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Report: Flint's high water bills may double in next 5 years
House OKs bipartisan drug abuse bills, but Dems want money
Facebook launches investigation into report of political bias
‘It was not me’: Donald Trump denies being own publicist in surreal audio recording from 1991
Kremlin: Olympic doping allegations 'treacherous slander'
World's oldest person dies in New York at age 116
U.S. to issue decree on transgender access to school restrooms
U.S. Navy fires commander of sailors who were held by Iran
San Francisco soda tax backers say measure will be on ballot
Reports: Russia pulled off Olympic doping
5 takeaways from the Ryan-Trump meeting

Report: Flint's high water bills may double in next 5 years

Posted: 13 May 2016 12:02 PM PDT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A report released Friday suggests that Flint residents' pricey water bills could double in the next five years due to several factors, even though the state has pledged aid amid the city's ongoing lead-tainted water crisis.

House OKs bipartisan drug abuse bills, but Dems want money

Posted: 13 May 2016 10:19 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a mountain of bills addressing the nation's opioid abuse crisis, fueled by lawmakers' bipartisan craving for election-year action on the deadly epidemic. Yet the measures are leaving anti-drug advocates underwhelmed, and Congress won't decide till later how much money it's willing to provide.

Facebook launches investigation into report of political bias

Posted: 13 May 2016 08:17 AM PDT

Facebook Inc, the social networking powerhouse, is conducting a full investigation into allegations of political bias, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement late Thursday. The accusation sparked an outcry on social media and prompted a U.S. Senate inquiry into Facebook's practices. Facebook has "found no evidence that this report is true," Zuckerberg said in a post published on his Facebook page, but added that the company would continue to investigate.

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‘It was not me’: Donald Trump denies being own publicist in surreal audio recording from 1991

Posted: 13 May 2016 06:28 AM PDT

Donald Trump bristled during a Friday interview when he was asked about a recently unearthed audio recording of him allegedly discussing his own love life in third person. Earlier Friday, the Washington Post published a surreal, 14-minute phone call from 1991 between a man who said his name was John Miller — and who sounds like Trump — discussing Trump's dating life. "He gets called by everybody in the book in terms of women," the man says in the recording, which was with Sue Carswell, a reporter at People magazine.

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Kremlin: Olympic doping allegations 'treacherous slander'

Posted: 13 May 2016 04:07 AM PDT

By Dmitry Solovyov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin dismissed allegations that Russia had run a sophisticated doping programme at the last winter Olympics as treacherous slander on Friday, calling the ex-head of the country's doping laboratory "a turncoat." Two Russian winter sportsmen named as cheats by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former lab chief who has since fled to the United States, also denied wrongdoing, saying the charges were part of a campaign to besmirch the name of Russian sport. Russia, already battling to overturn a ban on its athletes taking part in this year's Rio summer Olympics, has been thrown on the defensive after a New York Times report cited Rodchenkov, the ex-head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, as saying he ran a doping programme at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics which included at least 15 medal winners.

World's oldest person dies in New York at age 116

Posted: 13 May 2016 12:22 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York at age 116.

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U.S. to issue decree on transgender access to school restrooms

Posted: 12 May 2016 07:43 PM PDT

The Obama administration will issue a sweeping decree on Friday telling every U.S. public school district to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. The letter, signed by officials from the Education and Justice departments, does not have the force of law but contains an implicit threat that schools which do not abide by the Obama administration's interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid. "There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex," U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

U.S. Navy fires commander of sailors who were held by Iran

Posted: 12 May 2016 05:53 PM PDT

The U.S. Navy said on Thursday that it had fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf in January and were briefly held by Iran in an incident that risked becoming an international crisis. The Navy said in a statement that it had lost confidence in Commander Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the coastal riverine squadron that included the 10 sailors. Rasch became the first person to be publicly singled out after a preliminary investigation into the incident that occurred near Farsi Island in the Gulf.

San Francisco soda tax backers say measure will be on ballot

Posted: 12 May 2016 04:43 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Backers of a sugary drink tax say the issue will be on San Francisco's November ballot, despite missing a key deadline by one day.