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Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think she was asleep. She once acknowledged t...

Sep 18, 2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 8...

Sep 18, 2020

Alabama reports 2nd death from Hurricane Sally

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. - A second death from Hurricane Sally was reported Friday in Alabama, where the storm sloshed ashore Wednesday, brining wind and flooding rain. Baldwin County coroner Dr. Brian Pier...

Sep 18, 2020

Egyptian, Mexican, Moldovan exit in race for top post at WTO

GENEVA - World Trade Organization member countries on Friday trimmed a list of candidates vying to become the next director-general from eight to five. They ejected applicants from Egypt, Mexico and M...

Sep 18, 2020

End of the runway? Fashion world mulls post-COVID future

LONDON - It's the September fashion week season, and in any other year London would be abuzz with fashionistas zipping across town in Mercedes Benzes, hobnobbing with celebrities at glittering catwalk...

Sep 18, 2020

Firefighter dies battling wildfire sparked by gender reveal

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A firefighter died battling a wildfire in California that officials said was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby's gender. The death occurred Thursday in the San Bernard...

Sep 18, 2020

US bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will ban the use of the Chinese app WeChat on Sunday citing national security concerns. Downloads of the he app TikTok, owned by the same company, will be banned at the same time...

Sep 18, 2020

Book 'em: Police find 'irreplaceable' tomes stolen in 2017

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police in Romania have uncovered a trove of "irreplaceable" books including first editions of works by Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton that were stolen in a sophisticated 201...

Sep 18, 2020

Van Morrison targets virus restrictions in 3 new songs

LONDON - Van Morrison has never been one to hold back over the years. Why start now? The 75-year-old singer-songwriter is certainly not holding back on what he thinks of the lockdown restrictions put ...

Sep 18, 2020

Danish prince "fine" for Paris post after blood clot surgery

COPENHAGEN - Prince Joachim, the younger son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark who underwent an emergency surgery in France in July for a blood clot in his brain, said Friday he was "eager to get started"...

Sep 18, 2020