Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100

WASHINGTON (AP) – Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100.

Japanese royal family visits Belgian royal family at the Castle of Laeken

Japanese royal family visits Belgian royal family at the Castle of Laeken

Clive Davis, music industry starmaker, has died at 94

NEW YORK (AP) – Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, has died, his family confirmed. He was 94.

Top Justice Department officials can remain part of prosecution of press gala attack

WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge on Monday denied a request to disqualify top Justice Department officials from supervising the prosecution of the man charged with trying to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Former Wimbledon champion Vondrousova suspended for 4 years for refusing doping test

Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova was suspended for four years on Monday for refusing an anti-doping test. The Czech cited “mental stress” and fear when the testing agent “rang my door late at night without properly identifying themselves.”

Why federal agents allowed a deadly drug to hit the streets

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Jim Mustian reported and co-wrote an Associated Press story that revealed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico as part of an effort to build bigger federal prosecutions.

Kenya's health minister found in contempt of court over US-backed Ebola facility

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Kenya’s Health Minister Aden Duale was found in contempt of court on Monday for failing to halt the construction of an Ebola quarantine facility intended for Americans, despite existing court orders.

New York's congressional candidates make final case in last day before primary

NEW YORK (AP) – New York’s congressional candidates have a final chance to make their case Monday on the last full day of campaigning before a primary election in which an ascendant progressive left is taking on establishment Democrats.

Egypt detains hundreds near Sudan border in crackdown on illegal gold mining

CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian security forces detained hundreds of people, including foreigners, on the country’s border with Sudan, accusing them of illegal gold mining and smuggling, the military said Monday.