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'The Lion King' rules and 'Endgame' scores all-time record
LOS ANGELES - If there was any doubt that the 2019 box office belonged to the Walt Disney Co., this weekend put an end to it. Not only did its photorealistic remake of "The Lion King" devour opening w...
Jul 23, 2019
Tigers beat Blue Jays 4-3 on Castellanos' HR in 10th
DETROIT - Nicholas Castellanos gave the Detroit Tigers a chance to enjoy the type of celebration that's been awfully rare of late at Comerica Park. Castellanos led off the bottom of the 10th inning wi...
Jul 23, 2019
Herb Alpert sculptures make stop at Wyoming museum
JACKSON, Wyo. - It seems like every once in a while you run into someone who can do anything. When that person seems to do it with ease, it's another thing entirely. "I never tried to make a hit recor...
Jul 23, 2019
U.S. diplomats' brain scans show differences, add to Cuba mystery
CHICAGO - Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery of what m...
Jul 23, 2019
Ex-Flynn business partner convicted of illegal lobbying
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A jury on Tuesday convicted a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn on charges he illegally acted as a Turkish agent when he and Flynn undertook...
Jul 23, 2019
Police: Man intending to visit Taylor Swift's home arrested
WESTERLY, R.I. - Police in Rhode Island have arrested an Iowa man they say intended to visit singer Taylor Swift's beachfront mansion in the state and was carrying a backpack containing a baseball bat...
Jul 23, 2019
Miss America pageant leaving Atlantic City for Connecticut
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - There she is. Here she isn't. Miss America is leaving Atlantic City for the second time, trading one casino town for another in a move that caps a whirlwind of change at the near...
Jul 23, 2019
'Art of Self-Defence' examines, satirizes toxic masculinity
LOS ANGELES - Director Riley Stearns says he didn't realize he was making a perfect movie for 2019 when he started writing "The Art of Self-Defence " four years ago. But his darkly comedic riff on tox...
Jul 23, 2019
Lametti swats back at Ontario attorney general over legal aid spending
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says the Ontario government's rejecting shared responsibility for legal aid as an "excuse for spending cuts" will leave many of the province's most vuln...
Jul 23, 2019
Artists' work reduced to ash after fire destroys shared Winnipeg studio
WINNIPEG - Some Winnipeg artists have lost nearly their entire life's work in an aggressive fire that reduced a shared studio space to rubble and ash. Performance artist Shawna Dempsey was o...
Jul 23, 2019