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GM CEO Barra says headquarters to stay in downtown Detroit

By TOM KRISHER
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - General Motors will keep its headquarters in its seven-building office tower complex in downtown Detroit, its CEO says. Mary Barra, in an...
Hawaii waves swamp homes, weddings during 'historic' swell

By CALEB JONES
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Towering waves on Hawaii's south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across highways and upended weddings over the weekend. The large waves...
Researchers say Thai pro-democracy activists hit by spyware

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and ZEN SOO
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - BANGKOK (AP) - Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country's pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or ...
Artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures, dies

By The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects,...
'Duck of Justice' creator retires to pursue writing career

The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A detective who created the viral 'œDuck of Justice'ť when he rescued a faux waterfowl headed for the trash bin is retiring to write a book. Lt. Tim...
Lebanon's Baalbek festival back, despite economic collapse

The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's renowned Baalbek festival is back, held in front of a live audience for the first time since 2019, despite the country's economic meltd...
Prosecutor: US judge reneged on promise in Polanski sex case

By BRIAN MELLEY
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a promise and imprison Roman Polanski for having sex with a teenage girl in 1977, a form...
Help! Spaniards spooked when their train stops in wildfire

The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - When Francisco Seoane's train unexpectedly stopped in the Spanish countryside, he and other passengers got a fright when they looked out the window at wild...
Two decades of shooter response strategy ignored in Uvalde

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas - more than the entire police force in a midsize American city like Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
Lane, ex-cop convicted in Floyd killing, set to be sentenced

The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A former Minneapolis police officer who is one of four ex-officers convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights is scheduled to be sentenced...

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