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Avenatti lawyer to put Stormy Daniels' credibility on trial

NEW YORK - The credibility of porn star Stormy Daniels will be the central issue when Michael Avenatti goes on trial in April on charges that he cheated her of $300,000 from a book deal, his attorney ...

Feb 25, 2020

Feds seek 21 months for Hot Pockets heiress in college scam

BOSTON - Prosecutors are seeking nearly two years in prison for an heiress to the Hot Pockets microwavable snack fortune who agreed to pay $300,000 to cheat the college admissions process for her daug...

Feb 25, 2020

Mississippi man convicted in shooting deaths of 8 people

MAGNOLIA, Miss. - A Mississippi jury on Tuesday convicted a man in the 2017 shooting deaths of eight people, including some of his own relatives and a deputy sheriff who responded to a domestic distur...

Feb 25, 2020

Singer who drew fire at Mar-a-Lago competent to face trial

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Connecticut opera singer is now mentally competent to stand trial on charges that she sped through a checkpoint outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, drawing gu...

Feb 25, 2020

Drugmaker Mallinckrodt reaches $1.6B opioid settlement

The generic drugmaker Mallinckrodt has a tentative $1.6 billion deal to settle lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, it announced Tuesday. The deal is intended to end hundreds of lawsuits ...

Feb 25, 2020

39 states investigating Juul's marketing of vaping products

HARTFORD, Conn. - Investigators from 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about ni...

Feb 25, 2020

Honolulu marathon CEO says he was abused by Michigan doctor

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The president and CEO of one of the nation's largest marathons has joined a chorus of former students who have complained about a late University of Michigan doctor by saying the ph...

Feb 25, 2020

Dior invokes #MeToo in feminist-inspired fashion show

"Consent, Consent, Consent" flashed the neon set lights at Dior's latest ready-to-wear show in Paris. It signalled that the house's first ever female designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, would continue to e...

Feb 25, 2020

No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store

NEW YORK - Amazon is aiming to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking up the...

Feb 25, 2020

Review: 'Driving While Black' opens road to civil rights

"Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights," Liveright/W.W. Norton, by Gretchen Sorin Chuck Berry had his Cadillac. Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois drove his 1920s convertible. ...

Feb 25, 2020