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Police: Attack kills 15 at southern Thailand security post

HATYAI, Thailand - Gunmen fired at security personnel at checkpoints in Thailand's insurgency-wracked south, killing 15 volunteer officers and wounding five others, police said Wednesday. Some of the ...

Nov 05, 2019

Ex-NFL player Winslow Jr takes plea deal before rape retrial

VISTA, Calif. - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the ...

Nov 05, 2019

Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86

NEW ROADS, La. - Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation town germinated the stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, ha...

Nov 05, 2019

'Terminator: Dark Fate' is No. 1, but it's no winner

LOS ANGELES - It might be judgment day for the Terminator franchise. Despite generally favourable reviews and the return of star Linda Hamilton and producer James Cameron, "Terminator: Dark Fate" has ...

Nov 05, 2019

Legendary Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 88

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Television astrologer Walter Mercado, whose glamorous persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for gay people in most of the Spanish-speaking world, has died...

Nov 05, 2019

ABC says interview with Epstein accuser wasn't ready to air

NEW YORK - ABC News is defending itself against charges that it was afraid to air an interview with a Jeffrey Epstein accuser after video emerged Tuesday showing its reporter, Amy Robach, venting abou...

Nov 05, 2019

Spanx founder buys Olivia Newton-John's 'Grease' pants

NEW YORK - The founder of Spanx was revealed to be the successful bidder for the skintight satin pants that Olivia Newton-John wore in the movie "Grease." Sara Blakely told "CBS This Morning" Tuesday ...

Nov 05, 2019

AP source: White House finds Pelosi drug plan 'unworkable'

WASHINGTON - The White House says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan authorizing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices is "unworkable" and President Donald Trump is instead supporting bipartis...

Nov 05, 2019

Bosnian war survivors protest Peter Handke's Nobel prize win

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to ...

Nov 05, 2019

At least 9 US citizens die in cartel attack in north Mexico

MEXICO CITY - Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women - all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico - in a grisly attack th...

Nov 05, 2019