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Protest messages shared in Hong Kong Lunar New Year packets

Hong Kong's anti-government protests are putting a new spin on a Lunar New Year tradition. Every year, adults hand out red packets stuffed with cash to children and young, single adults. Messages prin...

Jan 22, 2020

Migrants weigh limited options at Guatemala-Mexico border

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala - Hundreds of Central American migrants stranded in Guatemala on Wednesday were weighing limited options as to how to make it into Mexico, guarded by troops with riot shields and...

Jan 22, 2020

Democrats appeal for GOP help to convict 'corrupt' Trump

WASHINGTON - House Democrats launched into marathon arguments in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial Wednesday, appealing to skeptical Republican senators to join them in voting to oust Trump f...

Jan 22, 2020

Coast Guard hunts for cruise ship passenger off Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching late Wednesday for a person who reportedly went overboard from a cruise ship just off Puerto Rico's north shore. Coast Guard spokesma...

Jan 22, 2020

Vegas police arrest 18-year-old in mall shooting that hurt 3

LAS VEGAS - An 18-year-old was arrested Wednesday on attempted murder charges, a day after a shooting triggered by a gang dispute wounded three people, sent shoppers scrambling and drew a massive poli...

Jan 22, 2020

Judge: No keeping Stormy and Trump out of NY Avenatti trial

NEW YORK - There's no keeping porn star Stormy Daniels and President Donald Trump out of California attorney Michael Avenatti's extortion case, a judge said Wednesday as he ordered the trial to commen...

Jan 22, 2020

From #MeToo to trial: A look at the fall of Harvey Weinstein

NEW YORK - As Harvey Weinstein goes through his New York trial on rape and sexual assault charges, here's a look at the movie mogul's past and his multiple legal fights. A HOLLYWOOD KINGMAKER: For dec...

Jan 22, 2020

Celebrities back California bill to cut single-use plastics

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A push to pass first-in-the-nation California proposals to limit single-use plastic containers and other items drew support from actor Jeff Goldblum on Wednesday. Environmental gr...

Jan 22, 2020

Court takes another look at Native American adoption law

NEW ORLEANS - Federal appellate judges closely questioned attorneys for the government and Native American tribes Wednesday over whether a law meant to preserve Native American families and culture un...

Jan 22, 2020

Vegas casino says O.J. Simpson too tarnished to defame

LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson couldn't have been defamed by accounts that he was drunk and disruptive before being banned from a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino, because his reputation was already tarnished, ...

Jan 22, 2020