A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the president's brother that its publication would violate a pact among family members, a judge said Tuesday.
New York state Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, ...
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HELSINKI (AP) - The Baltic nation of Latvia says it has banned the state-controlled Russian television channel RT for as long as network head Dmitry Kiselyov remains on the European Union's sanctioned persons list for his alleged role in promoting propaganda in support of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from ...
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Four organizations have been awarded a total of $1.37 million by the NFL to support the creation of their helmet prototypes.
As part of the NFL Helmet Challenge, a contest with an additional prize of $1 million, receiving grants will be Impressio Inc. and CU Denver; Xenith Project Orbit; Kollide; ...
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The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Tuesday related to the national and global response, the work place and the spread of the virus.
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MOVIE TIME: Cinemark Holdings will reopen some of its U.S. movie theaters on ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a "second banana" to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy's front ranks as creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and straight man to Mel Brooks' "2000 Year Old Man," has died. ...
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The revolution is finally being televised, thank goodness.
The long-awaited live-capture of Lin-Manuel Miranda's shake-the-rafters musical "Hamilton" comes out Friday on Disney+, a chance to celebrate America's independence with some of its Founding Fathers.
The timing seems ideal. Or, given all that's shook this nation in the past few months, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Even sheltering in place, Colson Whitehead has had an eventful year.
Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzers for back to back novels, "Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys," which won the Pulitzer in May and comes out in paperback this week. He ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant posted and deleted an Instagram photo suggesting he'd replace his name with an expletive on his number 12 jersey in a protest against police.
Morant apologized Sunday night, saying the message didn't "accurately convey" what he wanted to share ...
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LONDON (AP) - The soccer players' union in England believes racial bias is evident during broadcasts of matches based on the language used by commentators in European leagues.
The study conducted by Danish research firm RunRepeat in association with the Professional Footballers' Association found 63% of praise regarding a ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The director of Tennessee's new online-only sports betting program has left the post before Tennessee's first bets were placed.
Tennessee Lottery spokesman Dave Smith says Jennifer Roberts' last day was Friday. She began last December.
Roberts tweeted last week she is joining video game gambling ...
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - Three dozen descendants of fallen Confederate soldiers want a Florida city to hold off on removing a Confederate monument, worrying the historic relic might be damaged in the process, according to a lawsuit.
St. Augustine city commissioners voted last week to remove the monument, which ...
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Mark Byington has spent more than three months as the men's basketball coach at James Madison without being able to take a recruiting trip or meet personally with the eight players joining his program during the coronavirus pandemic.
But he takes some comfort in that five of the newcomers have ...
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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Gianluigi Buffon will continue playing for Juventus for another season -- during which he'll turn 43.
Juventus announced Monday that both Buffon and club captain Giorgio Chiellini extended their contracts for one more year.
Buffon returned to Juventus a year ago after one season away at ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Sundance Film Festival, held annually at altitude in the snowy reaches of a Utah ski town, is expanding beyond the mountains.
Sundance, the premier independent film festival, isn't giving up its home in Park City. But on Monday, organizers said selections from next year's ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Kim Kardashian West is selling a stake in her beauty brand for $200 million, in a deal that values the TV reality star's three-year-old business at $1 billion.
The buyer is Covergirl owner Coty Inc., which will get a 20% stake in KKW Beauty. Coty ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Science Gallery Detroit is piloting a program designed to inspire responses to current social challenges impacting city residents.
The five-week, virtual Rapid Residency program is open to writers, artists, musicians, photographers, videographers, dancers, designers and others.
Science Gallery Detroit says the goal is to inspire innovation and ...
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LONDON (AP) - English soccer launched a placement scheme on Monday to assist players from ethnic minority backgrounds moving into coaching to increase diversity in the dugout.
The scheme will be open to Professional Footballers' Association members from a Black, Asian or other ethnic minority background and will initially provide ...
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The coronavirus pandemic didn't stop the Washington Mystics from being the latest local team to celebrate their recent league championship with a ring ceremony.
The Mystics received their 2019 WNBA championship rings Sunday as players and coaches celebrated in what appeared to be a socially-distanced, outdoor team gathering.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Legendary former Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder says he misses being on the field but has no interest in returning to the sidelines more than 18 months after wrapping up a Hall of Fame career.
Snyder stepped away in 2018 after 27 seasons on the ...
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Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball's Negro Leagues.
The campaign launched Monday with photos and videos from, among others, Hank ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé used her platform Sunday while accepting the BET humanitarian award to relay a direct appeal to viewers: Go vote.
"Your voices are being heard, and you're proving to our ancestors that their struggles were not in vain," said the superstar singer at the BET Awards, ...
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PARIS (AP) - A Nigerian commission has called for the cancellation of Monday's auction in Paris of sacred Nigerian statues that it alleges were stolen.
Christie's auction house has defended the sale, saying the artworks were legitimately acquired and the sale will go ahead.
In recent years, French courts have ...
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Watford players Andre Gray, Nathaniel Chalobah and Domingos Quina were left out of the squad for the team's Premier League game against Southampton on Sunday.
A post on the club's Twitter account said all three ...
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Auburn University said it will offer a new doctoral degree in building construction that will one one of only a handful of such programs nationwide.
An announcement released last week said the program will start when the fall semester begins on Aug. 17 as part of ...
