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Avenatti greets prospective jurors for extortion trial

NEW YORK - California lawyer Michael Avenatti stood to greet 120 prospective jurors who came to a New York courtroom Monday to fill out questionnaires for his trial on charges he tried to extort milli...

Jan 29, 2020

1 critically injured in Los Angeles high-rise apartment fire

Los Angeles firefighters rescued terrified residents from the rooftop of a 25-story high-rise apartment building where a fire broke out on a sixth-floor balcony and sent choking smoke billowing throug...

Jan 29, 2020

Trump hosts Israeli leaders who call his peace plan historic

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump hosted Israel's prime minister and his chief rival Monday at the White House on the eve of unveiling a long-awaited Mideast peace plan, expressing confidence that d...

Jan 29, 2020

Justice Sotomayor teases new picture book on civics, heroes

MIAMI - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wants young children to think of citizenship in a different way. The justice sat down with Grammy Award winning singer Gloria Estefan in Miami and told a ...

Jan 29, 2020

Putin pardons Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A presidential decree pardoning Naama Issachar on "humanitarian...

Jan 29, 2020

Italian town where Bryant played as a kid mourns - again

ROME - For a city already familiar with losing a basketball hero, Kobe Bryant's death made a particularly strong impact in the Italian town of Rieti. Nicknamed "the centre of Italy" for its geographic...

Jan 29, 2020

US says mystery crash in Afghanistan was US Air Force plane

KABUL - An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it'd been brought down by enemy fire. The spokesman...

Jan 29, 2020

'I'm being raped': Weinstein accuser details alleged assault

NEW YORK - As she tried to fight off Harvey Weinstein's advances, Mimi Haleyi told him "no, no, no" before he held her down on a bed and forcibly performed oral sex on her, she said in emotional testi...

Jan 29, 2020

GOP defends Trump as Bolton book adds pressure for witnesses

WASHINGTON - Senators faced mounting pressure Monday to summon John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial even as Trump's lawyers mostly brushed past extraordinary new allega...

Jan 29, 2020

Radha Blank of 'The 40-Year-Old Version' isn't late

PARK CITY, Utah - The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase of new voices in cinema, and few have come through louder and clearer than Radha Blank's. Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, ...

Jan 29, 2020