Three children were wounded in a police shooting Friday in Oklahoma when an officer fired at a man in a truck who was suspected of robbing a restaurant earlier in the month, according to state investigators.
Brook Arbeitman, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said gunfire broke out when detectives with the Hugo Police Department in southeastern Oklahoma were trying to approach the suspect, 21-year-old William Devaughn Smith.
She said Smith is suspected in an April 11 armed robbery at a Pizza Hut in Hugo, which is near the Texas state line.
The three injured children and a fourth child were all in the truck with Smith, Arbeitman said. The bureau initially said two children were shot but later learned a third child was also struck. Officials did not immediately release the names, ages or conditions of the children.
Smith was treated and released at a hospital in Paris, Texas, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Hugo.
Paris Police Chief Bob Hundle said he ..

Police: 3 children shot as Oklahoma police fire at suspect

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In a largely symbolic gesture to a group that helped him win the White House, President Donald Trump said Friday he is pulling the US back from an international agreement on the arms trade, telling the National Rifle Association the treaty is "badly misguided."
Trump made the announcement at the NRA's annual convention, where he vowed to fight for gun rights and implored members of the nation's largest pro-gun group  struggling to maintain its influence  to rally behind his re-election bid.
"It's under assault," he said of the constitutional right to bear arms. "But not while we're here." With pro-gun legislation largely stalled in Congress and few deliverables during Trump's term so far, the president told the group that he would be revoking the United States' status as a signatory of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which regulates the multibillion-dollar global arms trade in conventional weapons, from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships.
President Barack Obama ...

Trump tells NRA he's withdrawing from arms trade treaty

Masters champion Tiger Woods is not ready to get back to work.
Woods did not enter the Wells Fargo Championship next week at Quail Hollow, meaning he likely will go an entire month without playing until the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on May 16-19.
"He's not ready to go next week," said Mark Steinberg, his agent at Excel Sports Management.
"The Masters took a lot out of him. He's not hurt, but he is being smart."
This would be only the third time in his career that Woods did not play between majors. He went nine weeks between the Masters and U.S. Open in 2006 when his father died, and eight weeks between the Masters and U.S. Open in 2008 when his left leg was badly injured.
He went a month between the U.S. Open and British Open in 2013.  Woods won the Masters to end 11 years without winning a major, one of his proudest feats considering he had overcome four back surgeries and at times wondered if his career might be over.
In an interview Thursday with GOLFTV, Woods said he ...

Woods chooses not to enter Quail Hollow

Manuel Lujn Jr, who spent 20 years as a Republican congressman and later as a US Interior Secretary who drew fire from environmentalists for challenging the Endangered Species Act, has died. He was 90.
New Mexico Gov Michelle Lujn Grisham, who was a distant cousin, said Lujan died Thursday at his home in Albuquerque.
He had a long history of heart trouble and underwent triple-bypass surgery after a 1986 heart attack.
"Manuel Lujn was the picture of a statesman," the Democratic governor said in a statement Friday.
"Over the course of ten Congressional terms and four years as secretary of the Interior, he fought for his constituents, striving for balance between competing interests."
Lujn represented New Mexico's 1st District from 1969 to 1989.
He gained a reputation as an advocate for Native Americans, business and constituents in a majority-Democratic district.
As Lujn's final term wound down, President George HW Bush tapped him for his Cabinet.
As interior secretary, Lujn sought to ..

Former US Interior Secretary Manuel Lujn Jr. has died

President Donald Trump says the US has decided to withdraw its support for a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.
It's the latest example of the Trump administration's dislike of international pacts.
Trump said Friday that he has decided to revoke the United States' status as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty regulating international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships.
He says America is "rejecting this treaty" and "taking our signature back."
He made the announcement during a speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, to the National Rifle Association, which claims the treaty poses a threat to the Second Amendment.
The US signed the treaty in 2013, but never ratified it.