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NEWARK, Del. (AP) - Nolan Henderson says he's a pretty curious person by nature.
So the Delaware quarterback has done his share of reading about how college football programs across the country are coping with the coronavirus pandemic.
But that doesn't mean the Smyrna High grad thinks he's completely on ...
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - No one knows how many skeletons are under St. Mary's in Norfolk, or why the 162-year-old Catholic church was built right on top of a cemetery.
But when David Givens, Jamestown's head archaeologist, recently rolled a ground penetrating radar over the sanctuary's concrete floor, he detected ...
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Three days after he announced he had tested positive for COVID-19, Sacramento Kings forward Jabari Parker was seen playing tennis at a park in Chicago.
TMZ published photographs of Parker playing the sport at Longfellow Park in Chicago. In the photos, Parker, who spent part of last season with the ...
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HERRIMAN, Utah - Rose Lavelle and Ashley Hatch each scored to give the Washington Spirit a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League's Challenge Cup on Saturday night.
The NWSL became the first professional team sport in the United States to return amid coronavirus ...
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JERUSALEM — Israeli regulators on Sunday announced they ordered a U.S.-based evangelical broadcaster taken off the air, saying the channel hid its missionary agenda when it applied for a license.
In his decision, Asher Biton, the chairman of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council, said he had informed "GOD TV" ...
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PARIS (AP) - Marseille's club president praised playmaker Dimitri Payet for accepting a significant pay cut when signing a new two-year deal until 2024.
Jacques-Henri Eyraud said Payet will slash his reported monthly salary of 500 000 euros ($561, 000) in half next season, then by 30% the following season ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - There was a trophy, there were medals and there were commemorative T-shirts. Only the fans were missing as Bayern Munich celebrated its title Saturday and the Bundesliga breathed a sigh of relief. The restart plan worked.
"This isn't the Bundesliga that we wanted or that ...
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LONDON — The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives.
The Stones said in a statement Sunday that their legal team is working with music rights organization BMI to stop use of their material in Trump's reelection ...
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BET will celebrate its 40th year as a network, as well as it 20th awards show, on Sunday - but the event will go on virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The three-hour show will be jam-packed with heavy hitters currently dominating the pop charts and streaming services, including DaBaby, ...
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DENVER (AP) - John Carlos wants to abolish the rule that bans protests at the Olympics.
The renowned Olympic protester has written a letter with an influential group of American athletes, calling on the IOC to put in place a new policy done in collaboration with athletes from across the ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Mönchengladbach qualified for the Champions League and Fortuna Düsseldorf was relegated by a single point on the last day of the Bundesliga on Saturday.
Germany becomes the first major European league to complete a full season after restarting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gladbach secured its return ...
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andrew Toles was in jail Saturday and charged with trespassing property.
The 28-year-old player was detained this week at the airport in Key West, Florida, by a Monroe County sheriff deputy.
The Miami Herald reported he was found sleeping behind a ...
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PARIS (AP) - Paris Saint-Germain said on Saturday that three players from its women's teams have tested positive for the coronavirus.
PSG said in a statement that one player from the main women's team and two players from the under-19 side returned positive results.
The women's senior team is ...
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"The Simpsons" will no longer use White actors to voice characters of color, the producers of the long-running animated television series announced Friday.
Similarly, a White actor who has provided the voice of a Black character on the animated series "Family Guy" for more than 20 years announced he would ...
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - Wolverhampton Wanderers moved into fifth place in the Premier League on Saturday thanks to midfielder Leander Dendoncker's second-half goal in a 1-0 win at local rival Aston Villa.
A fifth win from six league games sent Wolves above Manchester United and two points behind fourth-place Chelsea ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - English champion Liverpool has condemned the behavior of crowds of fans who gathered in the city to celebrate the club's Premier League title win after a 30-year wait.
Merseyside Police issued a dispersal order for Liverpool city center on Friday night. This allowed police to disperse ...
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Charles Webb, a lifelong non-conformist whose debut novel "The Graduate" was a deadpan satire of his college education and wealthy background adapted into the classic film of the same name, has died. He was 81.
Webb died June 16 in Eastbourne, England, of a blood condition, said his friend ...
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LONDON (AP) - Police in the English city of Liverpool have been given more powers to break up crowds after celebrations to mark Liverpool Football Club's first league title in 30 years led to disorder.
The local move to stop gatherings of more than two people came after the sheer ...
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Mikaela Shiffrin rode the chair lift to the top of Copper Mountain on a sunny June day and took in a sight she hadn't seen in a while: A freshly groomed, snow-packed course just waiting to be skied.
Paradise.
A little tropical, too, given the warm weather that had ...
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The deals are done. The NBA is coming back. The season will resume on July 30 at Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Florida.
Here are 10 things to know about the restarted season:
THE RACE FOR 8
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The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association say 16 players tested positive for coronavirus in the first wave of mandatory tests done in preparation for the restart of the season.
Those 16 players were ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Red Star Belgrade CEO Zvezdan Terzic said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after the Serbian soccer champion played matches in front of thousands of fans despite the pandemic.
"On Saturday before the title celebration, I got tested and I was negative. However, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - If Penelope Muse Abernathy can take any solace in her grim work of counting how many newspapers across America have closed, it's that more people are becoming aware of the problem.
