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September 19, 2020

Police: 2 dead, 14 wounded at party in Rochester, New York

Gunfire at a backyard party killed two people and wounded 14 others early Saturday in Rochester, New York, a city that has ...

September 19, 2020

Thai protesters hold ambitious rally for democratic reforms

Protesters gathered Saturday in Bangkok for the most ambitious rally so far in a pro-democracy campaign that has shaken up ...

September 19, 2020

Moroccans protest Arab nations normalizing ties with Israel

Despite a government ban on large gatherings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, scores of demonstrators protested ...

September 19, 2020

Stopgap bill to prevent shutdown held up over farm funding

Efforts to fashion a temporary spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month ran aground Friday ...

September 19, 2020

How Ginsburg's death could reshape the presidential campaign

A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme ...

September 19, 2020

One family's desperate, deadly attempt to flee Lebanon

Mohammed Sufian did not dream of much: a job, food on the table, the chance to buy his 2½-year-old son the little things a ...

September 19, 2020

Asia Today: India's cases keep rising; rallies in Melbourne

India has maintained its surge in coronavirus cases, adding 93,337 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours. The Health ...

September 19, 2020

Peru president survives impeachment vote amid virus turmoil

Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra easily survived an impeachment vote Friday night after opposition lawmakers failed to ...

September 19, 2020

Manager ordered census layoffs despite judge's ruling

Two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the U.S. Census Bureau from winding down the 2020 census, a manager in Illinois ...

September 19, 2020

More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery in detention

Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned ...

September 19, 2020

Baylor-Houston, FAU-Ga Southern postponed day before games

Baylor's season opener against Houston, scheduled less than a week ago, was one of two Bowl Subdivision games postponed ...

September 19, 2020

NYC mayor 'very confident' in new school reopening timeline

Mayor Bill de Blasio is confident that New York City will meet a revised timeline to bring public school students back to ...

September 19, 2020

Firefighters battle exhaustion along with wildfire flames

They work 50 hours at a stretch and sleep on gymnasium floors. Exploding trees shower them with embers. They lose track of ...

September 19, 2020

The Latest: U of Colorado shifting students for virus cases

DENVER — The University of Colorado has forced some students to move out of their dorms to create more isolation housing for ...

September 19, 2020

USDA plans additional $14B for farmers reeling from virus

The federal government said Friday that it will give farmers an additional $14 billion to compensate them for the ...

September 19, 2020

College basketball bubbles brewing with season on horizon

With the coronavirus pandemic already forcing changes for college basketball, a bubble may be brewing in Indianapolis.

September 18, 2020

US stocks fall as market decline extends for third week

Wall Street capped another turbulent week of trading Friday with a broad slide in stocks that left the S&P 500 with its ...

September 18, 2020

Canada extends U.S. border restrictions to Oct. 21

Canada is extending the agreement to keep the U.S. border closed to non-essential travel to Oct. 21 during the coronavirus ...

September 18, 2020

California jobless rate falls with help of temporary jobs

A raft of temporary government jobs for the U.S. Census boosted California's economy in August as the state added 101,900 ...

September 18, 2020

Captain says he knowingly risked career with virus warning

The dismissed captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier knew he was jeopardizing his military career when he broke protocol and ...