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Justices adopt digital-age privacy rules to track cellphones

WASHINGTON — Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age.

Jun 22, 2018 3:21 PM Read more >

Dems seek info about Virginia facility after abuse claims

WASHINGTON — Virginia's two Democratic senators asked the Trump administration Friday for answers about operations at a juvenile detention facility in the state where immigrant children said they were bound, beaten and isolated in solitary confinemen

Jun 22, 2018 3:12 PM Read more >

Cohen's photo with Tom Arnold fuels Trump tape speculation

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen retweeted a photo of him and comedian Tom Arnold, who is working on a TV show to hunt down recordings of the president, fueling speculation Friday that Cohen has secret tapes of T

Jun 22, 2018 2:58 PM Read more >

Hope, despair in poetry by immigrant children in US lockup

NEW YORK — The young immigrants held in prison-like conditions at a juvenile detention centre in the mountains of Virginia express despair. Some cling to pleasant memories from home. For a select few, there is hope.

Jun 22, 2018 2:50 PM Read more >

Police: Backup driver in fatal Uber crash was distracted

PHOENIX — The human backup driver in an autonomous Uber SUV was streaming the television show "The Voice" and looking downward just before fatally striking a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix, according to a police report.

Jun 22, 2018 12:45 PM Read more >

WHAT'S HAPPENING: Suit adds to pressure for immigration bill

A class-action lawsuit over the treatment of teenage migrants detained in Virginia added to the mounting pressure for immigration reform.

Jun 22, 2018 11:41 AM Read more >

South Sudan peace deal attempt fails as Kiir rejects Machar

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The latest attempt at ending South Sudan's five-year civil war failed Friday as President Salva Kiir rejected working again with rival Riek Machar after their first face-to-face meeting in almost two years.

Jun 22, 2018 11:36 AM Read more >

After lineup photographed, England urges media to help team

MOSCOW — A photo of a scribbled team lineup, spotted in the hands of an assistant coach, threatens to sour the unusually cordial World Cup relations between the England team and its travelling media pack.

Jun 22, 2018 11:06 AM Read more >

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa leaves hospital after fall

MADRID — Nobel Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been discharged from a Madrid hospital, 24 hours after sustaining light injuries in a fall at home.

Jun 22, 2018 10:49 AM Read more >

Central African Republic minister says Becker passport fake

BANGUI, Central African Republic — Central African Republic's foreign minister says a reported diplomatic passport for Boris Becker appears to be a fake and the country's prosecutor general will investigate.

Jun 22, 2018 10:32 AM Read more >