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Taylor Swift calls out Scooter Braun during Billboard speech

LOS ANGELES - Taylor Swift used the Billboard Women in Music stage to address a series of issues including her ongoing beef with Scooter Braun. Swift was awarded the first-ever woman of the decade hon...

Dec 15, 2019

Oscar winner Colin Firth and wife split after 22 years

LONDON - Oscar-winning British actor Colin Firth has split from his Italian film producer wife Livia Giuggioli after 22 years of marriage. Their publicists said in a statement that the couple "maintai...

Dec 15, 2019

LSU QB Joe Burrow wins Heisman Trophy in landslide vote

NEW YORK - Born into a family of Cornhuskers and raised in the Buckeye state, Joe Burrow left his roots behind and became a Heisman Trophy winner at LSU. The quarterback won the Heisman on Saturday ni...

Dec 14, 2019

Saudi gunman tweeted against US before naval base shooting

PENSACOLA, Fla. - The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of ...

Dec 14, 2019

New Zealand recovers 6 bodies days after volcanic eruption

WHAKATANE, New Zealand - New Zealand military specialists recovered six bodies from a small volcanic island Friday days after an eruption claimed at least eight other lives and left a toxic and volati...

Dec 14, 2019

Former Gary, Indiana, Mayor Richard Hatcher dead at 86

Former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first black mayors of a big U.S. city when he was elected in 1967, has died. He was 86. Hatcher died Friday night at a Chicago hospital, said h...

Dec 14, 2019

House committee delays historic vote on Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a historic vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, shutting down a 14-hour session that dragged with partisanship ...

Dec 14, 2019

Trump criticizes climate activist Thunberg after Time honour

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculou...

Dec 14, 2019

EU leaders break stalemate over climate target, claim deal

BRUSSELS - EU leaders broke a deadlock early Friday and claimed a deal over a key climate target by committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, sidestepping the objections of Poland, one of the b...

Dec 14, 2019

UK's Johnson claims Brexit mandate as Tories secure majority

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament - a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to...

Dec 14, 2019