The North Carolina journalism professor's latest report out this week details the industry's decline from ...
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic, who now coaches Novak Djokovic and attended the top-ranked player's exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia, said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Croatian great, who won his only Grand Slam title at the All England Club in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Kanye West is bringing his Yeezy brand to Gap.
The rap superstar will design adult and kids' clothing that will be sold at Gap next year. Yeezy is best known for pricey sneakers that sell out online quickly. But Yeezy footwear, made with sneaker company Adidas, ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Warning about the ongoing threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, police have criticized Liverpool fans for partying on the streets in their thousands to celebrate the club ending its 30-year title drought.
Supporters set off fireworks and red flares outside Anfield on Thursday night after Chelsea's ...
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LONDON (AP) - An 18-year-old will serve at least 15 years in prison for throwing a 6-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery.
Jonty Bravery was convicted of attempted murder for throwing the child off the balcony. The child, who was not identified, ...
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LONDON (AP) - In many ways, it's been a perfect storm for illegal gatherings in England as the hot weather, which is set to persist into Friday, and Liverpool Football Club's first league title in 30 years prompted people to abandon their cooped-up coronavirus existence.
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic has turned daily life into a drama of untold proportions. The stars and shows that offer up afternoon entertainment through good times and bad are gathering remotely to hand out trophies in the evening at the Daytime Emmys.
The women of "The Talk" ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Derek Shelton ended nearly each press availability during spring training by jokingly telling reporters they picked the wrong day to ask the Pittsburgh Pirates first-year manager about his opening day starter.
His answer was always some variation of "sorry, that's tomorrow" before jogging off to his next ...
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Jason Spezza's confidence in the NHL returning has not been shaken by word of 11 fellow players testing positive for the coronavirus.
Given his involvement in NHL Players' Association talks, the veteran Toronto forward knew from doctors' input there would be positive test results in hockey just as there have ...
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MIAMI (AP) - A person with knowledge of the situation says Miami forward Derrick Jones Jr. has tested positive for the coronavirus, a result that came in shortly after the Heat and other NBA teams began mandatory testing in preparation for next month's resumption of the season.
Jones, the reigning ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Churchill Downs says the rescheduled Kentucky Derby and Oaks will run this fall with spectators under strict guidelines to limit crowd density for the race that annually attracts more than 100,000.
The 146th runnings of the Oaks for fillies and the Derby were postponed from May ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - "The Big Bang Theory" actor Mayim Bialik is teaming with DC Entertainment on a project that joins superhero power to the power of science.
DC Entertainment announced Thursday that Bialik will collaborate with popular comic writers and illustrators on a story collection that features Batman, ...
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The USGA is leaning a little more on the world ranking and a lot more on tournament results over the next two months to fill the 144-man field for a U.S. Open that will be without open qualifying for the first time in nearly a century.
The exemption categories announced ...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The administration of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has released checklists for businesses allowed to reopen July 1 during the third phase of the state's economic reopening plan.
The rules cover movie theaters, bowling alleys, amusement parks and entertainment venues. A 50-person limit remains on shared spaces ...
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Third-ranked tennis player Dominic Thiem apologized Thursday for taking part in an exhibition series hosted by Novak Djokovic in which four players tested positive for the coronavirus.
Thiem wrote on Instagram: "Our behaviour was a mistake, we acted too euphorically. I am extremely sorry."
The top-ranked ...
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CAIRO (AP) - Top-ranked women's squash player, Raneem El Welily, announced her retirement on Thursday.
The 31-year-old Egyptian was the first Arab woman to be world No. 1 in any sport, the Professional Squash Association said.
El Welily first took the top ranking in 2015, and won her only world ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta rapper T.I. will soon be adding educator to his resume.
T.I will join hip-hop scholar Dr. Melva K. Williams at Clark Atlanta University this fall to teach the "Business of Trap Music," news outlets reported.
The course will focus on the origin, culture and business ...
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GRAHAM, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina stock car racetrack must remain closed and propose a new social distancing plan after a judge sided with health officials in an effort to curb the coronavirus spread.
Superior Court Judge D. Thomas Lambeth Jr. agreed with health officials who said large ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - The first round of spring training was dominated by fallout from the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scam.
Players were plunked in exhibition games and heckled at every turn. Fans held signs mocking Houston players, and one man even banged on a trash can at an early workout ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian state television has broadcast the suspected coerced confessions of at least 355 people over the last decade as a means to both suppress dissent and frighten activists in the Islamic Republic on behalf of security services, according to a report released Thursday.
...Two players have withdrawn ahead of the Travelers Championship because of the coronavirus as the PGA Tour awaits test results of the entire field of players and caddies in its third week back amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cameron Champ tested positive when he arrived Tuesday and took his mandatory test ...
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Rock singer Sammy Hagar wants to be able to perform live concerts amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying he'd rather "get sick and even die" if that's what it takes to get the economy going again.
"I'll be comfortable playing a show before there's a vaccine, if it's declining and seems ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A flood of donations following the death of George Floyd have left racial equality and social justice groups in a position they might never have expected to be in: figuring out what to do with a surplus of cash.
Floyd, a Black man who died ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - William Wesley, known for his connections throughout basketball, has joined the New York Knicks as executive vice president/senior basketball adviser.
