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Size of an apple: Girl becomes tiniest newborn to survive

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 29, 2019

China dangles a potentially harmful new threat in trade war

WASHINGTON - Facing new trade sanctions and a U.S. clampdown on its top telecommunications company, China issued a pointed reminder Wednesday that it has yet to unleash all its weapons in its trade wa...

May 29, 2019

Author Wally Lamb sued by ex-inmate over new book

HARTFORD, Conn. - A former Connecticut prison inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging she hasn't been paid for her contribution to a new book by author Wally Lamb and accusing Lamb of harassing and intimi...

May 29, 2019

Bill Buckner, forever known for October error, dies at 69

Bill Buckner was an All-Star and batting champion, a gritty gamer who was welcome on any team. A reliable fielder, too. But a little grounder forever changed his legacy. Buckner, who made one of the b...

May 29, 2019

'Godzilla' brings Millie Bobby Brown to a new monster fight

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Millie Bobby Brown may use brute force against demon monsters in "Stranger Things," but the teenage actress relies more on intelligence to outsmart the 500-foot-tall behemoths...

May 29, 2019

US officials to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that tribes consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park ...

May 29, 2019

Review: Spencer lends some humanity to campy revenge fantasy

Teenage brains. Alcohol. Driver's licenses. Put them together and what you get, inevitably, are a whole bunch of bad decisions - in real life and in movies. It's not a new lesson, but it's the most co...

May 29, 2019

Kutcher testifies about knocking on slain woman's door

LOS ANGELES - Ashton Kutcher has testified at a Los Angeles murder trial that he went to pick up a woman to go out for drinks on a night in 2001 and left when she didn't answer her door, only to learn...

May 29, 2019

Octavia Spencer like you've never seen her before in 'Ma'

LOS ANGELES - Octavia Spencer has been a household name for almost a decade. She's won an Oscar and been nominated two more times since. And yet she has never headlined a film on her own or been first...

May 29, 2019

Report: Qatar premier to travel to Saudi Arabia amid boycott

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Al-Jazeera is reporting that Qatar's prime minister will be heading to Saudi Arabia for two summits, marking the highest-level contact between the neighbouring nations si...

May 29, 2019