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Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants' protections

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, the second stunning election-season rebuke from the court in ...

Jun 18, 2020

European Central Bank hands out 1.3 trillion euros in loans

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank has handed out 1.31 trillion euros ($1.46 trillion) in long-term, ultra-cheap credit to hundreds of banks as part of its emergency support aimed at cushioning the...

Jun 18, 2020

Cream of Wheat, Mrs. Butterworth confront race in packaging

Cream of Wheat and Mrs. Butterworth are the latest brands reckoning with racially charged logos. The soul-searching comes in the wake of PepsiCo's announcement Wednesday that it's renaming its Aunt Je...

Jun 18, 2020

Confederate statue to be moved from central spot at Ole Miss

JACKSON, Miss. - A Confederate monument will be moved from a prominent spot at the University of Mississippi to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded part of the Oxford campus. The state college board me...

Jun 18, 2020

Top seller 'Antiracist Baby' to be released as picture book

NEW YORK - A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi's "Antiracist Baby," one of the country's top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. "Antiracist Baby" wen...

Jun 18, 2020

Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies

NEW YORK - Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92. Smi...

Jun 18, 2020

World War II forces sweetheart singer Vera Lynn dies at 103

LONDON - Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular "Forces' Sweetheart" who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, ...

Jun 18, 2020

China passes draft of controversial Hong Kong security law

HONG KONG - China's ceremonial legislature on Thursday passed a draft of a national security bill for Hong Kong that has been strongly criticized as undermining faith in the semi-autonomous Chinese re...

Jun 18, 2020

Kentucky governor seeks to revive health insurance exchange

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Reversing his Republican predecessor, Kentucky's Democratic governor announced plans to bring back a health insurance program his father started that was credited with signing up hund...

Jun 17, 2020

After 100-day wait, English soccer returns and takes a knee

MANCHESTER, England - Players kneeled in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and victims of the coronavirus were remembered as the Premier League made a sombre return on Wednesday from a 100-da...

Jun 17, 2020