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Firebrand monk surrenders to police days before Myanmar vote

YANGON, Myanmar - A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar noted for inflammatory rhetoric surrendered on Monday to police, who have been seeking his arrest for over a year for insulting comments he mad...

Nov 02, 2020

US surgeon general pleads not guilty to Hawaii citation

HONOLULU - A lawyer for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams pleaded not guilty Monday on behalf of the official who was cited by Honolulu police for being in a closed park during a trip to help Hawaii c...

Nov 02, 2020

Biden backers make final plea for delivery of mail ballots

PHILADELPHIA - Down to the wire with the threat of court battles looming, supporters of former Vice-President Joe Biden scrambled Monday to rally swing-state voters to drop off ballots, visit precinct...

Nov 02, 2020

Bail set at $2m for teen accused in Wisconsin shootings

Bail was set at $2 million on Monday for a 17-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two men and wounding a third during an August protest in Kenosha, after the father of one of the victims told th...

Nov 02, 2020

Austrian police say several injured after gunfire in Vienna

VIENNA - Austrian police said Monday that several people were injured and officers were out in force following gunfire in the capital Vienna. Oskar Deutsch, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna,...

Nov 02, 2020

Judge rejects GOP effort to throw out 127,000 Houston votes

HOUSTON - A federal judge on Monday rejected another last-ditch Republican effort to invalidate nearly 127,000 votes in Houston because the ballots were cast at drive-thru polling centres established ...

Nov 02, 2020

In Brazil, a parrot puppeteer’s death stirs the nation

RIO DE JANEIRO - In a time of so much loss, it is rare for an individual death to stir a country. And it is extraordinary for national grief to be triggered by the passing of a puppet. But so it was i...

Nov 02, 2020

Report: South Dakota official distracted before fatal crash

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed a pedestrian in September, state Secretary of Public...

Nov 02, 2020

Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Just over her mask, Patra Okelo's eyes brimmed with tears when she recalled the instant that a truth about America dawned and her innocence burned away. One moment on Aug. 11, 2...

Nov 02, 2020

US construction spending up again, rises 0.3% in September

SILVER SPRING, Md. - U.S. construction spending rose 0.3% in September, the fourth straight monthly gain after a coronavirus-caused spring swoon, although a smaller gain than analysts had expected. Th...

Nov 02, 2020