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Danish police say two people have been killed when a commuter train hit a minibus at an unprotected crossing in southwestern Denmark. Police say those killed were in the minibus.

Apple is trying to drag the U. S.'s antiquated system for handling 911 calls into the 21st century. If it lives up to Apple's promise, the iPhone's next operating system will …

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a significant funding increase for the country's beleaguered National Health Service. The prime minister said the NHS will receive an additional 384 million pounds ($510 million) per week once Britain leaves the European Union next March.

A Kansas mother says an insurance company wants her family to pay $132,000 after her 5-year-old son accidentally knocked over a sculpture at a city community center. Sarah Goodman tells the Kansas City Star the incident happened last month at Overland Park's Tomahawk Ridge Community Center while her family was attending a wedding reception.

A British boy whose mother says he needs cannabis oil to prevent severe epileptic seizures is being treated in a London hospital while British officials review the case. Billy Caldwell, 12, is in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital receiving treatment Saturday while his mother Charlotte Caldwell lobbies for the return of cannabis oil seized by authorities at London Heathrow Airport when she brought it back from Canada Monday. She says the cannabis oil, which is banned in Britain, is the only substance that can prevent life-threatening seizures suffered by her son.

A group of Florida high school shooting survivors started their nationwide bus tour registering young voters to help accomplish their vision for stricter gun laws at a rally on Chicago's South Side. Kyrah Simon from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people died on Feb.

A folk singer who posted videos on YouTube insulting Jews and mocking the Holocaust has been banned from using social media. A judge at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court sentenced Alison Chabloz on Thursday to a 20-week suspended prison sentence, a year-long social media ban and community service. Her songs, partly set to traditional Jewish folk music, included lyrics such as: "Did the Holocaust ever happen?

A New York federal judge has shown skepticism toward New York City's attempt to hold five of the world's biggest oil companies responsible for damage from global warming. Judge John Keenan questioned a lawsuit's merits during oral arguments in Manhattan Wednesday. A lawyer for the oil companies says the January lawsuit is trying to hold the companies responsible for how civilization has developed over the ages.

The deaths of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have caused media organizations to look at how they cover suicide and whether more could be done to prevent copycat killings, without neglecting the duty to report news. Several outlets have publicized the 1-800-273-8255 suicide prevention hotline.

The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time this year and signaled that it may step up its pace of rate increases because of solid economic growth and rising inflation. The Fed now foresees four rate hikes this year, up from the three it had previously forecast. The central bank on Wednesday raised its key short-term rate by a modest quarter-point to a still-low range of 1.75 percent to 2 percent.

Mexico's four presidential candidates squared off in their third and final debate Tuesday night before the country's July 1 elections. The debate in the colonial city of Merida centered on economic growth, poverty, health, education and technology, based on questions culled from social media. Front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a commanding lead of as much as 20 percent in some polls over his main rivals, Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and Ricardo Anaya who represents a left-right coalition. Lopez Obrador and Meade sparred over the issue of economic policy, with Meade arguing that the policies of the leftist Lopez Obrador would lead to rising poverty and unemployment.

Guess Inc. says its co-founder Paul Marciano is stepping down after the completion of a company-commissioned investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and assault. The Los Angeles-based fashion company announced in a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Marciano is resigning immediately as executive chairman of the Guess board, and his brother and co-founder Maurice Marciano will take over. Paul Marciano, who has denied the allegations, will remain a board member and stay on as chief creative officer through January. The filing says allegations against Paul Marciano included inappropriate comments and texts, and unwanted kissing and groping.

The Latest on the shooting of a U. S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona (all times local): 11:40 a.m. An Arizona cattle rancher says that the shooting of a U. S. Border Patrol agent near the boundary with Mexico happened in a remote part of his ranch that is frequently used by drug and migrant smugglers. Jim Chilton tells The Associated Press in an interview that a Border Patrol official sent him an email Tuesday morning informing him the agent was alone when he was wounded on his ranch, and was struck in the leg and the hand. Chilton says several bullets also struck the agent's protective vest and that the vest probably saved his life.