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WHO team arrives in Wuhan to search for pandemic origins

WUHAN, China - A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins ami...

Jan 13, 2021

Asia Today: China's cases spike ahead of WHO research visit

BEIJING - China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast as a World Health Organization team was due to arrive to probe the origins of the pandemic. China on Thursday also re...

Jan 13, 2021

Tesla balks at touch screen recall, US agency takes action

DETROIT - Tesla Inc. is balking at recalling about 159,000 vehicles with potentially defective touch screens, so U.S. safety regulators are moving to force the company to take action. The National Hig...

Jan 13, 2021

Ex.-Michigan Gov. Snyder charged in Flint water crisis

LANSING, Mich. - Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was charged Wednesday with wilful neglect of duty stemming from an investigation of ruinous decisions that left Flint with lead-contaminated water and...

Jan 13, 2021

U.S. President Trump impeached a second time

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with "incitement of insurrection" over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a...

Jan 13, 2021

AP source: Harden headed to Nets in blockbuster 4-team deal

James Harden is heading to Brooklyn, joining old teammate Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to give the Nets a potent trio of the some of the NBA's highest scorers. The Nets agreed to acquire the three-ti...

Jan 13, 2021

Fed survey finds economy slowing in some areas of country

WASHINGTON - A Federal Reserve survey of U.S. business conditions has found modest economic gains at the start of the year, although some parts of the country saw slowdowns stemming from a renewed sur...

Jan 13, 2021

SAG Awards moves air date to avoid conflict with Grammys

LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild Awards will not share the same air date as the Grammys after all. The SAG Awards announced Wednesday that the 27th annual ceremony has been moved to April 4. Both...

Jan 13, 2021

Delayed Kennedy Center Honors to be rescheduled for mid-May

WASHINGTON - Five months after they were postponed because of the coronavirus, the annual Kennedy Center Honors are coming back in May, possibly in a series of small events, organizers announced Wedne...

Jan 13, 2021

Amazon seeks to keep right-wing app Parler offline

Seattle-based Amazon.com, Inc. has asked a federal judge to deny a request to reinstate the cloud-service account for conservative social media network Parler, claiming Parler shrugged off police viol...

Jan 13, 2021