ZURICH (AP) - FIFA launched a global program led by Arsene Wenger on Friday to help close the gap on Europe's dominance in soccer by improving coaching and identifying young talent.
It's the first major project for Wenger since the former Arsenal manager was hired in November as FIFA's head ...
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MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) - A wild turkey that became a celebrity in a southern New Jersey town was euthanized after it was rescued and placed at a sanctuary farm because it posed a risk to native wildlife, officials said.
The turkey, named Glenny, drew attention by fanning his feathers ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian government suspended its recognition of the country's track and field federation for a month on Friday, increasing the pressure on officials to cooperate with investigations ahead of the Olympics.
The Sports Ministry's suspension runs until March 1, two days after the federation is due to ...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Actor and director Elizabeth Banks is being honored as Woman of the Year by Harvard University's famed Hasty Pudding theater troupe.
The "Hunger Games" star will be paraded through Harvard Square and then awarded a golden pudding pot following a celebratory roast by the troupe on ...
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LONDON (AP) - Manchester United's business in the January transfer window might not be finished.
On the final day of the window on Friday, United is trying to sign a striker and has made an offer for Bournemouth's Josh King, who spent time at Old Trafford as a teenager.
"It's ...
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BERLIN (AP) - The Berlin International Film Festival has suspended a prize named for its founding director after a German newspaper reported that he was a senior figure in the Nazis' moviemaking bureaucracy.
Alfred Bauer led the "Berlinale" from 1951 to 1976, building the festival into a major draw for ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A look at the upcoming week around the Atlantic Coast Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
No. 9 Duke at Syracuse. The Blue Devils (17-3, 7-2) have had their share of struggles when they play at the Carrier Dome since the Orange joined the ACC, splitting ...
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Here are a few things to watch as the Southeastern Conference schools enter February:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
After rallying to avoid being upset by Vanderbilt, No. 13 Kentucky (16-4, 6-1 SEC) looks to Saturday night's showdown at No. 17 Auburn (18-2, 5-2). It's the first meeting between the schools ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic have combined to win their second Australian Open women's doubles title in three years.
The pair routed top-seeded Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova 6-2, 6-1 on Friday under a closed roof on Rod Laver Arena because of the extreme ...
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Older men in Arkansas might see a close-up photo of President Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air, along with a message asking them to donate $30 to his campaign for a Super Bowl commercial.
Middle-aged women in California might see a photo of Trump pointing to a crowd, ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lamine Diane had 26 points as Cal State Northridge got past UC Santa Barbara 79-67 on Thursday night.
Terrell Gomez added 22 points and Darius Brown II 14 for the Matadors (9-14, 4-3 Big West Conference), who made 8 of 16 3-pointers and shot 57% ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Hummer, once a gas-guzzling target for environmentalists, is making a comeback. But this time around it won't burn fuel or spew greenhouse gases.
General Motors announced Thursday that it will start selling a battery-powered Hummer pickup truck in September of 2021. At least part of the ...
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NEWARK, Del. (AP) - A University of Delaware program that starts this fall will allow high school students to get an early start on their college studies.
The Early College Credit Program will be free and open to juniors and seniors in all 74 public, charter and private high ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Neven Subotic has been undergoing a renaissance ahead a return to where he enjoyed his greatest successes.
The 31-year-old Union Berlin center back scored a rare goal in the 2-0 win over Augsburg last weekend, and joked that he may have another goal in him for the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Seinfeld has been gathering material. He is working on his first book about comedy since the million-selling "Seinlanguage" came out more than 25 years ago.
Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that the new book, currently untitled, comes out Oct. 6.
"Whenever I came up ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The temperature topped 100 degrees F (38 degrees Celsius) in the first of the Australian Open women's semifinals and got slightly warmer in the second, when Garbiñe Muguruza and Simona Halep were going shot-for-shot in the hot-hot sun.
The sudden burst of heat got very, very ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg will use his Super Bowl ad to highlight his efforts to combat gun violence as he blankets the airwaves against President Donald Trump.
Trump and Bloomberg will be airing dueling ads during Sunday's NFL championship game, with both campaigns spending an estimated ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - The Spanish capital's biggest derby hasn't looked this lopsided in years.
Zinedine Zidane has Real Madrid playing like a winner again for the first time since he started his second stint as coach midway through last season.
Atlético Madrid, in contrast, is at its lowest moment ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - At least two thieves have stolen items from an art gallery in Stockholm, police said, with Swedish media reporting that they include 10 to 12 table-size bronze sculptures by Spanish artist Salvador Dali.
Police said "at least two thieves" entered the Couleur gallery in central Stockholm ...
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MELBOURNE, Australa (AP) - A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO FRIDAY
Alexander Zverev is 22, Dominic Thiem is 26, and one of them will get the chance to appear in the Australian Open final for the first time. Their semifinal is under the lights at night in ...
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - Sean Monahan scored the shootout winner and the Calgary Flames snapped a two-game skid with a 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
Andrew Mangiapane had a pair of goals and Elias Lindholm also scored for the Flames, who improved to 27-19-6.
Kailer Yamamoto, ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Katie Sowers answered questions on topics ranging from whether it hurt getting her ears pierced (no) to if she wants to be an NFL head coach one day (yes).
For the full 60 minutes of the San Francisco 49ers' portion of media night on Monday, Sowers ...
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The Washington Wizards are a poor defensive team. That much has been obvious through the team's first 46 games.
But lately — even by their standards — they've reached new lows. On Tuesday, the Wizards became the first team since the 1990 Denver Nuggets to give up more than 150 ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Florida and federal law enforcement agencies preparing for the Super Bowl this Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens say they are ready for anything, including a detonated bomb or massive food poisoning, but haven't identified any threats.
