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Data: 2016 hottest on record WASHINGTON (AP) Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, with scientists mostly blaming man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino now gone. Two U.S. agencies and international weather groups reported Wednesday that last year was the warmest on record. EPA pick: Climate change real WASHINGTON (AP) Donald choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that climate change is real, breaking with both the president-elect and his own past statements. In response to questions from Democrats during his Senate hearing, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, 48, said he disagreed with earlier claims that global warming is a hoax.

At the hearing before the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee, Pruitt said if were con by the GOP-run Senate, he would work with states and industry to return the federal watchdog to what he described as its proper role. H.W. Bush, wife hospitalized HOUSTON (AP) Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted Wednesday to the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital with pneumonia, and his wife, Barbara, was hospitalized as a precaution after suffering fatigue and coughing, a spokesman said. The 92-year-old former president, who had been hospitalized since Saturday, underwent a procedure protect and clear his airway that required said a family spokesman.

Bush was stable and resting comfortably, the statement said. Barbara Bush is 91. Obama: U.S. will be OK WASHINGTON (AP) going to be In the minutes of his presidential news conference, Barack Obama said his daughters, Sasha and Malia, were disappointed about Donald election, but also resilient. Yes, democracy is messy, Obama said, but there are more good people than bad and things will turn out just just have to for it.

We have to work for it and we have to not take it for Dog-attack charge upgraded ATLANTA (AP) The owner of dogs that attacked two children, leaving one dead, had one charge upgraded to involuntary manslaughter. Cameron Tucker was arrested after 6-year- old Logan Braatz and 5-year-old Syari Sanders were attacked walking to a bus stop early Tuesday. Logan died from his injuries. Syari is in stable condition. Fulton County Animal Control says one dog is a pit bull mix and the other is a border collie.

Official: Anti-LGBT law costly CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) A North Carolina law limiting the legal protections of LGBT people has hampered the public universities that drive the economic growth, University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings said Wednesday. Spellings said recruited candidates have ruled out moving to North Carolina because of House Bill 2. Trump protester tale is false SEATTLE (AP) A story shared on social media claiming six people protesting President-elect Donald Trump were killed when they were hit by a truck on a freeway is false. The account posted by theseattletribune.com and other sites said an accident occurred on an interstate that does not pass through Seattle and police said it The picture attached to the story appears with stories unrelated to anti- Trump protests dating back to at least October.

CIA updates data policies WASHINGTON (AP) The CIA is updat ing its policies on how it stores, searches and shares information on Americans. The agency is publishing guidelines for the time. The CIA says the changes have been years in the making. Donald Trump has said he wants to expand U.S. surveillance authorities to terrorism.

As president, he could undo the new CIA guidelines, though that would not be a simple process. Meth addict quits sheriff job CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) A newly elected West Virginia sheriff who admitted he was a meth addict and was charged with stealing the drug from a police locker pleaded guilty to a felony and resigned from Wednesday, a prosecutor said. Bo Williams entered the plea to a charge of entering without breaking Wednesday in Roane County Circuit Court. McCartney sues for his songs NEW YORK (AP) Paul McCartney says he wants his music to get back to where it once belonged.

McCartney a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday against ATV over copyright ownership of the many hit songs he wrote with John Lennon as part of The Beatles. The copyrights were famously bought by Michael Jackson in 1985 and then fully sold over to following his death. Assange backs off pledge PARIS (AP) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange retreated from his pledge to accept extradition to the U.S. if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, arguing Wednesday via his lawyers that what he was really asking for was an immediate pardon for the ex-Army analyst. It was only last week that Assange appeared to offer himself up as a kind of swap for Manning, the former private convicted of leaking documents that made WikiLeaks a household name.

Dog film under investigation LOS ANGELES (AP) The organization that ensures animal safety in and television productions said Wednesday it is investigating whether a frightened dog was forced into churning water during the making of American Humane has also suspended its safety representative who worked on the and is hiring an independent investigator to explore the matter, said a spokesman. Student shot three, himself MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) A 15-year-old opened with a gun at a private school Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself. The shooting was captured on a video posted to social media. An said the three victims were between life and return slated PASADENA, Calif. (AP) is making a comeback.

