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Woodstock 50 organizers-vs-investor clash heads to court

NEW YORK - Accusations and counterclaims have piled up as lawyers for organizers of the Woodstock 50 festival and their onetime financial partner head toward a court hearing Monday. With less than 100...

May 13, 2019

Defence say Navy SEAL prosecutors spied on them

LOS ANGELES - Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defence lawyers and a reporte...

May 13, 2019

Alyssa Milano calls for sex strike, ignites social media

Actress Alyssa Milano ignited social media with a tweet Friday night calling for women to join her in a sex strike to protest strict abortion bans passed by Republican-controlled legislatures. The for...

May 13, 2019

Former US President Jimmy Carter has surgery for broken hip

ATLANTA - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke his hip Monday at his Georgia home, underwent successful surgery and was recovering comfortably, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said. Carter was...

May 13, 2019

Turkish opposition journalist hospitalized following attack

ANKARA, Turkey - A journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and its nationalist allies was hospitalized after being attacked outside his home, his newspaper said Saturday. Th...

May 13, 2019

On eve of festival, Cannes defends its record on women

CANNES, France - A year after 82 women protested en masse on the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival on Monday defended its record on female filmmakers and for the first time divulged data on its sel...

May 13, 2019

Will Smith calls 'Aladdin' remake highlight of his career

AMMAN, Jordan - Hollywood star Will Smith says that Disney's live-action remake of "Aladdin" was "one of, if not the best experience" of his accomplished 30-year career. Speaking to reporters in Amman...

May 13, 2019

Power play: Papal aide's manhole act angers Italy's Salvini

ROME - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has taken aim at a Vatican cardinal who climbed into a utility manhole to restore electricity to squatters in a government-owned building, pitting Pope ...

May 13, 2019

Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried

BERLIN - Executed for standing up against Adolf Hitler's dictatorship and then denied graves so as not to become a rallying point for others, the partial remains of 300 Nazi resistance fighters were l...

May 13, 2019

Police investigating rappers' ties to shootings around Miami

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. - Miami area law enforcement agencies are looking for connections between a series of weekend shootings that killed one rapper, wounded another rapper's girlfriend and hit thre...

May 13, 2019