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Scripts from 'Dick Van Dyke Show' to be digitally preserved

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Hollywood producer Carl Reiner and the National Comedy Center say they're working together to digitally preserve Reiner's collection of scripts from the 1960's "The Dick Van Dyke Sho...

Mar 21, 2019

Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after coverup

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to pol...

Mar 21, 2019

New populist star emerges from Dutch local elections

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Netherlands woke up Thursday to a new star of right-wing populism, as the party of a Latin-quoting, philosophy-reading lawmaker surged past anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wild...

Mar 21, 2019

Kazakhstan's president to step down after 30 years in power

MOSCOW - President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over t...

Mar 21, 2019

NZ city scarred by shooting is home to white supremacists

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - The leafy New Zealand city where a self-proclaimed racist fatally shot 50 people at mosques during Friday prayers is known for its picturesque meandering river and English ...

Mar 21, 2019

Records show special counsel zeroed in on Cohen early on

NEW YORK - Hundreds of pages of court records made public Tuesday revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller quickly zeroed in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and...

Mar 21, 2019

Elevated benzene levels near Texas petrochemicals facility

HOUSTON - National Guard troops have been called in and residents are being told to stay inside after elevated levels of benzene were detected near a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility that ...

Mar 21, 2019

Heat records falling twice as often as cold ones, AP finds

Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows. The AP loo...

Mar 21, 2019

Judges grill lawyers in suit over Trump's Washington hotel

RICHMOND, Va. - A federal appeals court on Tuesday grilled lawyers for the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia about their claims that President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution b...

Mar 21, 2019

Father and son who fled Syria are buried in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of ...

Mar 21, 2019