Trump says US withdrawing from arms trade treaty

Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weeks-long political crisis that crippled the country last year.
The government has admitted to a "lapse of intelligence" after officials failed to act upon near-specific information received from foreign agencies. Suicide bombers exploded themselves last Sunday in three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 253 people and wounding 400 more.
Authorities said eight Muslim militants blew themselves up at their targets while the wife of one of the attackers blasted herself on being rounded up by police.
The carnage has brought forth arguments that worshippers and holidaymakers fell victim to the rivalry and a lack of communication between the country's two leaders  President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The Cabinet led by Wickremesinghe says neither he nor his ...

Sri Lanka political rivalry seen as factor in Easter blasts

President Donald Trump says the U.S. did not pay USD 2 million in medical costs to North Korea in 2017 to get American college student Otto Warmbier released.
Warmbier died shortly after he was flown home comatose after 17 months in captivity A former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Thursday that a U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier signed an agreement to pay the $2 million on Trump's instructions.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic matter. The Washington Post first reported the demand.
Trump insisted in a tweet Friday that "no money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else."
North Korea denies accusations by Warmbier's relatives that it tortured him.

Trump denies paying North Korea $2M for US detainee's care

A quarantine at two Los Angeles universities affected more than 200 students and staff who may have been exposed to measles and either have not been vaccinated or cannot verify that they are immune.
The order issued in connection with the University of California and Cal State University comes as the number of measles cases nationwide has hit a 25-year high.
The order requires that affected people stay home, avoid contact with others and notify authorities if they develop measles symptoms.
The virus is highly contagious, spread by coughing and sneezing.
"One person with a confirmed measles case can expose thousands of people to measles," the county's public health department director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said at a news conference Thursday.
Los Angeles County public health officials issued quarantines of 24 to 48 hours until proof of immunity is established, officials said. Some people may need to be quarantined for up to a week.
Measles in the United States has climbed to its highest ...

Quarantines at 2 LA universities amid US measles outbreak

Pilots for Scandinavian Airlines on Friday launched an open-ended strike following the collapse of pay negotiations, forcing the company to cancel virtually all its flights  673 of them, affecting 72,000 passengers.
The Stockholm-based carrier said talks on a new collective bargaining agreement with the SAS Pilot Group, which represents 95% of the company's pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, collapsed early Friday.
SAS flies both short- and long-haul routes, including to busy regions like North America. In airports throughout Scandinavia, SAS staffers in yellow vests were helping stranded passengers to rebook or obtain refunds.
Mina Kvam Tveteraas and her friend Bettina Svendsen were stranded at Stavanger Airport in Norway after their flight to Copenhagen was cancelled.
"We have booked a hotel for three nights and the rooms are not refunded," Kvam Tveteraas told Norway's TV2 channel. "I have no idea what to do and I'm mad."
"I regret this deeply," SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson said. ...

Scandinavian Airlines strike affects 72,000 travellers

German automaker Daimler, which makes armored limousines used by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, says it has no idea where he got them and has no business dealings with the North.
Kim has raised eyebrows by using Daimler-branded stretch limousines at several very high-profile summits, including his meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin and both of his earlier summits with President Donald Trump.
The sale of luxury goods, including limousines, is banned under UN sanctions intended to put pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons.
Kim nevertheless had two limos waiting for him at Vladivostok station  a Mercedes Maybach S600 Pullman Guard and a Mercedes Maybach S62. He is believed to have also used the S600 Pullman Guard for his summits with Trump in Singapore in June last year and in Hanoi in February.
"We have absolutely no idea how those vehicles were delivered to North Korea," Daimler spokeswoman Silke Mockert said in a written response to an ...

Daimler says it has no idea how Kim Jong Un got his limos

Michael Wolf, an award-winning photographer known for his work depicting megacities, has died at his home in Hong Kong. He was 64.
Wolf died in his sleep on Tuesday, said Sarah Greene, an art gallery director who worked closely with him. She did not give a cause of death.
Wolf won first prize in the World Press Photo competition twice, for contemporary issues in 2005 and for daily life in 2010. His body of work included Tokyo, Chicago, Paris and Hong Kong, where Wolf moved in 1994.
"His main muse was Hong Kong," said Greene, the director of Blue Lotus Gallery.
"Hong Kong was his favorite city, which kept inspiring him, zooming out on the beehive with his iconic work 'Architecture of Density' and zooming into the veins of the city exploring the vernacular beauty of the back alleys."
Born in Munich, Germany, Wolf was raised in the United States and Canada and returned to Germany to study photography, according to his website. He spent most of his career in Asia.
He started as a ...

