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Sundance co-founder gets at least 6 years in sex abuse case

AMERICAN FORK, Utah - A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison ...

Jul 04, 2019

Chanel's new designer, Viard, unveils couture debut in Paris

PARIS - Chanel's new chief Virginie Viard merged the worlds of two of its most famous couturiers, those of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, for a cerebral couture show in Paris set inside a...

Jul 04, 2019

Arctic fox walks more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada

COPENHAGEN - An arctic fox walked more than 4,415 kilometres (2,737 miles) to go from northern Norway to Canada's far north in four months, Norwegian researchers said. The Norwegian Polar Institute re...

Jul 04, 2019

UN: 5,287 killings in Venezuela security operations in 2018

GENEVA - Venezuela's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year linked to cases of "resistance to authority," the U.N. human rights chief reported Thursday, denou...

Jul 04, 2019

House committee files lawsuit for Trump tax returns

WASHINGTON - A House committee sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday for access to President Donald Trump's tax returns, setting up a legal showdown over the records. The House Ways a...

Jul 04, 2019

French lawmakers approve 3% tax on online giants

PARIS - France's lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook - and the French government hopes other countries will follow s...

Jul 04, 2019

Fire kills 14 Russian sailors aboard deep-sea submersible

MOSCOW - Fire broke out on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles, and toxic fumes from the blaze killed 14 sailors aboard, Russia's Defence Ministry said Tuesday, although it releas...

Jul 04, 2019

Graphic, sexually explicit Facebook posts roil Border Patrol

CLINT, Texas - The head of the U.S. Border Patrol slammed as "completely inappropriate" sexually explicit posts about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comments questioning the authenticity of a ...

Jul 04, 2019

Woody Allen makes La Scala debut directing comic opera

MILAN - Woody Allen said Tuesday as he prepared for his directing debut at Milan's La Scala opera house that he has "always had a warm and affectionate following in Europe." Allen was greeted with app...

Jul 04, 2019

Smollett wants Chicago's lawsuit moved to federal court

CHICAGO - Jussie Smollett wants the lawsuit that the city of Chicago filed against him moved from state court to federal court. The motion filed Wednesday and released to the media by Smollett's repre...

Jul 04, 2019