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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A spokesman for former President Barack Obama says "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." Lewis was responding to President Donald Trump's tweeted accusation that Obama was behind a politically motivated plot to upend his campaign and had phones at Trump Tower wiretapped.
NEW YORK (AP) —People who voted for Donald Trump are showing their support for the president. And they gathered at locations across the country in "March 4 Trump" rallies. One rally was held Saturday in the capital of Washington state. Olympia. There were counter-protesters there as well. The State Patrol says four demonstrators were arrested. They haven't said if the people arrested were pro-Trump or anti-Trump
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) —A security guard at a northern Virginia mall is dead after being stabbed by a suspected shoplifter who fled the scene. Prince William County police say 35-year-old Jamel Kingsbury was seen shoplifting Saturday inside a Burlington Coat Factory at the Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbridge. After he was confronted by two guards, a struggle ensued, and one guard was stabbed. WUSA-TV reports the victim was 44-year-old Larry Drumgole.
WARWICK, Mass. (AP) —Authorities in Massachusetts say a mother and four children were killed when flames swept through their home in the small town of Warwick. Two other members of the family escaped the fire, which broke out early Saturday. Early indications are that the fire may have started in a wood stove in the kitchen. The town of less than 800 residents has no fire hydrants. Firefighters had to draw water about a half mile from the scene.
MILAN (AP) — An Italian official says the autopsy on the chief suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack indicates frequent drug use. A court official says Anis Amri used both cocaine and hashish, although not on the day he was killed. Amri was killed during a routine stop by police in a Milan suburb four days after the Dec. 19 truck attack that killed 12 people and injured dozens. It still isn't clear why Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, had come to Italy.
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