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Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort

WASHINGTON - Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an inv...

Oct 08, 2020

6 people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer

DETROIT - Six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court. Four of the six men had...

Oct 08, 2020

On edge of 72, Stevie Nicks just wants to sing a song live

NEW YORK - It's Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Stevie Nicks is singing on the phone. The rock icon is at her Los Angeles home, where she's been cooped up since December after wrapping the "An Evening with ...

Oct 08, 2020

Gov. Charlie Baker to be honoured with bobblehead doll

BOSTON - Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is getting the bobblehead treatment for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee on Thursday unv...

Oct 08, 2020

Taliban cheer Trump tweet promising early troop withdrawal

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban on Thursday welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas - or at least by the end of...

Oct 08, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Pence echoes Trump misfires in VP debate

WASHINGTON - Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice-President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump's falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with D...

Oct 08, 2020

Large Chinese mitten crab crawls into German woman's home

BERLIN - Police in southern Germany say a woman got a shock while airing out her home when a 25-centimetre (10-inch) Chinese mitten crab scurried in from the terrace through the open door. Freiburg po...

Oct 08, 2020

Analyzing Trump's illness is humbling for media's med teams

NEW YORK - Here's an assignment to humble even the most confident doctor: Assess a patient's condition before millions of people without being able to examine him or see a complete medical chart. That...

Oct 08, 2020

Uncertainty in Madrid as court nixes partial virus lockdown

MADRID - A court in Madrid on Thursday struck down a national government order that imposed a partial lockdown in the Spanish capital and its suburbs, siding with regional officials who had resisted s...

Oct 08, 2020

Germany, which had virus under control, sees a jump in cases

BERLIN - Germany is seeing a sharp jump in new coronavirus infections, a development that is raising fears the pandemic is picking up pace in a country that so far has coped better than many of its Eu...

Oct 08, 2020