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Jury says it has reached verdict in Harvey Weinstein's trial

NEW YORK - The jury says it has reached a verdict Monday in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial in New York City. The jury has been deliberating the rape and sexual assault charges against the once-powerful...

Feb 24, 2020

Love of basketball put Bryant, others on final fatal flight

LOS ANGELES - The six passengers travelling with Kobe Bryant and his daughter in the helicopter that crashed into a Southern California mountainside last month were joined by their love of basketball....

Feb 24, 2020

Car hits crowd at Carnival in German town; several injured

BERLIN - A car slammed into a crowd at a Carnival procession in a German town on Monday, injuring several people, police said. The driver was arrested. Police told the dpa news agency that no deaths h...

Feb 24, 2020

Supreme Court won't hear case brought by author Jon Krakauer

WASHINGTON - The educational records of a star University of Montana quarterback accused of rape will remain confidential after the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the case brought by author...

Feb 24, 2020

Pioneering black mathematician Katherine Johnson has died

HAMPTON, Va. - NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions and was portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, h...

Feb 24, 2020

Global markets plunge as virus cases spread beyond Asia

NEW YORK - Stocks are opening sharply lower on Wall Street, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 700 points, as virus cases spread beyond China, threatening to disrupt the global ec...

Feb 24, 2020

Jussie Smollett to make 1st court appearance on new charges

CHICAGO - Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is due to make an initial court appearance Monday on a new set of charges alleging that he lied to police about being targeted in a racist and homophobi...

Feb 24, 2020

Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series "Hunters"

WARSAW, Poland - The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no s...

Feb 24, 2020

South Sudan's rivals form unity government meant to end war

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government that many observers prayed would last this time aro...

Feb 24, 2020

B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

NEW YORK - Barbara "B." Smith, one of the nation's top black models who went on to open restaurants, launch a successful home products line and write cookbooks, has died at her Long Island home at age...

Feb 24, 2020