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2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question

WASHINGTON - Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without th...

Jul 04, 2019

French Michael Jackson fans sue 'Leaving Neverland' accusers

PARIS - Three Michael Jackson fan clubs in France are suing two men who accused the singer of sexual abuse in the HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland." The lawsuit accuses Wade Robson and James Safechu...

Jul 04, 2019

Mexico buses home dozens of asylum seekers returned by US

MEXICO CITY - Dozens of Central Americans who had been returned to the border city of Juarez to await the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims were being bused back to their countries Tuesday by Mexica...

Jul 04, 2019

Quake rattles Southern California; some damage far from LA

LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing some damage in a town near the epice...

Jul 04, 2019

Sundance co-founder gets at least 6 years in sex abuse case

AMERICAN FORK, Utah - A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison ...

Jul 04, 2019

Chanel's new designer, Viard, unveils couture debut in Paris

PARIS - Chanel's new chief Virginie Viard merged the worlds of two of its most famous couturiers, those of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, for a cerebral couture show in Paris set inside a...

Jul 04, 2019

Arctic fox walks more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada

COPENHAGEN - An arctic fox walked more than 4,415 kilometres (2,737 miles) to go from northern Norway to Canada's far north in four months, Norwegian researchers said. The Norwegian Polar Institute re...

Jul 04, 2019

UN: 5,287 killings in Venezuela security operations in 2018

GENEVA - Venezuela's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year linked to cases of "resistance to authority," the U.N. human rights chief reported Thursday, denou...

Jul 04, 2019

House committee files lawsuit for Trump tax returns

WASHINGTON - A House committee sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday for access to President Donald Trump's tax returns, setting up a legal showdown over the records. The House Ways a...

Jul 04, 2019

French lawmakers approve 3% tax on online giants

PARIS - France's lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook - and the French government hopes other countries will follow s...

Jul 04, 2019