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Spinoff of ABC's 'black-ish' to focus on mixed-race issues

LOS ANGELES - A spinoff of the ABC sitcom "black-ish" will focus on a young Rainbow Johnson and her challenges growing up in the 1980s. ABC said Thursday that the new series, titled "mixed-ish," will ...

May 03, 2019

Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The president of Cyprus has fired the small island nation's police chief, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim more...

May 03, 2019

Historic Hawaii volcano eruption scarred landscape, lives

LEILANI ESTATES, Hawaii - A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and ...

May 03, 2019

Trump depicted in Mueller report feared being called a fraud

WASHINGTON - The fear was persistent. As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump's presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special co...

May 03, 2019

Florida massacre defendant's attorneys to remain for now

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A judge ordered the public defenders representing the former student charged with the Florida high school massacre to stay on his case Wednesday while she determines if he rema...

May 03, 2019

Barr, Mueller trade barbs as Russia probe rift goes public

WASHINGTON - Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pu...

May 03, 2019

Assange refuses extradition to US; long legal fight expected

LONDON - A defiant Julian Assange told a London court Thursday he will fight extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer, arguing that his work as W...

May 03, 2019

Agitators, tear gas cloud May Day march in Paris

PARIS - Clusters of anarchists and yellow vest protesters disrupted a May Day march in Paris by setting fires and antagonizing riot police squads at the beginning and end, punctuating the route walked...

May 03, 2019

Kelly Clarkson had appendix removed after hosting awards

LOS ANGELES - Kelly Clarkson had her appendix removed soon after hosting the Billboard Music Awards. The 37-year-old tweeted she "may or may not have broken down in tears after the show from pain." Sh...

May 03, 2019

Campaigners against Heathrow expansion lose legal challenge

LONDON - Campaigners fighting British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport lost a challenge in one of the country's highest courts on Wednesday, in a decision which deemed the expansion lawful....

May 03, 2019