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El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain
EL PASO, Texas - The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes...
Aug 07, 2019
Trump heads to Dayton, El Paso, facing protests
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump headed to El Paso and Dayton on Wednesday to offer a message of healing and unity, but he will be met by unusual hostility in both places by people who fault his ow...
Aug 07, 2019
Trump vows urgent action after shootings, offers few details
WASHINGTON - Speaking out against weekend mass shootings that rocked a nation, President Donald Trump called for bipartisan solutions to the bloodshed but offered few details and faced pointed questio...
Aug 07, 2019
Toni Morrison was a 'literary mother' to countless writers
NEW YORK - When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favourite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she knew how to look the part: a wide and "severe hat," a fur stole a...
Aug 07, 2019
Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal
CHICAGO - R. Kelly couldn't be faulted if he felt some confidence he could beat the sex charges brought by Cook County prosecutors earlier this year. He had beaten them before, winning acquittal on al...
Aug 07, 2019
AP Was There: Pregnant actress, 4 others killed at LA home
LOS ANGELES - Fifty years ago this week, Charles Manson orchestrated the slaughter of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people over two nights in Los Angeles. The Manson family, as the cult l...
Aug 07, 2019
13 victims after nearly a dozen shootings over the weekend: Toronto police
TORONTO - Thirteen people were injured after nearly a dozen shootings across Toronto over the long weekend, one of which sparked chaos as gunshots rang out in a packed nightclub. "This is no...
Aug 07, 2019
Danica Ludlow wins silver, Alyson Ackman takes bronze in women's 400 freestyle
LIMA, Peru - The Canadian women had a solid day in the water at the Pan American Games on Tuesday, coming away with five medals on the first day of the swimming competition. Danica Ludlow and Aly...
Aug 07, 2019
Unrest feared after India revokes Kashmir's special status
NEW DELHI - India's Hindu nationalist-led government moved Monday to revoke the special status of Muslim-majority Kashmir, cutting off communications and deploying thousands of troops in the restive H...
Aug 07, 2019
Car bomb collides with vehicles in Egypt capital, killing 20
CAIRO - A car packed with explosives being driven to carry out an attack collided with other vehicles and exploded in central Cairo, killing at least 20 people, the Interior Ministry said Monday, the ...
Aug 07, 2019