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Wells Fargo to pay $3B to resolve probes into fake accounts

LOS ANGELES - Wells Fargo agreed Friday to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil investigations into a long-running practice whereby company employees opened millions of unauthorized bank accoun...

Feb 23, 2020

Parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme

BOSTON - A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty Friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Su...

Feb 23, 2020

Bloomberg : 3 women can be released on non-disclosure deals

WASHINGTON - Mike Bloomberg said Friday he'd free three women from confidentiality agreements that bar them from speaking publicly about sexual harassment or discrimination suits filed against him ove...

Feb 23, 2020

Weinstein jury indicates it is split on most serious counts

NEW YORK - The jury in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial indicated Friday that it is deadlocked on the most serious charges, but the judge told the panel it must keep working. In a note to the judge late ...

Feb 23, 2020

Former Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch has book deal

NEW YORK - Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat who during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump offered a chilling account of alleged threats from Trump and h...

Feb 23, 2020

School bus draped with message targets UK's Prince Andrew

LONDON - A yellow school bus with a banner depicting the face of Britain's Prince Andrew drove past Buckingham Palace on Friday, urging him to testify in the investigation of the late sex offender Jef...

Feb 23, 2020

US home sales fell 1.3% in January

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors said Fr...

Feb 23, 2020

Intel officials say Russia boosting Trump candidacy

WASHINGTON - Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar w...

Feb 23, 2020

Survivor: German shooter emptied magazine, calmly walked out

HANAU, Germany - Piter Minnemann and his friends were eating when they heard shots fired outside the door of the snack bar in Hanau where they had gathered. Minnemann, 18, recalled that he had just go...

Feb 23, 2020

Italy reports 1st virus death, cases more than quadruple

CODOGNO, Italy - Italy reported its first death from the new virus from China early Saturday and the number of people infected more than quadrupled due to a cluster of cases that prompted officials to...

Feb 23, 2020