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Authorities probe how airline employee could steal passenger plane

Authorities probe how airline employee could steal passenger plane

Investigators were working Saturday to find out how an airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and fatally crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound after being chased by military jets that were quickly scrambled to intercept the aircraft.
by Associated Press

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Peaceful events, heavy security mark Charlottesville rally anniversary

Peaceful events, heavy security mark Charlottesville rally anniversary

Saturday marked the anniversary of a nighttime march by torch-toting white supremacists through the University of Virginia's campus a day ahead of a larger rally in Charlottesville's downtown.
by Associated Press

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Appeals court upholds sentences of MN men who tried to join ISIS

Appeals court upholds sentences of MN men who tried to join ISIS

Defense attorneys had argued that jury instructions had conflated intending to join at terrorist group with intending to murder, and that prosecutors should have been required to prove a specific intent to kill.
by Laura Yuen

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Canadian police: 2 of 4 dead in shooting are officers

Four people, including two police officers, were shot to death in an apartment complex in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton on Friday, and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said.
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Court orders ban on harmful pesticide, says EPA violated law

Court orders ban on harmful pesticide, says EPA violated law

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.
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Hennepin County investigating cyberattack on employee email accounts

Authorities said the perpetrators of the attack used so-called phishing emails to access the credentials to about 20 employees' email accounts. They then used those legitimate accounts to send out malicious emails.
by MPR News Staff

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