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Gay BYU student comes out in valedictorian speech

SALT LAKE CITY - A gay student who came out during a valedictorian speech at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University has earned applause and admiration from fellow students and notable figures like actr...

Apr 29, 2019

Investor pulls out of Woodstock 50, leaving fest in shambles

NEW YORK - Woodstock 50 is proving to be as chaotic as the original festival held in 1969. A financial investor in the festival announced Monday it was pulling its funding from the anniversary event, ...

Apr 29, 2019

Appeals court denies Bill Cosby's latest bid for bail

HARRISBURG, Pa. - An appeals court has denied Bill Cosby's latest effort to be released from prison on bail while he fights his sex-assault conviction. Lawyers for the 81-year-old comedian had renewed...

Apr 29, 2019

Nigerian debut novelist among finalists for Women's Prize

LONDON - Nigerian debut novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite and U.K. Booker Prize winner Anna Burns are among six finalists for the international Women's Prize for Fiction. Braithwaite is nominated for her d...

Apr 29, 2019

Boeing shareholders meet as company's plane faces scrutiny

Boeing shareholders are meeting six months to the day since the first of two deadly crashes involving the company's 737 Max airliner and as new questions arise about the aerospace giant's handling of ...

Apr 29, 2019

Uganda: Opposition pop star Bobi Wine jailed over protest

KAMPALA, Uganda - The Ugandan pop star and opposition politician known as Bobi Wine was remanded to a maximum-security prison on Monday after being charged over his role in a street protest last year ...

Apr 29, 2019

Oliver North out as NRA president after leadership dispute

INDIANAPOLIS - Oliver North announced Saturday that he would not serve a second term as National Rifle Association president, making it clear he had been forced out by the gun lobby's leadership after...

Apr 29, 2019

Israeli Eurovision hero says there's no place for boycott

JERUSALEM - Israel's winner of last year's Eurovision song contest said Monday there was no place for boycott calls of this year's competition in Tel Aviv, saying that to snub such a popular world eve...

Apr 29, 2019

Chicago's top prosecutor subpoenaed in Jussie Smollett case

Chicago's top prosecutor has been subpoenaed to appear in court by a retired appellate judge who's pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate the handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollet...

Apr 29, 2019

Arts and letters academy awards gold medal to Toni Morrison

NEW YORK - Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is being honoured this spring by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced Monday that Morrison, celebrated for such novels as "Beloved" a...

Apr 29, 2019