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Trump, allies make frantic steps to overturn Biden victory

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part o...

Nov 19, 2020

Military pay raise at risk in dispute over Confederate bases

WASHINGTON - An annual defence policy measure that has passed Congress every year since the Kennedy administration is in danger of cratering next month over a move by Democrats to rename military base...

Nov 19, 2020

Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt. The win by Biden pads his Elect...

Nov 19, 2020

California imposes overnight curfew to curb coronavirus

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is imposing an overnight curfew on most residents as the most populous state tries to head off a surge in coronavirus cases that it fears could tax its health care syst...

Nov 19, 2020

Mnuchin rejects renewal of some Fed emergency loan programs

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday he will not to extend several emergency loan programs set up with the Federal Reserve to support the economy in the midst of the coronaviru...

Nov 19, 2020

'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

LONDON - Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for "Shuggie Bain," the story of a boy's turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the pr...

Nov 19, 2020

Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison in college bribery case

BOSTON - Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters' way into college, officials said. Giannulli's wife, "Full...

Nov 19, 2020

GM: New batteries cut electric car costs, increase range

DETROIT - General Motors says a pending breakthrough in battery chemistry will cut the price of its electric vehicles so they equal those powered by gasoline within five years. The technology also wil...

Nov 19, 2020

Singer Bobby Brown's son found dead at Los Angeles home

LOS ANGELES - Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, was found dead at a Los Angeles home Wednesday. He was 28. Los Angeles Police spokesman Officer Jeff Lee said officers were responding to ...

Nov 19, 2020

Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide wh...

Nov 19, 2020