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Houston scraps Texas GOP’s in-person convention due to virus

Houston officials on Wednesday cancelled the Texas Republican Party's in-person convention, saying the spread of the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event as scheduled. Mayor Sylvester Turn...

Jul 08, 2020

Network: Shepard Smith joins CNBC for weeknight news program

NEW YORK - Shepard Smith, who abruptly quit Fox News Channel last October amid the ascendancy of opinionated programming, will bring a nightly newscast to CNBC this fall. CNBC announced Wednesday that...

Jul 08, 2020

Brooks Brothers, worn by Lincoln and Kennedy, goes bankrupt

NEW YORK - Brooks Brothers, the 200-year-old company that dressed nearly every U.S. president, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, the latest major clothing seller to be toppled by the coronavi...

Jul 08, 2020

AP Exclusive: 'Strike for Black Lives' to highlight racism

NEW YORK - A national coalition of labour unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work this month, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism...

Jul 08, 2020

NYC mayor unveils plan to reopen schools in fall

NEW YORK - Most New York City students will return to their physical schools two or three days a week and learn online the rest of the time under a plan announced Wednesday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, wh...

Jul 08, 2020

Crane collapses in east London; rescue teams on site

LONDON - A 20-meter (65-foot) crane collapsed onto a block of apartments under development and two houses in east London, injuring four people and leaving one person missing, authorities said Wednesda...

Jul 08, 2020

Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out case

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in its effort to allow more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women as required by the Affordable Care A...

Jul 08, 2020

Coppola and Henson companies get loans for winery, puppetry

LOS ANGELES - From a godfather of cinema to Kermit the Frog, the U.S. government's small-business lending program sent money into unexpected corners of the entertainment industry. While legendary name...

Jul 08, 2020

Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students

BOSTON - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to bar international students from staying i...

Jul 08, 2020

'Palm Springs' arrives for the Groundhog Days of quarantine

NEW YORK - Though most of the films that have debuted during the pandemic never got to screen for packed movie houses, "Palm Springs" had the kind of premiere filmmakers dream of. At the Sundance Film...

Jul 08, 2020