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US: Iran military could misidentify airliners amid tension

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf risk being targeted by "miscalculation or misidentification" from the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between ...

May 20, 2019

Google says services on Huawei phone still will function

BEIJING - Google is assuring users of Huawei smartphones the American company's basic services will work on them following U.S. government restrictions on doing business with the Chinese tech giant. G...

May 20, 2019

And the winner of the 'Game of Thrones' is ...

LOS ANGELES - Winter has come and winter has gone, thelast of the heads have been lopped off and the last of the dragon fire has been spit as "Game of Thrones" aired its 73rdand final episode Sunday n...

May 20, 2019

Sweden requests detention order for WikiLeaks' Assange

COPENHAGEN - Swedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now jailed in Britain, a Swedish prosecutor said. Prosecutor Eva-Mari...

May 20, 2019

TV comedian Zelenskiy sworn in as Ukraine's president

KIEV, Ukraine - Television star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been sworn in as Ukraine's next president after he beat the incumbent at the polls last month. The ceremony was held at Ukrainian parliament in ...

May 20, 2019

Rape trial begins for ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr

SAN DIEGO - Kellen Winslow Jr., a former NFL No. 1 draft pick and son of a Hall of Famer who starred for his hometown San Diego Chargers, goes on trial Monday on multiple charges, including raping two...

May 19, 2019

Koepka survives Bethpage Black to win PGA Championship

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - Brooks Koepka took his place in PGA Championship history with a wire-to-wire victory, minus the style points. In a raging wind that turned Bethpage Black into a beast, Koepka lost ...

May 19, 2019

AP Exclusive: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are engaged

Wedding bells are in the future for actress Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost of "Saturday Night Live." Johansson's publicist Marcel Pariseau tells The Associated Press Sunday that the private couple ...

May 19, 2019

2,000 cherry trees destroyed at ex-49er's California orchard

BRENTWOOD, Calif. - Former San Francisco 49ers centre Jeremy Newberry says vandals have destroyed nearly half of the 4,000 cherry trees recently planted at his Northern California orchard. Newberry te...

May 19, 2019

Canadian pilot Patrick Forseth killed in Honduras plane crash: sister

TRUJILLO, Honduras - A British Columbia woman says her pilot brother was killed in a plane crash in Honduras on Saturday. In a phone interview with The Canadian Press on Sunday, Jenna Forseth confirme...

May 19, 2019