Events for the 54th Super Bowl, between ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - More than 70 composers from Monteverdi to Glass have written operas inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but that didn't deter Matthew Aucoin from adding his name to the list.
"I think musicians love the idea that music can bring people back from the ...
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Designers of hotel spaces have traditionally tended to favor either theatrical flair (baroque finishes and opulent flourishes) or the opposite: a low-key insouciance consisting of neutral, contemporary furniture and acres of beige-ness.
That's changing. Now, many designers are looking to the cities and neighborhoods where hotels are located for decorating ...
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Lee Enterprises will buy Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group publications and The Buffalo News for $140 million, the company said Wednesday.
The deal covers 30 daily newspapers in 10 states as well as 49 paid weekly publications with digital sites and 32 other print products. ...
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GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) - Alaskan musher Ryan Redington has won the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in northeastern Minnesota for the second time in three years.
Redington and his huskies spent more than 29 hours on the nearly 300-mile trail along lake Superior before arriving in Grand Portage ...
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BERLIN (AP) - This year's Berlin International Film Festival will have a decidedly dark focus, with many of its headline movies reflecting the inner turmoil of characters and the troubled backdrop of the chaotic world around them.
The festival's new artistic director, Carlo Chatrian, said Wednesday that while the 70th ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - Fortuna Düsseldorf fired Friedhelm Funkel as coach on Wednesday after the team slipped to last place in the Bundesliga.
The struggling club said it was reacting to the "sporting crisis" after six losses in eight league games.
The 66-year-old Funkel took over Fortuna in March 2016 ...
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Sam Merrill had 14 points as Utah State romped past Wyoming 68-45 on Tuesday night.
Alphonso Anderson had 13 points for Utah State (17-6, 6-4 Mountain West Conference). Brock Miller added 11 points. Utah State totaled 25 first-half points, a season low for the team.
Kwane ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Regardless of your musical tastes, it seems the Super Bowl halftime show has gone there.
From marching bands to New Orleans jazz, from Latin and Caribbean vibes to Motown. From classic rock to country, pop to hip hop and rap.
From the sublime (Tony Bennett) to ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Hall of Fame defensive end Chris Doleman, who became one of the NFL's most feared pass rushers during 15 seasons in the league, has died. He was 58.
The Minnesota Vikings and Pro Football Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker offered their condolences in separate ...
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LONDON (AP) - Tottenham took up the option to sign Giovani Lo Celso on a permanent basis Tuesday, with the Argentina midfielder regarded as a natural replacement for the departed Christian Eriksen.
The 23-year-old Lo Celso initially joined from Spanish team Real Betis in a loan deal in the offseason. ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Melanie Musson in Belgrade, Montana, does a lot of driving with her four girls. Juggling a broad age range, 1 to 9, she's forever searching for ways to keep them all entertained without relying entirely on video.
While she still adores paper and tablet books for ...
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MILAN (AP) - The AC Milan soccer team will wear black armbands and observe a minute's silence during an Italian Cup game on Tuesday in memory of devout fan Kobe Bryant.
The seven-time European champions host Torino in the quarterfinals at the San Siro.
Bryant, an 18-time NBA All-Star with ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - There's a Barty going on Down Under. It's already bigger than the Barty party that took over Melbourne Park last year.
That ended with Ash Barty's loss to Petra Kvitova in the Australian Open quarterfinals. This one picked up with Barty's 7-6 (6), 6-2 quarterfinal win ...
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Jerry Sandusky's legal effort to have his decadeslong child molestation sentence reduced will be the subject of a hearing Tuesday in a Pennsylvania courtroom.
The former Penn State assistant football coach's defense lawyers and state prosecutors are expected to argue about whether Judge Maureen Skerda should reconsider his ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's Bayou Country Superfest is hanging up its cowboy boots and spurs.
In a tweet Monday, organizers of the 10-year-old country music festival announced that the Memorial Day weekend event "will be on hiatus until further notice."
The festival began in Baton Rouge, briefly ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Red Grange looked more like the pilot of a single-engine airplane than a dominant halfback who once thrived in a single-wing offense.
From the crude, oblong leather helmets to the sparsely padded brown and blue vertical-striped uniforms of the Chicago Bears, it's easy to see how equipment ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fans call it The House that Kobe Built, and since Kobe Bryant's shocking death in a helicopter crash mourners by the thousands have gathered outside the glistening steel-and-glass edifice where the Los Angeles Lakers legend made so much basketball history.
The arrivals at downtown Staples ...
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DENVER (AP) - Folded conveniently into the narratives about his "complicated past" was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could've wrecked him.
It was a rape allegation by a 19-year-old employee of a hotel. It happened in 2003. Some argued that making that life-altering detail a mere footnote to the ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Patrick Marleau and Stefan Noesen each scored twice, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 Monday night.
Marleau moved past Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur and into a tie with Mike Modano for 25th place on the NHL's career list with 561 ...
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Fans young and old poured onto the field, holding aloft replica FA Cups made of foil and yellow-and-blue scarves, headed to embrace their players.
Right then, as gleeful supporters of third-tier team Shrewsbury filled the playing surface of the Montgomery Waters Meadow Stadium after seeing their team fight back to ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - By her own account, Mimi Haleyi once rebuffed one of Harvey Weinstein's relentless advances by telling him, "I hear you have a terrible reputation with women."
Haleyi says she didn't know just how terrible the then-revered Hollywood honcho could be until he sexually assaulted her in ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Kobe Bryant was as "an outstanding and true Olympic champion," IOC President Thomas Bach said Monday.
The basketball great, who was killed in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on Sunday, helped the United States win Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games and the ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Margaret Court was present but didn't address the crowd at a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of her calendar-year Grand Slam in 1970, a tricky event for Australian Open organizers trying to balance recognition of the achievement with their responsibility to promote inclusion in sports.
