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Nobel literature pick heartens liberal Poles in populist era

WARSAW, Poland - The Swedish Academy's decision to bestow the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature on Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has given a rare morale boost to liberal Poles only three days before a nat...

Oct 10, 2019

2 Florida men tied to Guiliani arrested on campaign charges

WASHINGTON - Two Florida businessmen tied to President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance violations resulting from a $325,000 donation to a political ...

Oct 10, 2019

Iran women freely at FIFA soccer match, 1st time in decades

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian women have just watched a FIFA soccer match kickoff after being freely allowed into a stadium for the first time in decades. Iran faces Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier ...

Oct 10, 2019

Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits

WASHINGTON - Social Security says millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase in 2020 - and that comes to about $24 more a month more the average retired worker. That news coul...

Oct 10, 2019

Suspect in rapper Mac Miller's drug death to appear in court

LOS ANGELES - A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year is set to appear in federal court in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege 28-year-old Cameron Pettit of West H...

Oct 10, 2019

2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal

STOCKHOLM - Two Nobel Prizes in literature - one for 2019 and one for last year - will be announced Thursday after the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that had rock...

Oct 10, 2019

Are we alone? Nobel Prize goes to 3 who tackled cosmic query

WASHINGTON - They are two of the most fundamental questions not just of science, but of humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists split ...

Oct 10, 2019

With China rift ongoing, NBA says free speech remains vital

TOKYO - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kon...

Oct 10, 2019

Police: Indonesia's security minister wounded in stabbing

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A knife-wielding man wounded Indonesia's security minister, a local police chief and another person in a western province on Thursday. Police said the attacker may have been influ...

Oct 10, 2019

Ukraine president: 'No blackmail' in conversation with Trump

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says there was "no blackmail" in the phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump that helped spark an impeachment inquiry. Responding Thursday t...

Oct 10, 2019