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Appeals court: Trump can't use Pentagon cash for border wall

SAN DIEGO - An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a freeze on Pentagon money to build a border wall with Mexico, casting doubt on President Donald Trump's ability to make good on a signature campaign p...

Jul 05, 2019

Philly got Patti LaBelle's name wrong on honorary street

Philadelphia honoured singer Patti LaBelle with her very own street earlier this week. Unfortunately, the signs didn't get her name right. The city's Streets Department didn't capitalize the "b'' in t...

Jul 05, 2019

Fed repeats pledge to act to sustain economic expansion

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve on Friday repeated its pledge to "act as appropriate" to sustain the current economic expansion, now the longest in U.S. history, while noting that most Fed officials ...

Jul 05, 2019

Jay-Z's companies sue NYC licensing company for fraud

NEW YORK - Jay-Z's business entities sued a New York City licensing firm, claiming it cheated the companies as part of a "colossal accounting scandal." The lawsuit accuses Iconix Brand Group Inc. of l...

Jul 05, 2019

S.Korea actress charged in Thailand for catching giant clams

BANGKOK - A South Korean actress has been charged in Thailand with catching endangered giant clams while participating in a reality TV show and could face up to four years in prison if found guilty, a...

Jul 05, 2019

Bahamas police were told billionaire Cline was on helicopter

NASSAU, Bahamas - Police in the Bahamas worked Friday to identify the bodies of seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash after being told that billionaire coal tycoon and Republican donor Chris Cl...

Jul 05, 2019

Fest drops Peter Yarrow over 'indecent liberties' sentence

NEW YORK - A music festival has disinvited folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary over his 1970 jail sentence for indecent liberties with a 14-year-old girl. The Press and Sun Bulletin of Bi...

Jul 05, 2019

Sweden detains rapper A$AP Rocky after street fight

COPENHAGEN - A Swedish court has ordered U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate a fight in downtown Stockholm. Prosecutor Fredrik Karlsson said Frida...

Jul 05, 2019

Kevin Spacey accuser drops lawsuit against actor

BOSTON - A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor. Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer for the man, announced in an ema...

Jul 05, 2019

Putin signs bill suspending participation in nuclear treaty

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill suspending Russia's participation in a pivotal nuclear arms treaty. Putin's decree, released on Wednesday, formalizes Russia's departure from the 19...

Jul 05, 2019