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Fiat Chrysler swings to loss as virus hits production, sales

MILAN - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Tuesday reported a first-quarter net loss of 1.7 billion euros ($1.84 billion) due to a steep decline in car sales triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, and said ...

May 5, 2020

Coronavirus returns long-banned drive-in movies to Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - The new coronavirus pandemic has brought back something unseen in Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution: a drive-in movie theatre. Once decried by revolutionaries for allowing too much...

May 5, 2020

In 'Becoming,' a starring role for Michelle Obama

NEW YORK - In the backstage hallways of Washington D.C.'s Capital One Arena, Michelle Obama walks arm-in-arm with her husband, Barack Obama. She has just finished the third stop on what would be a 34-...

May 5, 2020

Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys' wins Pulitzer Prize

NEW YORK - Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, "The Nickel Boys," was awarde...

May 5, 2020

Philippines orders leading TV network to halt operations

MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine government agency on Tuesday ordered the country's leading broadcast network, which the president has targeted for its critical news coverage, to halt operations. Th...

May 5, 2020

California governor says some business may reopen this week

YUBA CITY, Calif. - With more local governments moving ahead with their own plans for reopening, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday the state will begin gradually allowing clothing stores, ...

May 4, 2020

Kingfish Ingram wins 5 Blues Music Awards in online show

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram took home five Blues Music Awards in an online ceremony that featured appearances by Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray and other musicians. The awards sh...

May 4, 2020

Nicolas Cage to star as Joe Exotic in limited TV series

LOS ANGELES - The Joe Exotic phenomenon keeps growing, with Nicolas Cage to star in a TV miniseries about the colorful wild animal owner made famous by the "Tiger King" docuseries. The TV series is th...

May 4, 2020

New this week: A Bieber reality show, comics and their moms

Bored with your surroundings? Justin and Hailey Bieber are showing off their lives in their Toronto home in a new series, while Hulu this week is premiering a documentary looking back at an early 1990...

May 4, 2020

New book aims to portray 'real' Prince Harry and Meghan

LONDON - Freed from the constraints of life as full-time royals - and enmeshed in a feud with Britain's tabloid press - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to tell their story in a book penned by sy...

May 4, 2020