AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Police are investigating after motorists traveling through a Detroit suburb were stunned to see a pornographic video playing on an electronic billboard.
Auburn Hills police say the video played on the billboard along Interstate 75 near Michigan highway 59 for about a half-hour Saturday night ...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) - Four-time defending champion Lyon has been drawn to play Fortuna Hjørring in the round of 16 of the Women's Champions League.
Before Lyon became one of the most dominant teams in international club soccer, Fortuna Hjørring was the beaten finalist in the 2003 edition of UEFA's ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Germany's Bundesliga is moving its U.S. telecasts from Fox to ESPN, which will carry most of the matches on its digital streaming service in the latest switch from traditional broadcast networks.
ESPN and the Bundesliga announced Monday they had reached a six-year agreement that starts with ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The so-called whistleblower at Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm linked to using social media for targeted political ads, has a book deal.
Christopher Wylie's "Mindf(asterisk)ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America" will be published Oct. 8, Random House announced Monday. Wylie is a former ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The CEO of the Russian anti-doping agency says he feels "betrayed" after evidence emerged that crucial doping data was tampered with.
Russian authorities handed over the data to the World Anti-Doping Agency in January after it had been kept under seal by Russian law enforcement. The data ...
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ISLAMABAD (AP) - A Pakistani mountaineering official says an army helicopter has airlifted two British climbers to safety and that efforts are underway to rescue their three climbing partners stranded on a peak in the country's north.
Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said on Monday ...
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The NBA offseason is now over for everyone.
The vast majority of the league's media days are taking place Monday, with 23 teams gathering for the season's first official day of work. The six teams that are headed overseas for preseason games held media days on Friday and Saturday, with ...
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ZURICH (AP) - The Qatari stadium now hosting the world athletics championships will stage two games at the Club World Cup, including a semifinal involving the South American champion.
FIFA says the 40,000-seat, air-conditioned Khalifa International Stadium will host a double-header on Dec. 17, with the fifth-place game played before ...
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A former Georgia county chairman who helped bring a baseball stadium to his area has died.
News outlets report former Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee died Sunday after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer last August.
Lee served as chairman from 2010 to 2016 and was the ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo Olympic organizers are investigating the fraudulent purchase of 6,900 tickets worth 180 million yen ($1.67 million) that were obtained in an online lottery for Japan residents.
"We are consulting with the police on this matter, and if there are other cases where unauthorized purchases are suspected, ...
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The New York Yankees hit 306 home runs this year with minimal contributions from Giancarlo Stanton.
Now he's back to try to help the Yankees win a title.
Stanton hit a mammoth home run Friday night at Texas, a reminder that yes, this New York lineup can actually become more ...
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A sweat-stained jersey LeBron James wore while playing Ohio high school basketball and during his first Sports Illustrated magazine cover shoot as a teenager in 2002 is being auctioned.
The online auction listing says the gold mesh jersey from the NBA star's days with the St. ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Espanyol coach David Gallego is under immense pressure after his side lost for the fourth time in as many home games this season.
Espanyol fell 2-0 to a modest Valladolid at its RCDE Stadium on Sunday, finishing the match with 10 men and with its disgruntled ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The DreamWorks animated adventure "Abominable" has topped the box office with an estimated $20.9 million, while the Renee Zellweger-led Judy Garland tale "Judy" got off to a sonorous start.
"Abominable" was the weekend's sole new wide release. It's a U.S.-China co-production between Universal's DreamWorks and China's ...
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ZHUHAI, China (AP) - Alex de Minaur beat France's Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the final of the Zhuhai Championships on Sunday to claim his third title of the year.
The seventh-seeded Australian converted only one of his 13 break point chances, but it came at the perfect time ...
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CRAWFORSDVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Officials at a private liberal arts college in western Indiana are planning a new $13 million football stadium, which is scheduled to be completed in time for the 2020 season.
The stadium at Wabash College will include a new playing surface, relocated scoreboard, an all-weather track, ...
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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A trial is expected to begin next week in Connecticut for a home remodeling show personality accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl.
Officials say jury selection in the case of Christopher Dionne is expected to resume Monday in New London Superior Court and be finished ...
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ROME (AP) - Mario Balotelli's first goal since rejoining the Italian league wasn't enough for Brescia to avoid a 2-1 defeat at Napoli on Sunday.
Napoli led 2-0 at the break following goals from Dries Mertens and Kostas Manolas before Balotelli took advantage of his imposing physique to head in ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The role of Ohio's formidable run of early U.S. presidents in establishing lasting national customs like the White House Easter egg roll and West Wing war room is explored in a history exhibition running through late December.
"The Ohio Presidents: Surprising Legacies " opened this month ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - As the third day of competition at the world track championships begins, Nigeria's sprinters are in a race against time.
Track's world governing body, the IAAF, says that NCAA champion Divine Oduduru has filed an appeal against his pre-emptive disqualification from the men's 200 meters, just ...
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KUMAGAYA, Japan (AP) - Jaba Bregvadze gave Georgian and Japanese fans a bonus cheer when he scored a try and set up another with a chip kick to lead his lineup to a 33-7 victory over Uruguay in a Rugby World Cup Pool D game on Sunday.
Uruguay was coming ...
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FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) - Playing much better than it did against Italy is Canada's foremost goal heading toward the Rugby World Cup game against defending champion New Zealand on Wednesday in Oita.
Canada was hugely disappointing and disappointed in losing to Italy 48-7 last Thursday in Fukuoka, but found some ...
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ROCHESTER, Ill. (AP) - "Where any game is being played," novelist John Updike wrote, "a hedge exists against fury."
Football's fury is ubiquitous, visceral, from the Iron Man era when gridders played both sides of the ball, through Woody Hayes' "three yards and a cloud of dust," to Mike Ditka's ...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is preparing to open the second half of the museum.
