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WikiLeaks' Assange won't get US extradition ruling this year

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely spend the rest of 2020 inside a British prison cell before finding out whether he can be sent to the United States to face espionage charges, the ...

Oct 1, 2020

New rules for Liverpool as virus cases in England quadruple

LONDON - Britain imposed tighter restrictions on social gatherings in the port city of Liverpool and three towns as scientists reported Thursday that the number of COVID-19 cases in England has quadru...

Oct 1, 2020

Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo

NEW YORK - The image is haunting, depicting a gaunt-faced man with a familiar beard, staring ahead lifelessly. The right eye is bulging and appears disfigured from an unseen wound. Some experts believ...

Oct 1, 2020

Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions

NEW YORK - Frederick Wiseman has spent more than half a century documenting American institutions. With a small crew, he has tirelessly made lengthy, sober, engrossing filmic portraits of life in Jack...

Oct 1, 2020

Hundreds of Honduran migrants set out for US amid pandemic

CORINTO, Honduras - About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronaviru...

Oct 1, 2020

Barrett opposed 'abortion on demand,' raising doubts on Roe

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 newspaper ad sponsored by an anti-abortion group in which she said she opposed "abortion on demand" and defended "the right to life f...

Oct 1, 2020

Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble

LONDON - An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines themselves - a...

Oct 1, 2020

Check's in the mail? Trump doling out aid before election

CHICAGO - It's almost as if he's writing a personal check. In recent days, President Donald Trump has promised millions of Medicare recipients that - thanks to him - they'll soon be getting an "incred...

Oct 1, 2020

Debate commission says it will make changes to format

NEW YORK - The presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the disjointed first meeting between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. The...

Oct 1, 2020

Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to walk back his refusal to outright condemn a far right fascist group during his debate with Democrat Joe Biden, but the inflammatory moment was...

Oct 1, 2020