...BALTIMORE (AP) - Hall of Fame Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray will join Maryland officials to highlight a new program to enable tax filers to sign up for health care on their tax returns.
The first baseman and designated hitter is scheduled to attend an event in Baltimore with Maryland ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Singer Billie Eilish, who gave voice to young people struggling with depression on a do-it-yourself album she made at home with her older brother, is atop the music world.
The 18-year-old made history at the Grammy Awards Sunday. Not only did she become the youngest person ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Nick Kyrgios wore a Lakers No. 8 jersey to honor Kobe Bryant ahead of a fourth-round match against Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open.
The 15-year-old Coco Gauff had Bryant's numbers 8 and 24, along with the inscription "Mamba Mentality," on her shoes in a doubles ...
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The most compelling drama in the NFL this season unfolded on the field, not off it.
And any thought that the league was in jeopardy of losing its spot as America's favorite sport has been set on the back burner, which is mostly where the domestic abuse cases, national ...
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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - In documentaries, anonymous sources have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure - or worse, a pixelated blur. But a new documentary premiering Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival has, with the aid of advanced digital technology, gone to greater lengths to preserve the ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Roger Federer needed some time to get going in the Australian Open's fourth round, a match after a draining and difficult escape in which he was two points from defeat.
To be precise, he required a full set to get sorted.
After seeming sluggish while dropping ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Sean "Diddy" Combs called out the Grammy Awards for dissing rap and R&B stars in its major categories in a blazing speech that earned him a standing ovation from Beyoncé, Jay-Z and several other music industry players.
At the end of his 50-minute speech Saturday night ...
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BOSTON — Sports gambling giant DraftKings won't give a former "Bachelor" contestant the $1 million prize for winning an online fantasy football contest after she and her husband were accused of cheating.
Jade Roper-Tolbert, who appeared in "The Bachelor" and "Bachelor in Paradise" television series in 2015, was no longer ...
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PARK CITY, Utah — Without Oprah or Apple, the Russell Simmons documentary "On the Record" went ahead with its premiere Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, where the women who came forward with sexual assault allegations against the hip-hop mogul received one of the festival's most roaring receptions.
The lead-up ...
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ACEHUCHE, Spain (AP) - Spain has a rich tradition of colorful, and sometimes bizarre, festivals.
The best-known ones are in the summer, including running with bulls through the narrow streets of Pamplona or hundreds of people throwing ripe tomatoes at each other near Valencia. But some of the more obscure ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO MONDAY
All the ingredients are there for a classic fourth-round match between Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios at night on Rod Laver Arena. Their matches are always close, Nadal leads 4-3 in career head-to-heads, and they're 1-1 ...
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MIAMI (AP) - AT&T spent $85 million in the past year to boost its network coverage and capacity at the Miami stadium where tens of thousands of fans will watch the Super Bowl next week.
The company said in a statement that it had upgraded a portion of the Distributed ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Eddie Stansberry scored 23 points and his fifth 3-pointer from the left corner with 3.3 seconds left lifted Hawaii to a 76-75 win over UC Davis on Saturday night.
The Rainbow Warriors had the ball out of bounds under their own basket after Justin Webster missed a ...
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The University of Southern Mississippi expects hundreds of children's librarians, teachers and fans of books for children and young adults at its 53rd Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival from April 1-3.
The event at the Hattiesburg campus includes lectures and workshops featuring renowned authors ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Bundesliga leader Leipzig 2-0 to throw the title race wide open on Saturday.
Frankfurt defender Almamy Toure scored a brilliant goal just after the break and Filip Kostic sealed the win in injury time to deal Leipzig its first defeat since a 2-1 loss ...
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HESSTON, Kan. (AP) - The old downtown strip, like so many in small towns across America, is quiet on a brisk January morning, just a few cars parked at one end in front of The Citizens State Bank and a few more in front of the pharmacy at the other.
...LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Jamie O'Hara's first job was working behind the counter in a magic shop. He was 10 years old, growing up in the suburbs of New York City.
On a recent Friday afternoon, visitors to Raze Studio Illusions & Magic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, were ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana is giving gamblers a chance to put down wagers on who'll be winners in next month's Academy Awards.
That option for those interested in betting on the Oscar winners for best picture and other film categories comes under the state's sports wagering law that took effect ...
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Dallas at Utah, 5 p.m.
Brooklyn at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.
NHL ALL-STAR GAME (St. Louis)
Metropolitan vs. Atlantic, 8:15 p.m.
Pacific vs. Central, 9:15 p.m.
Final, 10:15 p.m.
...DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Wu Ashun has taken a one-shot lead at the Dubai Desert Classic after the third round as he chases his first title since 2018.
The No. 366-ranked Chinese golfer started his round with an eagle on the way to a five-under 67 as ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Karolina Pliskova can make a good case that she has the strongest resume of any active player not to win a Grand Slam singles title.
She's been the runner-up at the U.S. Open and a semifinalist at the French Open and Australian Open. She's currently ranked ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Joao Olavo Soares de Souza of Brazil has been banned for life and fined $200,000 by the International Tennis Federation after being found guilty of match-fixing and corruption.
The Tennis Integrity Unit announced the sanctions Saturday following a hearing earlier this month in London. The 31-year-old ...
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SPOKANE, Wash. - (AP) -
Glancing to the left on his drive home on Jan. 6, the mangled metal of Sunset Auto Vue drive-in's collapsed screen was a difficult sight for Chris Wagner, who owns the Grangeville theater, to bear.
Thanks to busted bolts, winds clocked at around 55 ...
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - Brady Tkachuk didn't mind cutting his vacation to the Bahamas short.
