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Cheers, tears, prayers for 2020: A new decade is ushered in

Revelers around the globe are bidding farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump. A look at ...

Jan 01, 2020

Financial tug-of-war emerges over fire victims' settlement

SAN FRANCISCO - A financial tug-of-war is emerging over the $13.5 billion that the nation's largest utility has agreed to pay to victims of recent California wildfires, as government agencies jockey f...

Jan 01, 2020

Feds will investigate deadly Tesla crash in California

GARDENA, Calif. - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the crash of a speeding Tesla that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, the agency announced Tuesday. Agency...

Jan 01, 2020

Taiwan's Tsai defends Anti-Infiltration Law aimed at China

TAIPEI, Taiwan - China has been relentless in its attempts to influence and infiltrate Taiwan's politics and society but the island's new ban on political interference should have no effect on normal ...

Jan 01, 2020

Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after embassy attack

WASHINGTON - Charging that Iran was "fully responsible" for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 mor...

Jan 01, 2020

China convicts 3 researchers involved in gene-edited babies

BEIJING - A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his resear...

Dec 31, 2019

Kim vows to show new N. Korean weapon, never trade security

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic wea...

Dec 31, 2019

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019

A lauded writer who brought to light stories overshadowed by prejudice. An actress and singer who helped embody the manufactured innocence of the 1950s. A self-made billionaire who rose from a childho...

Dec 31, 2019

Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows stark choices for Trump

WASHINGTON - The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen Tuesday is a stark demonstration that Iran can still strike at American interests despite President Donald ...

Dec 31, 2019

Mexico says a total of 7 detained in killing of 9 Americans

MEXICO CITY - Prosecutors in Mexico said a total of seven suspects have now been detained in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children. Federal prosecutors sai...

Dec 31, 2019