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'Love ain't easy': Booker brings upbeat vibe to 2020 fight
WASHINGTON - Cory Booker leaped into the 2020 presidential race on Friday with a call for Americans to unite in a time of bitter polarization while some of his Democratic rivals are taking a more comb...
Feb 03, 2019
Bruno Mars puts on stellar concert show ahead of Super Bowl
ATLANTA - Bruno Mars may have wrapped up his massive "24K Magic World Tour" last year, but the singer gave one more glimpse into his stellar show the night before the Super Bowl. It seemed like everyo...
Feb 03, 2019
India's prime minister visits Kashmir amid protest strike
SRINAGAR, India - India's prime minster paid a daylong visit to disputed Kashmir on Sunday to review development work as separatists fighting Indian rule called for a shutdown in the Himalayan region....
Feb 03, 2019
Bus crash south of Moscow kills 7, injures 32 others
MOSCOW - A bus crashed south of Moscow on Sunday, killing at least seven people, four of them children, and sending 32 others to the hospital with injuries, authorities said. The bus carrying 45 peopl...
Feb 03, 2019
Film featuring disabled actors wins Spain's top Goya award
MADRID - The film "Campeones" ("Champions"), a comedy about a basketball team featuring actors with mental disabilities, has won best picture at the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Awards. Directed by Jav...
Feb 03, 2019
Train derails in eastern India, killing 7 people
PATNA, India - Seven people were killed and 29 injured when nine coaches of a New Delhi-bound train derailed early Sunday in eastern India, officials said. Most of the passengers were asleep when the ...
Feb 03, 2019
3 students killed in South Africa school walkway collapse
JOHANNESBURG - At least three students are dead and 23 injured after a walkway collapsed at a school outside Johannesburg, South African officials said Friday. Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education fo...
Feb 03, 2019
Gov. Northam says he wasn't in racist photo, won't resign
RICHMOND, Va. - Resisting widespread calls for his resignation, Virginia's embattled governor on Saturday pledged to remain in office after disavowing a blatantly racist photograph that appeared under...
Feb 03, 2019
Roussel, Virtanen lead Canucks to 5-1 win over Avalanche
DENVER - The Vancouver Canucks were refreshed after a nine-day break. The Colorado Avalanche looked like the same team that stumbled into its hiatus. Jake Virtanen and Antoine Roussel each had a goal ...
Feb 03, 2019
Supreme Court restores murder conviction of man who burned girlfriend's body
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the second-degree murder conviction of a Halifax-area man who admitted to repeatedly burning his girlfriend's body but insisted he didn't kill her. A ...
Feb 03, 2019