Tkachuk, a 20-year-old forward for the Ottawa Senators, was planning on a couple of days of fun in the sun before going to St. Louis to watch his older brother, Matthew, represent the Calgary Flames ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Erik Spoelstra has a suggestion for All-Star voting: Ditch the positions.
A day after the NBA revealed the starters for the Feb. 16 All-Star Game - two guards and three forwards from each conference - the Miami Heat coach said he wonders why the league still has ...
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A cast of veteran actors has banded together in "The Last Full Measure," a feature film that opens Friday and revisits the true story Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger a U.S. Air Force pararescueman and medic who personally saved more than 60 men — but died doing it.
The ...
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WASECA, Minn. (AP) - High school hockey players in Waseca won't be able to wear game jerseys made in honor of a local police officer gravely wounded in the line of duty.
The Minnesota State High School League stepped in and told the coaches the jerseys don't comply with ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo put on a flashy fireworks display on Friday to mark the 6-months-to-go milestone for this year's Olympics.
The show took place high above a barge stationed in Tokyo Bay that supports a massive replica of the five Olympic rings, a reminder the games are almost here.
...NEW YORK (AP) - It's the defense's go-to question at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial: If the once-revered Hollywood mogul is a revolting sexual predator, as prosecutors and scores of women allege, why did some of his accusers keep interacting with him for years after their alleged assaults?
Prosecutors hope ...
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LONDON (AP) - Australia midfielder Aaron Mooy completed a permanent transfer to Brighton from second-tier team Huddersfield on Friday after impressing during a loan spell this season.
Mooy has played 17 games for Brighton, scoring two goals, after leaving Huddersfield following its relegation from the Premier League last season.
"His ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lizzo screamed at the top of her lungs, Lil Nas X brought out Billy Ray Cyrus for "Old Town Road" and Billie Eilish sang softly with her brother-turned-producer assisting on keys.
The three artists - the acts with the most nods at Sunday's Grammy Awards - ...
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Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford is leading an economic development trade trip to the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The trip is scheduled to begin Friday and run through Feb. 2.
It will include engagements in Dubai and Tel Aviv.
Rutherford will be focusing on promoting Maryland ...
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PARIS (AP) - Lola Salines happily accepted the last-minute concert ticket from a friend the night of Nov. 13, 2015. At 28, the Parisian had already created her own brand at a prestigious French publishing house, frequently took her lunch break to swim laps at the local pool with her ...
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Here are a few things to watch as most Southeastern Conference schools face off against the Big 12 in the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
A lot of attention will be focused on Gainesville and whether host Florida (12-6, 4-2) can upend top-ranked Baylor. The Gators are ...
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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - The normally private Taylor Swift premiered an intimate documentary Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival in which the pop star discloses a past eating disorder, chronicles her inner battle over speaking forthrightly about politics and says her victorious 2017 sexual assault court case was a ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Big 12 takes a break from conference play this weekend when its teams match up with members of the Southeastern Conference for the SEC-Big 12 Challenge. He's a look at those games and the week ahead:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
Third-ranked Kansas will be ...
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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Plenty of change is in the air at the Sundance Film Festival, where some 118 feature films are set to premiere over the next 10 days beginning Thursday.
Streaming companies are now among the most likely companies to scoop up buzzed-about breakthroughs. The marquee ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The ousted head of the Grammy Awards says that music's biggest awards are tainted because of conflicts of interest that infect how certain songs and artists are nominated.
Nevertheless, Deborah Dugan said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday that she plans to ...
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ROME (AP) - From Calabria to Pennsylvania, then the Bronx and beyond, new Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso has been on the move his entire life.
Whether it was acclimating to the United States after immigrating at the age of 12, climbing the corporate ladder toward becoming the billionaire chairman of ...
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WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) - Prominent authors, academics and free speech advocates have come to the defense of a Massachusetts college employee who was fired over a satirical Facebook post about Iran bombing the U.S.
Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates and Rosanne Cash are among those supporting Asheen Phansey, who was ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City Royals star catcher Salvador Perez is about to become a U.S. citizen.
Perez passed his citizenship exam earlier this month and will be be joined by Chief U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips on the Royals FanFest main stage Friday at the Kansas City ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - With this Sunday's Grammy ceremony to be his last after 40 years of producing it, Ken Ehrlich could be excused for creating a few moments in the show to look back on his own legacy, which includes creating indelible moments that will live in the pop ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jamie Foxx has won a plethora of major awards including an Oscar and Grammy. But after the African American Film Critics Association recognized him Wednesday night, the actor-singer called its honor just as special.
Foxx along with Eddie Murphy and Jordan Peele were among some of ...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - After 44 years under Tamas Ajan, weightlifting's troubled governing body is getting an acting president to oversee an investigation of corruption allegations broadcast in Germany.
The International Weightlifting Federation said late Wednesday its American Vice President Ursula Papandrea will take "a range of operational responsibilities" working ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Zion Williamson's sublime 17-point surge in a span of barely more than three minutes could very well become part of New Orleans' pro sports lore - even if the final score won't.
For the Pelicans, a narrow loss to a well-coached, savvy San Antonio Spurs team ...
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MIAMI (AP) - Goran Dragic is not going to play for Slovenia in this summer's Olympic qualifying tournament, insisting Thursday that he will not change his stance on being retired from international basketball.
The Miami Heat guard has a slew of reasons why he won't change his mind, including his ...
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A look at things to watch this week in Pac-12 Conference basketball:
GAME OF THE WEEK: Southern California at No. 12 Oregon, Thursday. The Trojans have yet to crack the AP Top 25 this season, but are one of the Pac-12's most talented teams and are tied with Stanford ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Tennys Sandgren was looking in great shape for a big upset at the Australian Open after building a massive lead against No. 8 seed Matteo Berrettini on Wednesday.
And then, suddenly, he wasn't.
