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Super Saturday: Gauff, Osaka meet under the US Open lights
NEW YORK - Coco Gauff is on another captivating run at a Grand Slam tournament. Now she has get through defending champion Naomi Osaka to continue it. The 15-year-old Gauff and the top-ranked Osaka me...
Aug 31, 2019
Kansas movie theatre recognized for its longevity
OTTAWA, Kan. - The oldest continuously operating movie theatre in the world might figure to be in New York or Hollywood. How about Kansas? The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ottawa, some 50 miles...
Aug 31, 2019
Watchdog: Comey violated FBI policies in handling of memos
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump, the Justice Department's inspector general sa...
Aug 31, 2019
Brad Pitt goes deep into space, masculinity in 'Ad Astra'
VENICE, Italy - "Ad Astra" looks and sounds like a space epic with a movie star lead in Brad Pitt, but there's a lot more going on beneath the surface. Pitt said Thursday at the Venice International F...
Aug 31, 2019
Scarlett Johansson says 'Marriage Story' felt fated
VENICE, Italy - When Noah Baumbach asked Scarlett Johansson to meet with him about a new film he was going to write about a divorce, he didn't know she was going through one in real life. "It felt fat...
Aug 31, 2019
Colombia FARC negotiators say they are taking up arms again
BOGOTA - Colombian President Ivan Duque offered a nearly $1 million reward for the arrest of the top peace negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on Thursday after the rebel and a s...
Aug 31, 2019
Spain: ex-king says feeling "phenomenal" after heart surgery
MADRID - Spain's former monarch Juan Carlos I says he's feeling "phenomenal" with "new plumbing" after a successful triple bypass heart surgery. "It feels like a truck ran me over, but now it's about ...
Aug 31, 2019
School days: UK's Princess Charlotte to start next week
LONDON - Britain's Princess Charlotte will soon be starting school, and she'll have her older brother to help her get used to a new place. Kensington Palace said Thursday that the 4-year-old princess ...
Aug 31, 2019
Myanmar court sends filmmaker to prison for army remarks
YANGON, Myanmar - A court in Myanmar has found a prominent filmmaker guilty of defaming the military with his postings on Facebook and sentenced him to a year in prison. The lawyer defending Min Htin ...
Aug 31, 2019
Fierce Category 4 Dorian menaces Bahamas en route to Florida
MIAMI - Hurricane Dorian has gained fearsome new muscle as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, bearing down on the northwestern Bahamas early Saturday en route to Florida's east coast. Millions...
Aug 31, 2019
