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'Goonies' cast, 'Flintstones' rescue TV viewers in pandemic

LOS ANGELES - Josh Gad had a notion about what might soothe the kid in him during a scary time and maybe do the same for others. The actor got to work organizing an online reunion of the cast and crea...

Apr 30, 2020

US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theory

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic trace to ...

Apr 30, 2020

Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea

TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...

Apr 30, 2020

About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home

NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...

Apr 30, 2020

UK admits it could miss 100,000 daily virus tests target

LONDON - The British government has acknowledged that it may miss its self-imposed goal of conducting 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of Thursday. But officials insisted that the U.K. i...

Apr 30, 2020

Fauci warns states against 'tempting' a coronavirus rebound

WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as t...

Apr 30, 2020

US jobless claims soar past 30 million; Europe reeling also

NEW YORK - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits because of the coronavirus has soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and turning up the pressure on p...

Apr 30, 2020

This is his quest: An actor serenades the front-line workers

NEW YORK - It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery bariton...

Apr 30, 2020

Harrison Ford piloting plane that wrongly crosses runway

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Harrison Ford was piloting a plane that wrongly crossed a runway where another plane was landing, and federal authorities are investigating, officials and a representative for the ...

Apr 30, 2020

Netflix’s ‘The Half of It’ wins Tribeca Film Festival honour

LOS ANGELES - Alice Wu's "The Half of It," a teenage spin on Cyrano de Bergerac, has won the top award from the Tribeca Film Festival. Organizers announced winners Wednesday for the festival, which ha...

Apr 30, 2020