"Two-sets-to-love up, I was feeling pretty good about myself," the 100th-ranked Sandgren, who is ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - "Sesame Street" in the past year has tackled everything from foster care to substance abuse. Now its latest effort is trying to help children suffering as a result of the Syrian civil war.
Sesame Workshop - the nonprofit, educational organization behind "Sesame Street" - has teamed ...
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LONDON (AP) - Terry Jones, a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, has died at 77. He had been suffering from dementia.
Jones's agent says he died Tuesday evening. In a statement, his family said he died "after a long, extremely brave but always good humored battle with a ...
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Morgan Wootten, who coached DeMatha Catholic High School's boy's basketball team for 46 years and made his mark on thousands of lives along the way, died Tuesday. He was 88.
The school in the Washington suburb of Hyattsville, Maryland, announced Wootten's passing overnight via Twitter, saying he died ...
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GENEVA (AP) - Soccer players who defy Olympic rules by making protest gestures at the 2020 Tokyo Games will be supported by their global union.
Freedom of speech on issues like anti-discrimination and gender equality needs to be protected from "a hypocritical rule," FIFPro general secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffman said Wednesday ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The MacDowell Colony, one of the country's oldest and most prestigious artist colonies, has chosen the author-educator Nell Painter as its new board chair.
Painter will be the first woman and first African American to hold the position since it was established in the early ...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Two South Carolina high school coaches have been placed on leave after confronting each other on the basketball court after a game.
Michael Fitzgerald Morrison was suspended from coaching duties at J.L. Mann High School in Greenville on Tuesday, news outlets reported. Wade Hampton coach Reggie ...
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MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich signed Spain right back Álvaro Odriozola on loan from Real Madrid on Wednesday to help ease its defensive worries after a spate of injuries.
The Bavarian powerhouse said the 24-year-old Odriozola signed a deal to the end of the season after successfully passing a medical ...
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GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) - A judge is holding a final case review in advance of the second trial of a former University of Delaware baseball player accused of sexually assaulting six women.
Wednesday's meeting with attorneys comes in advance of a scheduled Feb. 10 trial for Clay Conaway.
Following a ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Tennys Sandgren was looking in great shape for a big upset at the Australian Open after building a massive lead against No. 8 seed Matteo Berrettini on Wednesday.
And then, suddenly, he wasn't.
"Two-sets-to-love up, I was feeling pretty good about myself," the 100th-ranked Sandgren, who ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Even before Nipsey Hussle laid down his first verse on "Higher," DJ Khaled predicted he had a Grammy-nominated hit on his hands.
At Khaled's home in Miami, the hip-hop stars had deep and personal conversations about topics outside of music - family life, street life, entrepreneurship, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - David Stern's life and career will be celebrated Tuesday at a memorial service, three weeks after the former NBA commissioner's death.
Friends, family and colleagues from around the basketball world will gather for the ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, just a couple blocks from Stern's ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Her Grand Slam losing streak up to four matches, Maria Sharapova surely was aware questions about her future would be coming.
She wasn't able to provide answers.
Might this have been her last trip to the Australian Open, a tournament she won in 2008 as part of ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Jeanine Cummins' "American Dirt," one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club.
"American Dirt," published Tuesday, tells of a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who loses much of her family to a murderous drug cartel and ...
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NANTES, France (AP) - French club Nantes will pay tribute to late Argentine player Emiliano Sala by wearing a special blue and white shirt during Sunday's league game gainst Bordeaux.
Nantes, which traditionally plays in yellow and green, said Tuesday that the commemorative outfit is available for sale. All profits ...
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BRANDON, Iowa (AP) - A man whose elderly mother was found in a feces-filled house with 18 dogs in northeast Iowa has been given jail time and probation.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported that David Rogers, 61, was sentenced last week to a year in jail with all but 60 ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - People passing by the Kentucky gym where Muhammad Ali learned to box can see a new historical marker that has been placed there.
The Columbia Gym at Spalding University in Louisville also has a red bicycle hanging over the entrance to the gym. Ali's red bike ...
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BERLIN (AP) - A train station, an opera house, a TV station and several apartments were to be evacuated in the western German city of Cologne on Tuesday as as experts prepared to defuse an unexploded American bomb from World War II.
The 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) bomb was found Monday evening ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - During the fall of 2011, a couple of months after the NFL's lockout of the players ended and the regular season began as scheduled, a class of graduate students was asked to rate the pro sports commissioners.
Roger Goodell stood first, far above his peers. ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Jack Nicklaus turns 80 on Tuesday, no closer to retirement than when he was at the peak of his golf career.
Never mind that he rarely competes, and when he does play the occasional round of golf, he doesn't always finish the hole. His shoulder is ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Zion Williamson is set to make his NBA debut, which will bring plenty of excitement to New Orleans.
It will also bring some challenges to coach Alvin Gentry.
That's what Philadelphia coach Brett Brown learned from his experiences when the wait for a franchise star was ...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) - Ireland's top soccer official has resigned from the UEFA executive committee after months of being effectively suspended from taking part in decision-making.
John Delaney's exit, announced Monday by UEFA, removes him from soccer leadership after he intended to take a key role in a possible British ...
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They call it "The Saracens Way," a list of core values that the club from north London says helped transform a "chronically underachieving organization" to become the dominant force in European rugby.
One of the core values Saracens pride themselves on is "honesty," which might be something of an affront ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton is working on a book that will address what he calls an urgent moment in American history.
The longtime civil rights activist's "Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads" is coming out Sept. 15, less than two months before the 2020 ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - So this is how the Barty begins Down Under.
Top-ranked Ash Barty lost the first set of her first-round match at the Australian Open, where she's aiming to be the first homegrown winner in more than 40 years, before recovering to beat Leisa Tsurenko 5-7, 6-1, ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The men bringing James Dean back to life for a forthcoming film are aiming not just to give his digital likeness a role, but a whole new career.
