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Police: 5 arrested in Los Angeles death of rapper Pop Smoke

LOS ANGELES - Three men and two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the February home-invasion death of rising rapper Pop Smoke in Los Angeles, police said Thursday. The 20-year-old New Yo...

Jul 09, 2020

AP source: Feds feared Epstein confidante might kill herself

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Federal officials were so worried Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell might take her own life after her arrest that they took away her clothes and sheets and ma...

Jul 09, 2020

Woman arrested in hit-and-run at Indiana protest

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana woman was arrested in a hit-and-run crash that sent one woman to the hospital and caused minor injuries to a man during a southern Indiana protest over the assault of a Black...

Jul 09, 2020

Rare Cannonball Adderley 1966 Seattle concerts going digital

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - A rare collection of previously unissued recordings by legendary jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley is becoming more accessible thanks to two small jazz labels seeking to keep jaz...

Jul 09, 2020

Parades, close-ups with Mickey out as Disney World reopens

ORLANDO, Fla. - Forget about up-close "meet-and-greet" sessions with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck when Walt Disney World parks reopen. There will be no firework shows or parades - those would draw too ...

Jul 09, 2020

Justices rule swath of Oklahoma remains tribal reservation

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation, a decision that state and federal officials have warned could throw Oklahom...

Jul 09, 2020

Supreme Court says Congress can't get Trump records, for now

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday kept a hold on President Donald Trump's financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year. The ruling returns the case to lower courts, w...

Jul 09, 2020

Wisconsin Supreme Court OKs GOP-authored lame-duck laws

MADISON, Wis. - The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before ...

Jul 09, 2020

Depp, at libel trial, says Heard relationship was 'tailspin'

LONDON - Johnny Depp denied assaulting ex-wife Amber Heard on a private Caribbean island and during a furious rampage in Australia in a third day of evidence Thursday in his libel suit against a tablo...

Jul 09, 2020

Asian American girls saw pivotal icon in 'Baby-Sitters Club'

Author Ann M. Martin had no master plan when she decided to make one of the core members of "The Baby-Sitters Club" a Japanese American girl named Claudia. Claudia Kishi happened to be everything the ...

Jul 09, 2020