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Museum scales back 25th anniversary of Oklahoma City bombing

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is planning to offer a recorded, one-hour television program in place of a live ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma Cit...

Mar 19, 2020

Twilight Time: Long-lost Rod Serling baseball comedy on deck

Years before he journeyed to "The Twilight Zone," Rod Serling made a brief detour to the strike zone. To many, he's the foreboding figure in black and white who gave the world the heebie-jeebies with ...

Mar 19, 2020

Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus

NEW YORK - When hospitals need to prep a room for the next coronavirus test, when jetliners discharge their passengers at the gate, when suburbanites start to take sanitary precautions more seriously,...

Greg Fry Mar 19, 2020

Country singers to perform from home for ACM special

NASHVILLE - The Academy of Country Music had to postpone their upcoming awards show because of the spreading coronavirus, but CBS will air a new television special featuring country stars performing f...

Mar 19, 2020

Monaco's head of state Prince Albert II contracts new virus

PARIS - The palace of Monaco says its ruler, Prince Albert II, has tested positive for the new coronavirus but his health is not worrying. Albert, 62, appeared to be the first head of state who has pu...

Mar 19, 2020

Virus-shocked Hollywood gets break with streaming services

LOS ANGELES - Sports are on hold, theatres are closed and so are amusement parks, a disaster-movie scenario that has Hollywood reeling. But Americans held captive at home by the coronavirus can turn t...

Mar 19, 2020

In response to virus, Bank of England cuts main rate to 0.1%

LONDON - The Bank of England slashed its main interest rate to 0.1%, the lowest level since its founding in 1694, and reactivated a bond-buying stimulus program in response to the economic shock of th...

Mar 19, 2020

Iran furloughs imprisoned US Navy vet amid virus concerns

WASHINGTON - Iran has granted a medical furlough to a U.S. Navy veteran who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday. Michael White of Imperi...

Mar 19, 2020

Gabbard ends long-shot 2020 bid, gives support to Biden

COLUMBA, S.C. - Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has suspended her presidential campaign, ending a long-shot effort that saw her feuding with Hillary Clinton and raising fears among Democrats that s...

Mar 19, 2020

U.S. man accused of human rights violations freed in Lebanon

WASHINGTON - A U.S. citizen who had faced decades-old murder and torture charges in Lebanon has been freed, a senator who had pushed for his release announced Thursday. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., sa...

Mar 19, 2020