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Trump files lawsuit challenging Wisconsin election results

MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two most Democratic counties, a longshot attempt to overturn ...

Dec 01, 2020

Elected officials dine out after urging others to stay home

San Francisco Mayor London Breed dined at a posh Napa Valley restaurant the day after California's governor was there. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo went to his parents' house for Thanksgiving. And a Lo...

Dec 01, 2020

Visitor: Monolith toppled by group who said 'leave no trace'

SALT LAKE CITY - New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert - though it's no longer the ...

Dec 01, 2020

Salesforce buying work-chat service Slack for $27.7 billion

SAN RAMON, Calif. - Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against long...

Dec 01, 2020

'Big Sky' producers recognize Native American criticism

LOS ANGELES - Native American tribes and advocates are condemning "Big Sky," a Montana-set ABC drama, for ignoring the history of violence inflicted on Indigenous women and instead making whites the c...

Dec 01, 2020

Nestle, Cargill at high court in child labour case

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed concerned Tuesday about the impact of siding with food giants Nestle and Cargill and ending a lawsuit that claims they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in ...

Dec 01, 2020

UN: Pandemic to fan surge in humanitarian needs in 2021

GENEVA - The U.N. humanitarian office says needs for assistance have ballooned to unprecedented levels this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people will require help ...

Dec 01, 2020

US: Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies is threatened

BILLINGS, Mont. - Climate change, voracious beetles and disease are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that's a key source of food for some grizzly bears and found across ...

Dec 01, 2020

'All my love, Elliot': Actor Page comes out as transgender

NEW YORK - Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of "Juno," "Inception" and "The Umbrella Academy," came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans...

Dec 01, 2020

Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic

ROME - Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspira...

Dec 01, 2020