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Motown mogul Berry Gordy announces retirement at 89

DETROIT - The Motown mogul who launched the careers of numerous stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson has announced his retirement. The Detroit Free Press reports Berry Gordy said h...

Sep 25, 2019

Film explores Latina union leader who organized farmworkers

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta began organizing poor farmworkers in California, a woman named Maria Moreno sought to sign up impoverished farmworkers for a fledgling ...

Sep 24, 2019

Hundreds of thousands affected as British travel firm fails

LONDON - Families stranded, honeymoons and vacations cancelled, thousands of workers laid off: The sudden collapse of British tour company Thomas Cook and its network of airlines and hotels sowed chao...

Sep 24, 2019

Correction: Antonio Brown-Retires? story

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - In a story Sept. 22 about former New England Patriots receiver Antonio Brown, The Associated Press reported erroneously that team owner Robert Kraft was arrested in connection with...

Sep 24, 2019

Judge rejects Avenatti request to move case to California

NEW YORK - California attorney Michael Avenatti will face charges that he ripped off porn star Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds in New York rather than Los Angeles, ...

Sep 24, 2019

WeWork CEO stepping aside amid questions about company

WeWork's charismatic but controversial CEO is stepping aside from the communal office-space company he founded, another moment of reckoning between the fast-growing startup and its disenchanted invest...

Sep 24, 2019

Investigator says FAA training inspectors weren't qualified

Federal investigators say some safety inspectors who helped set pilot-training standards for the Boeing 737 Max were unqualified and the Federal Aviation Administration seemed to mislead Congress abou...

Sep 24, 2019

Bill Cosby hit with $2.75M legal bill after losing dispute

PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby has been hit with a $2.75 million legal bill as he marks the end of his first year in prison. The 82-year-old Cosby had challenged a California arbitration award that upheld ...

Sep 24, 2019

Domingo withdraws from Met Opera after harassment reports

NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Placido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment m...

Sep 24, 2019

ABC's Muir hits five-year mark at 'World News' on the top

NEW YORK - David Muir is celebrating his fifth anniversary as "World News Tonight" anchor with something that's rare in television: a larger audience. The ABC newscast finished its year-long season la...

Sep 24, 2019