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K-pop star Jung Joon-young arrested in sex video scandal
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean police on Thursday arrested K-pop singer Jung Joon-young over allegations that he illegally shared sexually explicit videos of women taken without their knowle...
Mar 21, 2019
Daniels: 'Pain and anger' around 'Empire' in recent weeks
LOS ANGELES - "Empire" co-creator and executive producer Lee Daniels says the weeks since cast member Jussie Smollett was arrested and charged with fabricating a racist and homophobic attack have been...
Mar 21, 2019
Cyclone's huge floods leave hundreds dead in southern Africa
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe - Aid workers rushed to rescue victims clinging to trees and crammed on rooftops Tuesday after a cyclone unleashed devastating floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. More tha...
Mar 21, 2019
'I'm a little numb:' Killer of B.C. gas station attendant Grant De Patie dies
BLIND BAY, B.C. - The mother of a British Columbia gas station attendant dragged to death under a vehicle more than a decade ago, says she is "numb" to learn her son's killer has died. Corin...
Mar 21, 2019
Scripts from 'Dick Van Dyke Show' to be digitally preserved
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Hollywood producer Carl Reiner and the National Comedy Center say they're working together to digitally preserve Reiner's collection of scripts from the 1960's "The Dick Van Dyke Sho...
Mar 21, 2019
Calgary UCP candidate resigns after report on her comments about race
CALGARY - A United Conservative Party candidate in the Alberta election who resigned over online comments she reportedly made about white nationalists is begging people to lower the tem...
Mar 21, 2019
Reflections and prayers for Christchurch victims
In the wake of a devastating shooting that left 50 dead in Christchurch, New Zealand, an interfaith reflection and prayer service was organized by the Prince Albert Muslim Association Wednesday.The vi...
Mar 21, 2019 Dozens of members of the community attended a vigil Wednesday night organized by the Prince Albert Muslim Association following the Christchurch shootings. (Brady Bateman/paNOW Staff)
Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after coverup
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to pol...
Mar 21, 2019
New populist star emerges from Dutch local elections
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Netherlands woke up Thursday to a new star of right-wing populism, as the party of a Latin-quoting, philosophy-reading lawmaker surged past anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wild...
Mar 21, 2019
Kazakhstan's president to step down after 30 years in power
MOSCOW - President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over t...
Mar 21, 2019
