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Alec Baldwin sues man who accused him of parking spot rage

NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against the man who says Baldwin hit him in the face during an argument over a New York City parking space. Baldwin wrote in his lawsuit that ...

Nov 06, 2019

US productivity falls for first time in nearly 4 years

WASHINGTON - American workers were less efficient in the July-September quarter, pushing down productivity for the first time since late 2015. The Labor Department said Wednesday that productivity, a ...

Nov 06, 2019

US child survivors of Mexico ambush saved by courage, mother

GALEANA, Mexico - The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers but managed to hide in the brush, w...

Nov 06, 2019

Erdogan: Turkey captures slain IS leader al-Baghdadi's wife

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Erdogan made the announcement while delive...

Nov 06, 2019

Attacker stabs 8 at popular Jordanian tourist site

AMMAN, Jordan - A lone attacker on Wednesday stabbed eight people, including four foreign tourists and their tour guide, at a popular archaeological site in northern Jordan, official state-run media s...

Nov 06, 2019

Extreme right Golden Dawn party leader testifies in court

ATHENS, Greece - The head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party has begun testifying in court as part of a long-running trial over the party's activities in which he and several former party...

Nov 06, 2019

Liberal Tucson, Arizona rejects plan to be sanctuary city

TUCSON, Ariz. - After Arizona passed a law that required local police to check the immigration status of people suspected to be in the country illegally, the state's second-largest city wanted to send...

Nov 06, 2019

Police: Attack kills 15 at southern Thailand security post

HATYAI, Thailand - Gunmen fired at security personnel at checkpoints in Thailand's insurgency-wracked south, killing 15 volunteer officers and wounding five others, police said Wednesday. Some of the ...

Nov 05, 2019

Ex-NFL player Winslow Jr takes plea deal before rape retrial

VISTA, Calif. - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the ...

Nov 05, 2019

Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86

NEW ROADS, La. - Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation town germinated the stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, ha...

Nov 05, 2019