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WASHINGTON - Public relations firms hired by the Department of Health and Human Services vetted political views of hundreds of celebrities for a planned $250 million ad blitz aimed at portraying Presi...

LOS ANGELES - Khloe Kardashian says she had tested positive for the coronavirus. The reality star confirmed her previous diagnosis in a Wednesday sneak peek clip of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." ...

NASHVILLE - Outlaw country singer songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like "Honky Tonk Heroes," "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" and "Old Five and Dimers Like Me," has died He was 81. His ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's police watchdog is investigating a police shooting that left a man dead in Montreal. The Bureau des enquetes independantes says preliminary information is that police allege a man ...

BANGKOK - Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand returned Thursday to the capital's business district, staging something akin to a street fair to bring attention to their contention that the country'...

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank held off from strengthening its stimulus programs despite growing concern that a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases could stall the economy's recovery from the deep ...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March, but it's still historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is still forcing...

PARIS - An attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church Thursday in the Mediterranean city of Nice, French authorities said. It was the third attack in two months in France, which has g...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Tanzania's leading opposition candidate has rejected Wednesday's presidential vote after alleging widespread irregularities, saying on Thursday that whatever happened was not an elect...

Matt Berger's grandmother Renee gave him a big-box store skateboard when he was four years old. Berger didn't touch it for over a year, until he was inspired by an older skateboarding cousin to give i...