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Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

PARIS - It's been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won't stop poking fun at I...

Oct 29, 2020

Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting stat...

Oct 29, 2020

WHO: Europe now has more than 10 million COVID-19 cases

LONDON - The World Health Organization's Europe director said Thursday that the 54-country region has again reached a new weekly record for confirmed cases, with more than 1.5 million confirmed last w...

Oct 29, 2020

Report: US knew of problems family separation would cause

HOUSTON - Months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a "pilot program" in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for ba...

Oct 29, 2020

Asteroid samples tucked into capsule for return to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away has tucked asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth, after losing some of its precious loot, scientists said Thursd...

Oct 29, 2020

VMI to remove statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson

LEXINGTON, Va. - The Virginia Military Institute's board voted Thursday to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that currently stands in front of the barracks on campus, a school spok...

Oct 29, 2020

U.S. OKs extradition of 2 nabbed in ex-Nissan boss' escape

BOSTON - The U.S. State Department has agreed to turn over to Japan two American men accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was awaiting trial, ...

Oct 29, 2020

Wall Street steadies itself following encouraging reports

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are pushing upward Thursday after better-than-expected reports on the economy helped stabilize Wall Street following its worst drop in more than four months. The S&P 500 was...

Oct 29, 2020

Judge grants 9-month delay to Meghan's lawsuit against paper

LONDON - A British judge on Thursday granted a request by the Duchess of Sussex to postpone the trial of her invasion of privacy lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that published por...

Oct 29, 2020

Defendant pleads guilty in Rudy Giuliani associates' case

NEW YORK - Prosecutors secured a guilty plea Thursday from a Florida businessman who hired one of President Donald Trump's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, to lend credibility to a supposedly fraud-busting com...

Oct 29, 2020