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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A spokesman for former President Barack Obama says that "neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen." Kevin Lewis says "any suggestion otherwise is simply false." The Obama spokesman was responding to President Donald Trump's tweeted accusation that Obama had telephones at Trump Tower wiretapped during the election campaign.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials say more than two dozen aircraft have violated airspace restrictions near President Donald Trump's estate in Florida. The Sun Sentinel reports that last month, the Federal Aviation Administration reported 27 violations of the airspace restrictions near Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Agency officials tell the newspaper they're investigating each case.
MILAN (AP) — An Italian official says the autopsy on the chief suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack indicated frequent drug use. A court official says Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian man, used both cocaine and hashish use, although not on the day he was killed. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says it wasn't possible to determine whether he had used the drugs before the Dec. 19 truck attack that killed 12 people and injured dozens.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre and families of the victims will receive a second payout from the OneOrlando Fund. The Orlando Sentinel reports the fund's directors have decided to distribute $1.3 million in additional contributions made since September. The fund already has distributed $29.5 million. The city created the fund to help the families of 49 people killed and patrons who were in the club when Omar Mateen opened fire June 12.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libyan armed forces based in the east have launched more airstrikes against militias that seized oil terminals a day earlier, saying forces from the country's rival west were declaring war against them. A spokesman for forces commanded by army chief Gen. Khalifa Hifter says three airstrikes Saturday hit targets in the area around the terminals, where at least nine soldiers were killed in Friday's attack that drove out the army.
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