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Colorado
Trump disqualification case continues
DENVER -- A professor who is an expert in national security has testified that then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and federal law enforcement to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan 6, 2021.
The testimony came Tuesday as a Colorado case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new phase. William Banks is a Syracuse University law professor.
Maine
Children trick-or-treat, return to school
LEWISTON -- Children have returned to school and are trick-or-treating in Lewiston, Maine, in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in state history.
On Tuesday, hundreds of students returned to a high school that had recently been transformed into a law enforcement command post. Inside, students petted therapy dogs and were signing a large banner that read "Lewiston Strong," the community's new motto.
California
Wildfire prompts evacuation order
AGUANGA -- Hundreds of firefighters aided by aircraft on Tuesday battled a wind-driven wildfire that damaged or destroyed at least nine buildings in rural Southern California and prompted authorities to order 4,000 residents to evacuate.
Gusty Santa Ana winds spread the Highland Fire over 3.5 square miles of brushy hills near the Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga after it broke out Monday afternoon.
World
Ukraine
UN urges Russia to investigate attack
KYIV -- U.N investigators on Tuesday urged Russia to acknowledge responsibility for a missile strike on a Ukrainian village that killed 59 civilians, conduct a transparent investigation into what happened, provide reparations for victims and hold those responsible to account.
The strike on a cafe in the village of Hroza on Oct. 5 was one of the deadliest strikes since the Kremlin's forces launched a full-scale invasion 20 months ago. Whole families perished while attending a wake for a local soldier.
Chile
Powerful 6.6 magnitude quake strikes
SANTIAGO -- A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of northern Chile on Tuesday morning and was felt in several provinces of neighboring Argentina, but there were no immediate reports of damage and authorities said there was no tsunami risk.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 9:33 a.m. local time, and its epicenter was 26 miles southwest of Huasco, a city in Chile's Atacama region.
Japan
Police capture gunman after standoff
TOKYO -- Police in Japan ended an eight-hour standoff with a gunman at a post office Tuesday by arresting the suspect after two hostages were freed safely an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital.
The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, about an hour after the hospital shooting.