Dean's planned appearance in the Vietnam War movie "Finding Jack," and the possibility of future parts, comes as ...
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When his trial opens in the coming days, Harvey Weinstein's defense team is expected to go on the offensive against the women who have accused him of rape and sexual assault, in part by questioning if they acted like victims afterward.
New York City prosecutors intend to counter with a ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry has taken aim at the journalists who have dissected his life since the day he was born as he expressed regret for the way he has had to step down from royal duties.
In a personal speech th at referenced his late mother, Princess Diana, ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - For all of the concerns about air quality at the Australian Open, it turned out the biggest issue related to playing conditions on Day 1 was heavy rain - which, hopefully, will also help tamp down the destructive wildfires burning in parts of the country.
The ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO TUESDAY
Rafael Nadal plays his first-round match against Hugo Dellien and if he needed any reminder of his advancing age, the 33-year-old Spaniard was asked if he had any secret to be able to have the top ...
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DETROIT (AP) - More than $900,000 is being given to groups in Detroit through the inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic PGA Tour event held last year in the city.
The disbursements will allow organizations to help city residents by increasing programs and enhancing neighborhoods, according to The Rocket Giving Fund which ...
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Markus Howard said it "won't mean much" to him if he leads the nation in scoring this year. The senior guard is almost as famous for deflecting praise and sharing credit as he is for setting records and scoring by the bushel. "I just want to be known as a ...
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GRETNA, Va. (AP) - When Jennifer Buckingham was launched through the windshield and sustained 85% paralysis in her arms in a car crash in 2002, she thought she would never be able to sculpt again.
"I couldn't hold a coffee cup, let alone a delicate piece of pottery," she said.
...TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Kyle Larson scored one of the biggest victories of his career by ending an 0-for-12 streak to finally win the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.
Larson passed Christopher Bell with 17 laps in Saturday night's main event to end his frustrating streak of futility and deny Bell ...
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LAS VEGAS — Pete Rose was taking a break from signing autographs at the MGM Grand hotel when asked a question he’s uniquely qualified to address.
What’s worse, betting on baseball or cheating at baseball?
“I don’t know,’’ Rose tells The Associated Press. “All I know is I’ve been suspended ...
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Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Kidman will have two chances to win Sunday night at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards, while the night's top movie winner may offer a forecast of the Academy Awards.
Among the films vying for the screen actors' top honor, best ensemble, are Oscar heavyweights ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - If the Producers Guild Awards are a true predictor of the Oscars' best film category, then the World War I film "1917" is poised to come away with the top honor in a few weeks.
The Sam Mendes film won the award for theatrical motion ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Drew Buggs scored 12 points and tied his career high with 12 assists, Zigmars Raimo and Justin Webster combined to score 16 of their 21 points in the second half, and Hawaii beat UC Santa Barbara 70-63 on Saturday night.
Webster finished with 11 points, eight ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The secret to Novak Djokovic's post-30 success? Not his best-in-tennis return. Or his limb-twisting, body-bending court coverage. Or even his baseline consistency or clutch gene.
No, ask Djokovic to explain how he keeps playing so well at this age, and the Australian Open's defending champion points ...
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Briana Uoysse is used to auditioning.
A classically trained violinist, the 13-year-old successfully tried out for the Bak Middle School of the Arts in 2017 and is preparing to do the same to win a spot at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts for high ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A glance at the Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam tennis tournament:
SURFACE
Hard courts
SITE
Melbourne Park
SCHEDULE
The 14-day tournament begins Monday (Sunday EST). The women's singles final is Feb. 1; the men's singles final is Feb. 2. Like at the U.S. Open, ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro has been closed over concerns about the safety of the complex used for the 2016 games in Brazil.
City authorities closed the park on Friday after a judge ruled that safety licenses were not in order.
...FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) - The interim president at Indiana's Franklin College is a longtime administrator who has won more than 500 games as basketball coach.
Kerry Prather was appointed after the arrest and firing of Thomas Minar, who is charged in Door County, Wisconsin, with child enticement, use of a ...
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HAVERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Deep inside Haverford High School sits WHHS (99.9) FM, a little 10-watt radio station with a 20,000-watt legacy.
The impact of the tiny, student-run operation extends well beyond the mile-sized broadcast range that circles the school's Main Line locale. It shows up in community coffee houses, ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he opposes the idea of an unlimited term in office for the country's leader like the system that existed in the Soviet Union.
Putin's comment at a meeting with World War II veterans in St. Petersburg came days after ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts is closing to the public for nearly two months in early February for the final phase of a $23 million renovation project.
The Springfield facility's interactive Jerry Colangelo Court of Dreams will be fully redeveloped during the ...
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WATFORD, England (AP) - Tottenham marked its fourth Premier League game without a win in a 0-0 draw with Watford on Saturday, escaping defeat thanks to a penalty save by Paulo Gazzaniga.
Jose Mourinho's team hasn't won in the Premier League since beating Brighton on Dec. 26 and the ...
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WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - A black rotary phone sits beside the bed. World War II uniforms adorn the wall above where the room's occupant rests his head at night. Not far from them is a Purple Heart, a Bible with a worn cover, and several black-and-white photos. Neatly organized on ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The investigation and related lawsuits about alleged sexual abuse decades ago by an Ohio State University team doctor have cost nearly $10 million so far, according to the school.
The total was about $9.8 million as of December, school spokesman Benjamin Johnson said by email. ...
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - Clarence Iron believes he is on a divine mission to revitalize the Plains Cree language through hockey.
He will be the play-by-play announcer with host Earl Wood and analyst John Chabot on Sunday night when APTN televises the Winnipeg Jets game in Chicago against the Blackhawks. ...
