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Minnesota wins NBA draft lottery, rights to No. 1 pick

The NBA draft lottery was delayed three months. The Minnesota Timberwolves are certainly feeling like the wait was worthwhile. The Timberwolves won the lottery Thursday night, giving them the No. 1 pi...

Aug 20, 2020

AP Exclusive: Feds to seek death sentence for Boston bomber

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William B...

Aug 20, 2020

Whitmer: $600M Flint water deal a step toward making amends

LANSING, Mich. - A $600 million deal between the state of Michigan and residents of Flint who were harmed by lead-tainted water is a step toward making amends for a disaster that upended life in the p...

Aug 20, 2020

Film academy to host virtual panels about inclusion, equity

Lee Daniels, Lulu Wang and Taraji P. Henson are among the talent participating in a series of virtual panels about inclusion and equity in Hollywood hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc...

Aug 20, 2020

NY lets voters get absentee ballots due to virus concerns

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York will allow voters to request absentee ballots for the general election because of coronavirus under a new state law signed Thursday. Lawmakers passed the bill last month, and v...

Aug 20, 2020

Loughlin, Giannulli remain silent as they await prison fate

BOSTON - Since "Full House" star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were arrested last year on charges that they bribed their daughters' way into college, the famous co...

Aug 20, 2020

Judge clears way for Manhattan DA to get Trump tax returns

NEW YORK - A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for Manhattan's top prosecutor to get President Donald Trump's tax returns, rejecting a last-ditch attempt by his lawyers to block a subpoena iss...

Aug 20, 2020

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon charged in border wall scheme

NEW YORK - Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall." The charges were con...

Aug 20, 2020

Springsteen drummer appointed to planning and zoning board

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the bandleader for Conan O'Brien's Late Night and The Tonight Show, has been appointed to a local planning and zoning ...

Aug 20, 2020

Bomber's brother gets 55 years for Manchester concert attack

LONDON - The brother of the suicide bomber who set off an explosion at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds, was sentenced Thursday to a minimum...

Aug 20, 2020