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Hundreds sign up to speak on Minneapolis plan to cut police

MINNEAPOLIS - More than 300 Minneapolis residents signed up to speak Wednesday night on a plan to shrink the city's police department, with some pleading for City Council members to deliver the reform...

Dec 9, 2020

Oregon eviction protest fueled by history of gentrification

PORTLAND, Ore. - Protesters barricaded streets in a Portland, Oregon, neighbourhood and set booby traps for police after officers arrested about a dozen people in a clash over gentrification and the e...

Dec 9, 2020

Pompeo unloads on US universities for China ties

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, which included id...

Dec 9, 2020

Trump's election fight puts embattled Texas AG in spotlight

AUSTIN, Texas - A lawsuit that President Donald Trump is now calling "the big one" in his effort to overturn the outcome of the presidential election is helmed by an embattled Texas ally who is likewi...

Dec 9, 2020

Retiring Rep. Joe Kennedy III says greed hinders aid to poor

WASHINGTON - Retiring Rep. Joe Kennedy III used his farewell speech from Congress on Wednesday to deride the "great lie of our times" that the government lacks the resources and will to help people in...

Dec 9, 2020

Jury convicts Illinois man in Minnesota mosque bombing

MINNEAPOLIS - A jury on Wednesday convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group of several civil rights and hate crime charges in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Prosecutor...

Dec 9, 2020

Women's Hall of Fame honours Aretha Franklin, Morrison, Lacks

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. - "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame Thursday as part of a posthumous clas...

Dec 9, 2020

Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over 'tax affairs'

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter said Wednesday that he has learned from federal prosecutors that his tax affairs are under investigation. The investigation by the Delaware U....

Dec 9, 2020

US govt, states bring antitrust action against Facebook

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the compan...

Dec 9, 2020

Woman abused by school band teacher gets $2M settlement

SEATTLE - A school district in Washington state has agreed to a $2 million settlement after a woman sued over sexual abuse by a band teacher 30 years ago - a trauma so profound she said it caused her ...

Dec 9, 2020