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Bill Cosby sex assault verdict upheld; spokesman lashes out
Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. In its ruling, the Superior Court affi...
Dec 12, 2019
Reese Witherspoon honoured at Women in Entertainment gala
LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon remembered when she met with several film production studios in 2011 to ask them how many movies were being developed for women. The studios' responses nearly floored h...
Dec 12, 2019
Kim Kardashian West sues doctor over 'Vampire Facial'
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian West is suing an Alabama doctor over claims he wrongly used her image to promote a medical procedure called a "Vampire Facial." West...
Dec 12, 2019
Supreme Court won't hear dispute over discipline of federally appointed judges
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not delve into questions about the process for disciplining federally appointed judges. The top court has declined to hear the Canadian Ju...
Dec 12, 2019
Prague to ink partnership with Taipei after snubbing Beijing
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The city of Prague, the Czech capital, approved Thursday a partnership agreement with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei. The move comes two months after Prague revoked a similar s...
Dec 12, 2019
Democrats, White House forge new North American trade deal
WASHINGTON - House Democrats and the White House announced a deal on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win Tuesday on the same day that impeachm...
Dec 12, 2019
Wholesale prices unchanged in November as energy prices cool
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices were unchanged in November as the rise in energy costs slowed following a big gain in the previous month. The Labor Department said Thursday that the flat reading in...
Dec 12, 2019
Trump criticizes teen climate activist after magazine honour
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculou...
Dec 12, 2019
UK voters decide who they want to resolve Brexit impasse
LONDON - Britons who have endured three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate a...
Dec 12, 2019
Climate activists protest at EU building as leaders gather
BRUSSELS - Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union's new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner warning of a "climate emergency," hours before the bloc's leaders gather...
Dec 12, 2019