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Extradition hearing begins for top Huawei exec in Canada

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei started in a Vancouver courtroom Monday, a case that has infuriated Beijing, caused a diplomatic uproar between China and Canada and complicated high-stakes trade talks between China and the United...
Experts say Vincent van Gogh self-portrait is genuine

AMSTERDAM — After years of doubts about its authenticity, experts in Amsterdam have confirmed that a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait was indeed painted by the Dutch master as he recovered in a French asylum from a mental breakdown. Van Gogh Museum researcher Louis van Tilborgh dispelled the doubts Monday, saying...
Prince wrongful death case dismissed; estate case continues

MINNEAPOLIS — A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Prince’s family members has been quietly dismissed in recent months, suggesting family members have reached settlements with defendants including the Minnesota doctor who saw Prince in the weeks before his death and the Illinois hospital that treated him for an opioid overdose...
Paris couture climbs Mount Olympus, plumbs marine depths

PARIS — Female empowerment, controversies about race, and designs that plunged to the depths of the seas then climbed Mt. Olympus were among themes to grace Paris Couture Week on its drama-filled first day. Here are some highlights of Monday’s spring-summer 2020 couture shows. Dior: Women rule (and glimmer) Dior’s...
Indiana boy, father, shot when gun discharges while wrestling

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A 4-year-old Indiana boy is in critical condition Monday when a gun his father had concealed in his clothing discharged while the two were wrestling, police said. The Herald-Times reported that the two were play wrestling Sunday night on a bed inside a home near Bloomington, Ind.,...
Hawaii man suspected of killing 2 police officers described as unhingedVideo

HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed his landlord and killed two officers before the house he and two women were believed to be inside burned, authorities and neighbors said. Police responding Sunday to a call for help...
Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirusVideo

BEIJING — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely. Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in...
Google CEO calls for regulation of artificial intelligence

LONDON — Google’s chief executive called Monday for a balanced approach to regulating artificial intelligence, telling a European audience that the technology brings benefits but also “negative consequences.” Sundar Pichai’s comments come as lawmakers and governments seriously consider putting limits on how artificial intelligence is used. “There is no question...
Survey: CEOs don’t see climate as top 10 risk to businessVideo

DAVOS, Switzerland — Climate issues are set to be one of the main talking points at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week, but a survey of CEOs released Monday shows that they are not even ranked among the top ten threats to business...
Baylor jumps Zags to give AP poll record-tying seventh No. 1

Baylor and Gonzaga were the only two teams in the top five that took care of business last week. That doesn’t mean they didn’t move around, too. The Bears (15-1) leaped over the Bulldogs and into the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll on Monday,...
Trump’s lawyers urge dismissal of ‘flimsy’ impeachment case

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,” calling the impeachment case against him “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.” The lawyers decried the impeachment process as rigged and insisted that abuse of power was not a crime. The brief from...
Pro-gun rally by thousands in Virginia ends peacefullyVideo

RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flash point in the national debate over gun violence. The size of the crowd and...
Germany jails man for tricking women into electric shocksVideo

BERLIN — A court in Germany has convicted a 31-year-old man of attempted murder in more than a dozen cases for tricking women into giving themselves electric shocks while he watched over the internet. Munich’s regional court on Monday sentenced the man, identified only as David G. for privacy reasons,...
Man returns $43,170 found in thrift store footstool

OWOSSO, Mich. — The footstool didn’t feel right. That’s what happens when someone stashes $43,170 inside and apparently forgets about it. Indeed, the money was discovered inside a footstool that was donated to a Michigan resale shop in Owosso Township. Howard Kirby bought the piece and other furniture for $70...
N.J. man found shot to death along Bucks County highway

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a New Jersey man whose body was found along an eastern Pennsylvania highway. State police were called to Interstate 295 in Bristol, Bucks County after the body was reported at about 2 a.m. Sunday. Trooper Nathan Branosky said 31-year-old Joshua McRae of Trenton...
Paris transit strike eases; commuters, tourists relievedVideo

PARIS — Paris commuters who have battled through six weeks of misery-inducing transport strikes found their smiles again Monday as some subway workers ended their walkouts against a contested overhaul of France’s pension system. A weekend announcement by the UNSA union’s subway wing of a return to work after 46...

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