MUMBAI, India -- Under mounting pressure to address Myanmar's bloody military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims, Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday that her government was "working to restore the situation to normalcy" but declined to accept responsibility for what a top United Nations official has called ethnic cleansing.

"We want to find out why ...Read more

BOULDER, Colo. -- On a recent morning that was chilly with the first nip of fall, Brenda Lee went looking for knocked-over trash cans. She drove her car slowly through alleyways on the west side of this Colorado city, close to where streets end and the Rocky Mountains begin. The damage wasn't hard to find.

On every block, it seemed, at least ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The creator of Pepe the Frog is getting more aggressive in his legal campaign against websites, books and phone apps that he says use the fun-loving cartoon figure to espouse hate.

Lawyers for artist Matt Furie are demanding that websites, including one created by white supremacist Richard Spencer, stop using images or selling ...Read more

STURTEVANT, Wis. -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Monday approved up to $3 billion in subsidies for a flat screen plant, binding the state's economic hopes and his own political future to the investment proposed by an Asian electronics giant.

The signing of the legislation clears the way for the Walker administration and Foxconn Technology Group ...Read more

YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her government was ready to start the verification process to bring back any refugees who wish to return to Myanmar from Bangladesh after fleeing recent violence.

"We are prepared to start the verification process at any time," Suu Kyi told diplomats gathered in the ...Read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Hurricane Maria, a dangerous Category 5 storm, reached the island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean on Monday night with sustained winds of 160 mph, forecasters said.

(Etehad reported from Los Angeles and Molly Hennessy-Fiske reported from San Juan.)

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills had an ambulance service and another nursing home at the ready to help in the event of a hurricane emergency. But it never reached out to either, even as its frail residents began to die in the escalating heat after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility's power.

The ...Read more

UNITED NATIONS -- Acting more the statesman than the flamethrower, President Donald Trump made a smooth debut at the United Nations on Monday, chairing a meeting on reforming U.N. operations and agencies, and urging the global body to "focus more on people and less on bureaucracy."

He called for the 193 member nations to contribute more to the ...Read more

Navy ousts admiral, captain from jobs in more fallout from ship collisions in Asia

SAN DIEGO -- An admiral and captain in charge of U.S. naval units in Asia were removed from their commands due to loss of confidence in their abilities, the Navy said Monday.

They are Rear Adm. Charles Williams, who commanded Task Force 70, which has tactical ...Read more

MIAMI -- A knife-wielding Mississippi man shot by police at Miami International Airport plowed his truck into a secure zone, hid in an electrical closet, swung from an overhead ceiling pipe and kicked an officer in the chest, authorities said.

Jason Brad Pearce, 34, was then shot after grappling with an officer, wrestling his gun away before ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz called 911 before being shot by campus police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.

Schultz called 911 alerting them "of a suspicious person on campus." In the call, Schultz describes the person as a "white male, with long blonde hair, white T-shirt and blue jeans who is possibly ...Read more

TOKYO -- At least two people were killed and three others were missing Tuesday as Typhoon Talim ripped through Japan, local media reported.

The season's 18th typhoon was downgraded to an extra-tropical cyclone late Monday after pounding the northern island of Hokkaido, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

More than 40 people were ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minneapolis police officers are frequently failing to turn on their body-worn cameras, even after new Chief Medaria Arradondo issued a directive mandating their use in all public encounters, a City Council member said Monday.

That was among the findings of a two-month audit of the department's body camera program, according to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is betting he can turbocharge the U.S. economy with tax cuts and trade deals, but his greatest leverage to influence growth may rest with an unparalleled opportunity to reshape the world's most powerful central bank.

Because of a wave of vacancies, Trump will have the ability in the coming months to appoint ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Two senior Navy officers were fired Monday due to a "loss of confidence in their ability to command" after two collisions with civilian ships in the western Pacific killed 17 sailors at sea, the Pentagon said.

Rear Adm. Charles Williams, commander of the warships on patrol in the Asia-Pacific region, and Capt. Jeffrey Bennett, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, meeting in New York on Monday, discussed the two leaders' shared aim of "countering Iran's malign influence in the region," the White House said.

Trump and Netanyahu previously bonded over mistrust toward Iran. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump ...Read more