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Thai student-protesters aim for ambitious political change
BANGKOK - He was only 7 when he saw his first military coup. He was 15 during the second. Now 21, he is among those at the front of Thailand's growing pro-democracy movement pushing for sweeping polit...
Oct 27, 2020
Peru's Machu Picchu reopening Sunday after pandemic closure
MACHU PICCHU, Peru - Except workers repairing roads and signs, Peru's majestic Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is eerily empty ahead of its reopening Sunday after seven months of closure due to the coro...
Oct 27, 2020
Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim
NEW ORLEANS - Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves Tuesday for yet another tropical weather strike as Tropical Storm Zeta took aim at southeast Louisiana, fraying the nerves o...
Oct 27, 2020
Collins votes against Barrett, heads home to save Senate job
PORTLAND, Maine - When Republican Sen. Susan Collins had to vote on a Supreme Court justice in 2018, she deliberated under the spotlight for weeks, building suspense that ended with a dramatic floor s...
Oct 27, 2020
Philadelphia victim's family sought ambulance, not police
PHILADELPHIA - The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers in a shooting caught on video had called for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police in...
Oct 27, 2020
Utility: Winds too weak to cut power before California fire
LOS ANGELES - Facing extreme wildfire conditions this week that included hurricane-level winds, the main utility in Northern California cut power to nearly 1 million people while its counterpart in So...
Oct 27, 2020
Biden vows to unify and save country; Trump hits Midwest
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. - Joe Biden travelled Tuesday to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio to declare the U.S. is not too politically diseased to overcome its health and ...
Oct 27, 2020
Willis gets MLS-leading 9th shutout, Nashville tops Montreal
HARRISON, N.J. - Randall Leal scored in the 33rd minute, Joe Willis recorded his MLS-leading ninth shutout and Nashville SC beat the Montreal Impact 1-0 on Tuesday night at Red Bull Arena. Nashville (...
Oct 27, 2020
Officer didn't alert feds that CBSA would examine Meng before arrest, court hears
VANCOUVER - The RCMP officer who arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport says he didn't know how long questioning by Canada Border Services Agency officials would delay her arres...
Oct 27, 2020
Judge rejects youths' lawsuit that asks Canada to develop climate recovery plan
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has rejected claims by 15 young people asking that Ottawa be compelled to develop a climate recovery plan based on science, but their lawyers say the ruling will be a...
Oct 27, 2020