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ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) - Top-ranked Ash Barty has fine-tuned for the first tennis major of the season by winning her first title on home soil with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over No. 24-ranked Dayana Yastremska in Saturday's Adelaide International final.
The French Open champion had reached finals in Australia before, ...
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HOBART, Australia (AP) - A year after failing to qualify for the Australian Open, Elena Rybakina will enter the season's first major with a seeding and fresh off a title after beating Zhang Shuai 7-6 (7), 6-3 in the Hobart International final on Saturday.
The 20-year-old Rybakina surged more than ...
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LONDON (AP) — Christopher Tolkien, who played a major role protecting the legacy of his father's "The Lord of the Rings" series, has died. He was 95.
The Tolkien Society and HarperCollins UK confirmed his death, but no details were provided.
Tolkien's life work was closely identified with that of ...
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MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich fans fed up with the club's longstanding links with Qatar organized a meeting to discuss the club's lack of response to allegations of human rights abuses in the country.
Around 150 fans packed into a room in Munich's EineWeltHaus (One World House) on Thursday to ...
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LONDON (AP) - Britain's Royal College of Psychiatrists is urging that mammoth tech companies like Facebook and Twitter turn over research about possible dangers caused to young people by excessive social media use.
The group also calls for higher rates of taxation on these companies, with some of the revenue ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper top the list of notables attending the annual observance by state employees of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lynch was the scheduled keynote speaker at Friday's event at First ...
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Unseeded Ugo Humbert will play fifth-seeded Benoit Paire in an all-French final of the ASB Classic.
Humbert beat fourth seed and two-time champion John Isner 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Friday to reach his first career final.
Paire later beat sixth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland 6-4, ...
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Here are a few things to watch in Southeastern Conference basketball competition this weekend.
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
No. 10 Kentucky (12-4, 3-1 SEC) at Arkansas (14-2, 3-1): The SEC standings will sort themselves out a bit Saturday with a pair of games featuring the four teams tied ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scarlett Johansson, Sterling K. Brown and Taika Waititi will be up for Screen Actors Guild Awards and also handing them out at Sunday's ceremony.
They're part of a new batch of SAG Awards presenters announced Friday, along with Roman Griffin Davis, Jason Bateman, Lili Reinhart ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Eddie Stansberry scored 15 points, Zigmars Raimo had a double-double, and Hawaii held on to beat Cal Poly 65-61 on Thursday night.
Raimo finished with 11 points and 14 rebounds.
Hawaii (11-5, 2-1 Big West Conference) led 45-29 with 15 minutes to play but the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Technology unleashed baseball's Analytics Era, and now it's holding the sport prisoner.
AJ Hinch, Alex Cora and Carlos Beltrán are casualties, a triple play of hubris. At the cutting edge with the Houston Astros, now they have been cut. Their sign-stealing system exposed, all three managers ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles, the future king, has long been seen as a potential modernizer who wants a more modest monarchy in line with other European royal households - and the streamlining process has already begun with the astounding developments of recent months.
But the changes have come at ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Malik Beasley made two free throws with 8.9 seconds left in overtime, and the short-handed Denver Nuggets handed the Golden State Warriors their 10th consecutive loss with a 134-131 victory Thursday night.
Will Barton had a season-high 31 points in Denver's fifth win in six games. ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Andy Reid rarely digs into his own past, preferring to stay in the moment or focus squarely on the future. It's an approach that has served him well during a coaching career that might someday land him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Yet ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - New ways of solving challenges for Olympic host cities are being tested this month at the Winter Youth Games in Lausanne.
Most athletes taking public transport to their venue.
Staging medal events in a neighboring country.
Creating cost-effective space for hundreds of more ...
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) - Officials in a northern Virginia school district are pushing back against a campaign by conservative parents to withdraw books with LGBTQ characters from elementary schools.
The Washington Post reports that a subcommittee of the Loudoun school board voted Wednesday to prevent the removal of two books. ...
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SAO PAULO (AP) - A Brazilian judge has ordered the closing of Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park in the next 48 hours due to a lack of safety licenses.
Judge Eugenio Rosa de Araújo said in his ruling published late Wednesday that Rio's city hall has not provided safety ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - When one club has won the league title seven years in a row, you might expect fans of other teams to cheer on any viable challenger. Not so in Germany.
The Bundesliga returns from its winter break this weekend with Leipzig in first place, the favorite ...
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MADRID (AP) - A Spanish court sentenced a former bank president to 18 months in prison on Thursday after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle a painting by Pablo Picasso that was deemed a national artistic treasure out of the country.
The court also fined ex-Bankinter head Jaime ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry went back to work Thursday, taking on his first royal duties since a pivotal summit with Queen Elizabeth II on his future role in the royal family.
Harry is expected to carry on as normal, with no immediate plans to be reunited with his wife ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Titans fans can gather in Nashville for a free viewing party to watch the team play in the AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City.
The Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. said the party will include live music, giveaways and other ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A glance at the Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam tennis tournament:
SURFACE
Hard courts
SITE
Melbourne Park
SCHEDULE
The 14-day tournament begins Monday (Sunday EST). The women's singles final is Feb. 1; the men's singles final is Feb. 2. Like at the U.S. Open, ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Coco Gauff and Venus Williams will meet again in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament after the youngest and oldest players in the Australian Open women's competition were drawn Thursday into a tough quarter with Serena Williams and defending champion Naomi Osaka.
Gauff had ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Men=
1. Rafael Nadal, Spain
2 Novak Djokovic, Serbia
3. Roger Federer, Switzerland
4 Daniil Medvedev, Russia
5. Dominic Thiem, Austria
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece
7. Alexander Zverev, Germany
8. Matteo Berrettini, Italy
9. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain
10. Gael Monfils, France
11. David Goffin, Belgium
...BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian police on Wednesday recommended filing drug dealing charges against two Dutch men arrested in August at a popular music festival.
