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Perdue, Ossoff head to Georgia US Senate runoff

ATLANTA - Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue's Senate seat. Libertarian candidate Shane Hazel was able to get enough votes...

Nov 06, 2020

Japan's Toyota sees profit slip, holding up despite pandemic

TOKYO - Toyota's July-September profit fell 11% from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic slammed global demand, but Japan's top automaker appeared to be holding up better than weaker rivals tha...

Nov 06, 2020

Japan automaker Honda reports profit rise despite pandemic

TOKYO - Japanese automaker Honda reported Friday that its profit rose 23% in the last quarter, despite a pandemic that has slammed businesses around the world. Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. said its Jul...

Nov 06, 2020

Vatican to release McCarrick report Tuesday, spans 1930-2017

ROME - The Vatican on Tuesday will release its long-awaited report into what it knew about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's sexual misconduct during his rise through the church hierarchy, setting up a...

Nov 06, 2020

Biden sees path to 270; Trump attacks election integrity

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week's election against Joe Biden, as the Democrat gained ...

Nov 06, 2020

German police raid homes of people linked to Vienna attacker

BERLIN - German police have raided the homes and businesses of four people linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week. Federal police said Friday that ...

Nov 05, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump fabricates election corruption

WASHINGTON - Citing "horror stories," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabricated accusations Thursday in an audacious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election. Standing b...

Nov 05, 2020

Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine

MELBOURNE, Australia - Overseas travellers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city's bungled quarantine program reported on Friday. The Victoria state gov...

Nov 05, 2020

Asia Today: Court upholds state border closings in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's highest court on Friday upheld a state's border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer's argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. ...

Nov 05, 2020

Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots

Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying T...

Nov 05, 2020