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Virginia transgender bathroom case: Judge favours ex-student

NORFOLK, Va. - A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday that a school board's transgender bathroom ban discriminated against a former student, Gavin Grimm. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Arenda Wri...

Aug 09, 2019

Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans

EL PASO, Texas - The man accused of carrying out last weekend's deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explaine...

Aug 09, 2019

Rapper Mystikal falls during Florida concert

TAMPA, Fla. - A video shows the rapper Mystikal falling off the stage 30 seconds into his first performance during a concert in Florida, cutting the show short. Michael "Mystikal" Tyler, a rapper and ...

Aug 09, 2019

Fox's Carlson calls white supremacy 'a hoax.'

NEW YORK - Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson faced criticism Wednesday for declaring white supremacy "a hoax," the same day President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, after a white gunman who h...

Aug 09, 2019

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz to open performing arts centre

MACEDON, N.Y. - Singer Alicia Keys and music producer husband Swizz Beats are planning to create a performing arts centre in upstate New York. The couple's proposal to transform an industrial site in ...

Aug 09, 2019

Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests

MORTON, Miss. - U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a de...

Aug 09, 2019

Puerto Ricans get their 3rd governor in 6 days

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Justice Secretary Wanda Vzquez became Puerto Rico's new governor Wednesday, just the second woman to hold the office, after weeks of political turmoil and hours after the islan...

Aug 09, 2019

Documents: Epstein ducked sex abuse questions in deposition

NEW YORK - Newly released court documents show that financier Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly declined to answer questions about sex abuse as part of a lawsuit. A partial transcript of the September 2016 d...

Aug 09, 2019

US stocks erase most of an early loss as volatility surges

Stocks overcame a big loss on Wall Street Wednesday, though the market's recovery left plenty of signs of worry among investors that the fallout from the trade war between the U.S. and China will spre...

Aug 09, 2019

El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain

EL PASO, Texas - The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes...

Aug 09, 2019