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Lawsuit calls Mississippi's way of choosing governors racist

JACKSON, Miss. - In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its constitution an unusually high bar for getting el...

Jun 01, 2019

Lift those knees: Babies crawl to the Lithuanian finish line

VILNIUS, Lithuania - In Lithuania, the rat race of life apparently starts early. Twenty-five babies have taken to the red carpet in Lithuania in a crawling race as their parents, grandparents and onlo...

Jun 01, 2019

Skipper of cruiser that sank Budapest tour boat arrested

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian police detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with and sank a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, as rescue crews geared up to raise the vess...

Jun 01, 2019

Polish advocate for church victims resigns in scandal

WARSAW, Poland - The founder and head of a Polish organization dedicated to helping victims of clerical sex abuse has resigned following a reports that a victim believes he had cheated her for money a...

Jun 01, 2019

Judge raps Trump, gives lenient sentence to El Chapo witness

CHICAGO - A chief federal judge in Chicago took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday and declared the U.S. war on drugs "lost" as he handed a lenient sentence to a one-time cartel lieutenant ...

May 31, 2019

Girl believed to be tiniest newborn weighed as much as apple

SAN DIEGO - When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world's tiniest sur...

May 31, 2019

Foxx releases Smollett files, offers recusal explanation

Chicago's top prosecutor has released more than 2,000 pages of documents in Jussie Smollett's case and explained she recused herself from an investigation into the "Empire" actor's claim he'd been the...

May 31, 2019

Police: Multiple people hurt in Virginia Beach shooting

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A shooter wounded "multiple" people at a municipal centre in Virginia Beach on Friday, according to police, who said they had taken a suspect into custody and believed the person...

May 31, 2019

Spacey lawyer says accuser deleted 'exculpatory' messages

NANTUCKET, Mass. - Kevin Spacey's attorney is accusing the man who says the actor groped him at a Nantucket bar in 2016 of deleting "exculpatory" text messages. Defence attorney Alan Jackson says in c...

May 31, 2019

Author Wally Lamb sued by ex-inmate over new book

HARTFORD, Conn. - A former Connecticut prison inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging she hasn't been paid for her contribution to a new book by author Wally Lamb and accusing Lamb of harassing and intimi...

May 31, 2019