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EU authorities open twin Apple antitrust investigations

LONDON - European Union regulators opened two investigations on Tuesday into Apple's mobile app store and payment platform over concerns its practices distort competition, opening a new front in the E...

Jun 16, 2020

Kimmel to host Emmys, first major awards show of pandemic

LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Kimmel will host the first major Hollywood awards ceremony of the coronavirus pandemic - but just how the Emmys will be held remains cloudy. Kimmel, who is also producing the Sept....

Jun 16, 2020

Man arrested in shooting during Albuquerque statue protest

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A 31-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting that happened as protesters in New Mexico's largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the ...

Jun 16, 2020

World Trade Organization finds Saudi links to sports piracy

The World Trade Organization has ruled Saudi Arabia failed to stop a broadcasting operation pirating sports coverage and blocked moves to shut it down in a proxy of the Gulf economic and diplomatic di...

Jun 16, 2020

UK cuts development ministry, merges it with Foreign Office

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday that he is merging the British government's international development department into its foreign ministry to create a "super department" in cha...

Jun 16, 2020

Powell warns that long downturn would mean severe damage

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the U.S. economy faces a deep downturn with "significant uncertainty" about the timing and strength of a recovery. He warns that the longer the...

Jun 16, 2020

Oprah picks James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' for book club

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's "Deacon King Kong" for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centres on the shooting of a drug dealer by a...

Jun 16, 2020

North Korea destroys empty liaison office with South

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbol...

Jun 16, 2020

US industrial production bounces back 1.4% in May

WASHINGTON - American industry rebounded last month as factories began to reopen after being shut down by the coronavirus lockdown in Aprll. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that industiral production...

Jun 16, 2020

Queen Elizabeth misses Royal Ascot for first time in reign

LONDON - Nothing has kept Queen Elizabeth II away from the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting during her 68-year reign as U.K. monarch - not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot...

Jun 16, 2020