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NEW YORK — This Fashion Week, designers have come up with widely varying ways to comment, either overtly or not, on the nation’s political situation. Naeem Khan decided to use poetry. As the final design made its way down the runway on Tuesday — a grand, glistening, golden bridal gown, with a gold floral crown

The Los Angeles Chargers’ most expensive season ticket at tiny StubHub Center will cost $150 more per game than the Los Angeles Rams are charging for the best seat in their much bigger house. The Chargers announced season ticket prices Tuesday for the upcoming season at their new 30,000-seat home in suburban Carson, California. While

LIMA, Peru — Imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman is being tried for a 1992 car bombing in Peru’s capital that killed 25 people and injured 155. The 82-year-old Guzman is already serving a life sentence for the killing of 69 people in the Andean village of Santiago de Lucanamarca in 1983. The Maoist-inspired group

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say a man has been fatally shot by Tennessee law enforcement officers who were trying to arrest him on charges including theft and endangerment. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release Tuesday that 32-year-old Brandon S. Lambert of Alcoa was shot about 9 p.m. Monday and taken to

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Home-crowd favorite Carlos Berlocq defeated Jozef Kovalik of Slovakia 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the clay-court Argentina Open. In another first-round match, Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-3, 6-3. The four top-seeded players all have byes into the second round and did

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Prosecutors say a Jamaican man has been sentenced to serve more than three years in federal prison for threatening an immigration judge. U.S. Attorney G.F. “Pete” Peterman says 42-year-old Delroy Anthony McLean was sentenced Tuesday to serve three years and five months. McLean was in federal immigration custody awaiting deportation at the

Cigna says it is rejecting Anthem’s proposed $48 billion acquisition bid and suing the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer. The announcement comes hours after another major insurer, Aetna, said it was abandoning its planned $34 billion purchase of Medicare Advantage provider Humana. The Department of Justice sued last summer to stop the deals due to concerns

SAN FRANCISCO — Penguins at a California aquarium got more than their daily helping of fish to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Biologist Piper Dwight handed out red hearts to 14 African penguins at the California Academy of Sciences during a feeding Monday. Visitors took photos of the animals grabbing the hearts in their beaks and waddling

NEW YORK — NBC News is buying a minority stake in the overseas television news outlet Euronews, appointing NBC News President Deborah Turness to run the new partnership, and having “Today” show chief executive Noah Oppenheim replace her as NBC News president. NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack on Tuesday announced the deal with Euronews, which

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas House voted Tuesday to impose fines and prison time on doctors who perform abortions that are based solely on whether the mother wants to have a boy or girl, moving the state closer toward adopting a “sex-selection” ban that opponents say is unconstitutional. The prohibition adopted by the majority-Republican

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Scott Feldman won’t compete in the World Baseball Classic for Israel, choosing instead to get ready to fill a spot in the Cincinnati Reds’ rotation. Feldman said Tuesday that he has turned down the opportunity to pitch in the WBC. The Reds signed him on Jan. 26 to fill the spot that

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Heisman Trophy finalist Collin Klein is returning to Kansas State as an assistant coach. The former star quarterback will coach the same position with the Wildcats after spending last season as the quarterbacks coach at Northern Iowa. Klein was director of recruiting operations, a quality control coach and offensive graduate assistant at

READING, Pa. — Albert Boscov was the ebullient public face of a department store chain he built from a single corner store in downtown Reading to a regional powerhouse with dozens of locations in seven states and more than $1 billion in annual sales. After his death Friday at age 87, Boscov leaves behind a

NEW YORK — These are divisive times. Agreement is hard to come by. Passions on both sides are inflamed. And “Saturday Night Live” is providing some of the most trenchant satire on the matter. We are speaking, of course, about “La La Land.” No film — not Mel Gibson’s bloody Christian war tale “Hacksaw Ridge,”

SALT LAKE CITY — A coalition of major outdoor companies on Tuesday ramped up a threat to get a lucrative outdoor trade show to leave Utah unless the governor and elected officials back away from policies they say threaten public lands. Leaders of Black Diamond Equipment, Osprey Packs and 28 other outdoor companies sent a

CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey man says he and his ex-wife are working to repair their relationship with their 23-year-old daughter after a state appeals court ruled the parents cannot be forced to pay her college tuition. Michael Ricci told The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2lLWusm) on Tuesday that the divorced couple and their daughter, Caitlyn

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — New Arizona Diamondbacks bench coach and former longtime Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has prostate cancer. The 59-year-old Gardenhire revealed the diagnosis in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday, saying it was the only time he would talk publicly about the subject this spring. Gardenhire said he received the diagnosis about a

FREDERICK, Md. — Maryland State Police say a tractor-trailer’s cab separated from the rest of the rig when the truck hit a guardrail, and then slid down an embankment onto a city street with the driver inside. Police say in a statement that 31-year-old Matthew Black of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, suffered injuries that were not considered

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Latest on a cruise ship stuck at Port Canaveral (all times local): 6:30 p.m. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship has set sail from Florida a day later than scheduled because of problems with life jackets. The Majesty of the Seas set sail Port Canaveral on Tuesday evening after a 24

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A second woman says that the Michigan State women’s gymnastics coach was aware of complaints of assault by a sports doctor who treated female athletes. Coach Kathie Klages was suspended Monday. New allegations against her were disclosed Tuesday by a woman who is seeking to join more than two dozen in

DELPHI, Ind. — Authorities suspect foul play after two bodies were found along a northern Indiana creek amid a search for two missing 13-year-old girls, police said Tuesday. The bodies were found along Deer Creek about 1 mile east of Delphi, Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley told a news conference. “We are investigating this

LOS ANGELES — A tennis commentator dropped by ESPN for a remark about Venus Williams during the Australian Open sued the sports network Tuesday for wrongful termination. Former tennis pro Doug Adler maintains he was describing Williams’ aggressive style last month as “guerrilla” tactics and not comparing her with a “gorilla.” He apologized for his

PARIS — French authorities have launched a new investigation into alleged police abuse by an officer already accused in a rape case that sparked a week of scattered violence in the troubled suburbs of Paris. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Bobigny announced a preliminary investigation into the new accusations Tuesday. They came

LOS ANGELES — NASA has been part of “Hidden Figures” screenwriter Allison Schroeder’s life for as long as she can remember. Not only did a childhood near Cape Canaveral mean that the space program was an ever-present reality — fire drills in school were timed so the kids could see the launches and the Challenger

WARRI, Nigeria — Nigeria lost between $50 billion and $100 billion in oil revenues to militant attacks on installations last year, the country’s petroleum minister said Tuesday. At their worst point, the attacks cut production to 1.2 million barrels a day — a loss of 1 million barrels a day, Ibe Kachikwu said in a