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Amazon, seeking more skilled workers, will do the training

NEW YORK - Amazon, needing a more tech-savvy workforce, is offering to pay to retrain its employees and help them switch to more technical jobs at Amazon or elsewhere. The online shopping giant said T...

Jul 11, 2019

With 19 aces, gutsy comeback, Serena reaches Wimbledon semis

WIMBLEDON, England - Slowed by a balky ankle, trailing by a service break in the third set of her Wimbledon quarterfinal, Serena Williams appeared to be in trouble Tuesday against an opponent playing ...

Jul 11, 2019

Guard in Boosie Badazz case: spray prevented fight in store

BILOXI, Miss. - A security guard who used pepper spray on a crowd including rapper Boosie Badazz says he did so because a man was trying to start a fight with him as he tried to get the group to leave...

Jul 11, 2019

Skopje zoo's chimp returns after recovering from depression

Koko the chimpanzee, once a star in Skopje's zoo, has returned home after spending 10 years in the Netherlands recovering from depression, the zoo says. Koko was reunited with his keeper, Dragan Trajk...

Jul 11, 2019

Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop

GUTHRIE, Okla. - Police in Oklahoma say they found a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey during a traffic stop of a vehicle that had b...

Jul 11, 2019

NBC's Lester Holt to get Walter Cronkite journalism award

PHOENIX - Arizona State University is awarding its 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to Lester Holt, news anchor for NBC. Holt has anchored NBC's flagship "Nightly News" broadcas...

Jul 11, 2019

Trump shows love-hate for social media as he leads 'summit'

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, who has weaponized social media to eviscerate opponents and promote himself, was convening a White House conference Thursday of like-minded critics of Big Tech, no...

Jul 11, 2019

White man indicted in killing of black teen over rap music

PHOENIX - An Arizona prosecutor says a grand jury has returned an indictment charging a white man with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a black youth for playing rap music he said he thoug...

Jul 11, 2019

Trump defends Acosta but will look into Epstein plea deal

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be looking "very closely" at Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed billionaire financier Jeffr...

Jul 11, 2019

David Bromberg fears huge violin collection must be split up

WLIMINGTON, Del. - David Bromberg, a master of stringed-instrument Americana, says a deal to sell his massive collection of historic violins to the Library of Congress has fallen through. The singer-s...

Jul 11, 2019