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CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

Southern California jolted by biggest quake in 20 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest Southern California earthquake in nearly 20 years has jolted a vast area from Sacramento to Mexico, cracking buildings, setting fires, wrecking roads but only causing minor injuries.

The 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 8:19 p.m. Friday and was centered 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Ridgecrest, the same area of the Mojave Desert where a 6.4-magnitude temblor hit just a day earlier.

Several thousand people in Ridgecrest were without power, and there were reports of cracked buildings and fires stemming mostly from gas leaks or line breaks.

Hospital patients still hooked to IVs were wheeled out of a Ridgecrest hospital as a rockslide closed a state road in Kern County.

Several homes were knocked off their foundations.

Seismologists warned that large aftershocks were expected to continue for days or weeks.

STOLEN SECRET DOCUMENTS

Mystery of NSA leak lingers as stolen document case winds up

WASHINGTON (AP) — About three years ago, federal agents descended on a Maryland house and spent hours questioning the homeowner about what a prosecutor would later call the theft of secret government documents on a “breathtaking scale .”

The suspect, Harold Martin, was a contractor for the National Security Agency. His arrest followed news of a devastating disclosure of government hacking tools by an internet group calling itself the Shadow Brokers . It seemed to some that the United States might have found another Edward Snowden, who also had been a contractor for the agency.

Later this month, the case against Martin is scheduled to be resolved in Baltimore’s federal court. But the identity of the Shadow Brokers, and whoever was responsible for a leak with extraordinary national security implications, will remain a public mystery.

SHOPPING PLAZA EXPLOSION

Authorities investigate explosion at Florida shopping plaza

PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) — Police and firefighters are investigating an explosion at a Florida shopping plaza that injured multiple people.

The explosion happened Saturday morning at a shopping center in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County. The blast sent large pieces of debris about 100 yards (about 91 meters) across the street.

Video and photos posted on social media showed a destroyed business with damaged buildings next to it. Police officer Chavez Grant said there were no known fatalities.

The Plantation fire and police departments said on Twitter that the street was closed to traffic. The fire department called it a gas explosion with “multiple patients.”

ELECTION 2020-BUTTIGIEG

Pete Buttigieg has money. Can he turn it into a 2020 win?

CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Pete Buttigieg stunned the Democratic presidential field with a nearly $25 million second quarter fundraising haul.

Now he needs to figure out how to use that money to build a campaign that can go the distance against nearly two dozen rivals and ensure that enthusiasm from donors is matched by support from voters.

That poses big challenges for the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who lags several of his top opponents in the number of staff on the ground in early states. He also has significant work to do to earn support of African American voters.

Buttigieg said much of his emphasis will be on retail politics. The campaign also says it plans in coming months to add 100 people to a staff that started with six employees.

FAA CHIEF-NOMINEE

Nominee to head FAA faces questions about tenure at Delta

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether Delta Air Lines violated FAA rules about promoting safety at a time when President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency was in charge of Delta’s flight operations.

The FAA investigation grew out of allegations by a Delta pilot that the airline retaliated against her for raising safety concerns. The Associated Press obtained a copy of an FAA letter sent to the pilot’s attorney detailing the investigation. The FAA declined to comment on the probe.

Trump’s nominee, Stephen Dickson, is under growing criticism from Senate Democrats over his initial failure to disclose his involvement in the case of the whistle-blowing pilot, who was grounded a few weeks after she raised safety issues to Dickson and other Delta executives.

PERSIAN GULF-TENSIONS

Top official says Iran ready for higher uranium enrichment

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A top aide to Iran’s supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to begin enriching uranium beyond the level set by Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Ali Akbar Velayati says in a video posted on a website for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that “Americans directly and Europeans indirectly violated the deal.”

Velayati adds that increasing uranium enrichment beyond 3.67% as allowed by the deal is “unanimously agreed upon by every component of the establishment.”

Iran appears poised on Sunday to increase its uranium enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels as a deadline set by its president for Europe to offer new terms to the deal expires.

Iran has yet to say how far they’ll enrich their uranium, though Velayati mentioned a need for 5%-enrichment in his filmed comments.

TEACHING ABOUT SLAVERY

Schools still struggling with how to teach about slavery

Recent cases of teachers coming under fire for holding mock slave auctions are highlighting schools’ struggles in teaching about slavery.

An investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James found in May that a mock “slave auction” that singled out black students at a private school in Westchester County, New York, had a profoundly negative effect on all involved students.

A similar exercise was held recently in a fourth-grade classroom in upstate New York’s Watertown City School District.

Families also criticized a Virginia obstacle course intended to replicate the underground railroad

The National Council for the Social Studies says there are no national standards on how to teach slavery.

A 2018 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center found dozens of teachers reporting simulations as their favorite lessons.

MOON LANDING-ARMSTRONG’S HOMETOWN

Hometown of first on moon ready to launch 50th celebration

WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) — Down to earth about most things, folks in this small western Ohio city are over the moon as they get ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the day the world watched their native son take a “giant leap for mankind.”

Neil Armstrong helped put Wapakoneta (wah-PAH’-kuh-net-uh) on the map July 20, 1969, when he became the first human to walk on the moon. The late astronaut remains larger than life in the city 60 miles (96.56 kilometers) north of Dayton, where visitors are greeted by the space base-shaped top of the space museum named for him as they exit Interstate 75.

The city of fewer than 10,000 people has expanded its usual weekend moon festival to 10 days of commemorations and activities with thousands of visitors expected.

BAHAMAS-AMERICANS KILLED-THE LATEST

The Latest: Helicopter crash victim identified by family

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — One of the victims of the helicopter crash that killed West Virginia coal magnate Chris Cline has been identified as Brittney Layne Searson.

The 21-year-old Searson was a friend of Cline’s daughter, Kameron, who also died in the crash off Grand Cay Island.

The Searson family issued a statement Saturday asking for privacy and expressing how their hearts have been “shattered at the loss of our beautiful daughter.” She had just graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in kinesiology.

She is survived by her mother, Kimberly; her father, Wayne; and a brother, Shane.

All seven people aboard the Augusta AW139 helicopter were killed when it crashed Thursday en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday.

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ELECTION 2020-SOUTH CAROLINA

Rivals Biden, Harris to circle each other in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala (KAH’-mah-lah) Harris are circling each other again — this time in South Carolina, a crucial early-voting state that will test the depths of their support with black voters.

As the former vice president and the California senator travel around South Carolina in the coming days, they’ll probably be pressed about their tense debate exchange over race and federally mandated school busing.

That’s not something at the forefront of the Democratic presidential primary, but it could resonate in South Carolina, which has complicated history with race and segregation.

Several Harris supporters in South Carolina say her pointed and personal critique of Biden, who opposed busing mandates in the 1970s, struck a chord.

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