New president Leon Rose announced the hiring of "World Wide Wes" on Wednesday, saying he has known Wesley for more than 40 years and considers him ...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A grieving mother's plea to Florida lawmakers was fulfilled when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure requiring schools to do more to protect student athletes from heat strokes, including having water-filled tubs at games and practices to rapidly cool the body.
Laurie Giordano had lobbied the ...
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LONDON (AP) - Bear Grylls said he was brought to tears by the determination of competitors on "World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji" as they raced through jungles and over mountains to the point of exhaustion and pain.
The series' new 10-episode season, hosted by Grylls and with 66 teams from ...
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - EA Sports and Spain's LaLiga have agreed to a long-term extension of their partnership.
The 10-year deal announced on Wednesday means EA Sports' FIFA series will remain the official video game partner of the Spanish League. Electronic Arts has more than 100 licenses to soccer ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Multiple individuals defrauded in a scheme perpetrated by an ex-Ohio State and NFL quarterback and his accomplice should receive money from the former player's share of a national concussion settlement, an Ohio prosecutor is arguing.
At issue is the case of former star player Art Schlichter, ...
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Croatia on Wednesday was mulling whether to partially restore border restrictions for the citizens of several other Balkan countries after a spike in cases of the coronavirus and an outbreak at an exhibition tennis tournament organized by top-ranked Novak Djokovic.
Croatia's crisis team is yet ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gregory Katz, an acclaimed correspondent for The Associated Press in London who recently led the news cooperative's coverage of Brexit and the election of Boris Johnson as prime minister, died Tuesday. He had been ill in recent months and had contracted COVID-19. He was 67.
His ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Tennis players in Australia will have a chance to compete for prize money for the first time since March in a UTR pro series starting this weekend in Sydney and continuing in city hubs across the country from next week.
Top-ranked Ash Barty is unlikely to ...
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As football teams from the NFL to the high school level prepare - and hope - for a 2020 season, one of the unrecognized concerns by outsiders could be getting those squads fully equipped.
Just like those teams, XTECH, which makes custom shoulder pads out of its New Jersey factory, ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Raiders finally are settled in Las Vegas.
At least partially.
The team was able to open its new training facility in nearby Henderson this week. About 70 team members - no players are allowed unless they are rehabilitating injuries - were on hand Monday ...
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Men's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand from Feb. 20-28, 2021 postponed to Feb. 19-27, 2022.
SUMO
Spring Basho in Osaka from March 8-22, no spectators.
Summer Basho in Tokyo from May 10-24 postponed to May 24-June 7, canceled.
Nagoya Basho from July 5-19 moved to Tokyo from July ...
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The 82-year-old Cosby has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. ...
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CINCINNATI (AP) - The University of Cincinnati is removing Marge Schott's name from its baseball stadium and a library archive in light of her racist comments while owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
The school's board of trustees unanimously approved the move Tuesday, a dozen days after a Catholic high school ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The author and educator Danielle Allen has received a $500,000 prize from the Library of Congress.
Allen has won John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Allen is a Harvard University professor whose initiatives include the Democratic Knowledge Project for grades ...
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EVANS, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia high school athletic director is under investigation, his district said, after he posted a racially insensitive photo on Facebook that trivializes violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans.
The post allegedly shared by Lakeside High School Athletic Director Jody Hilley on ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Actor Sarah Ramos hasn't let being stuck in quarantine stop her from acting.
Ramos, whose TV credits include "American Dreams" and "Parenthood," has spent her downtime recreating popular TV and movie scenes and posting them to social media. She calls them quarantscenes and aims to release ...
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A top English cricket official says Pakistan's tour of England could still go ahead even if more players from the travelling party test positive for the coronavirus.
Three members of Pakistan's extended 29-man squad - Haider Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan - tested positive following checks for COVID-19 on ...
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - All in-person homecoming activities will be canceled this year at West Virginia State University due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Monday.
The university said that homecoming activities schedule between Sept. 24-26, including class reunions and a parade, would be cancelled, WCHS-TV reported.
The only ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A former Marshall football player has pleaded guilty to sending videos of children engaged in sexual conduct to an undercover FBI agent.
Jeremiah Taylor, 32, of Huntington entered the plea Monday to distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart said.
Stuart said in a news ...
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MADRID (AP) - The career of Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in the popular trilogy "Lord of the Rings" and a protagonist in the Academy Award-winning "Green Book," will be honored at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival.
The festival announced Monday that this year's recipient of its "Donostia Award" will be ...
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Belgium defender Jan Vertonghen has agreed to extend his contract at Tottenham until the end of the season.
Vertonghen was due to leave on June 30 but has signed a temporary deal to keep him at the London club until whenever the current campaign concludes.
Tottenham said goalkeeper Michel Vorm ...
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LONDON (AP) - The Merseyside derby was the most-watched Premier League game ever on British television.
An average of five million people across Sky's channels watched Liverpool draw 0-0 with Everton, which was played on Sunday without supporters in the stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sky, which is owned ...
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The first full round of games of the Premier League restart has almost been completed, with just one team yet to play.
