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UN seeks $29M for St. Vincent amid new volcanic threats

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The United Nations announced Tuesday that it is seeking $29.2 million to help St. Vincent recover from ongoing volcanic eruptions that have destroyed homes and crops, contamina...

Apr 20, 2021

Navalny's doctors prevented from seeing him at prison clinic

MOSCOW - Several doctors were prevented Tuesday from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital amid his three-week hunger strike, and authorities stepped up actions against ...

Apr 20, 2021

Ohio Republicans aim to rename state park after Donald Trump

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A GOP-backed bill introduced Monday would change the name of an Ohio state park to honour former President Donald Trump. The bill primarily sponsored by freshman state Rep. Mike Loych...

Apr 20, 2021

Church leaders seek Home Depot boycott on Georgia voting law

ATLANTA - A group of religious leaders is calling for a boycott of Georgia-based Home Depot, saying the home improvement giant hasn't done enough to oppose the state's new voting laws. African Methodi...

Apr 20, 2021

EXPLAINER: Conviction on lesser murder count might not stick

MINNEAPOLIS - Prosecutors fought hard to add a third-degree murder charge against former police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, but a conviction on that charge alone could set up a...

Apr 20, 2021

Scott Rudin says he will 'step back' from film projects also

NEW YORK - Scott Rudin says he's "stepping back" from film and streaming projects, along with his Broadway productions, as the fallout continued for one of the entertainment industry's most powerful a...

Apr 20, 2021

Police: 1 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at NY grocery store

WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - One person was killed and two people were injured in a shooting a Long Island grocery store, Nassau County police said Tuesday. The person killed was a 49-year-old employee, pol...

Apr 20, 2021

Out of sight but centre stage, jurors weigh Chauvin's fate

MINNEAPOLIS - The jurors who sat off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin's murder trial in George Floyd's death were in the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now ...

Apr 20, 2021

Oscar predictions: Can anything beat 'Nomadland'?

Ahead of Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr share their predictions for a ceremony that is forging on in the midst of the pandemic. BEST PICTURE Th...

Apr 20, 2021

Rapper Black Rob, known for hit ‘Whoa!,' dead at 52

NEW YORK - Rapper Black Rob, known for his hit "Whoa!" and key contributions to Diddy's dominant Bad Boy Records in the 1990s and early 2000s, has died. He was 52. Black Rob died Saturday in Atlanta, ...

Apr 20, 2021