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Prosecutor: Killings of women were clearly work of same man

LOS ANGELES - Four strikingly similar attacks on women were all planned and executed by a skilled serial killer who studied the lives and California homes of victims who lived near him before savagely...

Aug 06, 2019

James Levine's lawsuit against Met Opera has been settled

NEW YORK - Conductor James Levine's breach of contract and defamation lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been settled. A lawyer for Levine and the company made the announcement Tuesday but did...

Aug 06, 2019

Aide: Sen Mitch McConnell trips, breaks shoulder in Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recovering at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said. McConnell tripped on his outdoor...

Aug 06, 2019

US stocks claw back lost ground as China stabilizes currency

Technology and bank companies helped drive stocks broadly higher on Wall Street Tuesday as the market regained its footing a day after posting its biggest decline of the year. The bounce came as inves...

Aug 06, 2019

Trump, Republican party sue over California tax return law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Trump campaign and Republican Party sued California on Tuesday over a new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in the state's primary, leg...

Aug 06, 2019

India's former foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, dies at 67

NEW DELHI - Sushma Swaraj, India's former external affairs minister and a leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, died Tuesday at a hospital in New Delhi. She was 67. Swaraj die...

Aug 06, 2019

Cyntoia Brown scheduled to leave prison after clemency

NASHVILLE - Cyntoia Brown is scheduled to be released from prison this week after being granted clemency . Brown said she was a sex trafficking victim at the time she killed a man in 2004, when she wa...

Aug 06, 2019

Students, parents, friends among the dead in shootings

One man protected his wife and granddaughter before he was fatally shot; another was killed during an outing with his beloved son. Stories of bravery and loss are emerging from the shootings that took...

Aug 06, 2019

El Paso opens healing centre as it prepares for Trump visit

EL PASO, Texas - El Paso officials opened a grief centre on Tuesday to help people cope with last weekend's mass shooting at a Walmart, in which 22 people, nearly all with Latino last names, were kill...

Aug 06, 2019

GOP governor urges gun sale background checks after shooting

DAYTON, Ohio - Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio's Republican governor urged the GOP-led Legislature on Tuesday to pass laws requiring background checks f...

Aug 06, 2019