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Gunmen attack Sikh religious gathering in Kabul, killing 4

KABUL - Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of worship in the heart of Kabul's old city on Wednesday, killing at least four people, a Sikh lawmaker said...

Mar 24, 2020

Asian shares jump after Dow sees biggest gain since 1933

BANGKOK - Shares advanced in Asia on Wednesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to its best day since 1933 as Congress and the White House neared a deal on injecting nearly $2 trillion of...

Mar 24, 2020

Taylor Swift's publicist takes aim at Kim Kardashian in feud

LOS ANGELES - The Kanye West and Taylor Swift public beef has reignited again with the ongoing feud now involving his wife and Swift's publicist. Swift's publicist, Tree Paine, fired back Monday night...

Mar 24, 2020

Though scuttled, SXSW still goes ahead with film awards

NEW YORK - South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a ha...

Mar 24, 2020

'Wonder Woman 1984,' 'In The Heights' postponed due to virus

NEW YORK - Warner Bros. on Tuesday delayed the summer release of "Wonder Woman 1984" and removed the adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" from its schedule due to the coronavirus pandem...

Mar 24, 2020

Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes

MADRID - Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus,...

Mar 24, 2020

Multiple Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally dies at 81

NEW YORK - Terrence McNally, one of America's great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtim...

Mar 24, 2020

Valeria Luiselli's 'Lost Children Archive' wins Folio Prize

LONDON - Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Luiselli ...

Mar 24, 2020

India's prime minister decrees 21-day lockdown to curb virus

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a "total lockdown" in the country of 1.3 billion people during a televised address Tuesday night, the most extensive stay-at-home order yet in...

Mar 24, 2020

New home sales drop 4.4% in February

WASHINGTON - U.S. new home sales fell 4.4% in February with bigger declines expected in coming months as the coronavirus puts a major crimp on home sales. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that Feb...

Mar 24, 2020