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Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a pair of sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality. Trump tweete...

Jul 6, 2020

White woman charged after racist Central Park confrontation

NEW YORK - A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over walking her dog without a leash in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false police report. I...

Jul 6, 2020

Tell-all book by Trump niece to be released next week

NEW YORK - A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece that has been the subject of a legal battle will be released next week. Publisher Simon & Schuster cited "high interest and extraordina...

Jul 6, 2020

Maxwell moved to NY for Epstein-related sex abuse charges

Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monday to New York to face charges that she recruited women and girls, one as young as 14, for him to sexually abuse, the Bureau...

Jul 6, 2020

Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending review

FARGO, N.D. - A federal judge on Monday sided with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down until more environmental review is done. In a 24-page order, U.S. D...

Jul 6, 2020

Justices rule states can bind presidential electors' votes

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states' popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling, just under four mo...

Jul 6, 2020

Singer Tom Meighan leaves Kasabian amid 'personal issues'

LONDON - Frontman Tom Meighan has left British rockers Kasabian to deal with "personal issues," the band said Monday. Kasabian said in a statement that Meighan "is stepping down from the band by mutua...

Jul 6, 2020

Uber buys Postmates in $2.65 billion all-stock deal

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Uber finally got its food delivery company, acquiring Postmates in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal, the ride-hailing giant confirmed Monday. Uber and its Uber Eats food-delivery di...

Jul 6, 2020

As Paris Fashion Week is streamed, critics look to future

PARIS - The coronavirus pandemic has instilled extra unpredictability into the already fickle Paris Fashion Week. After first cancelling the July shows for menswear and Haute Couture, the French fashi...

Jul 6, 2020

Spaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

ROME - Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood gangster movies ...

Jul 6, 2020