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J.D. Salinger's books are finally going digital

NEW YORK - You'll finally be able to catch the late J.D. Salinger's books in digital format. Longtime Salinger publisher Little, Brown and Company said all four of his works, including "The Catcher in...

Aug 13, 2019

US delays tariffs on some Chinese goods, drops others

WASHINGTON - The United States is delaying tariffs on Chinese-made cellphones, laptop computers and other items and removing other Chinese imports from its target list altogether in a move that trigge...

Aug 13, 2019

US consumer prices rose 0.3% amid widespread cost increases

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices rose 0.3% in July, pushed higher by more expensive gas, medical care and housing. The consumer price index increased 1.8% compared with a year earlier, up from 1.6% i...

Aug 13, 2019

Octavia Spencer to be honoured by gay-rights education group

LOS ANGELES - Octavia Spencer will be honoured by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network with its Inspiration Award at a gala later this year. The group known as GLSEN announced Tuesday that ...

Aug 13, 2019

Comedian Andy Dick reports attack in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Comedian Andy Dick says he was assaulted outside a New Orleans nightclub after performing in the French Quarter. Dick tells The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate he was unconscious...

Aug 13, 2019

Will populist politics undo a renaissance at Italy's Uffizi?

FLORENCE, Italy - To protect the masterpieces at the Uffizi Galleries, the Florence museum's director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee's bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep ...

Aug 13, 2019

Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania appeals court questioned why Bill Cosby's legal team never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his latest lawyers fought Monday to have his sexual a...

Aug 13, 2019

Flights out of Hong Kong cancelled again amid protests

HONG KONG - Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong's international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrato...

Aug 13, 2019

Scrutiny of Epstein's death and co-conspirators intensifies

NEW YORK - Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death , federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was beh...

Aug 13, 2019

Epstein death shifts federal focus to possible conspirators

NEW YORK - In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide , federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in what authorities say wa...

Aug 13, 2019