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Attorneys: Extraditing teen would 'turn him over to mob'

CHICAGO - Sending a 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to stand trial in Wisconsin would "turn him over to the mob," defence...

Oct 08, 2020

Texas officer charged in Black man's fatal shooting fired

DALLAS - A white police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Black man in a small East Texas city was fired Thursday. A statement from Wolfe City said Officer Shaun Lucas, 22, was fi...

Oct 08, 2020

Court blocks extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline

MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots by six days in battleground Wisconsin, in a win for Republicans who have fou...

Oct 08, 2020

Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of t...

Oct 08, 2020

Mali: 2 hostages freed by extremists on plane to capital

BAMAKO, Mali - Malis's presidency confirmed Thursday that prominent Malian politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin are aboard a flight to the capital, Bamako, after being freed...

Oct 08, 2020

Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort

WASHINGTON - Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an inv...

Oct 08, 2020

6 people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer

DETROIT - Six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court. Four of the six men had...

Oct 08, 2020

On edge of 72, Stevie Nicks just wants to sing a song live

NEW YORK - It's Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Stevie Nicks is singing on the phone. The rock icon is at her Los Angeles home, where she's been cooped up since December after wrapping the "An Evening with ...

Oct 08, 2020

Gov. Charlie Baker to be honoured with bobblehead doll

BOSTON - Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is getting the bobblehead treatment for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee on Thursday unv...

Oct 08, 2020

Taliban cheer Trump tweet promising early troop withdrawal

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban on Thursday welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas - or at least by the end of...

Oct 08, 2020