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Montana nuclear base lockdown lifted after suspicious person prompts active shooter report 02/15/2024 05:07pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An Air Force nuclear missile base in central Montana was locked down by authorities for about two hours on Thursday after an active shooter report sowed confusion and prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place advisory for nearby schools. No shots were fired and nobody w Japan slips into a recession and loses its spot as the world's third-largest economy 02/15/2024 04:08pm • TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.4% in October to December, according to Cabinet Office data on real GDP released Thursday, Eastern Market Metro station evacuated after fire under rail car fills platform with smoke 02/15/2024 03:40pm • A fire under a railcar caused smoke to fill the platform at the Eastern Market Metro station in D.C. Thursday afternoon, sending one person to the hospital and leading to an evacuation of the station. Video from the scene posted on social media showed heavy smoke filling the upper part of the s Burning insulation causes DC to evacuate Metro station and suspend service on multiple lines 02/15/2024 02:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An insulator under a rail car caught fire Thursday, forcing the evacuation of an underground Metro station when smoke filled the station. The DC Fire and Emergency Services agency posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that nine people were evaluated fo Russia's emerging anti-satellite weapon can't directly cause 'physical destruction' on Earth, White House says 02/15/2024 02:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's emerging anti-satellite weapon can't directly cause 'physical destruction' on Earth, White House says. Prison deaths report finds widespread missteps, failures in latest sign of crisis in federal prisons 02/15/2024 01:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years, a watchdog report released Thursday found. Mental hea Trial begins for North Dakota's effort to recoup costs of policing Dakota Access pipeline protests 02/15/2024 01:20pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of North Dakota's lawsuit against the federal government for the costs of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the culmination of an unusual and drawn-out court fight. The state filed the lawsuit in 2019, seeking $3 Blue Jackets fire GM Jarmo Kekalainen midway through his 11th full season 02/15/2024 12:20pm • The Columbus Blue Jackets fired general manager Jarmo Kekalainen on Thursday, ending his time on the job ahead of another crucial trade deadline for the struggling club. President of hockey operations John Davidson made the call midway through Kekalainen’s 11th full season on the job and with just Prosecutors seek prison term for former biathlon boss on last day of corruption trial in Norway 02/15/2024 11:27am • OSLO, Norway (AP) — Prosecutors asked for a prison term of three years and seven months for former world biathlon leader Anders Besseberg on the last day Thursday of his five-week trial in Norway. The 77-year-old Besseberg has denied charges relating to accepting bribes, a liaison with a prostitut Iowa's abortion providers now have some guidance for the paused 6-week ban, if it is upheld 02/15/2024 11:26am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s medical board on Thursday approved some guidance abortion providers would need to follow if the state’s ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy is upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. The restrictive abortion law is currently on hold as the court co PSG winger Barcola emerging as a key player in Luis Enrique's side 02/15/2024 09:39am • PARIS (AP) — Bradley Barcola receives a pass near the halfway line and as he attacks a defender his next touch appears far too heavy and the ball gets away. The touch is deliberately heavy to draw in the right back. So Barcola can then flick the ball past him in a flash and use his electric pace t Ethiopia rejects allegations its forces massacred civilians as the West urges an investigation 02/15/2024 08:09am • Ethiopia’s government on Thursday dismissed allegation its soldiers massacred scores of civilians last month in the country's restive Amhara region as the West is demanding an investigation into the killings. A rebellion broke out in Amhara — Ethiopia’s second-biggest province — last year w Sean Wang made a home movie. Now, he and his grandmothers are going to the Oscars 02/15/2024 07:27am • NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Wang’s two grandmothers live together. They read the newspaper together. They dance together. They sleep in the same bed and complain about each other’s farts. The older of the two, Yi Yan Fuei, is 96. The younger, Chang Li Hua, is 86. They’re in-laws but they act more l Airbus targets 800 aircraft deliveries for 2024 even as supply chain issues linger 02/15/2024 07:17am • PARIS (AP) — Airbus plans to deliver more aircraft to customers in 2024 even as supply chain headaches continue to afflict the European airplane maker. The company reported healthy results for its commercial aircraft business Thursday in its latest annual earnings report, and signaled that there Who is Prabowo Subianto, the former general who's Indonesia's next president? 02/15/2024 05:55am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia's popular outgoing president and its dictatorial past looks set to be its next leader. He's promised to continue the outgoing president's widely popular policies, but his human rights record has activists and some analysts