The Ann Arbor school says new exhibits and labs for visitors will make their public debut Nov. 10 at the museum, which combines natural history with scientific ...
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TOYOTA, Japan (AP) - South Africa restored some order at the Rugby World Cup by putting away Namibia 57-3 on Saturday.
The Springboks' second-string lineup was still a different level against the World Cup's lowest-ranked team in a Pool B game that was only a side story to Japan's shock ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - At the world track championships, it's as if the world's biggest country simply doesn't exist.
Suspended for its second world championships due to doping, Russia has sent 30 "Authorized Neutral Athletes" who can't wear national colors. The icon next to their name on television and on ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has visited a memorial to a young South African woman whose rape and murder inspired thousands of people to protest the country's high rate of sexual violence.
In a quiet stop during a royal tour, Meghan tied a ribbon to the memorial ...
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SHIZUOKA, Japan (AP) - The Miracle of Brighton has a sequel. Japan shook up the Rugby World Cup with another seismic result in beating Ireland 19-12 on Saturday.
Finding Ireland vulnerable on the edges, and employing suffocating line speed that checked the Irish attack, Japan pulled off an even bigger ...
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Bosnian police have arrested two people after a group of soccer fans broke into a radio station in Sarajevo and forced its staff to withdraw a news item.
Police said Saturday that the two face charges of threatening the safety of Radio Sarajevo journalists and editors ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Liverpool could face punishment for fielding an ineligible player in its third-round win over MK Dons in the English League Cup.
Liverpool says the club is aware of a "potential administrative issue pertaining to one of our players" and is "working with the relevant authorities in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The WNBA will crown a first-time champion when the Washington Mystics and Connecticut Sun meet in the league's best-of-five finals beginning Sunday.
It's the first time that's happened since 2011. The Mystics will try and win the title after getting swept in the finals last season, ...
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TOKYO (AP) - James O'Connor smiles at breakfast, smiles at lunch, smiles at dinner. He smiles before Wallabies training and during video sessions. He even smiles through the dreaded news conference.
It's like he's a Wallaby for the first time. In some respects, he is.
When he subbed in for ...
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) - Hooker Julian Montoya led the way with a hat trick of tries as Argentina beat Tonga 28-12 on Saturday to keep its Rugby World Cup hopes alive.
Tonga trailed 28-0 but hit back with two fine tries from fullback Telusa Veainu, who looked sharp on his ...
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - The Auburn Tigers only have to look back to avoid looking ahead.
The seventh-ranked Tigers host a Mississippi State team Saturday night that "embarrassed" them last season. That memory is presumably enough to keep Auburn (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) from peeking past this game toward a ...
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LeBron James is expected to speak about a season of great expectations for himself and the new-look Los Angeles Lakers, as the annual rundown of media days get underway around the NBA.
The Lakers are among five teams holding their media-day sessions Friday, the others include Houston, Sacramento, Indiana and ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - After earthquakes, as hurricanes blow and drench, when wildfires chew through neighborhoods and volcanoes spew deadly lava, look for a gregarious chef toting huge and mighty paella pans.
His name is Jose Andres, and he might just be changing some rules on how expedient food relief ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Before a race, Teahna Daniels instinctively clutches the gold necklace dangling from her neck.
It's become almost a subconscious part of her routine. The necklace is a tribute to dad.
On the starting line, she can almost hear his voice, too: "Run hard. Push yourself. Be ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Forest Whitaker plays a real-life crime boss in Epix's new drama series "Godfather of Harlem," with the commanding intensity expected from him.
He's switching things up with a project he filmed in London this summer, the Netflix movie musical "Jingle Jangle."
The musical allowed the Oscar-winning ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A D.C. Superior Court judge has issued a restraining order blocking the District from moving forward on its $215 million no-bid sports gambling contract.
News outlets report the order, issued Thursday, was requested by technology developer Dylan Carragher, who says the single-source contract awarded to Intralot violates ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Mutter Museum, known for its collection of organs preserved in jars, deformed skeletons and wax casts of medical maladies, will have a new permanent exhibit on the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in Philadelphia.
The pandemic killed 20,000 people in the city, and a patriotic parade meant to ...
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) - David Haggerty has been re-elected as president of the International Tennis Federation.
The American was up against three other candidates - David Miley, Anil Khanna and Ivo Kaderka - and won 60.5% of the 428 votes cast on Friday, ensuring there was no need for a ...
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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani court has found the brother of a slain social media model, Qandeel Baloch, guilty of her 2016 murder and sentenced him to life in prison.
Baloch, aged 26, was found strangled in her home near the city of Multan. She was killed shortly after ...
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TOKYO (AP) - In dropping Christian Leali'ifano, Kurtley Beale, and Nic White from the starting lineup to play Wales, Australia coach Michael Cheika said the moves were planned before the Rugby World Cup.
All three backs started in the comeback win over Fiji last weekend in Sapporo.
But Cheika decided ...
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TOYOTA, Japan (AP) - Schalk Brits was late for the pre-match news conference, leading to a chuckle from South Africa assistant coach Mzwandile Stick.
Stick had already answered a couple of questions by the time Brits barged in with a huge grin across his face, the air of a mischievous ...
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Call it bad luck with injuries. Blame it on a blunder in recruitment. Applaud, maybe, the club's bold new approach to give youth more of a chance.
Whatever the reasons, Manchester United - the grandest team in English soccer - finds itself in the alarming position of relying on a ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Appalachian Queer Film Festival is making its way back to screens in West Virginia after a short hiatus.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the festival will be from Friday to Sunday at the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema in Charleston.
Organizer Jon Matthews says the festival opened ...
