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German police raid homes of people linked to Vienna attacker

BERLIN - German police have raided the homes and businesses of four people linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week. Federal police said Friday that ...

Nov 05, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump fabricates election corruption

WASHINGTON - Citing "horror stories," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabricated accusations Thursday in an audacious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election. Standing b...

Nov 05, 2020

Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine

MELBOURNE, Australia - Overseas travellers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city's bungled quarantine program reported on Friday. The Victoria state gov...

Nov 05, 2020

Asia Today: Court upholds state border closings in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's highest court on Friday upheld a state's border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer's argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. ...

Nov 05, 2020

Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots

Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying T...

Nov 05, 2020

Australia accuses head of Chinese group of foreign meddling

CANBERRA, Australia - The leader of a Chinese community organization has become the first person to be charged under Australia's foreign interference laws that were passed two years ago, police said T...

Nov 05, 2020

Portland, Oregon rejects bid to cut $18M more from police

PORTLAND, Ore. - City commissioners in Portland, Oregon on Thursday rejected a budget amendment that would have slashed another $18 million from the Portland Police Bureau amid months of racial justic...

Nov 05, 2020

In NYC, marking 50th anniversary of Pride, no matter what

NEW YORK - There were protests, rainbow flags and performances - it was LGBTQ Pride, after all. But what was normally an outpouring on the streets of New York City looked a little different this year,...

Nov 05, 2020

AP sources: Texas AG's affair tied to criminal allegations

DALLAS - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he later recommended for a job with the wealthy donor now at the centre of criminal allegations against him, acc...

Nov 05, 2020

Man, 18, arrested in slaying of actor Eddie Hassell in Texas

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Police say an 18-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of actor Eddie Hassell during a random robbery at a suburban Dallas apartment complex parking lot over the ...

Nov 05, 2020