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Officials: Jet fuel lands on Los Angeles school playground

CUDAHY, Calif. - Jet fuel dumped by an aircraft returning to Los Angeles International Airport fell onto an elementary school playground where children were playing Tuesday, fire officials said. The L...

Jan 14, 2020

Australian village scorched by wildfires struggles with loss

NERRIGUNDAH, Australia - Ash Graham's dog, Kozi, wakes him at 8 a.m., eager for his morning walk. Then Graham realizes he was dreaming, and gets up from the one-man tent he's been sleeping in each nig...

Jan 14, 2020

French director detained, accused of abusing teen actress

PARIS - A French filmmaker is in custody while authorities investigate accusations that he sexually abused an actress when she was between 12 and 15 years old. Director Christophe Ruggia was detained ...

Jan 14, 2020

World's largest asset manager shifts focus to climate change

NEW YORK - BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, will make climate change central to its investment decisions. Founder and CEO Laurence Fink, who oversees the management of about $7 trillion i...

Jan 14, 2020

Gucci's Michele marks 5 years of challenging masculine codes

MILAN - If any one designer can take credit for revolutionizing menswear, it is Gucci's Alessandro Michele, who made his runway debut as creative director five years ago with a menswear collection tha...

Jan 14, 2020

Spain: Chemical plant explosion kills 1, injures at least 6

MADRID - A massive explosion at a petrochemical plant in northeastern Spain killed one person and gravely injured at least six others Tuesday, regional authorities said. A local government spokesman f...

Jan 14, 2020

Jury selection at Weinstein's rape trial trudges forward

NEW YORK - A sixth day of jury selection at Harvey Weinstein's New York City rape trial ended Tuesday after another batch of prospective jurors told a judge that they had already made up their minds a...

Jan 14, 2020

Correction: Limiting Refugees story

HOUSTON - In a Jan. 10 story about the Texas governor's decision to reject future refugee resettlement, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of states that had not yet said whether the...

Jan 14, 2020

Pelosi sets Wednesday votes to send impeachment to Senate

WASHINGTON - After weeks of delay and strategizing, the U.S. House is planning to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate to start the trial on ...

Jan 14, 2020

Rising energy costs lift US consumer prices 0.2% in December

WASHINGTON - Rising energy costs drove U.S. consumer prices higher in December, and American workers' earnings couldn't keep up. The Labor Department said Tuesday that its consumer price index rose 0....

Jan 14, 2020