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No handshakes at meet and greet? Tech show adapts to virus

LONDON - A major European technology trade fair has a low-tech idea for reducing virus risks: go hands-free. Organizers of this month's Mobile World Congress show are advising attendees to adopt a no-...

Feb 07, 2020

Bolton reviewing letter from White House about manuscript

Former national security adviser John Bolton's team on Friday accused the White House of trying to suppress his unpublished book after word surfaced that the National Security Council had sent him a l...

Feb 07, 2020

Autopsy: Nick Gordon died from heroin overdose

ORLANDO, Fla. - Bobbi Kristina Brown's ex-partner died last month from a heroin overdose, an autopsy found. Nick Gordon, whose legal name is Nicholas Bouler, died from an accidental overdose on New Ye...

Feb 07, 2020

Winfrey says King not doing well after social media backlash

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey says her friend Gayle King is facing death threats following a social media backlash caused by an interview with retired WNBA star Lisa Leslie that concerned the late Kobe Bry...

Feb 07, 2020

Probe: No outward engine failure in Bryant helicopter crash

LOS ANGELES - Wreckage from the helicopter that crashed last month and killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others did not show any outward evidence of engine failure, the National Transportatio...

Feb 07, 2020

Iraqi officials: At least 8 shot dead in southern Iraq

BAGHDAD - At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and a...

Feb 07, 2020

Oscar Predictions: Can 'Parasite' upset '1917'?

NEW YORK - Ahead of Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks but the potential for a few surprises. BEST PICTURE ...

Feb 07, 2020

Sen. Mitt Romney breaks with GOP, votes to convict Trump

WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney, establishment to the core, took the Senate's most brazenly rebellious stance Wednesday in voting to force President Donald Trump from office, a move highlighting h...

Feb 07, 2020

Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured

ISTANBUL - A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Passengers h...

Feb 07, 2020

Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show

NEW YORK - Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble. Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake. Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could'...

Feb 07, 2020