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Easily the most heartfelt movie about family life that also includes a robot apocalypse and a pug often mistaken for a loaf of bread, “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” is an antic, irreverent animated delight that somehow doesn't sacrifice depth…

A Chattanooga football assistant coach fired over a social media post disparaging the state of Georgia and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams is suing to get his job back along with backpay and damages. He contends his First Amendment rights were violated. Chris Malone says he was forced to resign Jan. 7 in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of U.S. District Court. Malone is suing the chancellor, athletic director and football coach both individually and in their roles at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. The lawsuit says Malone made the social media post on his own account on his own time.

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of Czechs rallied Thursday in the capital against President Milos Zeman, accusing the pro-Russian leader of treason over the alleged participation of Russian spies in a huge 2014 ammunition explosion in the Czech Republic. The protesters,…

A long-running federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine has moved back into public view after federal agents seized electronic devices from the former New York mayor. The Wednesday search was the latest development in an inquiry involving a complex web of international characters who dealt with Giuliani as he tried to stir up support for a Ukrainian investigation of Joe Biden and his son. Giuliani’s lawyer says the search warrant involved an allegation that Giuliani should have registered as a foreign agent. Giuliani has denied doing anything wrong and has said that the investigation is a political vendetta.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis set a 40-euro ($48) gift cap for all Vatican employees Thursday and issued a new law requiring Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically report on their compliance with clean financial practices in one of his…

Merck is entering a new era, with sweeping changes across its executive suite and the spinoff off its women's health and other businesses, a bid to enable both resulting companies to grow faster. The massive management makeover, mostly triggered by…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — People in Turkey stocked up on groceries, filled markets and left cities for their hometowns or the southern coast Thursday before the country entered its strictest lockdown of the pandemic. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed a…

When the pandemic descended on the U.S., Associated Press entertainment photographer Chris Pizzello was left with nothing to shoot. He describes himself at that moment as an absurdity — an entertainment photographer in a time with no entertainment. The year since has been a challenge — one that culminated with him shooting the Oscars this week. 

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots failed to make headway in informal talks on the future of their ethnically divided island, but talks will continue and “I do not give up.”…

MOSCOW (AP) — A top ally of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that the network of the politician's offices in Russia is being closed as authorities seek to have it and Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption outlawed…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — There were some genuine surprises in the first batch of data from the nation's 2020 head count released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Officials in some Sun Belt states were bewildered they did not…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has claimed there was “nothing sinister” about the funding for his 2017 political campaign to become president of the ruling party, the African National Congress. Ramaphosa was testifying Thursday, his second day…

Andy Ruiz Jr. has heard all the fat jokes, and understands he has a reputation to rehabilitate. The former heavyweight champion also knows his comeback fight Saturday night against 40-year-old Chris Arreola in Carson, California, has been criticized both for the quality of opponent and the price fans will have to pay. It wouldn’t be a proper comeback, of course, if it didn’t come with a back story of redemption and renewal. Ruiz has that and more, including a new trainer and his engaging tale of suddenly becoming the heavyweight champion of the world and discovering he wasn’t quite ready for prime time.

The Weeknd was snubbed by the Grammys but he’s the leading nominee at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where rappers Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD earned multiple posthumous nominations, including top artist. Disgraced country singer Morgan Wallen is also up for six nominations. The Weeknd, Juice WRLD and Pop Smoke — the third most-nominated act — are up for top artist along with Taylor Swift and Drake, the show’s most decorated winner of all-time. Others who scored multiple nominations include DaBaby, rising country star Gabby Barrett, Bad Bunny, Chris Brown, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat and Justin Bieber. The Billboard Awards will air live on May 23. 

LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party is looking for a new leader following First Minister Arlene Foster's announcement that she will be standing down after nearly 5 1/2 years in the post. Following weeks of pressure related to…

Across America, people of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites from industry, vehicles, construction and many other sources, a new study has found. Using government air pollution and census data, researchers found that disproportionate numbers of non-white people were exposed to potentially hazardous fine particle pollution from nearly all major U.S. emission sources, regardless of where they live or how much money they make. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, also found that Blacks were the only group disproportionately exposed to each of the pollution sources examined.

Black cemeteries are scattered throughout the United States, telling the story of the country's deep past of cemetery segregation. As these burial grounds for the dead mirrored the racial divisions of the living, Black communities organized to defend the dignity of their deceased and oppose racist cemetery policies. Many Black Americans excluded from white-owned cemeteries built their own burial spaces, and their descendants are working to preserve the grounds. Racism still haunts these cemeteries, though. Many are at risk of being lost and lack the support other cemeteries have received.