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NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 20 years after her first novels were published, Stacey Abrams is hitting full stride as a writer. The voting rights activist, grassroots organizer and former Georgia Democratic ...

TOKYO (AP) - Actors Gen Hoshino and Yui Aragaki, who played offbeat but endearing lovers in a hit Japanese TV show, are really getting married. The couple announced their life-imitates-art decision in...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening without media witnesses present because prison age...

BOSTON (AP) - A popular Boston radio host who's been on the air for four decades abruptly quit Wednesday morning after station management told him to stop making jokes about singer Demi Lovato's annou...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city flocked to an abandoned gas station to get a whiff of a corpse flower - so-called because of the stench it emits when it blooms - afte...

OTTAWA - Nearly three decades after the failure of the Charlottetown accord, Quebec's status as a distinct society and hand-wringing over constitutional reform are back on the table. Quebec rolled out...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Several dozen Orthodox Christian faithful and clergy members held up wooden crucifixes, icons of saints and a banner declaring Cyprus' love for Christ in a renewed protest Wedne...

LONDON (AP) - A final novel by John le Carr will be published this fall, 10 months after the spy writer's death at the age of 89. Publisher Viking said Wednesday that "Silverview," le Carr's 26th nove...

NEW YORK (AP) - Billy Porter has broken his silence over his HIV diagnosis, saying he told nearly no one for 14 years out of shame and fear of retaliation and marginalization in his industry. "The tru...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Wednesday to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate as R...