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Octavia Spencer to be honoured by gay-rights education group
LOS ANGELES - Octavia Spencer will be honoured by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network with its Inspiration Award at a gala later this year. The group known as GLSEN announced Tuesday that ...
Aug 13, 2019
Comedian Andy Dick reports attack in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - Comedian Andy Dick says he was assaulted outside a New Orleans nightclub after performing in the French Quarter. Dick tells The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate he was unconscious...
Aug 13, 2019
Will populist politics undo a renaissance at Italy's Uffizi?
FLORENCE, Italy - To protect the masterpieces at the Uffizi Galleries, the Florence museum's director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee's bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep ...
Aug 13, 2019
Liberals, Tories evenly matched when it comes to war chests for local campaigns
OTTAWA - The Liberals and Conservatives are matched fairly evenly when it comes to how ready their local campaigns are to pay for the coming federal election, a shift from when the big...
Aug 13, 2019
Canada largely successful in managing economic immigration: OECD study
OTTAWA - An international review of Canada's economic immigration system suggests the country is doing well when it comes to how it selects and welcomes foreign workers. But the report from the O...
Aug 13, 2019
Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania appeals court questioned why Bill Cosby's legal team never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his latest lawyers fought Monday to have his sexual a...
Aug 13, 2019
Flights out of Hong Kong cancelled again amid protests
HONG KONG - Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong's international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrato...
Aug 13, 2019
Scrutiny of Epstein's death and co-conspirators intensifies
NEW YORK - Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death , federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was beh...
Aug 13, 2019
Epstein death shifts federal focus to possible conspirators
NEW YORK - In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide , federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in what authorities say wa...
Aug 13, 2019
No chaos this time as Woodstock concert site preps for 50th
BETHEL, N.Y. - Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won't be your hippie uncle's trample-the-fences concert. While plans for a big Woodstock 50 festival collapsed after a run o...
Aug 13, 2019