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MILAN (AP) - Inter Milan and AC Milan have unveiled the two shortlisted projects for their proposed new stadium, which would see the demolition of their iconic Stadio Giuseppe Meazza at San Siro.
At a presentation at Milan's Politecnico university on Thursday, the two architectural firms who are the finalists ...
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FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) - Italy made it 14 tries in two Rugby World Cup wins and nearly 100 points scored after crushing Canada 48-7 on Thursday.
Only two missed conversions blotted a one-sided contest where Italy's forwards completely dominated. The win all but ensures Italy a 2023 World Cup-qualifying third ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson have announced the engagement of their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice.
They said Thursday that Beatrice is engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
Buckingham Palace says the couple became engaged during a weekend in Italy earlier this month. The wedding will ...
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LONDON (AP) - Nick Kyrgios has been handed a suspended 16-week ban from the ATP Tour following an investigation into his abusive behavior in a tournament in Cincinnati last month.
The Australian player insulted a chair umpire and left the court to smash two rackets during a second-round loss at ...
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The top line on a Springboks to-do list for Rugby World Cup 2019 would be pretty obvious: Lift the Webb Ellis trophy again.
Under that there might be a note to beat the All Blacks in the pool stage. Big red cross next to that one.
And further down, maybe ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Amid applause and smiles, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday established this Saturday as Carson King Day, celebrating the story of a 24-year-old security guard whose hand-written sign held up on ESPN during the Iowa-Iowa State football game resulted in more than $1 million being ...
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SHIZUOKA , Japan (AP) - Ireland flyhalf Jonathan Sexton was available to play against Japan in the Rugby World Cup. Coach Joe Schmidt decided not to risk it.
The 2018 world player of the year received a bang to his quad against Scotland last Sunday and ceded goalkicking to scrumhalf ...
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LONDON (AP) - Google says it will tweak how it shows previews for news stories in France but won't pay license fees to publishers when the country brings in new European Union copyright rules.
The U.S. tech giant said Wednesday it will stop showing a snippet of text or a ...
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Tottenham broke into English soccer's established elite through squad unity, the energy of youth and a common purpose created by manager Mauricio Pochettino.
More than five years into Pochettino's tenure, that all looks to be slipping away.
And he knows it.
A humiliating elimination by fourth-tier Colchester in the English ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - A poet, a legal scholar, a theater artist, a paleoclimatologist, an urban designer and a marine scientist are among the luminaries who have been named as this year's MacArthur fellows. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Wednesday named 26 people who will each receive ...
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KAMAISHI, Japan (AP) - Just 90 minutes after Uruguay shook the Rugby World Cup with an upset win over Fiji, the venue in Kamaishi was shaken for real by a moderate earthquake on Wednesday.
The quake was clearly felt by everyone still at Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium, a frightening reminder ...
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Baby Archie has made a rare public appearance as his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, continue their first official tour as a family in South Africa.
Meghan had Archie in her arms as the royal couple met with Nobel Peace ...
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Japan wing Lomano Lemeki boldly went where no player's gone before by publicly predicting their result against Ireland on Saturday in the Rugby World Cup.
"We'll win 33-20," Lemeki said on Wednesday. "Why? Because we train hard and (Ireland flyhalf Jonathan) Sexton is not 100%."
Players rarely make predictions so ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - The Olympic champion in the hammer throw, Dilshod Nazarov, is out of the world championships over a failed doping test.
The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees doping cases in track and field, says Nazarov is provisionally suspended after a retest of his sample from the 2011 ...
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KAMAISHI, Japan (AP) - Uruguay pulled off one of the Rugby World Cup's largest upsets when it beat Fiji 30-27 in a match laden with significance for the disaster-ravaged town in which it was played on Wednesday.
Only days after coming close to a shock result when it led Australia ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Al Franken, who resigned his U.S. Senate seat in 2017 amid sexual misconduct charges, will re-emerge into the public sphere on Saturday when he starts a new weekly radio show on the SiriusXM satellite service.
The Minnesota Democrat is perhaps the most prominent public figure felled ...
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A year after getting swept in the WNBA Finals, Elena Delle Donne and the Washington Mystics are back.
The Mystics will face Connecticut as the top two teams in the regular season will meet for the championship as Game 1 of the best-of-five series is Sunday in Washington.
Last season ...
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The West Des Moines Community School District has stopped a high school football team's volunteer chaplain from praying with players before and after games.
West Des Moines Superintendent Lisa Remy said Monday the district received written concerns from parents that the prayers were a ...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A California man has been arrested over allegations that he and his partners ran a $1 billion Ponzi scheme that targeted people receiving pensions.
News outlets report the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Future Income Payments LLC owner Scott Kohn on Saturday in San Diego. The 65-year-old ...
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The British critic and author Alfred Alvarez has died.
Alvarez died Monday in London of pneumonia, according to his literary representatives, Aitken Alexander Associates. He was 90.
Writing alternately as A. Alvarez or Al Alvarez, he had a long, productive and controversial career. He began as a highly influential critic, ...
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KAMAISHI, Japan (AP) - Nodoka Kikuchi's job as a tour guide at the Tsunami Memorial Hall is to detail the earthquake and deadly tsunami that hit this part of Japan's northeast coast almost nine years ago.
A student then at East Kamaishi Junior High School, she and her classmates fled ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Nobody would think of asking Jamaicans, Kenyans or other winners to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" if they capture a gold medal at world championships next week.
Maybe their school's fight song would be better.
When it comes to producing champions at the highest level of track ...
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LANDOVER — Washington Redskins quarterback Case Keenum threw three interceptions Monday against Chicago, including one that was returned for a touchdown.
Dwayne Haskins could've done that.
Keenum was sacked four times and lost two fumbles, including one that the Bears recovered to set up an 11-yard TD drive.
