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Girl believed to be tiniest newborn weighed as much as apple

SAN DIEGO - When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world's tiniest sur...

May 31, 2019

Foxx releases Smollett files, offers recusal explanation

Chicago's top prosecutor has released more than 2,000 pages of documents in Jussie Smollett's case and explained she recused herself from an investigation into the "Empire" actor's claim he'd been the...

May 31, 2019

Police: Multiple people hurt in Virginia Beach shooting

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A shooter wounded "multiple" people at a municipal centre in Virginia Beach on Friday, according to police, who said they had taken a suspect into custody and believed the person...

May 31, 2019

Spacey lawyer says accuser deleted 'exculpatory' messages

NANTUCKET, Mass. - Kevin Spacey's attorney is accusing the man who says the actor groped him at a Nantucket bar in 2016 of deleting "exculpatory" text messages. Defence attorney Alan Jackson says in c...

May 31, 2019

Author Wally Lamb sued by ex-inmate over new book

HARTFORD, Conn. - A former Connecticut prison inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging she hasn't been paid for her contribution to a new book by author Wally Lamb and accusing Lamb of harassing and intimi...

May 31, 2019

Waithe wishes she'd done more on 'Chi' misconduct reports

LOS ANGELES - Lena Waithe, creator of Showtime's "The Chi," says she should have intervened more aggressively about allegations of misconduct by the show's star Jason Mitchell. Waithe said on syndicat...

May 31, 2019

US officials to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Histor...

May 31, 2019

Kutcher testifies he knocked on slain woman's door in 2001

LOS ANGELES - Ashton Kutcher testified at a Los Angeles murder trial Wednesday that he went to pick up a 22-year-old fashion-design student to go out for drinks one night 18 years ago and left when sh...

May 31, 2019

Principal: I accidentally plagiarized Ashton Kutcher speech

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. - A West Virginia principal accused of plagiarizing Ashton Kutcher in an address to his school's graduating class says he didn't mean to use someone else's work. The News and Sentin...

May 31, 2019

Cardi B makes court appearance in strip club melee

NEW YORK - Cardi B has made a court appearance in a case stemming from a fight at a New York strip club. The Grammy-winning rapper appeared sombre and did not speak during Friday's hearing. She is due...

May 31, 2019