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Ohio State shares new crime data on doc, task force details

COLUMBUS, Ohio - About 1,500 instances of decades-old sexual misconduct by a now-deceased Ohio State team doctor were reported last year and this year, the university disclosed Tuesday. It also reveal...

Oct 03, 2019

Trump campaign, RNC raise record $125 million in 3rd quarter

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $125 million in the third quarter of the year, a presidential fundraising record. The pro-Trump e...

Oct 03, 2019

Federal judge upholds affirmative action at Harvard

BOSTON - A federal judge Tuesday cleared Harvard University of discriminating against Asian American applicants in a ruling that was seen as a major victory for supporters of affirmative action in col...

Oct 03, 2019

US vaping illnesses top 1,000, death count is up to 18

NEW YORK - The outbreak of U.S. vaping-related illnesses has surpassed 1,000 cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that 1,080 confirmed and probable cases have been repor...

Oct 03, 2019

Federal judge temporarily blocks Georgia abortion law

ATLANTA - A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Georgia's restrictive new abortion law from taking effect, following the lead of other judges who have blocked similar measures in other states...

Oct 03, 2019

Actor Robert De Niro in real-life drama with ex-worker

NEW YORK - Robert De Niro has found himself in a real-life court drama, trading dueling lawsuits with his former assistant after their decade-long working relationship went dreadfully sour. He's accus...

Oct 03, 2019

Pompeo, Democrats trade intimidation charges in Trump probe

WASHINGTON - Setting a defiant tone, the Trump administration resisted Congress' access to impeachment witnesses Tuesday, even as House Democrats warned such efforts themselves could amount to an impe...

Oct 03, 2019

Ex-Dallas officer who killed neighbour found guilty of murder

DALLAS - A white former Dallas police officer who shot her black unarmed neighbour to death after, she said, mistaking his apartment for her own was convicted of murder Tuesday in a verdict that promp...

Oct 03, 2019

Ukraine's leader: Trump didn't use US military aid as lever

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president said Tuesday that no one explained to him why millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to his country was delayed, dismissing suggestions that President Donald Trum...

Oct 03, 2019

Studio behind ‘Sesame Street’ is making an Elmo talk show

NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel... and Elmo? Sesame Workshop is developing a talk show starring the squeaky-voiced puppet, called "The Not Too Late Show with Elmo," where he wil...

Oct 03, 2019