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Kremlin staying out of Trump wiretap fray: It’s a US domestic matter

Claims by President Donald Trump that his phones were wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama, during the 2016 election campaign are a purely domestic matter for the United States, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.

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Trump signs do-over on travel ban

Second executive order limiting travel from six mostly Muslim countries addresses issues that led court to block first one, but critics aren’t persuaded.

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Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

 
North Korea fires 4 ballistic missiles into ocean

North Korea on Monday fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 620 miles, with three of them landing in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone.

Arizona man accused of terrorizing kayakers on waterway near Wikieup

Danny Button, 60, faces charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping, endangerment and disorderly conduct for allegedly shooting at the kayakers on Feb. 4 on Burro Creek, near the community of Wikieup.