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Cardi B shows up at court in style for strip club fight case

NEW YORK - Cardi B turned up for a court appearance Tuesday in an attempted assault case, staying mum - except for fashion statements - as it proceeds. The Grammy-winning rapper sported a feather-trim...

Dec 10, 2019

Netflix says more than 26M watched 'The Irishman' in 7 days

NEW YORK - Netflix says that 26.4 million households worldwide watched "The Irishman" in its first week of streaming. That figure includes those who watched at least 70% of Martin Scorsese's 3 1/2 hou...

Dec 10, 2019

Adam Sandler on plunging into the Safdies' 'Uncut Gems'

TORONTO - Adam Sandler was waiting to be thrown into a midtown fountain on Sixth Avenue for a scene in Josh and Benny Safdie's "Uncut Gems" when he noticed a familiar face on the sidewalk. The Safdies...

Dec 10, 2019

In South Carolina, Steyer investing in black voters

COLUMBIA, S.C. - In the waning weeks before South Carolina's president primary, Democrat Tom Steyer is renewing his focus on the black voters who play a pivotal role in the first-in-the-South state, r...

Dec 10, 2019

Newspaper criticizes film's take on Olympic bombing coverage

ATLANTA - After a bomb exploded in a downtown Atlanta park midway through the 1996 Olympics, a security guard initially cast as a hero was transformed into a villain virtually overnight. More than 20 ...

Dec 10, 2019

Banana, duct tape add up to $150,000 at Art Basel Miami

MIAMI - 3D-printed cocktails, a traffic jam sculpture made of hundreds of tons of sand and more celebrity sightings than a Kardashian Christmas party were all part of over-the-top festivities during t...

Dec 10, 2019

Heavy gunfire reported in Jersey City neighbourhood

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Heavy gunfire was exchanged Tuesday for at least an hour in a Jersey City neighbourhood. SWAT teams responded to the scene, and police have blocked off the major thoroughfare. Loud...

Dec 10, 2019

Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a "brat" after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilian...

Dec 10, 2019

Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest

STOCKHOLM - Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9-millio...

Dec 10, 2019

Mexican ex-security chief charged in US in drug conspiracy

NEW YORK - A man who served as secretary of public security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012 has been indicted in New York City on drug charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to let the...

Dec 10, 2019