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Yang Fenglan, who has lived in Tanzania on and off for decades and operated a Chinese restaurant, was found guilty of working with two Tanzanian men to smuggle more than 800 pieces of ivory.

“We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,” said Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, after admitting he wrote an incendiary editorial.

Li Li Leung, a former gymnastics competitor, will now head an organization in turmoil, as USA Gymnastics seeks to recover from its widespread sex abuse scandal.

The country had been a holdout from a trend already sweeping other parts of Europe and beyond. Now the right-wing Vox party shares power in Spain’s largest region.

“I’m very confident that we’re going to have criminal charges on one or more police officers” from a raid that left two suspects dead, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said.

It would be under the umbrella of the Air Force to try to simplify the process. This represents a shift; Trump had stated that he wanted a space force that is “separate but equal” from the Air Force.

The Oscar-nominated film has reignited interest in the life (and love interests) of a corpulent, gouty, queen who liked chocolate more than tea. So why are Queen Anne and tea-drinking so closely tied?

Whistleblowers told the Oversight committee that efforts by some national security officials to try to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to the Saudi government potentially violated the law.

Trump’s plan includes a focus on fighting HIV in the rural Midwest and South. But there are doubts in Oklahoma, where the state’s uninsured rate and stigmatization of HIV are high.

George Mendonsa claimed to be the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square — a photo that defined the jubilation of Victory over Japan Day. The two had never met.

The Vermont independent became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.

The justice has been recovering at home since late December. She missed January’s oral-argument days but participated in those 11 cases based on written briefs and transcripts of the arguments.

The Democratic Party is largely unified around the value of immigrants and against President Trump’s policies, far from labor concerns and the party’s law and order agenda of the 1990’s.

Educators oppose charter schools and a new voucher system. The strike comes a year after the last walkout sparked similar strikes across the U.S.

Broecker was an early advocate for reducing fossil fuels to avoid the disruptive effects of climate change and brought the term “global warming” into the mainstream.

They say there’s rarely enough evidence to prosecute. “The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go,” Trump tweeted.

A coalition led by California has sued the Trump administration over its plan to divert billions of dollars to border wall construction.

The U.S. president urged military leaders to stop blocking food aid from entering the country, and said those who refuse to accept the opposition leader “will find no safe harbor … no way out.”

Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about Queen’s late frontman Freddie Mercury, is up for five awards. Two surviving band members will play at Sunday’s ceremony, joined by Adam Lambert singing lead.

“The age of inadequate self-regulation must come to an end,” says Damian Collins, chair of the committee behind the report, which is often scathing on Facebook’s practices and corporate conduct.

Honey bees deal with many stressors: chemicals, climate change and viruses. But this year, a tiny mite has wiped out colonies, causing worry over whether there are enough bees left to do their jobs.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CBS and NPR that officials had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, a procedure which takes power away from the president.

The New York congressman was sentenced to 21 months after he sent an explicit photo of himself to a 15-year-old girl.

Remarkably little is known about the fundamentals of how a woman carries a baby inside her. Two Columbia University researchers aim to change that, to reduce the number of kids born too soon.

A key witness described how a political operative hired by the Republican candidate flouted the state’s election laws as part of an absentee ballot operation.

The president is prepared to veto any congressional resolutions of disapproval on his declaration of a national emergency over border security, White House adviser Stephen Miller says.

The former acting director of the bureau also tells NPR that he and Justice Department leaders were so rattled following the dismissal of James Comey they struggled with how to respond.

Bennett College, a historically black women’s college, could lose accreditation due to financial instability. President Phyllis Worthy Dawkins tells NPR’s Michel Martin how the school raised millions.

Almost 3,000 people painted their bodies blue and gathered in Germany in hopes of setting a world record on Saturday.

Researchers say this number could be much higher, and that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime carried out 98 percent of them, dropping chlorine gas, sarin and sulfur mustard gas on civilians.