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Analysis: Wary of probes, Trump aims at 2020 with Dem offer
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's State of the Union address had a proposition for Democrats: Set aside investigations and make deals instead. "If there is going to be peace and legislation, there...
Feb 06, 2019
Dress Monroe wore to announce DiMaggio split to be auctioned
LOS ANGELES - The black dress that a distraught Marilyn Monroe wore to a 1954 press conference announcing her separation from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio is going up for auction. KruseGWS Auctions an...
Feb 06, 2019
Vatican clarifies pope on issue of 'sexual slavery' of nuns
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Wednesday clarified comments by Pope Francis about a case of what he called "sexual slavery" within a French congregation of nuns, saying he was referring to an abuse of ...
Feb 06, 2019
Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago over the English Channel. Britain's Air Acci...
Feb 06, 2019
Kristoff St. John's last soap episode airs Wednesday
LOS ANGELES - The last "Young and the Restless" episode featuring Kristoff St. John will air Wednesday on CBS. The actor, who played the struggling alcoholic and ladies' man Neil Winters for 27 years,...
Feb 06, 2019
Higgs says no progress on carbon tax and other issues after meeting with Trudeau
OTTAWA - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says his latest meeting with the prime minister produced little or no progress on major issues facing his province. Higgs met with Justin Tru...
Feb 06, 2019
Nissan decision seen as sign of Brexit business jitters
LONDON - With Brexit just seven weeks away, Britain's ruling Conservative Party was locked in tense negotiations with itself Monday to rework the U.K.'s divorce deal with the European Union - as the E...
Feb 06, 2019
Trump uses state of the union speech to urge Congress to approve USMCA
WASHINGTON - The NAFTA-bashing president of the United States used his state of the union speech Tuesday to urge a divided, combative Congress to come together to ratify a continental trade pact ...
Feb 06, 2019
Deadly car bomb blast in Somalia's capital, say police
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia's homegrown extremist rebels, al-Shabab, have claimed responsibility for a car bomb explosion on Monday that killed at least seven people in Somalia's capital. Al-Shabab said ...
Feb 06, 2019
Plane breaks apart in California, killing 5 and injuring 2
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - Five people died and two were injured after a small plane apparently came apart Sunday over a suburban Southern California neighbourhood, raining debris on streets and backyards ...
Feb 06, 2019