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Trump to host state dinner for Australian prime minister

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting an official visit and state dinner in September for the prime minister of Australia. It's only the second state dinner Trum...

Jul 22, 2019

Budget negotiators close on debt, $1.3T spending deal

WASHINGTON - Negotiations between the Trump administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a critical debt and $1.3 trillion budget bill are on the cusp of a deal. That's according to aides on both ...

Jul 22, 2019

Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement

WASHINGTON - Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million peo...

Jul 22, 2019

India launches moon mission a week after it was aborted

NEW DELHI - India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. Scientists at the mission control ce...

Jul 22, 2019

IAEA says its 72-year-old chief, Yukiya Amano, has died

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general, has died at 72, the agency announced Monday. The Secretariat did not give a cause of death for Amano, or say when he d...

Jul 22, 2019

Syrian activists say airstrike killed 16 in rebel-held town

BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a busy market in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria has killed at least 16 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights s...

Jul 22, 2019

Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews have begun demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood. Monday's demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, which strad...

Jul 21, 2019

Stevens, ex-colleagues took different paths in retirement

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens never really put down his pen. Without opinions and dissents to write following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010, Stevens chos...

Jul 21, 2019

Service resuming after 7 New York City subway lines stopped

NEW YORK - About a third of New York City's subway lines were suspended for more than an hour during a hot Friday evening commute, stranding some passengers underground and sending others searching fo...

Jul 21, 2019

1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87

LOS ANGELES - Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Y...

Jul 21, 2019