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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and other nations say if North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb today as it claims, then it's a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Some are questioning whether the test was carried out, but Italy and others say the international community should be ready to respond to what Rome calls North Korea's "provocation." Even China, North Korea's closest ally, has condemned the test.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led Congress is about to put on President Barack Obama's desk a bill that would dismantle his health care law. Today, the House will vote on legislation that among other things, would cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and dismantle requirements that most people obtain health insurance coverage and that larger employers offer it to workers. And it would eliminate the expansion of Medicaid coverage to additional lower-income people. Obama will veto the bill.
BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — A SWAT team has sealed off a neighborhood in Atlanta's northeast suburbs and is surrounding a home where a "barricaded gunman" is holding a 2-year-old boy. No one is being allowed in or out of the neighborhood in Buford, Georgia. The standoff began last night when someone called police to report that a man was threatening to shoot everyone at the home and then kill himself.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island is calling for "appropriate disciplinary proceedings" against two clergymen and a third person accused of past abuse of students at a prestigious boarding school in Middletown. The Right Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely tells the Providence Journal that he's been in contact with state police and is "following their direction" as they continue to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at St. George's School during the 1970s and 1980s. Dozens of students say they were sexually abused.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines has lifted a much-criticized ban on checking in baggage on flights to Paris and Amsterdam, one day after limiting bags to lighten the plane and save fuel. The airline had banned check-in baggage for flights to the two European cities because of "unseasonably strong headwinds" on a longer flight path it was taking. Passengers slammed the airline on social media and suggested it could have reduced the number of passengers or refused to carry freight instead. Now the airline says it'll take a shorter route.
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