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Tokyo Olympics cut spending; sports federations unhappy
TOKYO - The Tokyo Olympics are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. Tokyo organizers are trying to cut spending, under pressure from the International Olympic Committee, which has been w...
May 08, 2019
Asia stocks mostly higher after Trump trade threat
BEIJING - Asian stock markets rebounded Tuesday after Beijing said trade negotiators were preparing to go to Washington despite President Donald Trump's threat to escalate their tariff war. Benchmarks...
May 08, 2019
George Clooney hopes media 'kinder' to Meghan Markle
LOS ANGELES - George Clooney says the media should "be a little kinder" to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, after she gave birth to a baby boy. Clooney told The Associated Press Tuesday at the Hollywood...
May 08, 2019
Orchestra searching for child who charmed crowd with 'wow!'
BOSTON - America's oldest performing arts group is looking for a child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society had just finished its rendition of Mo...
May 08, 2019
Gaza artists call on Eurovision singers to boycott Israel
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian artists are calling on Eurovision song contest contestants to boycott the international music competition that Israel is hosting next week. The Gaza Strip-bas...
May 08, 2019
Barack Obama's book not expected to be released in 2019
WASHINGTON - Former President Barack Obama's post-White House memoir isn't expected to be released this year, setting up the likelihood that the highly anticipated book will drop during the 2020 campa...
May 08, 2019
Harry and Meghan love story takes new turn: a baby boy
WINDSOR, England - The improbable love story between an American actress and a British royal took the best of all possible turns Monday with the arrival of a healthy baby boy. The as-yet-unnamed baby ...
May 08, 2019
UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species
People are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday. But it's not too la...
May 08, 2019
Students kill classmate, injure 8 at school near Columbine
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - Two high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that just weeks ago marked the 20th anniversary of on...
May 08, 2019
Philadelphia centre Joel Embiid has become the 76ers lightning rod
Win or lose, Joel Embiid has become the Philadelphia 76ers' lightning rod. In between IVs, gastroenteritis and an upper respiratory infection, the Sixers big man delivered a 33-point performance in Ga...
May 08, 2019