NEW YORK (AP) - James Harden will sit out the Brooklyn Nets' game Sunday at Washington, preventing his first matchup with Russell Westbrook since both left Houston.
Harden was added to the injury report Sunday because of a bruised left thigh. It will be his first game since the Nets ...
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Neymar's two penalties were not enough as Paris Saint-Germain slumped to a shock 3-2 defeat at struggling Lorient, opening the door for Lille to move three points clear at the top of the French league if it wins later Sunday.
After pulling a silly face to celebrate his second penalty, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The "help wanted" list for top management jobs in journalism is suddenly getting very long.
Searches for new leaders at brand names like The Washington Post, ABC News and the Los Angeles Times are coming at a time of rapid change in the news industry and ...
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Tyreek Hill sprinted past cornerback Carlton Davis again, caught the ball in stride and then cut so sharply that safety Mike Edwards ended up flailing at him with one arm near the sideline. Hill casually jogged a few more yards before pausing at the goal line and doing a backflip ...
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GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) - Cinema in lockdown: Scandinavia's largest film festival is exploring the social isolation resulting from COVID-19 by setting up a temporary cinema-for-one on a desolated island in the North Sea with the only companionship the events' entire movie selection and enough food to last the week.
Lisa ...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Super Bowl is going to look different this year for three friends who've attended every installment of the big game.
But Don Crisman, Tom Henschel and Gregory Eaton have tickets in hand and say they will be there, as they have every year since the ...
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - The abstract figures of naked women gyrating to the rhythms of a five-piece band had shocked many people almost 60 years ago as they eyed the artwork for the first time on the walls of a popular restaurant-nightclub in Cyprus.
The valuable and very rare concrete ...
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SHANGSHAK, India (AP) - When someone asked the captain of independent India's first national soccer team why they all played barefoot at the London Olympics in 1948, he is said to have answered: "We play football in India. Whereas you play bootball."
The captain of the team, Talimeren Ao, was ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - It was Dolly Parton's 75th birthday, so naturally, cards were the first assignment. Grace Lager split her students into groups and asked them to make video greetings.
The Eckerd College class spread out in a grassy plot on campus and dove into laptops. It's like ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Junior Madut scored a career-high 22 points to help Hawaii overcome a scoring drought of nearly-12 minutes to beat UC Irvine 62-61 in overtime on Saturday night and snap the Anteaters' seven-game win streak.
UCI's Dawson Baker made a jumper to open the scoring in OT ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Sevilla eased to a 2-0 win at Eibar to move ahead of Barcelona and into third place in the Spanish league on Saturday.
Lucas Ocampos opened for the visitors in the 28th minute from the penalty spot after Pedro Bigas fouled Youssef En-Nesyri in the area.
...EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A gymnastics coach was arrested Friday for investigation of voyeurism and possession of child pornography, according to the Everett Police Department.
The investigation began in December, when a 10-year-old student at Leading Edge Gymnastics Academy told a coach about a suspicious box in the bathroom, The ...
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Calling a hospital to see if a bed was available for a COVID-19 patient isn't part of Houston television news anchor Chauncy Glover's job description. Neither is guiding a viewer online to find a ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Paul Casey hit a 3-iron to 10 feet and holed the eagle putt to complete a bogey-free 8-under 64 in the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Saturday, giving the Englishman a one-stroke lead as he seeks a 15th win on the ...
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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A painter, a printmaker, a photographer and a writer walk into a national park - for their artist residency, of course.
Capitol Reef National Park announced the 2021 Artists-in-Residence on Tuesday, marking the fifth year of the program, the Spectrum reported.
The four ...
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WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) - A man has been arrested on suspicion of racially abusing West Bromwich Albion midfielder Romaine Sawyers online.
The Premier League club had reported to police on Friday that a racist message was sent to Sawyers during the team's 5-0 loss to Manchester City on Tuesday.
...JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -
A few years ago, Johnstown jazz musician Frank Filia asked his second cousin, Russell Shorto, an internationally known author, a question: "What are we gonna do about the story?"
Shorto instantly knew what "the story" was.
His grandfather and namesake, Russell "Russ" Shorto, had been ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Brad Greene had 18 points and 14 rebounds to carry UC Irvine to a 53-51 win over Hawaii on Friday night, the Anteaters' seventh consecutive victory.
