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S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller: US home prices rise 3.9% in July

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices rose at a faster pace in July as the housing market continued to show strength in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home p...

Sep 29, 2020

Worldwide grief: Death toll from coronavirus tops 1 million

NEW DELHI - Joginder Chaudhary was his parents' greatest pride, raised with the little they earned farming a half-acre plot in central India to become the first doctor from their village. For the coro...

Sep 28, 2020

Worldwide death toll from coronavirus eclipses 1 million

NEW DELHI - The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million on Tuesday, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders' resolve, pitted science...

Greg Fry Sep 28, 2020

US official: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order

ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross says the 2020 census will end Oct. 5, despite a federal judge's ruling last week allowing the head count of every U.S. resident to continue throu...

Sep 28, 2020

Trump went even further than other uber-rich to shrink taxes

WASHINGTON - The tax-avoidance strategies that President Donald Trump capitalized on to shrink his tax bill to essentially zero are surprisingly common among major real estate developers and other ube...

Sep 28, 2020

Trump, Biden prepare to debate at a time of mounting crises

CLEVELAND - In an election year like no other, the first debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, could be a pivotal moment in a race that has remained stubbornl...

Sep 28, 2020

EU-UK spat over Brexit deal clouds key trade talks this week

BRUSSELS - Britain entered a crucial week of post-Brexit talks with the European Union on Monday by rejecting the EU's demand that it drop plans to breach the legally binding agreement it signed on it...

Sep 28, 2020

Malta seeks shark tooth fossil presented to Prince George

VALLETTA, Malta - Malta says it will seek to retrieve a shark tooth that was presented to Britain's Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during ...

Sep 28, 2020

US Latino civil rights group moves 2021 convention online

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights group in the U.S., has decided to move its 2021 national convention online amid concerns and health orde...

Sep 28, 2020

Milan fashion gives small opening to Black Lives Matter

MILAN - When asked why there aren't more people of colour in the Italian fashion industry, officials have cited a lack of candidates in homogeneous Italy. Five African-born designers in Italy want to ...

Sep 28, 2020