There is a limited sample size but here are some themes to emerge from the opening 11 matches in England's top division:
SLOW START
If you're struggling to ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian prosecutors on Monday demanded a six-year prison term for an acclaimed theater director accused of embezzling state funds, a case widely seen as politically motivated.
Kirill Serebrennikov, 50, arguably Russia's best-known theater and film director, and his associates were charged with embezzling 133 million rubles ...
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. PRESIDENT'S RALLY HIGHLIGHTS VULNERABILITIES Donald Trump's return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength but instead crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters: independents, suburban ...
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TOP OF THE HOUR:
- North Carolina shooting leaves 2 dead, 7 wounded
- Seattle police say person wounded in 2nd shooting in less than 48 hours
- NYC officer suspended without pay for 'apparent chokehold.'
- Spanish missionary statue in Los Angeles toppled by demonstrators.
...TOKYO (AP) - The Japan Football Association is expected to pull out of bidding for the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The Japanese news agency Kyodo on Monday reported the pending withdrawal and cited unnamed sources at the JFA.
That would clear the way for a joint bid by ...
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Most of the games played between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals have been in the World Series. If not for the coronavirus pandemic, they would have been playing a regular-season series next weekend at Fenway Park. There also would have been a College World Series title won ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - August Wilson is going Hollywood, after a fashion.
The famed playwright from Pittsburgh will be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles.
Wilson was among the Hollywood Walk of Fame's 2021 honorees announced ...
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Members of the NBA are reportedly concerned with the recent spike in positive coronavirus tests in Florida, where its season is set to resume near Orlando next month.
ESPN reported Sunday that the league recently had a "tense" call with high-ranking team executives to discuss the state's growing number of cases. ...
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NEWCASTLE, England (AP) - Newcastle beat 10-man Sheffield United 3-0 in the Premier League on Sunday to virtually guarantee its top-flight status for another year and make the club an even more attractive option for its controversial potential buyers.
Newcastle capitalized on the 50th-minute sending-off of Sheffield United center back ...
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Area sports fans itching for live action got what they wanted this week.
Delaware Park opened its 83rd season of racing and the thoroughbreds galloping around the Stanton oval were a welcome sight.
Dick Strohl of Newark had been able to get out for some walks ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Murals celebrating LGBTQ life will be coming to Chicago in the coming days, including to the Magnificent Mile.
The work by Chicago artist Sam Kirk was previously on display in New York City, wrapped around Times Square's main stage during WorldPride last year. The international event ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Dynamo Moscow said Sunday that three of its players had tested positive for the coronavirus as its game on the Russian soccer league's restart weekend was postponed.
Dynamo said the team and staff were confined to its training base after the positive tests for forward Clinton N'Jie ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Comedian D.L. Hughley announced he tested positive for COVID-19 after collapsing onstage during a performance in Nashville, Tennessee.
The stand-up comedian, 57, lost consciousness while performing at the Zanies comedy nightclub on Friday night and was hospitalized, news outlets reported. On Saturday, Hughley posted a video on ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Betis has fired coach Rubi after the team's third consecutive setback since the Spanish league resumed.
The decision was announced early Sunday, a few hours after the team lost 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao.
The club said Alexis Trujillo, a former player who had been the ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Comedian D.L. Hughley announced he tested positive for COVID-19 after collapsing onstage during a performance in Nashville, Tennessee.
The stand-up comedian, 57, lost consciousness while performing at the Zanies comedy nightclub on Friday night and was hospitalized, news outlets reported. On Saturday, Hughley posted a ...
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The NBA has firmed up the schedule for what will be a hectic time for teams this fall, deciding on Oct. 16 as the date for this year's draft and saying clubs can begin talking to free agents two days later.
The annual moratorium will begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT ...
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Throughout history, published literature has been a resource for knowledge, entertainment and historical understanding.
As protests against racial inequality continue to shake the country, some have broadened their literary horizons by picking up published works by authors of color.
These texts have become a source of ...
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) - A team of teenagers took the field for a club hit by the coronavirus pandemic and lost 10-1 as soccer in Russia restarted Friday.
FC Rostov was forced to send a squad with an average age of barely 17 to play against Sochi, two days after ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Saturday that former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed.
The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ...
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WATFORD, England (AP) - Socially distanced celebrations are hard to stick to when your team has scored a stunning and potentially crucial late goal.
Just ask the players of Watford and Leicester.
Ben Chilwell was mobbed by his Leicester teammates after smashing home a rising, angled shot off the inside ...
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BEIJING (AP) - China plans to establish a special bureau in Hong Kong to investigate and prosecute crimes considered threatening to national security, as state media on Saturday reported some details of a controversial new national security law being imposed on the city.
Bodies in all Hong Kong government departments, ...
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French soccer authorities are allowing fans back into stadiums from July 10, with an initial limit of 5,000.
Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation, says it is possible more spectators will be ...
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ROME (AP) - Italian race car champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi was in a medically induced coma and remained in serious condition a day after crashing his handbike into a truck and smashing his face.
Zanardi - who lost both of his legs in a race-car crash nearly 20 years ...
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BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese basketball league has restarted after an almost five-month shutdown for the coronavirus pandemic, with fewer foreign players and no fans in the stands.
The CBA was suspended on Jan. 24 after the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, a week before it was scheduled to return following ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The Australian Football League has postponed a game between Essendon and Melbourne because a player who recently returned from Ireland has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Australian rules AFL competition was into the second weekend of matches after restarting in the wake of the shutdown for ...
