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Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a "brat" after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilian...

Dec 10, 2019

Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest

STOCKHOLM - Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9-millio...

Dec 10, 2019

Mexican ex-security chief charged in US in drug conspiracy

NEW YORK - A man who served as secretary of public security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012 has been indicted in New York City on drug charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to let the...

Dec 10, 2019

'Frozen 2' leads box office again; 'Playmobil' flops

NEW YORK - "Frozen 2" blanketed multiplexes for the third straight weekend, continuing its reign at No. 1 with $34.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Walt Disney Co. ...

Dec 10, 2019

Holiday rom-com 'Love, Actually' inspires UK election memes

LONDON - "Love, Actually" is all around this year in Britain's pre-Christmas election. The 2003 romantic comedy about the love lives of assorted Londoners over the holiday season has played a surprisi...

Dec 10, 2019

Stormy Daniels' lawyers argue for timely lawyer-fee payments

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A judge should grant attorney fees to lawyers who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against Ohio's capital city before competing claims on Daniels' $450,000 settlem...

Dec 10, 2019

Judge rules for Exxon Mobil in suit over climate regulations

NEW YORK - Exxon Mobil prevailed Tuesday in a lawsuit accusing the energy giant of downplaying the toll that climate change regulations could take on its business, with a judge saying the state attorn...

Dec 10, 2019

Merriam-Webster declares 'they' its 2019 word of the year

NEW YORK - A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, "they," has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the ...

Dec 10, 2019

6 dead from New Zealand volcano as helpers describe horror

WHAKATANE, New Zealand - Survivors of a powerful volcanic eruption in New Zealand ran into the sea to escape the scalding steam and ash and emerged covered in burns, say those who first helped them. T...

Dec 10, 2019

The Associated Press picks the top moments on TV from 2019

NEW YORK - Many have noticed how fragmented our TV viewing is, with multiple competing streaming services and dozens of channels pulling us in different directions. But the year also saw some jaw-drop...

Dec 10, 2019