Michael Wolf, photographer of mega-cities, dies in Hong Kong

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised China's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative Friday, underscoring warming ties between the neighbouring powers.
Putin's comments Friday to a forum in Beijing appeared to downplay the potential for tensions between China and Russia. They also reflect Beijing and Moscow's shared resistance to US global influence.
The Belt and Road is rapidly expanding China's economic footprint in Central Asia, Moscow's traditional sphere of influence.
But in an interview published Thursday remarking on 70 years of diplomatic relations, Putin praised Russia-China ties.
"It would be no exaggeration to say that our countries have approached this anniversary with relations the best they have been in their entire history," Putin said.
"This is the result of meticulous and successful work over the past thirty years." In a further sign of growing trust, the navies of the two countries will start several days of joint drills next week.
Russian wariness over China's ..

Putin lauds China infrastructure initiative, warming ties

Four years since a catastrophic earthquake destroyed much of central and eastern Nepal, a remote Himalayan area is still reeling with what looks like irreparable damage.
Nestled in the foothills of Langtang Mountain, Helambu has become a textbook example of how not to rebuild after a disaster. Unattractive tiny huts made of blue corrugated iron sheets dot the foothills around the ruins of houses reduced to rubble in the earthquake.
"It was not how I wanted to rebuild. But it was all I managed to construct with my savings and the money provided by the government," said 44-year-old Gyalbu Lama.
His new home cost Lama around 700,000 Nepalese rupees ($6,230), but it's too small for his five-member family.
Exactly four years ago, the earthquake pounded Helambu along with the rest of the country, claiming over 9,000 lives. It destroyed about a million homes and pushed an estimated million people into poverty.
Helambu was known for its natural and cultural heritage but became one of the ...

Nepal quake-hit villages struggle with reconstruction

Pilots for Scandinavian Airlines on Friday launched an open-ended strike following the collapse of pay negotiations, forcing the company to cancel virtually all its flights  673 of them, affecting 72,000 passengers.
The Stockholm-based carrier said talks on a new collective bargaining agreement with the SAS Pilot Group, which represents 95 per cent of the company's pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, collapsed early Friday.
In airports throughout the region, SAS staff in yellow vests were assisting stranded passengers to rebook or obtain refunds.
Mina Kvam Tveteraas and her friend Bettina Svendsen were stranded at Stavanger Airport in Norway after their flight to Copenhagen was cancelled.
"We have booked a hotel for three nights and the rooms are not refunded," Kvam Tveteraas told Norway's TV2 channel. "I have no idea what to do and I'm mad." The pilots' negotiations that started in March mainly centered on salary increases and working hours.
Details have not been released but the ..

Scandinavian Airlines strike affects 72,000 travelers

A Malaysian mountain climber was being treated in a hospital in Nepal's capital Friday after being stranded nearly two days alone near the summit of Annapurna.
A helicopter crew searching for the missing climber on Thursday spotted Wui Kin Chin waving his hands at them, and rescuers brought him down to a lower camp.
At the time of his rescue, Chin had been without an oxygen bottle, food and water for over 40 hours, said Mingma Sherpa, the head of Seven Summit Treks, which arranged his expedition.
Chin was flown to the capital, Kathmandu, on Friday and taken to a hospital, where his wife joined him.
Chin is an anesthesiologist and accomplished climber, and Sherpa credited Chin's medical knowledge and familiarity with mountains for keeping him alive.
"It's a big thing to stay alive in that altitude without food, water, and oxygen," Sherpa said. He described Chin on Thursday as fine but not in condition to walk.
Chin was a part of a 13-member expedition led by a French climber and was ...