Haskins could've ...
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Tom Brady has clout, and his indignation may have saved the NFL's 100th season from being ruined by the refs even though he backtracked like he was avoiding Shaq Barrett .
Yellow flags flew at an alarming rate over the first two weeks of the season, and Shawn Hochuli's crew ...
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Mississippi and Mississippi State are both dealing with injury-related quarterback uncertainty as they prepare for road tests with top-10 teams this week.
Ole Miss' Matt Corral was knocked out of a 28-20 loss to No. 15 California last week with bruised ribs, while Mississippi State's Tommy Stevens didn't play at ...
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"The Dutch House," Harper, by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett's latest novel, "The Dutch House," takes place in Pennsylvania as suburbia infringes on the land surrounding the Dutch House, built by the VanHoebeeks, a Dutch couple, in the 1920s.
Maeve and Danny Conroy grow up in this mansion, but are abruptly ...
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - It was April 8, the first Monday after the NHL regular season. As 16 teams were getting ready for the playoffs, the Florida Panthers - as usual - were getting ready to begin an offseason. And as workers were smashing the team's home ice to get ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Ta-Nehisi Coates' first novel, "The Water Dancer," has been a long and eventful journey.
Begun a decade ago, his chronicle of a slave with an extraordinary memory who joins the Underground Railroad is the result of countless drafts, a shift from multiple narrators to a single ...
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KOBE, Japan (AP) - England coach Eddie Jones has stoked up the game against the United States at the Rugby World Cup in Japan by saying the Americans are going to play "like 15 Donald Trumps."
Jones, who is Australian, explained he expected the U.S. team "to give it everything."
...BERLIN (AP) - After failing to break through at Manchester City and having his first Bundesliga season blighted by injuries, Dutch winger Javairo Dilrosun is finally enjoying a fresh start at Hertha Berlin.
The 21-year-old Dilrosun scored a brilliant solo goal and set up Marius Wolf for the other as ...
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ROME (AP) - It was exactly the type of performance that Gianluigi Buffon had in mind when he decided to return to Juventus in the unaccustomed role of a reserve.
The 41-year-old goalkeeper showed off his veteran reflexes to help the Bianconeri to a 2-1 win over Hellas Verona on ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A special event in central Illinois will dig into the facts and fiction showcased in some of Hollywood's best known war films.
Mark DePue, oral historian for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, is the featured speaker for Thursday night's event at the Abraham Lincoln ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The deputy CEO of the Russian anti-doping agency says Russia has been formally asked to explain possible signs of tampering with data from its doping laboratory.
Margarita Pakhnotskaya tells The Associated Press that Russia has nearly three weeks to provide an account of why data handed over ...
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MILAN (AP) - Sofia Loren and Valentino have received a standing ovation from a packed house of fashion and Hollywood A-listers during the third edition of the Green Carpet Awards honoring progress toward sustainability.
Loren, stunning in a black gown and glistening diamond necklace, presented Valentino with an award for ...
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TOKYO (AP) - When Australia and Wales last met, there were no tries.
The match back in November in Cardiff was memorable only in that Wales ended a 13-match, 10-year losing streak to the Wallabies with a late Dan Biggar penalty to win 9-6. Defense ruled. Wales made 111 tackles ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Motown mogul who launched the careers of numerous stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson has announced his retirement.
The Detroit Free Press reports Berry Gordy said he had "come full circle" at a 60th anniversary event for Motown Records on Sunday.
The 89-year-old ...
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The state poet and a University of Nebraska-Lincoln are scheduled to be the featured speakers at a poetry presentation Sunday in Lincoln.
The John H. Ames Reading series event sponsored by the Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in the ...
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Embattled wide receiver Antonio Brown said he's done with the NFL in a tweet Sunday morning that criticized teams' ability to move on from players while recouping much of their contracts.
"Will not be playing in the NFL anymore," Brown tweeted, going on to criticize owners and calling on the ...
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KUMAGAYA, Japan (AP) - Samoa made five changes to the run-on side which lost to Australia 34-15 two weeks ago for its Rugby World Cup opening match against Russia on Tuesday in Kumagaya.
Russia named a squad unchanged from the 30-10 loss to Japan in the tournament opener.
Samoa added ...
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MILAN (AP) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino says soccer's governing body has been "assured" that Iran will lift its 40-year ban and allow women to attend a World Cup qualifying game next month.
FIFA wants Iran to end its ban on women entering stadiums that breaches international soccer statutes prohibiting ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Republican organizations tied to a GOP rising star in Congress show no signs of giving up nearly a quarter-million dollars they received from a North Carolina political donor indicted on bribery charges.
Some politicians who got donations from businessman Greg Lindberg offloaded his money to charities. ...
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YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - Ireland bullied Scotland again to the tune of 27-3 in the Rugby World Cup on Sunday and looked set to avoid defending champion New Zealand in the quarterfinals.
Ranked No. 1 until Monday, Ireland played like a serious World Cup title contender by dominating every category ...
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SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Australia winger Reece Hodge was cited Sunday for a dangerous tackle on Fiji flanker Peceli Yato in their Rugby World Cup group game.
Hodge's shoulder made contact with Yato's head and neck area while making the try-saving tackle on the Fijian in the first half of ...
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WUHAN, China (AP) - American Danielle Collins beat seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams 7-5, 7-6 (5) in the opening round of the Wuhan Open on Sunday.
Williams controlled the match early, going up 5-3 in the first set before dropping nine games in a row. A major turning point ...
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) - Sergio Parisse started his fifth Rugby World Cup by guiding Italy to a 47-22 win over Namibia on Sunday, and going oh-so-close to celebrating the milestone with a try.
