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Jury convicts Illinois man in Minnesota mosque bombing

MINNEAPOLIS - A jury on Wednesday convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group of several civil rights and hate crime charges in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Prosecutor...

Dec 09, 2020

Women's Hall of Fame honours Aretha Franklin, Morrison, Lacks

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. - "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame Thursday as part of a posthumous clas...

Dec 09, 2020

Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over 'tax affairs'

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter said Wednesday that he has learned from federal prosecutors that his tax affairs are under investigation. The investigation by the Delaware U....

Dec 09, 2020

US govt, states bring antitrust action against Facebook

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the compan...

Dec 09, 2020

Woman abused by school band teacher gets $2M settlement

SEATTLE - A school district in Washington state has agreed to a $2 million settlement after a woman sued over sexual abuse by a band teacher 30 years ago - a trauma so profound she said it caused her ...

Dec 09, 2020

Pennsylvania governor says he's tested positive for COVID-19

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home. The second-term Democrat said a routine test on Tuesday detected the coronavirus. "I have no sym...

Dec 09, 2020

Ang Lee on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' 20 years later

NEW YORK - It's physically impossible to get to the forest scene atop the slender bamboo trees in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and not say out loud "Whoa." Twenty years later, the exhilarating gra...

Dec 09, 2020

Boeing 737 Max back in air 2 years after grounded by crashes

RIO DE JANEIRO - Commercial flights with Boeing 737 Max jetliners resumed Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two years ago. Brazil's ...

Dec 09, 2020

AP's top albums of 2020: Toni Braxton, Teyana Taylor, JoJo

NEW YORK - The top 10 albums of the year by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu (a playlist of the albums can be found here ): 1. Toni Braxton, "Spell My Name": I can breathe again, thanks in ...

Dec 09, 2020

Oliva Jade Giannulli learning from family college 'mess-up'

LOS ANGELES - Maybe Olivia Jade Giannulli had hoped for kid-glove treatment in choosing the family vibe of "Red Table Talk" for her first public comments about the college admissions scandal involving...

Dec 09, 2020