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Theater world to unite for get-out-the-vote event on Oct. 29

NEW YORK - Playwright and "The Walking Dead" star Danai Gurira, Tony Award-winning director Stephen Daldry and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner playwright Lynn Nottage are spearheading a night of music ...

Oct 22, 2020

Poland's top court rules out abortions for birth defects

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's top court has ruled that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional. The decision by the country's constitutional Court on Thursday effect...

Oct 22, 2020

Plot thickens over origins of pope's civil union endorsement

VATICAN CITY - Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis' bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was ...

Oct 22, 2020

James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92

James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country's foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announ...

Oct 22, 2020

EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition

BRUSSELS - The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko'...

Oct 22, 2020

Mixed Philippine reaction on pope nod on gay civil unions

MANILA, Philippines - Pope Francis' endorsement of same-sex civil unions drew mixed reactions Thursday in the Philippines, Asia's bastion of Catholicism, with a retired bishop saying he was scandalize...

Oct 22, 2020

Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee top Billboard Latin Music Awards

SUNRISE, Fla. - Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee triumphed at the Billboard Latin Music Awards Wednesday, claiming seven trophies apiece at the pandemic-delayed show. Bad Bunny won artist of the year, the n...

Oct 21, 2020

Lowe homers twice, Rays hold off Dodgers 6-4 to even Series

ARLINGTON, Texas - Brandon Lowe busted out early and Tampa Bay's bullpen hung on late. Rays and Dodgers, tied after two in Texas. Lowe shook loose from his extended post-season slump with two opposite...

Oct 21, 2020

Trio who lived on space station return to Earth safely

MOSCOW - A trio of space travellers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International Space Station. A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, and Roscos...

Oct 21, 2020

Officer may face charges in killing of autistic Palestinian

JERUSALEM - Israeli prosecutors on Wednesday recommended charging a police officer with reckless manslaughter in the deadly shooting of an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this...

Oct 21, 2020