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Oscar Predictions: Can 'Parasite' upset '1917'?

NEW YORK - Ahead of Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks but the potential for a few surprises. BEST PICTURE ...

Feb 07, 2020

Sen. Mitt Romney breaks with GOP, votes to convict Trump

WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney, establishment to the core, took the Senate's most brazenly rebellious stance Wednesday in voting to force President Donald Trump from office, a move highlighting h...

Feb 07, 2020

Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured

ISTANBUL - A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Passengers h...

Feb 07, 2020

Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show

NEW YORK - Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble. Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake. Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could'...

Feb 07, 2020

Manslaughter charges in hit-and-run accident that killed 2

MOORE, Okla. - A man accused of striking and killing two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country runners who were running on a sidewalk was charged Friday with manslaughter in the deaths. Max...

Feb 07, 2020

NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveller programs

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating in "trusted traveller programs" in retribution for ...

Feb 07, 2020

Weinstein accuser says he 'trapped' her during hotel assault

NEW YORK - The final accuser at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Wednesday that he stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast in a hotel bathroom in 2013, all the whi...

Feb 07, 2020

Obit-Roger Kahn

MAMARONECK, N.Y. - Roger Kahn, the writer who wove memoir and baseball and touched millions of readers through his romantic account of the Brooklyn Dodgers in "The Boys of Summer," has died. He was 92...

Feb 07, 2020

Dun-dun: Defence witness wrote 'SVU' episode about Weinstein

NEW YORK - Their defence off to a rocky start, Harvey Weinstein's lawyers look to rebound Friday by bringing in a film director in hopes of dashing the credibility of a rape accuser who acknowledged a...

Feb 07, 2020

Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Beatrice to marry in May

LONDON - Britain is set for another royal wedding. Buckingham Palace announced Friday that Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Princess Beatrice will marry in London on May 29. The palace says 31-year-...

Feb 07, 2020