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Correction: Empire Cast Member-Attack-Police story

CHICAGO - In a story March 26 about Chicago's police superintendent and mayor being angered by prosecutors' surprise decision to drop charges against Jussie Smollett, The Associated Press reported an ...

Mar 28, 2019

Save The Children: 7 killed in airstrike on Yemen hospital

A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organization, which supports...

Mar 28, 2019

Baltimore mayor says her $500K book deal was a 'mistake'

Baltimore's mayor on Thursday described a lucrative arrangement to sell her self-published children's books to a university-based health care system as a "regrettable mistake" and offered apologies fo...

Mar 28, 2019

Movie set materials cited in firefighter's death in NYC

NEW YORK - Highly combustible materials used to turn a former jazz club into a movie set contributed to the death of a veteran New York City firefighter last year, according to a fire department repor...

Mar 28, 2019

Cannabis banking bill advances in US House committee

DENVER - Legislation that would provide federal protection for financial institutions that serve state-authorized marijuana and ancillary businesses passed a U.S. House committee on Thursday. The Hous...

Mar 28, 2019

Wells Fargo CEO Sloan steps down after rocky tenure

NEW YORK - Wells Fargo's CEO Tim Sloan stepped down Thursday, after a rocky tenure during which the deeply troubled bank dealt with a seemingly unending wave of scandals. Sloan said in a statement he ...

Mar 28, 2019

3 Saudi women's rights activists temporarily released

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Three Saudi women were granted temporary release from prison on Thursday, nearly a year after they and other women's rights activists were detained by security forces who...

Mar 28, 2019

Motown Museum to display clothing worn by singer Marvin Gaye

DETROIT - Clothing worn by singer Marvin Gaye will go on display at the Motown Museum in Detroit as part of the music label's 60th anniversary celebration. The museum said Thursday that the items incl...

Mar 28, 2019

Trade panel: Boeing got unfair US tax breaks, hurting Airbus

GENEVA - Delivering final word in a nearly 14-year standoff, a World Trade Organization body has ruled Boeing received illegal U.S. subsidies via tax breaks from Washington state that damaged sales by...

Mar 28, 2019

Baltimore mayor's $500K book deal draws intense criticism

BALTIMORE - A search is underway in Maryland for "Healthy Holly" - not a fugitive or a missing citizen, but a self-published children's book series authored by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and sold ...

Mar 28, 2019