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Rain, art and winter wonderlands at Paris Fashion Week

PARIS - Haunting music greeted drizzled-on VIP guests, including singer Janelle Mone, who braved torrential rains in Paris to get to Valentino's experimental fashion show near the Invalides monument o...

Mar 01, 2020

Virus fears close down France's famed Louvre Museum

PARIS - The spreading coronavirus epidemic shut down France's Louvre Museum on Sunday, with workers who guard its famous trove of artworks fearful of being contaminated by the museum's flow of tourist...

Mar 01, 2020

Attacks on Indian journalists highlight growing intolerance

NEW DELHI - Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during last week's deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi show the situ...

Mar 01, 2020

Buttigieg ends historic presidential campaign, urges unity

WASHINGTON - Pete Buttigieg, who rose from relative obscurity as an Indiana mayor to a barrier-breaking, top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, ended his campaign on Sunday. Th...

Mar 01, 2020

Biden fights for momentum in Democrats' shifting primary

SELMA, Ala. - An emboldened Joe Biden tried to cast himself as the clear moderate alternative to progressive Bernie Sanders on Sunday as the Democrats' shrinking presidential field raced toward Super ...

Mar 01, 2020

House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till

WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced ...

Feb 28, 2020

Colorado poised to become 22nd state with no death penalty

DENVER - Colorado is set to become the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty after lawmakers on Wednesday approved a repeal bill that Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has pledged to sign into law. P...

Feb 28, 2020

Italy seeks to calm fears in Europe as cases, deaths rise

ROME - Italy sought to rally international support for its virus containment efforts Wednesday even as its caseload reached 447, people linked to Italy fell ill across Europe and as far away as Brazil...

Feb 28, 2020

World battles virus epidemic as cases multiply outside China

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, military bases were on high alert and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to a remot...

Feb 28, 2020

Trump urges calm even as US reports worrisome new virus case

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared that a widespread U.S. outbreak of the new respiratory virus sweeping the globe isn't inevitable even as top health authorities at his side warned American...

Feb 28, 2020