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WASHINGTON (AP) — Key members of Congress say they'll honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that former president Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign. Trump has been trailed for months by questions about his campaign's ties to Russia. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin is distancing the Kremlin from Trump's claim, saying today that Russia "should not be in any way linked to U.S. domestic issues."
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister says the U.S. is warning that imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank would lead to an "immediate crisis" with the Trump administration. Lawmaker Miki Zohar of the right-wing Likud party said in an Israeli TV interview that a two-state solution "is dead" and that what is left "is a one-state solution with the Arabs here as, not as full citizenship."
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine's deputy foreign minister is accusing Russia of financing terrorism by shipping arms, ammunition and funds to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine and of discriminating against non-Russians in the annexed Crimean Peninsula. The charges come as a case between Kiev and Moscow opens at the International Court of Justice. Ukraine wants reparations for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.
PARIS (AP) — French investigators may now know what happened to a couple and their two adult children who've been missing since mid-February. French media are reporting that a former brother-in-law has confessed to killing the family in a dispute over an inheritance. Traces of blood from Pascal and Brigitte Troadec and their son were found on the staircase and ground floor in the family home on Feb. 23. A national health card belonging to the couple's 18-year-old daughter and her trousers were found in a ditch some 170 miles away.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans are being audited by the IRS. A little more than 1 million people were audited by the Internal Revenue Service in 2016, having dropped for the sixth straight year. The last time so few people were audited was 2004. The IRS blames budget cuts as money for the agency shrunk from $12.2 billion in 2010 to $11.2 billion last year.
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