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HEJERE, Ethiopia - The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 4:40 a.m. The United Arab Emirates, a key international travel hub, has barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 from its airspace...

CHICAGO - A judge is expected to be assigned to Jussie Smollett's disorderly conduct case when the "Empire" actor returns to court Thursday. That judge will then likely ask Smollett to enter a plea. S...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A North Carolina city removed a Confederate statue Tuesday from the grounds of an old courthouse, drawing applause from onlookers for the rare move in a state where such monument...

OTTAWA - After initially refusing, Netflix has agreed to remove images of the 2013 Lac-Megantic disaster from its blockbuster film, "Bird Box." A spokesman says in an email to The Canadian Press ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Gray wolves in the U.S. would be stripped of federal protection and subjected to hunting and trapping in more states under a proposal released Thursday that declares the predators re...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Authorities arrested two former police officers Tuesday in the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, a brazen assassination that shocked Brazilians an...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland revisited the office where his father, Richard, was bludgeoned to death eight years ago as evidence wrapped up Tuesday at his second-degree murder trial. Sheriffs guard...

AUSTIN, Texas - Former congressman Beto O'Rourke is running for president. The 46-year-old officially announced his 2020 Democratic primary bid Thursday with an online post. After months of teasing a ...

HEJERE, Ethiopia - Much of the world, including the entire European Union, grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace, leaving the United St...

Four stories in the news for Thursday, March 14 --- TORONTO MAN LATEST CANADIAN VICTIM ID'D IN PLANE CRASH A 72-year-old Toronto man was the latest Canadian victim identified after a plane c...