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Fendi kicks off hybrid Milan Fashion Week with optimism

MILAN - The Italian fashion industry is moving to inject optimism into luxury's dismal year, staging 23 live runway shows and 37 presentations during a hybrid live-digital Milan Fashion Week that aims...

Sep 23, 2020

Carole Baskin of 'Tiger King' fame sued for defamation

ORLANDO, Fla. - Carole Baskin, who became a pop culture sensation due to Netflix's docuseries "Tiger King," is being sued for defamation by a former assistant. As part of the lawsuit, the daughters of...

Sep 23, 2020

Disney delays 'Black Widow,' Spielberg's 'West Side Story'

NEW YORK - The Walt Disney Co. has further postponed its next mega-movies from Marvel, including "Black Widow," while also postponing Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" a full year in the company's ...

Sep 23, 2020

California moves to end sales of new gas-powered cars

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35...

Sep 23, 2020

Americans load up on candy, trick or treat - or not

Americans may not know if trick or treating will happen this year because of the pandemic, but they're buying a lot of Halloween candy while they wait to find out. U.S. sales of Halloween candy were u...

Sep 23, 2020

1 officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case; not for her death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single former police officer for shooting into neighbouring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for th...

Sep 23, 2020

New SUV is next step in VW's post-scandal electric offensive

FRANKFURT - Volkswagen is unveiling a battery-powered sport-utility vehicle that is headed for global markets including the United States and China, as the company takes a major step forward in its ca...

Sep 23, 2020

Wells Fargo CEO apologizes for comments about diversity

NEW YORK - Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf apologized Wednesday for comments he made about the difficulty of finding qualified Black executives. Scharf said that "there is a very limited pool of black ...

Sep 23, 2020

Lebanese teen from Beirut joins global pop band

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and "American Idol," which aims...

Sep 23, 2020

First direct commercial flight from Israel lands in Bahrain

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The first known direct commercial flight between Israel and Bahrain landed Wednesday in the island kingdom, just a week after it signed a deal alongside the United Arab E...

Sep 23, 2020