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AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For years, the Grammy Awards have been criticized over a lack of diversity — artists of color and women left out of top prizes; rap and contemporary R&B stars ignored — a reflection of the Recording Academy’s electorate. An evolving voting body, 66% of whom have joined in

PARIS (AP) — French Union of Auschwitz Deportees president and Holocaust survivor Victor Perahia has died. He was 91. Perahia was deported as a child to the Nazi death camp of Bergen-Belsen. The Union of Auschwitz Deportees said in a statement that he died on Monday in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mande. The union

Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian woman who worked as a maid in Malaysia has been arrested and deported to her homeland for comments she posted on social media criticizing Cambodian government leaders. Cambodia’s prison department confirmed reports that Nuon Toeun was arrested last week by Malaysian authorities following a request from

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a speeding bus carrying wedding guests has plunged into a ravine in southwestern Balochistan province, killing at least seven people. They also say that 17 were injured in Thursday’s accident near Quetta, the provincial capital. A spokesman for the health department said the victims were brought to a

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gang members have attacked a small town in central Haiti and killed killing more than 20 people, including children, according to a human rights group. At least 50 others were injured. Government prosecutor Venson François called it a “massacre” in an interview Thursday with Radio Caraïbes. Dozens of people crowded around

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government is introducing regulations that will toughen the ban on alcohol sale to those under 18 years old and prohibit the sale of alcohol at filling stations at night. The regulations are in response to growing number of reports of road and other accidents involving people under the influence of

Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, a local governor said. A frantic search and rescue operation was underway hours later as many remained unaccounted for from the vessel, believed to have had 278 people on board. Jean-Jacques

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is taking Hungary’s right-wing government to court over laws that could allow the authorities to investigate and prosecute people accused of undermining the country’s sovereignty. The “sovereignty protection act″ took effect in December. It created a government authority with the power to gather information on any groups or individuals

Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on sale late last year. Tesla has released a free software upgrade to address the issue and owner notification letters are expected to be mailed Nov.

AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week but remains at healthy levels. The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for jobless claims rose by 6,000 to 225,000 for the week of Sept. 28. It was slightly more than the 221,000 analysts were expecting. The four-week average of

Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Thousands sang, cheered and prayed as multiple preachers declared Donald Trump to be God’s favored candidate to defeat what one called the “forces of darkness.” Headliners denounced Democrat Kamala Harris — Trump’s campaign rival — as influenced by demons and the spirit of the wicked biblical queen Jezebel.

Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Swedish teenagers have been jailed in pre-trial detention in connection with two predawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen a day earlier. Prosecutors said investigators were establishing “whether the motive could be a terror attack.” No one was injured in the blasts on early

AP Business Writer U.S. retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season but expect to take on fewer seasonal employees to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses. E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday that it plans to hire 250,000 full, part-time and seasonal workers for the shopping period. That’s the same

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base at Diego Garcia. The British government said Thursday the agreement is

Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Health authorities say Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda. The East African country is searching for the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health facilities. Rwanda’s government said Thursday that there are 36 confirmed cases of the disease that manifests like Ebola with