&P ASX 200 added 0.3 percent to 6,013.20, but India's Sensex dropped 0.4 percent to 33,314.89. Other regional markets were mostly lower.\nWALL STREET: Technology and health-cre companies led U.S. stocks modestly higher Monday, driving the market to another set of milestones, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Dow Jones industrial average finishing at new highs. The S&P 500 index rose 0.3 percent to 2,659.99. The Dow gained 0.2 percent to 24,386.03 and the Nasdaq composite added 0.5 percent to 6,875.08. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks slipped 0.1 percent to 1,519.84.\nANALYST VIEWPOINT: \"The market is kind of in a holding pattern, just sort of waiting for the Fed meeting,\" said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading & derivatives at Charles Schwab. \"The Fed sees enough strength in the overall economy, despite the lack of inflation, to still go ahead and continue to hike rates.\"\nFEDERAL RESERVE: The Fed is expected to lift short-term interest rates by 0.25 percent on Wednesday, the third interest rate hike by the central bank this year. While inflation has remained low, the central bank has seen a path to gradually raise rates as the economy and labor market have strengthened.\nCHINA: Investors are watching for details from an annual economic planning conference in Beijing that will set the pace for reforms and growth in the world's second-largest economy. The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday that President Xi Jinping told fellow leaders that the focus should shift to quality of life and improve innovation and competitiveness. Worries over possible moves to curb property market speculation were overshadowing trading on Tuesday.\nBITCOIN: Bitcoin futures rose on their first day of trading on a major U.S. exchange, with the first-ever futures contract gaining 20 percent to close at $18,545, according to data from Cboe Global Markets. The price of an actual bitcoin has soared since it began the year below $1,000 and was at $16,502.25 as of 06:20 GMT Tuesday, according to Coindesk.\nENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude gained 43 cents to $58.42 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It advanced 63 cents, or 1.1 percent, to settle at $57.99 per barrel on Monday. Brent crude, the international standard, climbed 86 cents to $65.55 per barrel. It added $1.29, or 2 percent, to close at $64.69 per barrel in London.\nCURRENCIES: The dollar edged down to 113.44 Japanese yen from 113.55 yen late Monday. The euro rose to $1.1744 from $1.1770.\n___\nAP Business Writer Alex Veiga in Los Angeles, California, contributed." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }