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Asturias award honors Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson
MADRID (AP) — Canadian essayist and poet Anne Carson, author of the 1986 non-fiction book “Eros the Bittersweet,” will be honored this year with one of Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Awards.
Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her nephew confirmed. She was 92.
Democrat McClellan announces bid to be Virginia governor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia state senator is launching a bid to be the state's next governor, which if successful would make her the nation's first African American woman to lead a state.
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Hungary law on NGOs' foreign funding found to break EU rules
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Restrictions imposed by Hungary on the foreign funding of non-governmental organizations do not comply with EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union said Thursday.
China passes draft of controversial Hong Kong security law
BEIJING (AP) — China’s legislature on Thursday passed a draft of a national security bill for Hong Kong that has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous territory's legal and political institutions.
JD.com stock jumps 6% in Hong Kong debut amid annual sale
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com’s stock jumped nearly 6% on its debut in Hong Kong on Thursday after the firm raised $3.9 billion in a share sale.
Call to cancel Tokyo Olympics enters race for Tokyo governor
TOKYO (AP) — The contentious issue of the billions being spent on the postponed Tokyo Olympics has entered the debate in the race for governor of Japan's capital.
Chegg, Tempur Sealy rise; Oracle, CoreCivic fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday:
India cautions China over its claim to area of deadly clash
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday cautioned China against making "exaggerated and untenable claims" to the Galwan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a deadly clash.
EPL resumes with powerful anti-racism message, tech glitch
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The referee blew his whistle, signaling the return of soccer in England after a 100-day stoppage because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Black Lives Matter network establishes $12M grant fund
NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has established a fund worth more than $12 million to aid organizations fighting institutional racism, in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
Job losses continue, suburbs appealing to homebuyers
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Wednesday related to the national and global response, the work place and the spread of the virus.
'A hot mess': Hickenlooper stumbles into Democratic primary
DENVER (AP) — Former Gov. John Hickenlooper was supposed to be Democrats' worry-free solution to the Colorado Senate race, but he's stumbled badly in the weeks leading up to the party's June 30 primary.
The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys
NEW YORK (AP) — At the 2020 Grammy Awards, John Legend excitedly walked around with “a special secret,” as he puts it: He had just finished recording a batch of songs and felt like his new album was near done.
Sudan says talks on Ethiopia's Nile dam fail to produce deal
CAIRO (AP) — The latest round of talks between three key Nile basin countries have failed to resolve a contentious dispute over construction of a giant $4.6 billion hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia, Sudan’s irrigation minister said.
Bolton: Trump said Xi was right to detain ethnic minorities
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told China's Xi Jinping that he was right to build detention camps to house hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities, former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton alleged in a new book that could make the president’s tough-on-China mantra a hard sell.
AP PHOTOS: A first-person view inside Beijing's virus tests
BEIJING (AP) — As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed in Beijing in recent days, officials identified more than 350,000 people who needed to be tested.
PBS invites you to come up sometime and see a Mae West doc
NEW YORK (AP) — Before there was Cher or Madonna, Beyoncé or Rihanna, there was another savvy media star who unapologetically embraced her sex appeal and femininity.
Pompeo meets Chinese officials amid Bolton book revelations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged China to reveal all it knows about the coronavirus outbreak in a meeting with a top Chinese official in Hawaii on Wednesday as new revelations about President Donald Trump and China rocked Washington.