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Judge dismisses lawsuit over slain millionaire's residency

CONCORD, N.H. - A judge in New Hampshire dismissed a lawsuit Friday against a man relatives say killed his millionaire grandfather for inheritance money, saying the grandmother was not a resident of t...

May 10, 2019

Suspects in Colorado school shooting due back in court

DENVER - Both suspects in a suburban Denver school shooting are due back in court Friday as prosecutors file charges in the attack that killed a student and wounded eight others. The district attorney...

May 10, 2019

Farrakhan says he doesn't hate Jewish people

CHICAGO - Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that despite assertions by Facebook when it banned him from its platform, he is not a hater of Jewish people, is not a misogynis...

May 10, 2019

Mexico's prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion

MEXICO CITY - Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum - a seaweed-like algae - piling up o...

May 10, 2019

Why does Facebook fail to fix itself? It's partly humans

SAN FRANCISCO - The question comes up over and over, with extremist material, hate speech, election meddling and privacy invasions. Why can't Facebook just fix it? It's complicated, with reasons that ...

May 10, 2019

Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile

TOKYO - The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the ...

May 10, 2019

Student 'geek squads' maintain school devices, help teachers

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Buffalo kindergarten teacher Maria Spurlock was still struggling after trying for more than a week to get a reading app working on all of her classroom iPads. When she learned her buil...

May 10, 2019

Orchestra searching for child who charmed crowd with 'wow!'

BOSTON - America's oldest performing arts group is looking for a child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society had just finished its rendition of Mo...

May 10, 2019

Clooney hopes media will be 'kinder' to Meghan the mom

LOS ANGELES - George Clooney is hoping the media will be gentler to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, after she gave birth to a baby boy. "I think people should be a little kinder. She's a young woman wh...

May 10, 2019

Slain teen charged attacker in Colorado school shooting

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - When a gunman burst into his high school classroom, Kendrick Castillo did not hesitate. The 18-year-old immediately charged, pinning the attacker to the wall before Castillo w...

May 10, 2019