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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Active-duty transgender troops say a policy change that puts them at risk of being removed and indefinitely bars transgender people from enlisting in the military is a step backward for civil rights that will promote inequality in the armed forces.
President Donald Trump on Friday...
![Congresswoman Aumua Amata and Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke during a stop in California on her way back to Washington in May of this year. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Amata%20and%20Zinke%20in%20CA.jpg?itok=T4xZp4o0 "Congresswoman Aumua Amata and Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke during a stop in California on her way back to Washington in May of this year. [Courtesy photo]")
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated.
But there would be changes to a "handful," he said.
Zinke told The Associated Press that...
(AP) — Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the midday sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century.
It promised to be the most observed and photographed eclipse...
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:
NOT REAL: John McCain Says He 'Accidentally' Voted No On...
HONOLULU (AP) — Dispensary sales of medical marijuana in Hawaii are beginning after patients waited 17 years for a legal way to purchase the drug.
Maui Grown Therapies received approval from the Department of Health to begin selling medical cannabis Tuesday.
The dispensary plans to start selling...
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory.
Though local...
LONDON (AP) — England rugby backs Manu Tuilagi and Denny Solomona were sent home in shame from a national team training camp on Monday.
A Rugby Football Union statement said the disciplinary action by coach Eddie Jones was a result of ”team culture issues,” without elaborating.
The pair missed the...
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:
NOT REAL: President Trump Moves To SHUTDOWN JIHAD TRAINING...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea.
The state's Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced a public education campaign about what to do. Hawaii lawmakers have been urging emergency management...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and even high school.
It's the largest update on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a...