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SKorean court gives Samsung scion prison term over bribery

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong is heading back to prison after a South Korean court sentenced him to two and a half years over his involvement in a 2016 corruption ...

Jan 17, 2021

FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack

WASHINGTON - U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI t...

Jan 17, 2021

Small numbers of protesters gather at fortified US capitols

Small groups of right-wing protesters - some of them carrying rifles - gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday as National Guard troops and police kept watch to preven...

Jan 17, 2021

Dog and goat serving as mayor raise money for a playground

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - A goat and a dog who were each elected mayor have helped raise money to renovate a Vermont community playground. The oddball idea of pet mayor elections to raise money to rehabilitat...

Jan 17, 2021

Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES - Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his "Wall of Sound" method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. Califo...

Jan 17, 2021

Uganda's opposition rejects Museveni's reelection as 'fraud'

KAMPALA, Uganda - A day after Uganda's longtime leader was declared winner of the country's presidential election, the opposition party dismissed the results as "fraud" and called for the release of t...

Jan 17, 2021

Gen. Milley key to military continuity as Biden takes office

WASHINGTON - In taking charge of a Pentagon battered by leadership churn, the Biden administration will look to one holdover as a source of military continuity: Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint...

Jan 17, 2021

Indonesian teams find more bodies, clear roads after quake

MAMUJU, Indonesia - Indonesian rescuers on Sunday retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a strong earthquake, raising the death toll to 77, while military engineers ma...

Jan 17, 2021

Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo

CAIRO - Egypt's former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Hawass told reporters at t...

Jan 17, 2021

Chinese city reports coronavirus found on ice cream

BEIJING - The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government. The Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, adj...

Jan 17, 2021