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Steve McQueen sets 3 premieres at New York Film Festival

Three original films by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen will debut at the New York Film Festival this year, organizers said Monday. The "12 Years a Slave" director will get the opening night slot for the 1...

Aug 3, 2020

Tamar Braxton pays tribute to boyfriend for 'saving my life'

LOS ANGELES - Tamar Braxton is thanking her boyfriend for "saving my life" after her hospitalization last month. Braxton posted a lengthy message on social media late Saturday that paid tribute to Dav...

Aug 3, 2020

Pandemic parody of `Goodnight Moon' to be released in fall

NEW YORK - A popular online spoof of the children's favourite "Goodnight Moon," reworked for the coronavirus, will be published by Penguin Random House this fall. The Penguin imprint Philomel Books an...

Aug 3, 2020

Orphaned toddler grows up in shadow of massacre, coronavirus

An infant boy who survived a shooting last year that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jingle with his grandmother, according to an unc...

Aug 2, 2020

Isaias nears virus-hit Florida after lashing the Bahamas

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Early bands of heavy rain from Isaias lashed Florida's east coast before dawn Sunday as authorities warily eyed the approaching storm, which threatened to snarl efforts to quell...

Aug 2, 2020

Zimbabwean author freed after night in jail for protest

HARARE, Zimbabwe - An internationally known Zimbabwean author and several other people have been released on bail on Saturday, after spending a night in police cells for protesting against the governm...

Aug 1, 2020

'Rebuilding Paradise' looks at emotional toll of deadly fire

SAN FRANCISCO - Almost two years since a wildfire swept through his mountain town and virtually wiped it out, Steve "Woody" Culleton got to put the final touches on his new home. Two redwood trees wer...

Jul 31, 2020

Trump says he'll act to ban TikTok in US as soon as Saturday

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. Tru...

Jul 31, 2020

California officials report first virus death of a child

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California health officials reported the state's first coronavirus death of a child on Friday as the statewide tally of fatalities surpassed 9,000, saying the victim was a teenage...

Jul 31, 2020

Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential bi...

Jul 31, 2020