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Giant American flag flap flutters on; business owner rallies

STATESVILLE, N.C. - The reality television star who has said he would go to jail before removing a huge American flag from his recreational vehicle store in North Carolina told cheering employees on T...

Jun 01, 2019

Prince's bodyguard deposed in wrongful death lawsuit

CHASKA, Minn. - Prince's former bodyguard answered questions from attorneys for seven hours as part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of the late rock star. Kirk Johnson's attorney told K...

Jun 01, 2019

Former US Sen. Thad Cochran, 'Quiet Persuader,' dies at 81

JACKSON, Miss. - In the Washington political scene of bombast and big egos, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi wielded power with a quiet, gentlemanly demeanour. He played piano in his Capitol Hil...

Jun 01, 2019

New Hampshire repeals death penalty as Senate overrides veto

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire, which hasn't executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, on Thursday became the latest state to abolish the death penalty when the state Senate vot...

Jun 01, 2019

Lawsuit calls Mississippi's way of choosing governors racist

JACKSON, Miss. - In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its constitution an unusually high bar for getting el...

Jun 01, 2019

Lift those knees: Babies crawl to the Lithuanian finish line

VILNIUS, Lithuania - In Lithuania, the rat race of life apparently starts early. Twenty-five babies have taken to the red carpet in Lithuania in a crawling race as their parents, grandparents and onlo...

Jun 01, 2019

Skipper of cruiser that sank Budapest tour boat arrested

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian police detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with and sank a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, as rescue crews geared up to raise the vess...

Jun 01, 2019

Polish advocate for church victims resigns in scandal

WARSAW, Poland - The founder and head of a Polish organization dedicated to helping victims of clerical sex abuse has resigned following a reports that a victim believes he had cheated her for money a...

Jun 01, 2019

Judge raps Trump, gives lenient sentence to El Chapo witness

CHICAGO - A chief federal judge in Chicago took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday and declared the U.S. war on drugs "lost" as he handed a lenient sentence to a one-time cartel lieutenant ...

May 31, 2019

Girl believed to be tiniest newborn weighed as much as apple

SAN DIEGO - When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world's tiniest sur...

May 31, 2019