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2 guilty in $1B fraud as feds auction Burt Reynolds Trans Am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two employees of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in what federal prosecutors say was a massive scheme that defrauded investor...

Oct 22, 2019

Facebook says Libra won't launch without US approval

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to reassure Congress on Wednesday that his company won't try to evade financial regulators as it prepares its planned digital currency Libra. In prepa...

Oct 22, 2019

Boris Johnson inches toward securing Brexit but delay likely

LONDON - For a brief moment Tuesday, Brexit was within a British prime minister's grasp. Boris Johnson won Parliament's backing for the substance of his exit deal but lost a key vote on its timing, a ...

Oct 22, 2019

Boeing replaces executive who oversaw 737 Max, other planes

Boeing is replacing the head of its commercial-airplanes division as it struggles with a crisis created by two deadly crashes of its newest airliner. Boeing said Tuesday that Kevin McAllister is out a...

Oct 22, 2019

Loughlin, 10 other parents charged anew in college scandal

BOSTON - Actress Lori Loughlin (LAWK'-lin), her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and nine other parents face new charges in the college admissions scandal. Federal prosecutors announced Tu...

Oct 22, 2019

Henry Thomas, star of 'E.T.', arrested for DUI in Oregon

TUALATIN, Ore. - Authorities say Henry Thomas, the actor who starred as a child in "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial," has been arrested for driving under the influence in Oregon. The 48-year-old Thomas was...

Oct 22, 2019

Autoworkers from closed plants fight new GM contract

DETROIT - If they can close our plant, they can close yours, too. That's the message from workers at three shuttered General Motors factories that didn't get new products under the tentative contract ...

Oct 22, 2019

Nicki Minaj indicates she's now a married woman

NEW YORK - Ms. Minaj wants you to know she's now officially Mrs. Petty. Minaj - who has dated Kenneth Petty for about a year - seems to confirm her marriage with a video on Instagram on Monday that sh...

Oct 22, 2019

Ronaldo asks US court to dismiss rape case or OK mediation

LAS VEGAS - Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers are asking a U.S. judge to dismiss a Nevada woman's lawsuit alleging the soccer star raped her in Las Vegas in 2009 or to order closed-door settlement talks. At...

Oct 22, 2019

'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' claims No. 1 over 'Joker'

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co.'s "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" knocked "Joker" out of the No. 1 spot at the box office, but just barely. Studios on Sunday say the film starring Angelina Jolie and ...

Oct 22, 2019