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Pioneering Native American author honoured with peace prize

CINCINNATI - A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year's winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature's power to foster peace, socia...

Jul 22, 2019

Ali called Marvel about 'Blade' after 'Green Book' win

SAN DIEGO - Mahershala Ali made the first move with Marvel Studios and "Blade." Comic-Con audiences learned on Saturday night that Ali would be playing the Marvel Comics character in a reboot. Marvel ...

Jul 22, 2019

Review: In Tarantino's latest, a radiant Hollywood fable

Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what's so great about movies - or at least, what he thinks is so great about them. He's made an old-fashioned double-feature ("Death Proof," o...

Jul 22, 2019

Manchester concert bombing suspect kept in custody

LONDON - The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been kept in custody at a bail hearing. Hashem Abedi appeared at Oxford Crown Cour...

Jul 22, 2019

Trump to host state dinner for Australian prime minister

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting an official visit and state dinner in September for the prime minister of Australia. It's only the second state dinner Trum...

Jul 22, 2019

Budget negotiators close on debt, $1.3T spending deal

WASHINGTON - Negotiations between the Trump administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a critical debt and $1.3 trillion budget bill are on the cusp of a deal. That's according to aides on both ...

Jul 22, 2019

Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement

WASHINGTON - Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million peo...

Jul 22, 2019

India launches moon mission a week after it was aborted

NEW DELHI - India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. Scientists at the mission control ce...

Jul 22, 2019

IAEA says its 72-year-old chief, Yukiya Amano, has died

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general, has died at 72, the agency announced Monday. The Secretariat did not give a cause of death for Amano, or say when he d...

Jul 22, 2019

Syrian activists say airstrike killed 16 in rebel-held town

BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a busy market in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria has killed at least 16 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights s...

Jul 22, 2019