Green was 9 of 16 from the floor with six offensive boards and five blocks for the Anteaters (9-4, 5-0 Big ...
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - Alex Lasry, a 33-year-old Milwaukee Bucks executive and son of a billionaire, received the coronavirus vaccine this week at a senior living center in Milwaukee despite not being part of a group currently eligible for the shots in Wisconsin.
Lasry told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Ken Griffey Jr. has been hired as a senior adviser to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.
The Hall of Fame outfielder will work in baseball operations and on youth baseball development. He is tasked with improving diversity at amateur levels, Major League Baseball said Friday,
Griffey will ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Norway's King Harald V was admitted to the main hospital in Oslo to undergo surgery for an injured tendon over his right knee, the palace said Friday.
The 83-year-old king's surgery is scheduled for Saturday and he will be on sick leave until Feb. 14, the ...
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A year into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are painfully aware that overcoming the scourge is a marathon, not a sprint.
Enter Dave McGillivray, who knows a thing or two about endurance events - and logistics.
The race director of the Boston Marathon, which is on hold until fall, has been ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, despite growing uncertainty as coronavirus cases rise at home, renewed his determination Friday to host the postponed Tokyo Olympics this summer as a symbol of human victory over the pandemic.
Suga, speaking from Tokyo at a virtual meeting of the World ...
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LONDON (AP) - Dr. Martens boots have been valued by rebellious youth through the decades. From Wednesday, the maker of the famous air-cushioned boots with the distinctive yellow stitching will be valued at some $5 billion when it sells shares publicly.
Born in the aftermath of World War II in ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A look at the weekend action around the Southeastern Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
Much of the conference is participating in the Big 12/SEC Challenge this weekend. that features 10 games between the leagues. The featured contest is No. 9 Alabama at No. 24 Oklahoma, one ...
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New York Giants co-owner John Mara could have been speaking for all in the tight-lipped world of NFL finances by saying his club's pandemic-induced losses in revenue have been substantial but not crippling.
The biggest positive in this season of COVID-19 might not be measurable: the value of finishing on ...
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MIAMI (AP) - As if losing the NBA Finals isn't bad enough, there now seems to be a curse that stretches into the following season.
The Miami Heat aren't believing that quite yet - even after a disastrous start to the 2020-21 campaign.
The reigning Eastern Conference champions are 6-12, ...
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Fans looking for pregame entertainment before the Super Bowl will have another option this year.
Shaquille O'Neal will be holding the virtual SHAQ Bowl on Feb. 7. It's one of the few events taking place in Tampa, Florida, since many parties that traditionally take place during Super Bowl week have ...
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Cristiano Ronaldo could be in trouble after apparently breaking coronavirus restrictions on a two-day trip to the mountains.
The Juventus star and his partner Georgina Rodriguez spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Courmayeur in the Valle D'Aosta region in northwest Italy.
Video of them on a snowmobile was posted on social ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - If Tom Brokaw has one piece of advice to leave for television journalists upon his retirement, it's to get out to more of the country -and not just to visit.
The Capitol insurrection is but one example of a story that might not have seemed as ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -
Within hours of Amanda Gorman's reading of the inaugural poem last week, bookstores were hearing from their customers.
"Hopefully this will be a bridge that brings a lot of people to poetry," says Mike Wysock, who manages The Book Stall in Winnetka, Illinois.
...SAO PAULO (AP) - South American players have often reached the heights of European soccer in recent years, and European coaches are now doing the same in South America.
Abel Ferreira is looking to become the second Portuguese coach to win the Copa Libertadores title. He will lead Palmeiras against ...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A Chinese-Canadian singer says a Chinese corruption charge against her mother, who has been held in custody for six years, has been withdrawn but she remains in detention.
Wanting Qu, 36, who has lived in Canada since she was a teenager, shared a social media post ...
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FIFA is unveiling a program to educate its member associations worldwide about how to properly handle player harassment and abuse.
The program, announced Wednesday, is an extension to FIFA Guardians, an initiative announced following the 2019 Women's World Cup to ensure player safety.
FIFA has aimed the five-part course, FIFA ...