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The NCAA is expanding its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events.
The current ban, in place since 2001, prevents states from hosting what the NCAA calls predetermined championship sites, such as men's basketball tournament games.
Mississippi is the only state currently affected ...
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A group of black Major League Soccer players has formed a coalition to address systematic racism in their communities and bring about change within the league.
The coalition is the result of an Instagram group that began after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, ...
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A garden that once inspired one of America's foremost impressionist painters has been reconstructed in a new location because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the late 1880s, poet Celia Thaxter attracted members of Boston's literary and artistic societies to her family's hotel on Appledore Island off ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A Spanish court has ruled in favor of Barcelona in a dispute with former player Neymar over a signing bonus paid in part to the Brazil striker before he left for Paris Saint-Germain.
The court on Friday rejected Neymar's suit that Barcelona owed him 43 ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Singer and actor Harry Connick Jr. has spent a lot of his life on tour buses and traveling from city to city, but even when the pandemic shut down the country, he couldn't sit still.
With the help of his daughter, Georgia Connick, who is ...
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PARIS (AP) - The French league voted on Friday to keep a 20-team first division next season, despite a court's decision to suspend the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse to the second division.
The league said in a statement that there were 23 votes for a 20-team league and two ...
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MADRID (AP) - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the best-selling novel "The Shadow of the Wind" and one of the world's most popular Spanish writers, has died. He was 55.
His Spanish publisher, Planeta, said in a news release Friday that Zafón died in Los Angeles. It gave no cause ...
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SYDNEY (AP) - Wellington Phoenix, the New Zealand-based club in the A-League, says it has been given the OK to relocate to Australia to finish the season.
The A-League has been suspended since March 24 but is set to resume on July 16, with the remaining 27 games played over ...
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MOUTSE VALLEY, South Africa (AP) - The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of "America's Got Talent," but that's where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus pandemic.
With an electrifying mix of vocals and dance ...
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Bruce Springsteen blasted President Trump over his response to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic during the latest installment of the musician's new radio program Wednesday.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter began the most recent episode of his weekly show by tearing into Mr. Trump over his handling of the continuing global public ...
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President Trump is open to the idea of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started a protest movement of kneeling during the national anthem that he and his political allies are strongly against, returning to the NFL.
Kaepernick, 32, has not played in the NFL since the 2016 season.
"If he deserves ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi's "Antiracist Baby," one of the country's top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14.
"Antiracist Baby" went on sale this week as a board book and has been part of ...
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He used his profile to help raise $25 million for charity, shame the British government over its policy for school lunches, and become one of the most popular and admired people in the country during the coronavirus pandemic.
As an activist, Marcus Rashford achieved so many of his goals over ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Garrison Keillor will have two books out this fall - a novel and a memoir - marking his first releases since sexual harassment allegations were made against the author and humorist three years ago.
Arcade Publishing announced Thursday that Keillor's "The Lake Wobegon Virus," which continues ...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) - UEFA has eased its rules for monitoring spending by Europe's top soccer clubs due to financial instability caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The European soccer industry is losing hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in income from playing games without fans and disruption to broadcast contracts.
...PARIS (AP) - As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within.
That grim picture has emerged from a corruption trial in Paris that has shown how the thrilling era for track fans was poisoned ...
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LONDON (AP) - Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular "Forces' Sweetheart" who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103.
During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as "We'll Meet Again," and "The White Cliffs of ...
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LONDON (AP) - Chelsea has agreed to a deal with Leipzig to sign striker Timo Werner, who is set to join next month and shun the opportunity to play for the German club in the Champions League quarterfinals.
The English Premier League team had already agreed to a deal in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Shaq and Gronk are about to throw down with each other for a cause.
The men with seven championship rings between them will compete against each other June 27 in Shaq's Fun House Vs Gronk Beach, a virtual party combining fun and music as a ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - This is not the plan I cooked up.
Only a few seconds after the hamburger patties started to sizzle on my new iron skillet, the smoke detector began to chirp. I ascended the stepladder to mute the alarm, only to turn around and see burger smoke ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - A statue of a Confederate soldier has been removed from a downtown Houston park, and a second Confederate statue is expected to be removed soon, officials said.
The "Spirit of the Confederacy" statue was removed late Tuesday from Sam Houston Park and will be housed in the ...
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They are nurses and doctors, artists, students, construction workers, government employees; black, brown and white; young and old.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in big cities and tiny towns in every U.S. state - and even around the world - to protest the killing ...
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MADRID (AP) - Spain is next to start playing professional basketball amid the coronavirus pandemic using a "bubble" format similar to the one planned by the NBA.
Spain's main league, considered one of the world's best outside of the NBA, will resume Wednesday with the launch of a 12-team tournament ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has sued former national security adviser John Bolton to delay the publication of a book that the White House says contains classified information and that is expected to paint an unfavorable portrait of the president's foreign policy decision-making.
The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - An alliance of soccer fan groups across 16 European nations launched a campaign Wednesday against artificial crowd noise being used on broadcasts of games held in empty stadiums amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter on the day the English Premier League resumes and UEFA ...
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SHANNON, Miss. (AP) - A high school football player in Mississippi died after collapsing on the field at practice.
Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green identified the student as Jakobe Kyshon Cooper, news outlets reported.
Cooper, 16, collapsed "during a routine football practice" Tuesday morning, the Lee County School District ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky has moved its season opener against Eastern Michigan ahead two days to Sept. 3, avoiding a conflict with the rescheduled 146th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
The Derby was postponed from May 2 to Sept. 5 because of COVID-19 concerns, the first time since 1945 ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Arts Commission said it plans to distribute federal coronavirus outbreak assistance funds to about 190 arts organizations and government entities in the state.
The commission said in a news release Monday that it is receiving $534,000 from the federal CARES Act, the financial ...
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The rate of positive coronavirus tests in the Orlando, Florida, area has been soaring in recent days.
The NBA hopes that doesn't matter.
After spending weeks on putting together an incredibly elaborate series of health and safety protocols - the word "testing" appears 282 times in the document - the ...
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Lamar Jackson? Of course, Lamar Jackson.
With no mystery.
The EA Sports Madden cover release usually carries some suspense, but Jackson let it slip a couple months ago that he had been approached about appearing on this year's game cover.
On Tuesday, EA Sports made it official: The Baltimore Ravens ...
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NEW HAVEN, W.Va. (AP) - One worker died and another was injured when a structure at an old West Virginia power plant collapsed while being prepped for demolition, officials said.
Mason County dispatchers told news outlets that workers were dismantling and salvaging materials at the former Philip Sporn Power Plant ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's "Deacon King Kong" for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon. But it also pays tribute to ...
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LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an abrupt about-face Tuesday and agreed to keep funding meals for needy pupils over the summer holidays, after a campaign headed by young soccer star Marcus Rashford.
The Manchester United and England player had pressed the government not to stop a ...
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia is changing the logos it uses for its athletics teams just two months after they were unveiled after criticism that a design element referred to the school's history with slavery.
Fans raised objections to the serpentine curves put on the handles ...
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LONDON (AP) - Next year's British Academy Film Awards have been postponed by two months, organizers said Tuesday. The move follows a decision by Hollywood's film academy to shift the 2021 Oscars from February to April because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The British Academy said the awards will be held ...
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. NORTH KOREA BLOWS UP INTER-KOREA LIAISON OFFICE The demolition of the building is largely symbolic, but it's still likely the most provocative thing Pyongyang has done since it entered nuclear diplomacy in ...
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TOKYO (AP) - An executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee says another delay should be sought if the games can't be held next year.
The Tokyo Olympics were to be held this year but were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The suggestion comes from Haruyuki ...
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NANTES, France (AP) - French club Nantes has signed Nigeria forward Moses Simon from Spanish club Levante on a four-year deal.
Nantes said in a statement Monday that it took up the option to sign him after he impressed on a season's loan from Levante.
No financial information was given ...
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Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant has joined the ownership group of Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union.
Durant, a 10-time NBA All-Star, has a 5% ownership stake, with an option for 5% more in the near future, the Union announced Monday.
"I've always been a soccer fan and have wanted to ...
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The golf to watch on Father's Day this year won't be the U.S. Open as is usually the case. There also will be no live baseball to watch this week from either the major leagues or the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. While the PGA Tour is playing again ...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Korn Ferry Tour tournament in Omaha will be played with no fans at The Club at Indian Creek because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
Jessica Brabec, director of the $600,000 Pinnacle Bank Championship, made the announcement Monday. The event is July 30-Aug. 2.
...Neil Young, "Homegrown" (Reprise)
Neil Young's "Homegrown," finished 45 years ago but not released until now, is the missing link during one of his most productive and creative periods.
If it had been released as originally planned, "Homegrown" would have come out after his smash "Harvest" that includes two of ...
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ZURICH (AP) - A $16 million FIFA fund to pay soccer players whose clubs disbanded leaving wages unpaid has had 441 applications.
FIFA said Monday 89% of cases, more than 390 players, involved European clubs and the other 11% were spread worldwide.
The fund was launched in February with the ...
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"Death in Her Hands," by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Dark doesn't even begin to describe Ottessa Moshfegh's latest novel, "Death in Her Hands." Try horrifying, macabre, fashionably self-referential and exceptionally well-written - a book, as the publisher's blurb says, that asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves ...
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FIFA appealed Monday for "tolerance, mutual respect and common sense" after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced the annulment of a policy that required soccer players to stand during the national anthem.
"I won't be watching much anymore!" Trump tweeted Saturday.
Trump retweeted a tweet by Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, ...
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MONTELLO, Wis. (AP) - A woman who drowned while kayaking in Marquette County was from Ripon, according to sheriff's officials.
Tammi McCauley, 57, was kayaking with her sister on the Mecan River in the Town of Mecan Saturday.
Authorities say bystanders attempted to revive the woman before emergency ...
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's prime minister said Monday that his government is "very sad and concerned" by China's sentencing of an Australian man to death for drug trafficking, and that he had repeatedly raised with China the case of the 56-year-old former actor and motivational speaker.
Karm Gilespie was ...
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A club-by-club guide ahead of the resumption of the Premier League:
1. LIVERPOOL (82 points)
At stake: A maximum of two more wins are needed for a first league title in 30 years, though no fans will be inside a stadium to witness the moment.