NBC said Wednesday that 10 new episodes are set to air during the 2017-18 season. The series will feature original stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. Plate spares shooting victim TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) Investigators say a metal plate in an Oklahoma crash neck saved him from paralysis after being shot. Robert Thurman told 9-1-1 dispatchers Friday his sister Gretchen Thurman shot him.

Undersheriff Jason Chennault says the bullet apparently hit a metal plate in Robert neck and ricocheted out and went through a door frame. sister was jailed. Seinfeld, Netflix make deal LOS ANGELES (AP) Jerry Seinfeld and have announced a deal that will bring the interview show in Cars Getting to the streaming service this year. Seinfeld will also two new stand-up specials for says Seinfeld will develop scripted and non-scripted comedy on the platform. Americans: Fix health care WASHINGTON (AP) On the brink of the Donald Trump presidency, a new poll ample accord among Americans on the need to do something about health care in the United States.

More than 4-in-10 Republicans, Democrats and independents say health care is a top issue facing the country, the poll showed. more than named any other issue in the survey. Overall, domestic issues including health care, education, the environment and racism were cited by 86 percent of Americans. But Democrats were more likely to mention the environment, racism and poverty, while Republicans were more likely to cite immigration, terrorism, government spending and taxes. AILY IGEST 2 Press Enterprise Thursday, January 19, 2017 THINK ABOUT IT CALL THE NEWSPAPER GENEALOGY WORKSHOP: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., McBride Memorial Library, 500 Market Berwick.

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Son blind after gun mishap STATE COLLEGE (AP) State Police say a 12-year-old boy remains blind after he was struck in the head by a bullet that ricocheted from a gun by his 11-year-old sister at a shooting range in Halfmoon Township. WJAC-TV reported a search warrant af that became public Wednesday was obtained after shooting. Police say the father, Anthony Vankirk II, is not allowed to own guns due to a 2004 drug conviction. jailed. Police say they seized seven guns including a shotgun, and pistols from Vankirk, 32.

Transplant neglect alleged TYRONE (AP) A woman who allegedly failed to give her 10-year-old daughter daily anti- rejection drugs after a kidney transplant has been charged with felony child endangerment. The Altoona Mirror reported the daughter of Nicole Kissell, 33, developed life-threatening complications in December 2015, and was released from the hospital with 28 percent kidney function in February. Doctors are unsure how long the new kidney will survive. Kissell reportedly told police she stopped giving the medicine on weekdays because the girl like the taste. ACLU defends Dr.

King critic JOHNSTOWN (AP) A truck sporting images and messages against Martin Luther King Jr. has drawn the attention of a prosecutor. But the American Civil Liberties Union says the truck featuring a sign extolling assassin, James Earl Ray along with a Confederate and other items is protected speech. Police and the Cambria County district are investigating whether charges of ethnic intimidation might be Huge mall sells for $100 TARENTUM (AP) One of the biggest indoor malls in Pennsylvania sold at auction Wednesday for $100. The 1.1 million-square-foot Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills was once worth $190 million but recently appraised at just $11 million.

Wells Fargo was the only bidder and essentially bought the mall from itself, reports said. PSU fans charged in fracas STATE COLLEGE (AP) Police have charged 11 people with various offenses tied to a large disturbance that broke out in downtown State College after Penn football team won the Big Ten title last month. Eight of the eleven charged are Penn State students. Police say they face possible expulsions. Court rules for DUI suspect HARRISBURG (AP) A state appeals court has ruled a man accused of driving under the was improperly penalized during sentencing for refusing to submit to a blood test.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the Superior Court ruling came in the case of Hemant Kohli, who twice refused to have his blood drawn for testing after he was arrested in Caln Township in 2013. Senior Judge John Musmanno cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that warrantless blood tests are an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Alleged killer facing death EASTON (AP) A death penalty trial has begun for a man accused of tying up and killing another man in a motel and then taking a cellphone video of the bloody victim and saying, do what I Prosecutors in Northampton County allege another video shows Jeffrey Knoble, 27, touching the head of Andrew White, 32, while referencing the bullet hole that killed him in March 2015. Authorities call the victim a who offered the Riegelsville man food and shelter in his room.

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