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California to require abortion medication at public colleges

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California will be the first state to require abortion medication on college campuses under a law signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law takes effect in 2023 and o...

Oct 11, 2019

Visa, Mastercard shun Facebook's Libra digital currency plan

NEW YORK - Visa and Mastercard on Friday announced their departure from Facebook's Libra project, a major setback to the social network's plan for a worldwide digital currency. Along with the two paym...

Oct 11, 2019

Boeing, FAA both faulted in certification of the 737 Max

A panel of international aviation regulators found that Boeing withheld key information about the 737 Max from pilots and regulators, and the Federal Aviation Administration lacked the expertise to un...

Oct 11, 2019

US suspends plans to hike tariffs Tuesday on Chinese imports

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion in Chinese imports that was set to take effect Tuesday, and China agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. far...

Oct 11, 2019

Bedbound and 'bored stiff' Ozzy Osbourne cancels tour dates

LOS ANGELES - Ozzy Osbourne says he's going off the rails on a crazy train while stuck at home with health woes, but plans to be back on track soon. Osbourne says in a video posted to Twitter Wednesda...

Oct 11, 2019

Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel

NEW YORK - Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, says he is leaving the network. His last broadcast ...

Oct 11, 2019

California adopts broadest US rules for seizing guns

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against ...

Oct 11, 2019

For 1st time, Biden declares Trump must be impeached

ROCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reele...

Oct 11, 2019

Nobel author Tokarczuk's hometown gives free rides for books

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish city is offering free public transport rides to bookworms - provided they're carrying works by the country's new Nobel literature prize laureate. City transport authorities i...

Oct 11, 2019

Jailed Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui leaves prison

TUNIS, Tunisia - Presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui left a prison Wednesday where he has been jailed since August, just four days before Tunisia's presidential runoff vote and as offi...

Oct 11, 2019