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Mayor: Pakistan plane crashes near Karachi, all 107 killed

KARACHI, Pakistan - A passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines crashed near the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing all 107 passengers and crew, the city's m...

May 22, 2020

Recording Academy records John Prine song for charity

NASHVILLE - The Recording Academy has released a new recording of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery" with proceeds going to support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. Prine died in April at age 73 ...

May 22, 2020

China to boost defence spending by lowest rate in years

BEIJING - China will boost defence spending by just 6.6% in 2020, the lowest rate in years as it battles an economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus outbreak. The figure announced Friday is down ...

May 21, 2020

China promises stimulus spending, sets no growth target

BEIJING - China's top economic official on Friday promised higher spending to revive its coronavirus-battered economy and curb surging job losses and said Beijing would set no growth target in order t...

May 21, 2020

Michigan governor wins legal fight with lawmakers over virus

DETROIT - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer prevailed Thursday in a high-stakes challenge from Republican lawmakers who sued over her authority to declare emergencies and order sweeping restrictions during the co...

May 21, 2020

Boy, 6, cracks open robbery case by reeling in sunken safe

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. - A 6-year-old boy helped crack open a nearly decade-old robbery case when he reeled in a locked safe from the bottom of a South Carolina lake. Knox Brewer of Johns Island took up "...

May 21, 2020

Film: 'Roe' plaintiff says her anti-abortion switch was act

WASHINGTON - Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as "Jane Roe," her story was at the centre of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was...

May 21, 2020

US existing home sales plunge 17.8% in April

WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes plunged 17.8% in April with the real estate market still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that last mon...

May 21, 2020

Nearly 39 million have sought US jobless aid since virus hit

WASHINGTON - More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months...

May 21, 2020

US says it's pulling out of Open Skies surveillance treaty

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration notified international partners on Thursday that it is pulling out of a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct unarmed, observation flights over each othe...

May 21, 2020