The veteran backrower was denied a five-pointer when his forward pack was awarded a penalty try, then ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dominik Eberle kick three field goals, Shaq Bond had a pick-6, and Utah State held on for a 23-17 win over San Diego State on Saturday night.
Eberle connected from 30, 29 and 32 yards. Jordan Love was 30-of-47 passing for 293 yards and Jaylen Warren ...
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Noted Latino film director Gregory Nava has joined the lineup for the Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium at the University of Illinois.
Nava directed the films "El Norte," ''My Family" and "Selena" and created the Latino series "American Family." He will close out the daylong symposium ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia police say a shooting at a high school football game has left two teenagers hospitalized.
Shots rang out at Simon Gratz High School around 7:30 p.m. Friday, causing dozens of fans to leave the stands and run across the football field.
It's not clear what sparked ...
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CINCINNATI (AP) - Reginald Stroud hears the music and wishes he had never left.
Leaving wasn't his choice, of course. Everyone knows that. He raised his kids here on Walnut Street, opened a martial arts studio and sold candy for two cents apiece at his convenience store.
The rainbow-colored sign ...
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YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - New Zealand straightened the world champion crown on its head and removed any doubt about its status as Rugby World Cup favorite as it overcame South Africa 23-13 on Saturday in the tournament's most anticipated pool game.
A resurgent South Africa drew with the All Blacks ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Argentina coach Mario Ledesma complained about a couple of referring decisions in the second half that might have changed the outcome.
But he also placed the blame where much of it belongs: on a miserable first 40 minutes for Los Pumas.
"I'm not forgetting what we did ...
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TOKYO (AP) - France withstood a ferocious second-half comeback from Argentina to win 23-21 in a tension-filled Rugby World Cup group opener on Saturday.
After Argentina rallied from 20-3 down at halftime to lead by one point, France flyhalf Camille Lopez landed a priceless dropped goal to restore the lead ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Performance artist Marina Abramovic is displaying her work in her native Belgrade for the first time in 44 years and she says that returning home has been highly emotional.
Abramovic summoned journalists to Belgrade's Museum of Contemporary Art at the crack of dawn on Saturday for ...
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American Sofia Kenin beat former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Guangzhou International on Saturday for her third WTA singles title of the year.
Kenin won her first singles title of 2019 on the hardcourts of Hobart, Australia in January, and added ...
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Georgia will be banking on a unity forged in France to trouble Wales when they meet in the Rugby World Cup on Monday in Toyota.
Teamwork won't be lacking. Just as well, considering Georgia faces the Six Nations Grand Slam champion.
Eight Georgians ply their trade in southwestern France for ...
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WINDBER, Pa. (AP) - The unique doll collection of best-selling author Anne Rice has found a new home in Windber.
Until 2004, Rice's collection of one-of-a-kind dolls filled a three-story former orphanage in New Orleans. She had about 1,000 rare and unique dolls, some made of porcelain and some over ...
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The most promising signal that track and field remains in good hands even after Usain Bolt's retirement comes from a 22-year-old American named Noah Lyles , who appreciates the Jamaican superstar more for what he did after his races than during them.
When Lyles spends time studying Bolt on video, ...
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DALLAS (AP) - A book of poetry handwritten by Bonnie Parker and a watch belonging to Clyde Barrow are among items from the outlaw Texas couple being offered at auction.
RR Auction will offer the items Saturday in Boston. Parker and Barrow were shot to death by lawmen in Louisiana ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The CEO of the Russian anti-doping agency has predicted that the country's track team won't be reinstated in time for the upcoming world athletics championships.
The Russian team has been suspended from international track and field since 2015 over widespread doping, though dozens are allowed to compete ...
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First it was having a quartet of aging full backs unable to deliver on his demands. Then it was going eight months without a genuine left back.
This season, there's another defensive issue facing Pep Guardiola at Manchester City: a shortage of center backs.
With long-serving captain Vincent Kompany released ...
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BAYEUX, France (AP) - Famously, Arya Stark always preferred her sword Needle to needlework. Still, even she would be impressed with the giant tapestry now on show in France that recounts the plot of "Game of Thrones" in glorious and, of course, gory and salacious detail.
With the award-winning saga ...
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SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - No matter the score, if Nasi Manu gets on the field for Tonga in the Rugby World Cup game against England on Sunday it'll be a triumph.
In many ways it already is.
The 31-year-old Manu is on the brink of playing his first game at ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, along with their infant son, Archie, are making their first official tour as a family, starting Monday in a troubled South Africa whose president says women and children are "under siege" by shocking violence.
South Africa is still shaken by the ...
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SMYRNA, Del. (AP) - The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is now assisting Delaware authorities in identifying the remains of a child found dumped in a softball field.
The nonprofit's forensic services unit supervisor, Carol Schweitzer, tells The News Journal of Wilmington that tests will now be conducted ...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - As the focus of the earnest hopes of a nation which venerates sporting achievement, All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen insists "I'm just a normal bloke."
It falls to Hansen to attempt the unprecedented feat of guiding New Zealand to victory at a third consecutive ...
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PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) - There are times in life, maybe a handful, when everything changes. A moment, simple or world shattering, slanting the past, shaping all still to come.
There are people who have the same effect, someone so generous, so genuine, so joyful, meeting them transforms perspective.
Amy Bockerstette ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The Latest on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup in Japan (all times local):
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Injured backs Rob Kearney and Keith Earls weren't risked by Ireland and won't play against Scotland in their Rugby World Cup opener on Sunday in Yokohama.
That meant four ...
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NAPLES, Italy (AP) - Tired of its perennial runner-up status in Serie A and shortcomings in Europe, Napoli may have finally overcome a major hurdle toward becoming a genuine threat in all competitions.
