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Women's hockey stars announce boycott in demand for 1 league

Unhappy with the status quo, more than 200 of the world's top female hockey players declared Thursday they will not compete in North America next season in a dramatic attempt to establish a single, ec...

May 02, 2019

Secluded Baltimore mayor to make announcement amid scandal

BALTIMORE - The lawyer for Baltimore's mayor is making an announcement amid growing pressure for the city's top leader to resign over a scandal involving her self-published children's books. Mayor Cat...

May 02, 2019

Knockin' on Abe's door: Japanese PM shows off quirky Canadian souvenir

LAKE KAWAGUCHI, Japan - Japan's prime minister is showing off a folksy souvenir he brought home from his recent trip to Canada. In a video posted to his official Instagram account, Shinzo Abe installs...

May 02, 2019

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is freed on bail

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine was freed on bail Thursday after spending three nights in a maximum-security prison. The lawmaker, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssen...

May 02, 2019

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner get married in surprise wedding

LAS VEGAS - Joe Jonas was already having a big night: reuniting with his brothers for their band's first performance at an awards show in a decade and announcing their upcoming tour. But his night bec...

May 02, 2019

Netflix announces deal for film about Thailand's cave boys

BANGKOK - Netflix is joining with the production company for the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" to make a film about last July's dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a floo...

May 02, 2019

Biden's rise tests Trump plan of casting foes as socialists

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump may want to cast his potential Democratic rivals as a band of angry socialists, but Joe Biden is not co-operating with Trump's reelection strategy, and that's givin...

May 02, 2019

Daniel Radcliffe to return to London stage in Beckett play

LONDON - Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a Samuel Beckett double bill. The Old Vic Theatre says the former "Harry Potter" star will appear alongside Alan Cumming in a production o...

May 02, 2019

Lawmakers to see empty chair, not AG Barr, at House hearing

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr plans to skip a House Judiciary hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's report , escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and ...

May 02, 2019

'Riley Howell is a hero': Student who attacked gunman lauded

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - David Belnap stood on his North Carolina college campus aching from the latest U.S. school shooting as he held a candle and wore a homemade T-shirt with "Riley Howell is a hero" writ...

May 02, 2019