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Twitter investigating widespread outage that lasted more than an hour

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is investigating a problem that affected service to its users in the United States, Canada and Europe for more than an hour Thursday. The disrupti...

Jul 11, 2019

Purl jam: Finland hosts heavy metal knitting championship

JOENSUU, Finland - Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, a dozen knitting aficionados have danced to deafening heavy metal music while knitting during an unusual competition in Finland. The goal of t...

Jul 11, 2019

Amazon, seeking more skilled workers, will do the training

NEW YORK - Amazon, needing a more tech-savvy workforce, is offering to pay to retrain its employees and help them switch to more technical jobs at Amazon or elsewhere. The online shopping giant said T...

Jul 11, 2019

With 19 aces, gutsy comeback, Serena reaches Wimbledon semis

WIMBLEDON, England - Slowed by a balky ankle, trailing by a service break in the third set of her Wimbledon quarterfinal, Serena Williams appeared to be in trouble Tuesday against an opponent playing ...

Jul 11, 2019

Guard in Boosie Badazz case: spray prevented fight in store

BILOXI, Miss. - A security guard who used pepper spray on a crowd including rapper Boosie Badazz says he did so because a man was trying to start a fight with him as he tried to get the group to leave...

Jul 11, 2019

Skopje zoo's chimp returns after recovering from depression

Koko the chimpanzee, once a star in Skopje's zoo, has returned home after spending 10 years in the Netherlands recovering from depression, the zoo says. Koko was reunited with his keeper, Dragan Trajk...

Jul 11, 2019

Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop

GUTHRIE, Okla. - Police in Oklahoma say they found a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey during a traffic stop of a vehicle that had b...

Jul 11, 2019

NBC's Lester Holt to get Walter Cronkite journalism award

PHOENIX - Arizona State University is awarding its 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to Lester Holt, news anchor for NBC. Holt has anchored NBC's flagship "Nightly News" broadcas...

Jul 11, 2019

Trump shows love-hate for social media as he leads 'summit'

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, who has weaponized social media to eviscerate opponents and promote himself, was convening a White House conference Thursday of like-minded critics of Big Tech, no...

Jul 11, 2019

White man indicted in killing of black teen over rap music

PHOENIX - An Arizona prosecutor says a grand jury has returned an indictment charging a white man with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a black youth for playing rap music he said he thoug...

Jul 11, 2019