A depleted bench penalized the southern club under former coaches Walter Mazzarri, Maurizio Sarri and Rafa Benitez ...
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SHANDON, Calif. (AP) - Authorities in central California say a passenger bus has crashed while carrying the road crew for country and gospel singer Josh Turner, leaving one dead and seven injured.
Turner and his band were not on the bus.
Two of the passengers are said to have sustained ...
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's sports minister has resigned after being accused of stealing $1.8 million in public money.
Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi said at a news conference in Jakarta on Thursday that President Joko Widodo had accepted his resignation so he can focus on his legal defense.
...WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's top filmmakers are demanding artistic independence for the nation's prestigious film festival after a politically charged movie was withdrawn.
The filmmakers guild wants the selection procedure for the Polish Film Festival to be independent from its organizers, which include the Culture Ministry.
The appeal came ...
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Mention the name "Haaland" to the average soccer fan, particularly someone from England, and thoughts might go back to one of the most vicious fouls ever committed in the Premier League.
That day in 2001, Alf-Inge Haaland - playing for Manchester City at the time - was on the receiving ...
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ZURICH (AP) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino is raising hopes Iran will lift a ban on women entering soccer stadiums before a World Cup qualifying game next month.
Attention on the ban intensified when a 29-year-old activist, Sahar Khodayari, died this month after setting herself on fire. She had been ...
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina university has announced a $1 billion growth plan that will keep its current leader on the job for another 10 years and provide scholarships and new construction.
High Point University says the plan will commit current president Nido Quebein to another decade ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Ryan Crotty took the middle chair at the interview table and grimaced for no particular reason. His frown turned upside down when Richie Mo'unga put his right hand on Crotty's neck and started massaging it.
In front of about 50 media at New Zealand's Rugby World Cup ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The first Rugby World Cup in Asia starts Friday in Tokyo, another sport out to tap a giant region that's in the midst of playing host to three straight Olympics and world championships of varying pedigrees.
Japan's national team caught attention four years ago by upsetting two-time ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The University of Louisville Athletic Association and Rick Pitino have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit, with the former Cardinals men's basketball coach's changing his termination to a resignation.
Pitino sued the ULAA for more than $38.7 million in November 2017, accusing it of breaching its ...
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LONDON (AP) - Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen will remain suspended from the European Tour until at least December after being charged with sexual assault and being drunk on an aircraft.
The 29-year-old Olesen appeared in court in London on Wednesday in relation to the charges. No pleas were entered at ...
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra is planning to retire.
The Times Argus reports the orchestra announced Tuesday that Jaime Laredo will step down at the end of the 2020-2021 season.
Laredo has led the Vermont symphony since 2000.
Orchestra Executive Director Benjamin Cadwallader ...
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Fernando Ricksen, a former Netherlands national team defender, has died after a six-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 43.
Rangers, the Scottish soccer club where Ricksen played from 2000-06, announced the death on Wednesday.
Ricksen said in October 2013 he was suffering from the ...
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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - Whether Germany coach Joachim Löw was watching or not, Marc-André ter Stegen delivered his message.
The Barcelona goalkeeper produced a player-of-the-match performance to help the Spanish team escape with a 0-0 draw at Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League group opener on Tuesday.
It was Ter ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Organizers of the Lollapalooza music festival have received their largest bill in years to restore Chicago's Grant Park after damages caused by last month's event.
The Chicago Tribune reports Lollapalooza received a $645,000 bill this year to clean up Grant Park. It's the highest amount incurred by ...
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BEIJING (AP) - A smiling panda and a walking Chinese lantern will be the mascots for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing.
The mascots were revealed Tuesday at a ceremony at the Shougang Ice Hockey Arena in the Chinese capital.
Beijing Mayor Chen Jining described them as adorable, ...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Avery Davis has become a case study in perseverance, always wanting to help his team yet never in one place long enough to get a chance.
Three position changes for Davis in less than two years, without much payoff, even caused Notre Dame coach Brian ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Corey Seager drove in four runs, including a go-ahead, two-run double in the seventh, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 Tuesday night.
Seager's ground-rule double in the fifth was the Dodgers' first hit of the game and briefly gave ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Authors from Asia, Europe and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year.
The 10 fiction and nonfiction works announced Tuesday include the celebrated Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's novel "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones ...
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Eli Manning has presumably started his last game for the New York Giants.
First-rounder Daniel Jones will start Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Giants announced Tuesday. The team benched Manning coming off their second straight loss.
Giants coach Pat Shurmur left the door open for Jones, the sixth ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says he's had a setback in his battle with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy again.
Trebek told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday that after a short period of optimism when he stopped chemotherapy, his "numbers shot up" and doctors ordered ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - With the benefit of an own-goal and two previous away goals, Japanese club Urawa Reds advanced to the semifinals of the Asian Champions League.
The Reds held Shanghai SIPG to a 1-1 draw Tuesday in the second leg of the quarterfinals, but reached the next ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - An attorney for Harvey Weinstein said on Tuesday that her client is not without sin - but he's also not "a rapist."
Donna Rotunno, speaking on "CBS This Morning," said she feels strongly that the evidence will exonerate the movie mogul of any criminal wrongdoing.
Weinstein ...
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ROME (AP) - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has left the ruling Democratic Party to set up a new centrist force, in a risky move that further weakens the already shaky government forged only two weeks ago by the center-left Democrats and the populist 5-Star Movement.
Renzi announced his departure ...
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) - Former African soccer leader Issa Hayatou will help organize some of the continent's top tournaments.
The Cameroon sports ministry says it has appointed Hayatou, who was FIFA's interim president in 2015-16, as a special adviser to the organizers of competitions it will host, including the 2020 ...
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - A suburban Detroit history attraction has acquired a major collection of photographs, menus, clothing and other items related to American diners.