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LES SABLES-D'OLONNE, France (AP) - Yannick Bestaven won the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world sailing race in a dramatic finish after rescuing a capsized rival, more than 80 days alone at sea and an unusually close final few hours to determine the winner on Thursday.
The 48-year-old Bestaven wasn't the first ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A British socialite criminally charged with aiding Jeffrey Epstein in his sexual abuse of teenage girls testified in 2016 that she had no memory of anything amiss on his properties in the 2000s despite the accusations from dozens of women and girls that they were sexually ...
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Candace Parker is headed home and Kayla McBride is getting a fresh start in Minnesota.
WNBA free agents can't officially sign until Monday, but Parker is leaving Los Angeles for Chicago after playing the first 13 years of her professional career with the Sparks, according to a person familiar with ...
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John Wall got revenge against his former team on Tuesday, helping the Rockets knock off the Washington Wizards. And in the process, the 30-year-old got in some good ol' fashion trash-talking, as well.
Wall barked at Wizards guard Russell Westbrook in the final minutes of Houston's 107-88 win — leading ...
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GENEVA (AP) - The interim president of the African soccer confederation is under investigation by FIFA and was barred Wednesday from an election to retain his seat on the governing body's ruling council.
FIFA said Constant Omari failed an integrity and eligibility check because of "an ongoing formal investigation by ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kevin Hart will debut his new SiriusXM original podcast with Jerry Seinfeld as the series' inaugural guest.
The satellite radio company announced on Wednesday the launch of Hart's "Inside Jokes with Kevin Hart" along with two other original programs. He will host the series premiere with ...
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Ed Jones will return to IndyCar after a one-year absence for a second stint driving for Dale Coyne Racing.
Jones was named Wednesday as driver of the No. 18 Honda entered by Coyne with Jimmy Vasser and James Sullivan. The car will be sponsored for a fourth consecutive season by ...
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BERLIN (AP) - A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a concentration camp.
Klassik Stiftung Weimar said Wednesday that researchers were able to ...
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ROME (AP) - Andy Murray has entered a lower-tier challenger tournament in Italy next month after withdrawing from the Australian Open with the coronavirus.
Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting Feb. 15, the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.
The tournament has 132,000 euros ($160,000) in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - One of the first book-length inside accounts of the coronavirus pandemic will be coming out in June.
Lawrence Wright's "The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier this month, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 8. Wright ...
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PARIS (AP) - The new face of Paris Fashion Week is digital.
With shows taking place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, designers such as Julien Fournie are becoming versatile: getting their designs out to the public by making a film of their collection and streaming it ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville's citywide celebration leading into the Kentucky Derby will return this year, but its top events will look very different without spectators.
Kentucky Derby Festival organizers announced that the annual fireworks bonanza Thunder Over Louisville and the accompanying air show will not take place at the ...
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Things to watch this week in Pac-12 Conference basketball:
GAME OF THE WEEK: Oregon State at Southern California, Thursday. What would have been the marquee game of the week, Oregon at No. 23 UCLA, was postponed due to COVID-19 issues in the Ducks' program. The other game between the ...
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Ani Di Franco, "Revolutionary Love" (Righteous Babe Records)
Pioneering folkie activist Ani Di Franco is a standout instrumentalist whose guitar could kill fascists. Alas, on "Revolutionary Love," her six-string doesn't play a major role - or many notes.
Not that Di Franco has gone mellow. With characteristic passion on her ...
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Davis Love III is going back to where he was born for a job he knows as well as anyone.
The PGA Tour has selected Love to be U.S. captain for the Presidents Cup in 2022 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Trevor Immelman of South Africa previously ...
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This columnist lost a role model and a rival this month, and the local chess scene lost one of the greatest players ever to call the Washington area his home.
Reston GM Lubomir Kavalek, who passed away at his Reston, Virginia, home after a brief illness at the age of ...
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MILAN (AP) - Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte was suspended for two matches on Tuesday following a clash with referee Fabio Maresca over the weekend.
Conte was sent off in stoppage time for protesting at the end of Saturday's 0-0 draw at Udinese.
There was a further altercation in the ...
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ROME (AP) - The Italian government pushed through a last-minute decree Tuesday providing more autonomy for the country's Olympic committee in an effort to prevent the team from being suspended for the Tokyo Games.
