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Lawyer says 'loving' emails' are key to Weinstein defence

NEW YORK - Defence lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorney...

Jan 21, 2020

Violence in northern Syria kills 17, including whole family

BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of northwestern Syria and the shelling of government-held areas killed at least 17 people Tuesday, including an entire family, Syrian opposition activists said....

Jan 21, 2020

Phoenix police: 3 children found dead, mother arrested

PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her three children, who were found dead inside the family home, authorities said Tuesday. The 22-year-old mother, whose name has not...

Jan 21, 2020

Brazilian broadcast executive gets probation in FIFA scandal

NEW YORK - A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Brazilian broadcast executive Jose Margulies to two years' probation on Tuesday for acting as an intermediary in a scheme to exchange bribes for the me...

Jan 21, 2020

At 90, Native Alaska woman will be 1st counted in US Census

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska - Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing ...

Jan 21, 2020

Impeachment arguments as seen by Democrats, Trump team

WASHINGTON - Legal filings to the Senate have laid out the arguments that will be made in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, where he faces two distinct allegations of abuse of power and obst...

Jan 21, 2020

Paris couture climbs Mount Olympus, plumbs marine depths

PARIS - Female empowerment, controversies about race, and designs that plunged to the depths of the seas then climbed Mount Olympus were among themes to grace Paris Couture Week on its drama-filled fi...

Jan 21, 2020

Trump impeachment trial to begin with rules fight, long days

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's impeachment trial is set to unfold at the Capitol, a contentious proceeding over whether to remove him from office for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his Democ...

Jan 21, 2020

As virus spreads, anxiety rises in China and overseas

WUHAN, China - Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove Tuesday to control the outbreak of a new virus that has reached four other ...

Jan 21, 2020

Trump lauds US economy in Davos, says little on climate woes

DAVOS, Switzerland - President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday that he's led a "spectacular" turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had little to say about climate c...

Jan 21, 2020