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Arts and letters academy awards gold medal to Toni Morrison
NEW YORK - Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is being honoured this spring by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced Monday that Morrison, celebrated for such novels as "Beloved" a...
Apr 29, 2019
Ahead of 'The Irishman,' Scorsese and De Niro look back
NEW YORK - Ahead of their much-anticipated and most recent collaboration, "The Irishman," Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro convened at the Tribeca Film Festival to look back on their long partnershi...
Apr 29, 2019
Death toll jumps to 38 after Mozambique's latest cyclone
PEMBA, Mozambique - The death toll from Cyclone Kenneth in northern Mozambique jumped to 38, the government announced on Monday, as flooding and pounding rains hampered efforts to deliver aid to badly...
Apr 29, 2019
Corruption claims, mailbox send Hawaii power couple to trial
HONOLULU - He was Honolulu's Rolex-wearing police chief, an avid surfer who chatted with beat cops in Pidgin, Hawaii's creole language. She was his deputy city prosecutor wife, who drove a Maserati an...
Apr 29, 2019
Biden heads to Pennsylvania to pitch rebuilding middle class
HARRISBURG, Pa. - By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signalling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground. Plantin...
Apr 29, 2019
Links to Easter bombings put eastern Sri Lanka on edge
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - Suicide bombings at a militants' safe house have shaken the simple homes of this east Sri Lankan town as well as the rest of this idyllic coast, as the investigation into the Isl...
Apr 29, 2019
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misleading rhetoric on immigrants
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is spreading misleading rhetoric about illegal immigration. At a Wisconsin rally, he suggested he's launched his plan to transport immigrants in the U.S. illegally ...
Apr 29, 2019
Simpsons take shot at Ottawa Senators in Canadian-themed episode
The Ottawa Senators were unable to avoid being the punchline of a joke on Sunday's Canadian-themed episode of The Simpsons. The episode, titled D'Oh Canada, featured a scene w...
Apr 29, 2019
Scheer to demand Canada pull funds from Chinese multilateral development bank
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to respond to China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by taking a number of steps, including pulling hundre...
Apr 29, 2019
160,000 at risk in Mozambique after 2nd cyclone in 6 weeks
PEMBA, Mozambique - A second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging flood waters killed one person and began to cut off the region's main city from...
Apr 29, 2019
