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Police release footage after officers shoot 13-year-old boy

SALT LAKE CITY - A 13-year-old Utah boy with autism was shot by police after his mother asked for help getting him hospital mental-health treatment and officers agreed to talk with him, police footage...

Sep 21, 2020

Judge extends Wisconsin absentee cutoff 6 days post election

MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Elec...

Sep 21, 2020

Police cancel vacations; prepare for Breonna Taylor decision

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville, Kentucky, police said Monday that they had cancelled vacations and were setting up barricades in preparation for the state attorney general's announcement about whether h...

Sep 21, 2020

Kal Penn hopes for dialogue with new show for young voters

Politics has been more than a little shouty of late. Actor and activist Kal Penn would quietly like to change that. "Today we have the blessing - or a curse - of being able to yell at somebody on your...

Sep 21, 2020

Famed French actor Michael Lonsdale dies at 89

PARIS - Michael Lonsdale, a giant of the silver screen and theatre in France who worked with some of the world's top directors in an acting career that spanned 60 years, died on Monday, his agent said...

Sep 21, 2020

US household wealth hits record even as economy struggles

WASHINGTON - Americans' household wealth rebounded last quarter to a record high as the stock market quickly recovered from a pandemic-induced plunge in March. Yet the gains flowed mainly to the most ...

Sep 21, 2020

Founder of GM electric truck partner quits amid allegations

FRANKFURT - Shares in electric and hydrogen-powered truck startup Nikola plunged on Monday after the company's founder resigned amid allegations of fraud - just two weeks after signing a $2 billion pa...

Sep 21, 2020

Central bank head: Europe's recovery uncertain, incomplete

FRANKFURT - The head of the European Central Bank says that the economy is rebounding but that the recovery remains uncertain, incomplete and dependent on containing the virus outbreak. ECB President ...

Sep 21, 2020

Meghan's lawyers deny she co-operated with royal book authors

LONDON - Lawyers for a British newspaper publisher that's being sued for invasion of privacy by the Duchess of Sussex argued Monday that she made personal information public by co-operating with the a...

Sep 21, 2020

'Schitt's Creek' sweeps comedy categories at Emmy Awards

LOS ANGELES - "Schitt's Creek," the little Canadian show about a fish-out-of-water family, made history at Sunday's Emmy Awards with a comedy awards sweep, something even TV greats including "Frasier"...

Sep 20, 2020