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Taylor Swift shakes off drama with fun concert performance

NEW YORK - In her first public appearance since discovering her masters were in the hands of someone she's not a fan of, Taylor Swift didn't directly address the issue, but she did play music from tha...

Jul 13, 2019

Judge approves new Weinstein legal team led by #MeToo critic

NEW YORK - A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again - this time a mere two months before the disgraced movie mogul whose case inspired the #MeToo m...

Jul 13, 2019

UK Labour Party in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims

LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks. In the BBC program, former staff...

Jul 13, 2019

Trump abandons bid to include citizenship question on census

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the informat...

Jul 13, 2019

Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry

NEW ORLEANS - People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a pat...

Jul 13, 2019

Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation

MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...

Jul 13, 2019

Train collision in Pakistan kills 20

MULTAN, Pakistan - A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others, hospital officials said. The ...

Jul 12, 2019

Britain says Iranian vessels tried to block tanker in Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The British navy said Thursday it stopped three Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz in a brief b...

Jul 12, 2019

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS - Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in, threatening an epic drenching that could test...

Jul 12, 2019

Jim Bouton, ex-Yankees pitcher and 'Ball Four' author, dies

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book "Ball Four," has died. He was 80. Bouton's fami...

Jul 12, 2019