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Hemsworth seeks to divorce Cyrus after 7 months of marriage

LOS ANGELES - Liam Hemsworth is seeking a divorce from Miley Cyrus after seven months of marriage. The 29-year-old Australian actor filed for the dissolution of his marriage to the 26-year-old America...

Aug 21, 2019

Fed officials widely divided on rates at July meeting

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials were widely divided at their meeting last month when they decided to cut rates for the first time in a decade, with some arguing for a bigger rate cut while othe...

Aug 21, 2019

NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner's chokehold death

NEW YORK - After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dyin...

Aug 21, 2019

Greenland fallout: Trump's cancelled trip blindsides Denmark

COPENHAGEN - The prime minister of Denmark said Wednesday she is "disappointed and surprised" by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his visit to Denmark after she called Trump's idea of ...

Aug 21, 2019

US prisons chief removed from position after Epstein's death

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life...

Aug 21, 2019

US home sales rose 2.5% in July, aided by low mortgage rates

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales increased 2.5% in July, a sign that lower mortgage rates have produced a spurt of home-buying. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday homes sold last month at...

Aug 21, 2019

Jury to weigh ex-school head's lawsuit against writer Sparks

RALEIGH, N.C. - A jury will decide whether the former head of a private Christian school that novelist Nicholas Sparks founded in his North Carolina hometown was unjustly fired, then defamed when the ...

Aug 21, 2019

German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn't exist

BERLIN - A German city that's been the subject of a long-running online light-hearted conspiracy theory claiming it doesn't really exist is offering big bucks to whoever proves that's true. Officials ...

Aug 21, 2019

China says British consulate staffer detained 15 days

HONG KONG - China said Wednesday a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the city of Shenzhen for violating regulations on public order. T...

Aug 21, 2019

Iran moves to strike 4 zeroes from its battered currency

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president has sent a bill to parliament that would cut four zeroes from value of the nation's sanctions-battered currency, the rial. Semi-official news agencies reported the news...

Aug 21, 2019