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Youngest of musical Hanson brothers injured in Tulsa crash

TULSA, Okla. - Zac Hanson of the pop music band Hanson is recovering following a motorcycle crash in Oklahoma this week. The 33-year-old Hanson said in posts on Twitter, Facebook and the Tulsa-based b...

Oct 05, 2019

Drop in US service sector activity raises economic concerns

WASHINGTON - Growth in the U.S. economy's vast services sector slowed sharply in September to its lowest point in three years, suggesting that the Trump administration's trade conflicts and rising unc...

Oct 05, 2019

4 homeless men attacked and killed in New York City

NEW YORK - A man wielding a long metal object rampaged through New York City early Saturday attacking sleeping homeless people, killing four and leaving a fifth in critical condition. New York Police ...

Oct 05, 2019

Civilian employee kills 4 in knife attack at Paris police HQ

PARIS - A civilian employee raged through Paris police headquarters with a knife Thursday, stabbing four police colleagues to death before he was shot and killed, French authorities said. The man, a t...

Oct 05, 2019

Trump tweet of Nickelback video aimed at Biden removed

NEW YORK - Twitter and YouTube have removed a video from President Donald Trump that featured an edited Nickelback music video clip that took aim at former Vice-President Joe Biden. Both a Twitter pos...

Oct 05, 2019

Ugandan activist Bobi Wine defies ban on trademark red beret

KAMPALA, Uganda - The Ugandan pop star and opposition figure whose trademark red beret has been banned by the government is urging supporters to defy the order that he calls a "sham." The beret worn b...

Oct 05, 2019

Freitas do Amaral, a ‘father’ of Portuguese democracy, dies

LISBON, Portugal - Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a conservative Portuguese politician who played a leading role in cementing the country's democracy after its 1974 Carnation Revolution and later became pre...

Oct 05, 2019

Jumping the shark? Kiss will play for them in the ocean

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Having played nearly every corner of the Earth in a nearly 50-year career, the rock band Kiss is taking its show to a new place _ under the sea, where they will perform for great...

Oct 05, 2019

Revelations in impeachment inquiry rattle State Department

WASHINGTON - The State Department has been deeply shaken by the rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry, as revelations that President Donald Trump enlisted diplomats to dig up dirt on a political riva...

Oct 05, 2019

Impeachment probe reaches into White House with new subpoena

WASHINGTON - The impeachment inquiry is reaching directly into the White House, with Democrats subpoenaing officials about contacts with Ukraine and President Donald Trump signalling his administratio...

Oct 05, 2019