Malaysia climber at hospital after 2 days alone on Annapurna

Authorities on Monday released video of a man suspected of killing two Indiana teenagers two years ago and urged the public to scrutinize the footage, which shows him walking on an abandoned railroad bridge the girls visited while out hiking the day they were slain.
The Indiana State Police also released a new sketch of the suspect, which State Police Superintendent Doug Carter said was produced thanks to "new information and intelligence" collected during the investigation into the February 2017 killings of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.
During a briefing in the girls' hometown of Delphi, he said a previously released composite sketch that depicted a white man with a goatee, cap and hooded sweater is now secondary to the new sketch, which shows a clean-shaven, younger looking man.
Investigators still haven't said how the teens were killed, and they declined to take questions at Monday's briefing.
Carter said investigators believe the suspect is between ..

Video released of suspect in 2017 killings of Indiana girls

Volodymyr Zelenskiy's landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election has thrust a comedian and political novice into the middle of the most dangerous flashpoint between Moscow and the West since the end of the Cold War.
Whether Zelenskiy is any match at all for Vladimir Putin, a canny and ruthless KGB veteran who has led Russia for nearly 20 years, remains to be seen.
Zelenskiy, who played an accidental president in a hugely popular sitcom but has no real political background, has vowed to keep Ukraine on its pro-Western course.
At the same time, he has pledged to quickly reach out to Moscow to negotiate an end to the five years of fighting in Ukraine's industrial east against Russian-backed separatists, a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people.
Arkady Moshes, an expert on Russia and Ukraine with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, said the Kremlin may try to exploit Zelenskiy's lack of political experience.
Moscow "can on the one hand offer him something ..

Will Ukrainian comedian be any match for Vladimir Putin?

A St. Louis County judge has refused to lower bail for a former Catholic priest who was previously imprisoned and labeled sexually violent.
Fred Lenczycki of suburban Chicago was charged in February with two counts of sodomy for allegedly abusing two boys in the early 1990s at a north St. Louis County parish.
He is jailed on USD 500,000 cash-only bond and sought an unspecified reduction.
Circuit Judge Gloria Glark Reno declined the request at a hearing Monday.
Lenczycki is 74. He was removed from the ministry in 2002, when he was charged with sexually abusing three boys in Hinsdale, Illinois, in the 1980s. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Court and church files say Lenczycki admitted abusing up to 30 boys in Illinois, Missouri and California over 25 years.

Judge denies lower bond for ex-priest accused of abuse

A Nevada Democrat who accused Joe Biden of touching her without permission is lashing out at the former vice president for joking about the matter as he considers a 2020 presidential bid.
Lucy Flores tells Fox News that Biden has been "so incredibly disrespectful" since she published her recollections of a 2014 encounter.
Biden has joked about having permission to hug people after having promised he'd do a better job respecting personal boundaries.
Last month Flores accused Biden of touching her shoulders from behind and kissing the back of her head backstage at a political event.
Biden has said he doesn't recall that, and in a video promised to learn from criticisms about his displays of affection.

Flores: Biden's hugging jokes 'incredibly disrespectful'

When Senator Kamala Harris made her first trip to New Hampshire, she attracted an enthusiastic crowd of more than 1,000 people who braved a treacherous February snowstorm to see the person vying to become America's first black female president.
But as the California senator returns to the state this week, she's in a more challenging position.
The number of Democratic presidential candidates has swelled to nearly 20 since her first visit. Some of the spotlight has shifted away from Harris, with attention being lavished recently on Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's expected entry into the race this week will further reshape the contest.
But Harris faces a more fundamental hurdle in New Hampshire: skepticism from some over whether she's fully committed to courting voters in the nation's first primary state. Democrats here famously expect intimate, regular access to candidates. For now, they say they aren't getting that from Harris and are ...

Harris faces calls to prove her commitment to NH voters

California Sen. Kamala Harris joined the call for President Donald Trump's impeachment on Monday as five leading Democratic presidential contenders clashed in a series of prime-time town hall meetings that exposed deep divisions in a party desperate to end the Trump presidency.
Harris' unexpected support for impeachment follows Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's push for Congress to begin the process to remove the Republican president following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report  a plan all but certain to fail without significant Republican support.
"There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution," Warren said.
"If any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail."
The impeachment debate, which is raging among Democrats nationwide, played out on national television Monday as five 2020 hopefuls representing different wings of the party addressed 

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