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GM and union reach tentative deal that could end strike

DETROIT - Bargainers for General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal on Wednesday that could end a monthlong strike that brought the company's U.S. factories to a stan...

Oct 16, 2019

Classes cancelled as threat of Chicago teacher strike looms

Chicago's public schools have cancelled classes after the teachers' union president announced that his bargaining team will recommend teachers vote to go on strike. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday...

Oct 16, 2019

Pope's bodyguard resigns over new financial leaks scandal

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's latest scandal claimed its first victim Monday as Pope Francis' chief bodyguard resigned over the leak of a Vatican police flyer identifying five employees who were suspen...

Oct 16, 2019

Crossover artist Lauren Daigle reigns at Dove Awards

NASHVILLE - Grammy-winning singer Lauren Daigle reigned at the 50th annual Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards on Tuesday, winning artist of the year, song of the year and pop/contemporary album of...

Oct 16, 2019

US retail sales dip 0.3% in September

WASHINGTON - Retail sales dropped in September by the largest amount in seven months, possibly signalling that rising trade tensions and turbulent markets are having an impact on consumer spending. Th...

Oct 16, 2019

Musicians Hall of Fame to honour group with New Jersey roots

HACKENSACK, N.J. - A New Jersey-based group of former A-list session musicians that has toured together since 2012 is receiving an award. The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is giving T...

Oct 16, 2019

3 economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM - Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what wor...

Oct 16, 2019

The Latest: Nobel

STOCKHOLM - The Latest on the Nobel Prize in economics (all times local): 1 a.m. Tuesday Michael Kremer was worried the Skype message was a scam. It appeared to be from a friend in Sweden and said the...

Oct 16, 2019

Report: South Korean pop star Sulli found dead at home

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - News reports said South Korean pop star and actress Sulli was found dead Monday at her home south of Seoul. A report by Yonhap news agency said the 25-year-old was found af...

Oct 16, 2019

It's a tie: Atwood and Evaristo share fiction's Booker Prize

LONDON - Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the ...

Oct 15, 2019