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Trump defends Acosta but will look into Epstein plea deal

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be looking "very closely" at Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed billionaire financier Jeffr...

Jul 11, 2019

David Bromberg fears huge violin collection must be split up

WLIMINGTON, Del. - David Bromberg, a master of stringed-instrument Americana, says a deal to sell his massive collection of historic violins to the Library of Congress has fallen through. The singer-s...

Jul 11, 2019

Willie Nelson brings Farm Aid 2019 to Wisconsin's dairy land

EAST TROY, Wis. - Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and the Dave Matthews Band will headline Farm Aid 2019 when the music and food festival visits Wisconsin's dairy country in September. Tick...

Jul 11, 2019

Man arrested in UK after climbing Buckingham Palace gates

London police have arrested a man who climbed the front gates of Buckingham Palace while Queen Elizabeth II was in residence. The Metropolitan Police Service said the 22-year-old man was arrested on s...

Jul 11, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein's legal woes pile up amid new charges

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Financier Jeffrey Epstein is entangled in two legal fights that span the East Coast, challenging his underage sexual abuse victims in a Florida court hours after he was indicte...

Jul 11, 2019

Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he viol...

Jul 11, 2019

Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89

DALLAS - H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89. Perot...

Jul 11, 2019

Taylor Swift shakes off drama with fun concert performance

NEW YORK - In her first public appearance since discovering her masters were in the hands of someone she's not a fan of, Taylor Swift didn't directly address the issue, but she did play music from tha...

Jul 11, 2019

Weinstein overhauling legal team as trial looms in 60 days

NEW YORK - With one lawyer bolting amid public backlash and another saying he and his client just couldn't get along, Harvey Weinstein is recasting his defence team yet again, this time a mere 60 days...

Jul 11, 2019

UK envoy's leaked views inspire more insults in Trump tweets

LONDON - U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Britain's ambassador to the United States for a second day, describing him as "wacky" and a "pompous fool" after leaked documents revealed the envoy'...

Jul 11, 2019