Budapest police said they found 20 kilograms of pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes and ecstasy pills with a street value of around 100 million forints ($335,000), ...
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Duke Slater, one of the NFL's first black players, defensive standout Ed Sprinkle and NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol are the latest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's centennial class.
Moments after wide receiver Harold Carmichael and offensive tackles Winston Hill and Jim Covert were announced Wednesday morning, ...
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man has been arrested after he tried to pawn a red California SG electric guitar signed by the members of rock band Van Halen that he stole from a storage unit, police investigators said.
The owner of OK Pawn alerted police last week ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A capacity crowd of more than 15,000 at Rod Laver Arena watched Roger Federer defeat Nick Kyrgios in a one-set finale to the Australian Open's Rally for Relief to aid wildfire charities on Wednesday.
Tennis Australia said the night helped raise nearly 5 million Australian dollars ...
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LONDON (AP) - The estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex could be called as a defense witness in her lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday newspaper, court papers reveal.
Meghan is suing the newspaper and its parent company Associated Newspapers for publishing a letter she wrote to her father ...
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Former England striker Eni Aluko retired from professional soccer on Wednesday, ending a career in which she became a prolific scorer for multiple teams and accused one of her international coaches of racism.
The 32-year-old Aluko announced her retirement in a post on The Players' Tribune website, saying she was ...
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DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Senate committee is set to discuss a bill filed by a Delaware lawmaker to repeal a lodging tax authorization measure that he sponsored last year.
The bill to be considered Wednesday repeals the authority granted by state lawmakers to allow Kent County elected officials to ...
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LONDON (AP) - Jose Mourinho completed his first signing as Tottenham manager on Wednesday, bringing in Portugal midfielder Gedson Fernandes from Benfica on an 18-month loan.
The Premier League club said it had the option to make the transfer permanent.
The 21-year-old Fernandes has played two games for Portugal, having ...
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Firing coaches has been the norm in the NHL for decades. It's just gone to another level this season in our instant-gratification society.
Halfway through the season, six coaches have been either fired or forced out, and in all likelihood there will be more disappearing from ...
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HOBART, Australia (AP) - Australia's Lizette Cabrera is into the Hobart International quarterfinals after completing a second come-from-behind upset in two days.
The 22-year-old Cabrera beat world No. 62 Kristyna Pliskova 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday in just over two hours.
"That felt amazing. I was getting really nervous towards ...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - As the British royal family wrestles with the future roles of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, it could look to Europe for examples of how princes and princesses have tried, with varying degrees of success, to carve out careers away from the pomp and ...
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SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) - The Atlanta Braves say they'll soon reveal a new name for their stadium in the city's northwest suburbs.
An announcement is planned for Tuesday at the ballpark near Smyrna.
The stadium has been called SunTrust Park since it opened in 2017.
Atlanta-based SunTrust later merged ...
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"How Quickly She Disappears," Berkley, by Raymond Fleischmann
When Elizabeth Pfautz was a child in Pennsylvania, her twin sister was lured away by a stranger, never to be seen again.
Years later, in 1941, Elizabeth is raising a daughter who bears a striking resemblance to the missing twin. ...
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LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday he believes the royal family can resolve a serious rift over the plans of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who want to break free of their royal roles and move to Canada.
The plans of Harry and Meghan, also ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A locker room dance party that included some Louisiana State University football players puffing on cigars was just the start of the celebration for the team that capped off a perfect season with a win against Clemson University in the College Football Playoff national championship game.
...ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The European Tour stepped up its attack on slow play by announcing that players will be given an immediate one-shot penalty if they exceed time limits for taking shots on two occasions in the same tournament.
The initial plan was to apply the ...
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican cardinal who co-authored a bombshell book with Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI reaffirming priestly celibacy is denying he manipulated the retired pope into publishing.
Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, who heads the Vatican's liturgy office, spoke out after news reports quoting "sources close to Benedict" claimed ...
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The European Tour and PGA Tour are trying to crack down on slow play with revamped policies that allow for swifter penalty shots and for officials to target players who are taking too long to play.
The policies, while slightly different, are similar in that the objective is to encourage ...
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PARIS (AP) — Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and festival organizers hope the provocative American director will "shake things up" at the gathering of the world's cinema elite.
Lee said he was "honored to be the first person of the African diaspora" chosen ...
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The San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers used their bye week to rest, relax and recharge.
Now they'll meet in the NFC championship for the first time since 1997, when Reggie White, Brett Favre and that Pack bested Steve Young and Ken Norton Jr.
The R&R from ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - T.J. Warren scored 21 points and blocked a late 3-pointer that would have given Philadelphia the lead to help the Indiana Pacers hold on for a 101-95 victory over the 76ers on Monday night.
The Pacers have now beaten the 76ers twice in 14 days, this time ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Edmonton Oilers forward Zack Kassian has been suspended for two games without pay for grabbing Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk by the collar, throwing him to the ice and punching him several times.
The altercation occurred in the second period of the Flames' 4-3 home win ...
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The fallout from baseball's latest sign-stealing scandal is beginning to take shape. Houston manager AJ Hinch is out of a job, and so is general manager Jeff Luhnow. The question is what will happen with the Boston Red Sox, who are also under investigation for sign stealing.
Before they were ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Lamarcus Lee had 18 points and seven rebounds as Southern ended its nine-game losing streak, defeating Jackson State 56-50 on Monday.
Micah Bradford had 14 points for Southern (4-13, 1-3 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Damiree Burns added 11 rebounds. Darius Williams had nine rebounds for the ...
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