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Indonesia expands effort to recover crashed plane, victims

JAKARTA, Indonesia - More searchers and rescuers joined the search Friday for wreckage and victims from an Indonesian plane that crashed last weekend in the Java Sea. The aerial search for the crashed...

Jan 15, 2021

EXPLAINER: What's next after House impeachment vote

WASHINGTON - Now that the House has impeached President Donald Trump for the second time, Speaker Nancy Pelosi must figure out the best strategy for arguing the case before the Senate. Senate rules sa...

Jan 15, 2021

Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home

MADRID - While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavirus variant causing havoc elsewhere is not to blame for a sharp r...

Jan 15, 2021

Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, will read at Biden inaugural

NEW YORK - At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions. "I have kind of stumbled upon this g...

Jan 15, 2021

Jets hire 49ers defensive co-ordinator Robert Saleh as coach

NEW YORK - The New York Jets were searching for a leader, someone who could bring a frustrated, playoff-starved franchise back to respectability. They think they found their guy in Robert Saleh. The J...

Jan 14, 2021

Michael Cohen writes foreword for Trump impeachment book

NEW YORK - A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate - former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Skyhorse Publishing...

Jan 14, 2021

Quake sets off landslides, kills at least 3 in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island just after midnight, causing landslides and sending people fleeing from their homes in the nighttime darkness. At le...

Jan 14, 2021

FBI tracking 'extensive' online chatter about armed protests

WASHINGTON - The FBI is tracking an "extensive amount of concerning online chatter," including calls for armed protests leading up to next week's presidential inauguration, Director Chris Wray said Th...

Jan 14, 2021

GOP senators in spotlight as second impeachment trial looms

WASHINGTON - For a second time, Republican senators face the choice of whether to convict President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial. While only one GOP senator, Utah's Mitt Romney, voted to convi...

Jan 14, 2021

Joanne Rogers, widow of TV's famed Mister Rogers, dies at 92

PITTSBURGH - Joanne Rogers, the widow of Fred Rogers and an accomplished concert pianist, has died. She was 92. Rogers, who nurtured the memory and legacy of the gentle TV host who entertained and edu...

Jan 14, 2021