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BMI honours Dwight Yoakam, top country songwriters

NASHVILLE - Country music singer, songwriter and actor Dwight Yoakam was honoured by performing rights organization BMI for his trailblazing and highly unique style of California country rock. The org...

Nov 13, 2019

UN reports increasing violations of Iran nuclear deal

VIENNA - Uranium particles of man-made origin have been discovered at a site in Iran not declared to the United Nations, the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Monday as it confirmed a litany of violati...

Nov 13, 2019

Officials: At least 13 dead in Slovakia bus crash

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - A bus collided with a truck in Slovakia on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least 20 more. Online news site tvnoviny.sk reported that the bus was carrying h...

Nov 13, 2019

Fed’s Powell sees steady growth, signals pause in rate cuts

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expects the U.S. economy to continue growing at a solid pace, though it still faces risks from slower growth overseas and trade tensions. Powell als...

Nov 13, 2019

Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded

MILAN - The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in ...

Nov 13, 2019

'Sad day' or 'scam'? What to watch at impeachment hearing

WASHINGTON - A "solemn day" or a "showtrial"? Americans and the world can decide for themselves as House Democrats let the public in to the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. With...

Nov 13, 2019

Separating fact from fiction at Trump's impeachment hearings

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has been fulminating for weeks over the impeachment inquiry, which he sees as a persecution cooked up by Democrats and "Never Trumpers." In reality, a collection of...

Nov 13, 2019

Impeachment hearings go live on TV with the 1st witnesses

WASHINGTON - The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing on Wednesday morning, America and the rest of the ...

Nov 13, 2019

Cirque du Soleil co-founder taken into custody in Tahiti over cannabis growth

TAHITI, French Polynesia - A Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of the circus show Cirque du Soleil has been taken into custody in French Polynesia over ...

Nov 13, 2019

US consumer prices up 0.4% in October; gasoline prices surge

WASHINGTON - Surging gasoline prices caused U.S. consumer prices to rise last month at the fastest pace since March. The Labor Department said Wednesday that its consumer price index rose 0.4% in Octo...

Nov 13, 2019