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US automakers post first monthly sales gain of year in Sept.
DETROIT - The auto industry posted its first monthly sales gain of the year in September, led by strong truck and SUV sales and the replacement of cars destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. U.S. sal...
Oct 03, 2017
UK stars Steve Coogan, Sienna Miller get damages from Mirror
LONDON - British actors Steve Coogan and Sienna Miller have received financial damages and apologies from Mirror Group Newspapers in the settlement of long-running phone hacking cases. The damages wer...
Oct 03, 2017
Q&A: Ford and Gosling go head to head in 'Blade Runner 2049'
LOS ANGELES - Harrison Ford has a running joke that he can’t remember Ryan Gosling’s name. “I was delighted for a chance to work with the kid. What’s his name?” Ford told...
Oct 03, 2017
Tom Petty a rock classicist from the beginning
NEW YORK - Given the leather jacket and sneer Tom Petty wore on the cover of his 1976 debut, many people assumed he was one of those cheeky punks bent on tearing down the walls of rock ‘n’...
Oct 03, 2017
Acts of heroism emerge in chaos of Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS - Rob Ledbetter’s battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served as a sniper in Iraq immediately began tending to the ...
Oct 03, 2017
Trump calls Las Vegas shooter 'sick' and 'demented man'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the gunman who killed 59 people and wounded hundreds others at a music festival in Las Vegas a “very, very sick individual.” Trump spo...
Oct 03, 2017
Trump sees 'miracle' Puerto Rico survival, ignores critics
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Touring a small slice of Hurricane Maria’s devastation, President Donald Trump congratulated Puerto Rico on Tuesday for escaping the higher death toll of “a real ca...
Oct 03, 2017
Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight
ATLANTA - The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a “bump stock” that was not widely sold - until now. Originally created with the idea of making it easier for people w...
Oct 03, 2017
For many hotels, terror risks make tight security routine
In many parts of the world, the constant fear of extremist attacks has led to tighter security measures at hotels and resorts, but that is less so in the United States, where hotels are reluctant to i...
Oct 03, 2017
GOP leader says NRA-backed gun bill shelved indefinitely
WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders called for unity and prayer Tuesday after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, but offered no new legislation to tighten gun laws and said a bill to ease regula...
Oct 03, 2017