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WASHINGTON (AP) — Testing is being done on an envelope addressed to the White House that the Secret Service says has tentatively tested positive for cyanide. The letter arrived at an off-site mail screening facility on Monday, and initially had tested negative. The Secret Service says the envelope has been taken to another facility for more testing.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri has put to death its oldest death row inmate for the 1996 killing of a sheriff's deputy. Seventy-four-year-old Cecil Clayton was executed tonight after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal. Clayton's attorneys had argued that their client wasn't mentally fit to be put to death because he had dementia and lingering effects from a 1972 sawmill accident that forced surgeons to remove part of his brain.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is heading into what could be weeks of negotiations over the makeup of the next coalition government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have fended off a strong challenge from opposition leader Isaac Herzog in Tuesday's parliamentary elections. But with the sides nearly evenly divided, a victory by Netanyahu's Likud (lee-KOOD') Party still is not guaranteed. Both Netanyahu and Herzog will compete for a chance to form a coalition that commands a majority in the 120-seat parliament.
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Air Force veteran and airplane mechanic faces terrorism charges after federal prosecutors say he plotted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, of Neptune, New Jersey, is scheduled to appear Wednesday in federal court in New York. He's been indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group and obstructing justice.
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — Andy Fraser, the man who co-wrote the 1970s rock anthem "All Right Now," is dead at age 62. Fraser died Monday in Temecula (teh-MEHK'-yoo-lah), California. The Riverside County coroner says how he died is still being investigated. Fraser was a founding member of the British rock band Free, and "All Right Now" became their biggest hit.
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