Dearborn-based The Henry Ford announced the acquisition Tuesday of the collection assembled by Richard J.S.Gutman, an expert who has been helping tell the story of ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The suspended Russian track federation is sending a team of 29 competitors to the world championships in Qatar, where they will compete as neutral athletes.
High jumper Mariya Lasitskene is the only reigning world champion among the group. Lasitskene has jumped a world leading 2.06 meters this ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Neymar's ban from the Champions League for insulting match officials has been cut to two games.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the three-match suspension to the minimum of two games for abusive language to a referee or assistant.
The ruling clears Neymar to play ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - It's easy for Demarcus Robinson to get overlooked in the Kansas City Chiefs' offense.
Patrick Mahomes is the record-setting quarterback and reigning league MVP. Tyreek Hill is the wide receiver with the game-breaking speed. Sammy Watkins is the former No. 4 overall draft pick living ...
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - The University of Rhode Island is getting a $35 million gift from former CVS president and CEO Thomas Ryan and his wife, Cathy, the largest private contribution in the school's history.
The gift announced Monday includes $24 million for the George & Anne Ryan Institute ...
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LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) - Rapper Kanye West brought his collection of choir singers and musicians to an Atlanta-area megachurch for his religious popup performance called "Sunday Service."
News outlets report West visited New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday drawing a large group of parishioners and celebrities including rappers T.I. ...
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) - Former finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova needed less than an hour to beat Dayana Yastremska 6-3, 6-1 on Monday in the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
Pavlyuchenkova, who lost the 2017 final to Caroline Wozniacki, went on a roll early in the second set to ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Luigi Colani, a renowned German industrial designer, has died. He was 91.
German news agency dpa reported that his partner, Yazhen Zha, confirmed that Colani died Monday in the southwestern town of Karlsruhe after a severe illness. No further details were given.
Colani's designs, which included cars, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Maya Moore shocked the basketball world when she stepped away from the WNBA earlier this year before the season began. She's spent a lot of her time away from the game trying to help a family friend, Jonathan Irons, get his conviction overturned.
Irons has been ...
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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Friends of Albert Nabonibo, a well-known gospel singer in Rwanda who recently came out as a gay man, do not want their names revealed. It is too shameful, one says. Another says he is anguished because his family knows he often used to socialize with Nabonibo.
...TURIN, Italy (AP) - Police have arrested 12 hardcore Juventus "ultra" fan leaders for a series of accusations, including making illegal demands to the club to obtain more tickets.
Police say fans threatened to carry out racist chants during matches if they were not given more tickets than the number ...
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BEIJING (AP) - Kobe Bryant went to China for the first time in 1998, making the trip to Beijing to help operate an instructional basketball clinic for about a dozen kids. The local coaches working with him didn't know a lot about the game. Barely anyone noticed that an NBA ...
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The Baltimore Orioles might lose 110 games and still not end up with the No. 1 pick in the draft.
That race, so to speak, is pretty unforgiving this year.
The Orioles (49-100) are in the middle of a four-game series at Detroit (44-104) that matches the teams with the ...
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PARIS (AP) - While Nicolas Pépé awaits his first goal since joining Arsenal for a club-record fee, his former team Lille has found another scoring talent in Victor Osimhen.
The 20-year-old Nigerian has scored five goals in five league games so far, helping Lille fans to forget Pépé's departure for ...
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AMSTERDAM (AP) - Sergio Garcia won the 100th edition of the KLM Open by one shot Sunday, holding his nerve for a par on the final hole to finish on 18 under and leave Nicolai Hojgaard of Denmark in second place.
Garcia kissed his young daughter Azalea and threw her ...
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MISANO ADRIATICO, Italy (AP) - Marc Marquez passed Fabio Quartararo on the final lap for a dramatic victory in the San Marino Grand Prix on Sunday to increase his lead atop the MotoGP standings to nearly 100 points.
Marquez started fifth but quickly worked his way through the field to ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A masterfully taken free kick by Sevilla midfielder Joan Jordán earned a 1-0 victory at Alavés and lifted his team to the top of the standings in the Spanish league on Sunday.
Jordán struck a dipping free kick over the defensive wall that goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco ...
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LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Merrimack Valley communities have celebrated their resiliency following last year's devastating natural gas explosions and fires.
Residents of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover gathered for a community spirit event at Stadium Plaza in Lawrence on Saturday. Lawrence High School's Dance Company performed and local youths sang ...
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The NFL is reviewing its concussion protocol after New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard finished last week's game with a concussion, ESPN reported.
On a play in the third quarter, Shepard had trouble standing up after a collision with an opponent. Despite his staggering, the league's concussion ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan that will host Olympic soccer games says his city has received no funding from the central government that has promised to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to help in the reconstruction of the region.
The Japanese government and Tokyo ...
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Aubree Davis ventured to the place everyone knows they need to go but no one ever actually wants to: outside her comfort zone.
Her first roller derby scrimmage ripped her out of that zone. It threw her on the ground, too.
"I was blocking, ...
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LONDON (AP) - To some, he's a strategic genius. Others call him a mayhem-loving anarchist.
Everyone seems to have an opinion about Dominic Cummings. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's most powerful aide - dubbed "Boris' brain" by some - is an enigmatic backstage operator who shuns media attention, yet has ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Washington Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov has been suspended without pay for three regular-season games by the NHL for inappropriate conduct. The decision comes less than a month after he was banned from playing for Russia for four years because of a positive test for cocaine.
The ...
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MADRID (AP) - Karim Benzema scored two goals to lead Real Madrid to a 3-2 win over Levante in the Spanish league on Saturday with home fans treated to the sight of star signing Eden Hazard making his competitive debut.
Hazard had not played for Madrid since his club-record transfer ...