Look for: Will motivation still ...
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The vandalism of a Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on the street in front of Vermont's statehouse is under investigation, police said.
Hundreds gathered Saturday in Montpelier to paint the mural, which said "Black Lives Matter" in yellow letters. But Montpelier police say the ...
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Former Wizards center Dwight Howard is not on board with the NBA's return.
Howard said Saturday players should sit out the rest of the season in order to focus on social reform and keep the spotlight on police brutality. The Los Angeles Lakers big man took part in a players-only ...
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MADRID (AP) - Atlético Madrid's struggles continued as its season resumed with a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday for its third straight draw in the Spanish league.
The setback kept Diego Simeone's team in sixth place, outside the Champions League spots.
The goals at the empty San Mamés ...
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Christopher Frierson wasn't expecting to be tear-gassed at a recent protest in Brooklyn, but he's glad his camera was on. The documentary filmmaker has covered many protests and he's never experienced anything like he did that day when a thrown water bottle was met with that kind of police response.
...WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Paul Worrilow didn't have much of a choice. To keep himself in shape while he awaited a call from an NFL team, he turned his garage into a fitness center.
The Concord High School and University of Delaware star is no different from any of the ...
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MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) - Drivers heading down state roads leading to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut are greeted by flashing warnings: "Avoid Large Crowds" and "Don't Gamble With COVID."
Despite having authority to shutter thousands of businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has ...
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MADRID (AP) - The Spanish league said Sunday it will file criminal charges against the fan who ran onto the field during Barcelona's match at Mallorca.
Saturday's match was played without fans but the youngster wearing an Argentina soccer jersey made it past security and took a photo of himself ...
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NEW DELHI — Popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence on Sunday, Press Trust of India news agency and other media outlets reported.
Initial reports citing Mumbai police said the 34-year-old actor was found hanging in his apartment in suburban Bandra.
Rajput, who started ...
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CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield plans to kneel during the national anthem this upcoming season to support protests of social injustice, police brutality and racism.
In answering a post from a fan on his Instagram account Saturday that pleaded with him not to kneel, Mayfield responded: "Pull your ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - One thing that is not magic to Walt Disney World is the property taxes it must pay to a Florida county.
Disney is once again suing the Orange County property appraiser over 2019 tax assessments for its theme parks, resorts, employee buildings and other structures. The ...
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Yemeni Embassy in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, is shuttering indefinitely due to a number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.
The embassy made the announcement on Twitter late Saturday, but did not specify how many people had contracted COVID-19.
Similarly, the ...
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LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Lewiston High's Bilal Hersi has been selected as the Gatorade Maine Boys Soccer Player of the Year. Again.
It was the second consecutive award for the standout soccer player, who scored 32 goals and assisted on 12 others this season. He has signed a letter of ...
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Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore caution fellow critics of President Trump late Friday against ruling out the possibility of him winning another term in November.
Mr. Moore, who notably predicted Mr. Trump would be elected in 2016, warned during an interview that Democrats should not assume the president is ...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis and New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman are among the stars scheduled to deliver messages of encouragement to Rhode Island's 9,000 graduating high school seniors at a special television tribute to the Class of 2020.
The "Your Year 2020″ tribute to a ...
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DALLAS (AP) - Timing favored the NFL over other major pro sports leagues in trying to figure out how to keep the coronavirus pandemic from wrecking the 2020 season.
America's most popular sport has another big advantage if the games are played: TV money.
While NFL owners could lose billions ...
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LAKE LINDEN, Mich. (AP) - A school district in the Upper Peninsula is giving college scholarships to graduates, thanks to a $2.5 million gift from a couple with ties to the area.
Wayne Nester was a 1925 graduate of Lake Linden-Hubbell High School in Houghton County. He played basketball and ...
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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Gail Hamblin never really thought of herself as an advocate until a friend pointed it out last year.
"I never thought of myself that way until someone told me," she said.
But being an advocate had been somewhat of a conscious decision for Mrs. Hamblin, a ...
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The Indiana University Trustees have unanimously approved a resolution to name the intramural center on the Bloomington campus after Bill Garrett, the school's first black basketball player.
Garrett, from Shelbyville, broke the color barrier in Big Ten basketball when he made his varsity debut in 1948. ...
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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Cristiano Ronaldo bellowed out a loud expletive when he missed a chance at the end of the first half in Italy's first soccer match in more than three months. Everyone in the huge, empty stadium, all 300 or so of us, could hear it plain as ...
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Pakistan cricket's celebrated allrounder Shahid Afridi has tested positive for COVID-19.
"I've been feeling unwell since Thursday; my body had been aching badly. I've been tested and unfortunately I'm covid positive. Need prayers for a ...
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LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II's birthday is being marked Saturday with a smaller ceremony than usual, as the annual Trooping the Color parade is canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The extravagant display of pomp and pageantry, a highlight of the royal calendar that typically attracts thousands of tourists to ...
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MYKONOS, Greece (AP) - Mykonos' newest bar-restaurant, Pelican, seemed to appear from nowhere.
Tables, coffee machines, light fittings, music mixers and staff wearing matching black face masks were still being slotted into place as Greek visitors trickled in at the start of a long holiday weekend. Owner Vasilis Theodorou says ...
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