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From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labour rises

NAIROBI, Kenya - The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection. Painfully...

Oct 20, 2020

UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial

LONDON - Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, the 22-year-old Londoner has volunteered to contract the new coro...

Oct 20, 2020

Nagorno-Karabakh fighting continues despite truce efforts

YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia and Azerbaijan reported more fighting on Tuesday over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where clashes have continued for over three weeks despite two attempts at...

Oct 20, 2020

Police: Houston officer killed in shooting, another wounded

HOUSTON - A Houston police officer was killed and a teenager and another officer were wounded Tuesday morning when a man opened fire on law enforcement responding to a domestic disturbance call, autho...

Oct 20, 2020

Photo altered to Ice Cube, 50 Center in 'Trump 2020' hats

An altered photo of rappers Ice Cube and 50 Cent in hats that appear to show support for President Donald Trump circulated widely on social media Tuesday, fueled in part by a tweet by Eric Trump. "Two...

Oct 20, 2020

San Francisco Conservatory buys Opus 3 Artists agency

With much of the classical music industry shuttered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, one of the leading management agencies has been acquired by an unusual buyer in an unconventional transaction. Th...

Oct 20, 2020

Sweden bans Huawei, ZTE from 5G, calls China biggest threat

Sweden is banning Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from building new high-speed wireless networks after a top security official called China one of the country's biggest threats. The Swedish tele...

Oct 20, 2020

Netflix previews 'Ma Rainey' and Boseman's final performance

NEW YORK - Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe's August Wilson adaptation "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," showcasing Chadwick Boseman's final performance opposite Viola Davis' powerhouse blues sin...

Oct 20, 2020

Robert Redford's son, James, dies of liver cancer at 58

LOS ANGELES - James Redford, a filmmaker, activist and son of actor Robert Redford, has died. He was 58. Robert Redford's publicist, Cindi Berger, said in a statement Monday that the 84-year-old fathe...

Oct 20, 2020

Q&A: Adam McKay on the lessons of the 2000 recount

NEW YORK - Adam McKay was head writer at "Saturday Night Live" during the 2000 election - a heady era for the sketch show that saw the phrase "strategery" become lodged in the nation's consciousness, ...

Oct 20, 2020