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New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia but not marijuana

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealanders voted to legalize euthanasia in a binding referendum, but preliminary results released Friday showed they likely would not legalize marijuana. With about 83% o...

Oct 29, 2020

JetBlue is the latest airline to retreat from blocking seats

The days of airlines blocking seats to make passengers feel safer about flying during the pandemic are coming closer to an end. JetBlue is the latest to indicate it is rethinking the issue. A spokesma...

Oct 29, 2020

US to use Iranian fuel sale proceeds to aid terror victims

The Trump administration plans to use proceeds from the sale of fuel confiscated from Iranian tankers to benefit victims of terrorism, officials announced Thursday. The U.S. military in August seized ...

Oct 29, 2020

Paris Jackson excited and nervous on eve of debut solo album

NEW YORK - It started in her bedroom with just a guitar, but Paris Jackson has turned coping with the heartache after a recent break up into her debut solo album. Jackson, 22, has been a devoted music...

Oct 29, 2020

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

PARIS - It's been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won't stop poking fun at I...

Oct 29, 2020

Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of US

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting stat...

Oct 29, 2020

WHO: Europe now has more than 10 million COVID-19 cases

LONDON - The World Health Organization's Europe director said Thursday that the 54-country region has again reached a new weekly record for confirmed cases, with more than 1.5 million confirmed last w...

Oct 29, 2020

Report: US knew of problems family separation would cause

HOUSTON - Months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a "pilot program" in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for ba...

Oct 29, 2020

VMI to remove statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson

LEXINGTON, Va. - The Virginia Military Institute's board voted Thursday to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that currently stands in front of the barracks on campus, a school spok...

Oct 29, 2020

Asteroid samples tucked into capsule for return to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away has tucked asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth, after losing some of its precious loot, scientists said Thursd...

Oct 29, 2020