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A 37-year-old St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison for a fatal shooting during the taping of a rap video.
Daniel Williams was sentenced Friday to seven years for second-degree assault plus life in prison for armed criminal action in the November 2017 ...
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Police say three teenagers who were shot after a high school football game in Virginia are expected to survive.
Newport News Police said via Twitter on Saturday that the shootings happened at the end of a football game at Todd Stadium on Friday night.
A ...
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GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) - The dream team was reunited and the Korda sisters delivered again for the United States in a record-tying win at the Solheim Cup.
The performance of Morgan Pressel and Marina Alex was just as impressive Saturday.
The U.S. team kept in touch with Europe by sharing ...
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ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) - Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova advanced to the Zhengzhou Open final with a clinical 6-3, 6-2 victory over Ajla Tomljanovic on Saturday.
Pliskova clinched her third straight win against Tomljanovic this season, taking 93% of her first service points to reach her fifth final of the year. She ...
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LONDON (AP) - Fashion aficionados basked in strong late summer sunlight Saturday as runway shows and presentations picked up speed at London Fashion Week.
Model and TV presenter Alexa Chung showed some of her latest creations in a show followed by an earnest discussion on "body positivity" in an adjoining ...
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Misaki Doi upset second-seeded Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-3 Saturday to set up a rare all-Japanese final at the Japan Women's Open.
Nao Hibino moved into her fifth career WTA singles final after rallying to beat Mihaela Buzarnescu 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 in the other semifinal.
It's the ...
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The New York Rangers have two clear goals this season: to keep improving and return to the playoffs after a two-year absence.
The addition of forwards Artemi Panarin and Kaapo Kakko, and defenseman Jacob Trouba this summer helped accelerate the team's rebuild, and now the Rangers believe they are ready ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has been honored at the 45th annual Saturn Awards that was streamed live for the first time.
Feige said in a video message Friday night that he is "humbled" after accepting the inaugural Stan Lee Builder award, named after the late ...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Cam Newton has lost his last eight starts, and it's becoming increasingly obvious the Carolina Panthers' hopes of turning him into a pocket passer are failing.
That raises questions about the former No. 1 pick's long-term future in Carolina.
Whether it's a matter of coaches not ...
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia will play an exhibition men's basketball game to benefit the victims and families affected by a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
The Mountaineers will host Duquesne in Morgantown on Nov. 1. Proceeds will benefit the Dayton Oregon District Tragedy Fund.
The nonprofit Dayton Foundation ...
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AMSTERDAM (AP) - New research shows that for much of Russian-French Modernist painter Marc Chagall's life, which took him from a tiny village in rural Russia to St. Petersburg, Paris and New York, he remained remarkably faithful to eight pigments in his colorful works.
Experts at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum presented ...
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The former coach of the Holy Cross women's basketball team who was fired in March after 34 years has sued the school, alleging breach of contract, defamation, age discrimination, infliction of emotional distress and other wrongdoing.
The Telegram & Gazette reports that Bill Gibbons' suit filed ...
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LONDON (AP) - British fashion officials are warning about the perils of a "no-deal" Brexit as London Fashion Week begins.
At an opening event Friday morning, Stephanie Phair, chairwoman of the British Fashion Council, said the industry is urging Britain's government to find a Brexit deal rather than leave the ...
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GENEVA (AP) - As dominant as the United States in the Women's World Cup, Lyon began the Champions League this week with the brightest ever spotlight on women's soccer in Europe.
Four-time defending champion Lyon fields a stellar lineup of players now better known after a tournament that ended at ...
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ARGENTINA
Forwards: Agustín Creevy, Julián Montoya, Santiago Socino, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Mayco Vivas, Juan Figallo, Santiago Medrano, Enrique Pieretto, Tomás Lavanini, Matías Alemanno, Guido Petti, Pablo Matera (captain), Tomás Lezana, Javier Ortega Desio, Marcos Kremer, Rodrigo Bruni, Juan Manuel Leguizamón.
Backs: Tomás Cubelli, Felipe Ezcurra, Nicolás Sanchez, Benjamin Urdapilleta, Jerónimo ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Margot Robbie says she feels lucky to build upon the Chanel legacy as the face for the brand's newest perfume.
The "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" star says she is ready to lead the campaign for the new Chanel Gabrielle Chanel fragrance. She spoke about ...
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Nao Hibino advanced to the semifinals of the Japan Women's Open by beating top-seeded Hsieh Su-wei 6-4, 6-3 on Friday.
Making her first appearance in the quarterfinals in her seventh consecutive appearance at the event, Hibino broke her opponent's serve five times, hitting 25 winners to ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will be honored at the 45th annual Saturn Awards that will be streamed live for the first time.
Feige is set to receive the inaugural Stan Lee Builder award named after the late Marvel Comics mastermind. The awards show on Friday ...
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ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - It will be the end of an era of sorts this weekend in Oakland.
Not that anyone figures to be mourning what should be the final NFL game ever played on a field with infield dirt, especially the players who have had to deal with the ...
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HONG KONG (AP) - A tennis tournament and a London musical are the latest events postponed in Hong Kong out of concerns over safety and disruptions from more pro-democracy protests.
K-pop concerts, Chanel fashion shows and international conferences have been cancelled, postponed or moved out of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory ...
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters is planning another comeback.
A mother of three, the Belgian who retired after the 2012 U.S. Open wants a new challenge, she told the WTA in an interview on its website on Thursday.
The 36-year-old Clijsters, who started her professional career ...
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PARIS (AP) - The only daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman has been found guilty by a Paris court of charges that she ordered her bodyguard to detain and strike a plumber for taking photos at the Saudi royal family's apartment in the French capital.
Prosecutors alleged that Princess Hessa ...
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