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Cannes announces lineup for a festival cancelled by COVID

From an empty movie theatre in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced the films that would have played at there in May had it not been cancelled by the pandemic. The sele...

Jun 03, 2020

Fed approves expansion of state and local support program

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has approved an expansion of its $500 billion emergency program to support state and local governments. The expansion will allow all states to have at least two cities...

Jun 03, 2020

Pilgrim’s Pride CEO among indicted for chicken price fixing

The CEO of Pilgrim's Pride is one of four current and former chicken company executives indicted Wednesday on charges of price-fixing. The U.S. Department of Justice said a federal grand jury in Color...

Jun 03, 2020

Active-duty troops deployed to DC region start to leave

WASHINGTON - Active-duty troops brought in to help if needed with the civil unrest in the nation's capitol are beginning to return to their home base, after two days of more peaceful demonstrations in...

Jun 03, 2020

Nation's streets calmest in days; police credit curfews

MINNEAPOLIS - Protesters marched on Wednesday in peaceful pleas to end police brutality, after a calmer night in cities across America void of the violence of recent days, as demonstrators heightened ...

Jun 03, 2020

Trump administration moves to block Chinese airlines from US

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to block Chinese airlines from flying to the U.S. in an escalation of trade and travel tensions between the two countries. The Transportation Department said i...

Jun 03, 2020

US service sector contracts for second month in May

WASHINGTON - The U.S. services sector shrank for a second month in May as the coronavirus pandemic triggered shutdowns and layoffs around the country. Activity did rise from levels last month that had...

Jun 03, 2020

Survey: Businesses cut 2.76 million jobs in May

BALTIMORE - U.S. businesses shed 2.76 million jobs in May as the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak stretched into a third month. The payroll company ADP reported Wednesday that businesses ...

Jun 03, 2020

High-speed Spanish passenger train hits car on track; 2 dead

MADRID - Two people were killed when a high-speed passenger train with more than 150 people on board hit a car on the tracks in northwest Spain on Tuesday. Emergency services said the locomotive derai...

Jun 02, 2020

Police: Video shows man killed in Kentucky fired a gun

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Video shows that a popular barbecue shack operator fatally shot while police and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew in Louisville fired a gun as officers approached his ...

Jun 02, 2020