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Barack Obama to hold his first in-person event for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON - Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden. In 2016, the man known as one of the Democratic Party's ...

Oct 21, 2020

How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 - and set a lot of it on fire. Trump bought a $10 million Supe...

Oct 20, 2020

Bill Cosby, now 83, grins in newly released prison mug shot

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A newly released prison mug shot shows Bill Cosby smiling with a disposable mask hanging off his face. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recently updated Cosby's mug shot, s...

Oct 20, 2020

Duterte: Hold me responsible for killings in drug crackdown

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine president has said he accepts responsibility for the thousands of killings committed during police operations in his crackdown on drugs, adding that he was even re...

Oct 20, 2020

Nearly 2,000 inmates escape in attacks on Nigeria prisons

LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian authorities said Tuesday that nearly 2,000 inmates had broken out of jail after crowds attacked two prisons, while officials announced a 24-hour curfew in the megacity of Lag...

Oct 20, 2020

Danish submarine killer briefly escapes from prison

COPENHAGEN - A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a dramatic but brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison Tuesday, reportedly tak...

Oct 20, 2020

US, Russia appear set to extend last remaining nuclear pact

WASHINGTON - The United States and Russia inched closer Tuesday to a deal to extend their last remaining arms control pact, after U.S. threats to allow the deal to expire early next year. The two side...

Oct 20, 2020

Leaders in US, Europe divided on response to surging virus

SALT LAKE CITY - Virus cases are surging across Europe and many U.S. states, but responses by leaders are miles apart, with officials in Ireland, France and elsewhere imposing curfews and restricting ...

Oct 20, 2020

From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labour rises

NAIROBI, Kenya - The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection. Painfully...

Oct 20, 2020

UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial

LONDON - Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, the 22-year-old Londoner has volunteered to contract the new coro...

Oct 20, 2020