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Alaska book controversy draws attention of hometown rockers

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Members of the Grammy-winning rock band Portugal. The Man are stepping into a banned book controversy in their Alaska home town. After the school board at the Matanuska-Susitna Bor...

May 01, 2020

Q&A: Director Brad Bird on choosing his 'essentials' for TCM

LOS ANGELES - As the youngest member of his family, Brad Bird would often get dragged along to films that may have been a little out of his depth for a child, like "2001: A Space Odyssey." But even if...

May 01, 2020

Biden on sexual assault allegation: 'never, never happened'

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying "this never h...

May 01, 2020

Virus worries haunt workers demanding rights on May Day

ATHENS, Greece - No job at all, or a job without enough protections - millions of workers worldwide marked international labour day trapped between hunger and fear Friday, as more countries and states...

May 01, 2020

Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day

LOS ANGELES - Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say...

May 01, 2020

Bollywood mourns loss of two of its most versatile actors

GURUGRAM, India - Two of India's most beloved movie stars, Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, died within a day of each other this week, and though they came from two very different worlds and two very dif...

May 01, 2020

Mexican protest singer Oscar Chávez dies of COVID-19 at 85

MEXICO CITY - One of Mexico's best-known protest singers, Oscar Chvez, died Thursday at age 85 after being infected with the coronavirus. Mexico's culture secretary confirmed the singer's death, and t...

May 01, 2020

Kelly Rowland: ‘Coffee’ song, video is my ode to black women

NEW YORK - Kelly Rowland says her new single "Coffee" and its accompanying music video is her "ode to the beauty of black women." Rowland debuted the breezy R&B track and video featuring black wom...

May 01, 2020

Anderson Cooper is a father; gives infant son a special name

NEW YORK - Anderson Cooper is a father, a milestone the CNN anchor says for a while he didn't believe would ever happen. Cooper announced the birth of his son, Wyatt, Thursday evening on his show and ...

May 01, 2020

Duchess of Sussex loses first round in privacy claim

LONDON - The Duchess of Sussex has lost an early round in her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday newspaper over its publication of a letter to her estranged father. Meghan is suing for invasion o...

May 01, 2020