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WASHINGTON — Melania Trump went there.

LOS ANGELES — A judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski's request to restore his membership in the organization that bestows the Academy Awards two years after he was expelled from it for raping a minor.

RICHMOND, Va. — Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his resignation Tuesday as the head of Liberty University after a provocative photo and revelations of his wife's extramarital affair roiled the evangelical school founded by his father.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The son of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was charged Tuesday in California with stabbing a neighbour with a hunting knife during an argument over trash cans.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson resigned Tuesday, shortly after details of text messages that the state's married and socially conservative top law enforcement officer sent to a female state employee were revealed.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Rapper and music producer Kanye West did not gather enough valid signatures to be on Missouri's election ballot in November, election officials said Tuesday.

DETROIT — A young woman who was declared dead at her suburban Detroit home opened her eyes at a funeral home as she was about to embalmed, a lawyer said Monday.

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TANZANIA, Tanzania — The president of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, a move that drew an angry rebuke from the U.S.

POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — The border closure between Canada and the United States has severely impacted Point Roberts, Wash., which is landlocked from the rest of the country.