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Power play: Papal aide's manhole act angers Italy's Salvini

ROME - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has taken aim at a Vatican cardinal who climbed into a utility manhole to restore electricity to squatters in a government-owned building, pitting Pope ...

May 13, 2019

Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried

BERLIN - Executed for standing up against Adolf Hitler's dictatorship and then denied graves so as not to become a rallying point for others, the partial remains of 300 Nazi resistance fighters were l...

May 13, 2019

Police investigating rappers' ties to shootings around Miami

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. - Miami area law enforcement agencies are looking for connections between a series of weekend shootings that killed one rapper, wounded another rapper's girlfriend and hit thre...

May 13, 2019

Fighter McGregor settles with fan, charges dropped

MIAMI - Prosecutors have dropped charges against star fighter Conor McGregor after he allegedly smashed a fan's phone outside a Miami hotel. The State Attorney's Office said Monday the victim has stop...

May 13, 2019

Amazon offers to help employees start delivery business

NEW YORK - Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we'll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages. The offer, ...

May 13, 2019

Correction: Houston-Missing Girl story

HOUSTON - In a story May 6 about a reported abduction of a 4-year-old Houston girl, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by Houston police, misspelled the name of the man who told pol...

May 13, 2019

PBS film tackles Mexican Americans' role in winemaking

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - For generations, Mexican-born Gustavo Brambila's family has worked in the wine industry of California's Napa Valley in some form. He went to college on a baseball scholarship but t...

May 13, 2019

Houthi rebels claim to begin withdrawal from key Yemen ports

SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday began a long-delayed withdrawal of forces from the port facility in the key city of Hodeida, the group said, following the terms of a December cease-fi...

May 13, 2019

Poland shaken by documentary about pedophile priests

WARSAW, Poland - A new documentary revealing new cases of pedophilia by priests has deeply shaken Poland, one of Europe's most Roman Catholic societies, eliciting an apology from the church hierarchy ...

May 13, 2019

'Empire' will go 1 more season, Smollett's future is unclear

NEW YORK - The Fox network says "Empire" will be back this fall for its final season. But Fox executives in announcing the 2019-20 season say that Jussie Smollett's future in the show is unclear. Fox ...

May 13, 2019