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Barrett to join Supreme Court arguments for the first time

WASHINGTON - Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to join her Supreme Court colleagues on Monday to hear arguments for the first time. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the high court began hearin...

Nov 02, 2020

2020 Watch: Will loser of the election accept the result?

WASHINGTON - Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into the final week of the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: 1 ___ THE NARRATIVE It's almost over. By this time next we...

Nov 02, 2020

Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake

IZMIR, Turkey - In what one rescue worker called "a miracle," extraction teams brought two girls out alive Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir,...

Nov 02, 2020

French schools reopen in mourning after beheading of teacher

PARIS - French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of I...

Nov 02, 2020

Indonesian Muslims protest France's defence of cartoon

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian Muslims marched to the heavily guarded French Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem c...

Nov 02, 2020

Midwestern states with few virus rules have low unemployment

OMAHA, Neb. - Five of the six states with the nation's lowest unemployment rates are in the Midwest, have Republican governors and have almost no restrictions intended to slow the spread of the corona...

Nov 02, 2020

Germany launches 4-week partial shutdown to curb virus

BERLIN - A four-week partial shutdown has started in Germany, with restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas and other leisure facilities closing down until the end of the month in a drive to flatten a rap...

Nov 02, 2020

UK court rules against Johnny Depp in libel action

LONDON - Britain's High Court has ruled against Johnny Depp in his libel action against the owner of the Sun tabloid over allegations that he was a "wife beater." In a ruling Monday, Justice Andrew Ni...

Nov 02, 2020

Gunfire erupts at Kabul University as police surround campus

KABUL - Gunfire erupted at Kabul University in the Afghan capital early Monday and police have surrounded the sprawling campus, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but Inter...

Nov 02, 2020

Texas high court denies GOP effort to reject Houston votes

DALLAS - The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state's all-Republican high court r...

Nov 01, 2020