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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Movie stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Penelope Cruz and Richard Gere have blasted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for failing to defend...

Washington (AFP) - The western US state of Utah has become the first to prohibit fluoridation of its public drinking water, part of a growing movement reexamining the decades-old public...

Newark (United States) (AFP) - US government lawyers pushed Friday for the case of a pro-Palestinian protest leader slated for deportation to be moved to a Louisiana court thought to...

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure was largely unchanged last month, according to government data published Friday, but a widely scrutinized gauge of underlying price pressures...

Houston (AFP) - A woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a Mexican-American pop star in a Texas motel was denied parole on Thursday, almost three decades after the...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Sundance, the highly influential US film festival co-founded by Robert Redford, is moving to a new home in Colorado, organizers said Thursday. For the...

New York (AFP) - The 25 percent tariffs on automobiles announced by President Donald Trump are meant to revitalize American industry, but Detroit's giants were stunned Thursday by their scale...

Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico's water debt to the United States under a decades-old supply treaty has opened a new battlefront between the two countries, in addition to US President...

(AFP) - Top US diplomat Marco Rubio on Thursday issued a stern warning against Venezuela if it escalates its claims against newly oil-rich Guyana, brandishing the power of the US...

Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico said Thursday that it wanted preferential treatment if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with steep car tariffs, vowing a "comprehensive response" to Washington's duties....