It was one of the final acts of Giuseppe Conte's government before the premier headed to ...
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A team of cybersecurity researchers discovered a flaw in TikTok that exposed personal data, such as phone numbers and profile details, to potential hackers, The Washington Times has learned.
The China-owned video app TikTok acknowledged the vulnerability but insisted it does not have reason to think user data was exposed ...
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TOKYO (AP) - With calls for a cancellation mounting, pressure is building on Japanese organizers and the IOC to explain exactly how they plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics in the midst of a pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee and the local organizers are expected to roll out "Playbooks" next ...
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Kobe Bryant wasn't in the bubble with the Los Angeles Lakers last fall when they won the NBA championship. He wasn't at the All-Star weekend in Chicago where half the players wore his number on their uniforms, the other half wearing his daughter's jersey number. He wasn't there to hear ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children's picture story, cited for "We Are Water Protectors."
Tae Keller's "When You Trap a Tiger" won the John Newbery Medal for the outstanding children's book overall of ...
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The Belgian soccer federation says amateur competitions should be suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Professional soccer and the Belgian Cup competition will be able to continue with no fans at stadiums. The amateur teams in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - In 1963, Sidney Poitier made a film in Arizona, "Lilies of the Field." The performance led to a huge milestone: He became the first Black winner of a lead-acting Oscar.
Now, Arizona is the site of another milestone for the legendary actor and filmmaker. Arizona State ...
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"Tropic of Stupid," by Tim Dorsey (William Morrow)
"Tropic of Stupid," the 24th novel in Tim Dorsey's series featuring obsessive-compulsive psychopath Serge Storms, finds the anti-hero and his drugged out sidekick, Colman, zipping around their beloved Florida in a borrowed sports car. As usual, they've got a kidnap victim ...
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ROME (AP) - The International Olympic Committee will consider imposing a humiliating probation on Italy's team for the Tokyo Games this week because of a two-year domestic dispute that it says amounts to government interference.
The IOC has taken issue with the Italian government's formation of a new organization, "Sport ...
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"Every Waking Hour," by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur)
The push-pull relationship between Boston police detective Ellery Hathaway and FBI Agent Reed Markham took a big leap last year in "All the Best Lies," the third book in Joanna Schaffhausen's compelling series of crime novels. Now, in "Every Waking Hour," the world ...
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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's premier sled dog race will take place on the north shore beginning next week, but this year spectators will not be part of the event.
The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon traditionally attracts thousands of spectators at the start of the race in Duluth, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer called Bud Light, the beer giant isn't advertising its iconic Budweiser brand during the Super Bowl. Instead, it's donating the money it would have spent on the ad ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Austrian artist Arik Brauer, known for his surreal paintings and murals, has died at the age of 92.
Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported Monday that Brauer died late Sunday surrounded by his family. It gave no cause of death.
Born Erich Brauer in 1929 to a Jewish ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian anti-doping agency confirmed Monday that it will not file an appeal to further loosen restrictions on its teams at the Olympics and other major sports events.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport last month ruled that Russia's name, flag and anthem would be barred from ...
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Considering that there has been no repeat NFL champion since the 2004 season, clearly some major obstructions have gotten in the way.
For the Chiefs, that hurdle wears a No. 12 jersey and is the last guy to pull off the feat.
After demolishing Buffalo for the AFC ...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - An 85-year-old Green Bay Packers fan who has never missed a playoff game at Lambeau Field thought her streak was coming to an end this week until two charitable brothers heard her story.
Fritzie Neitzel, of Green Bay, went to her first Packers game with ...
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OSYKA, Miss. (AP) - Zenell Ott is about to turn 90. She has survived three different types of cancer and a fall that broke her pelvis and tailbone. Yet she still walks two miles a day.
Well, she did up until it got cold and windy. That knocked her back ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The estate of a writer who chronicled Southern food and life will be auctioned next month to benefit a charity created to continue her philanthropy.
Julia Reed was 59 when she died in August of cancer. She was a contributing editor to Garden & Gun ...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Quinn Lucas started bowling around age 4 because it was something he could do with his family and friends. Born with spina bifida, Lucas uses a wheelchair, and communicates with sign language.
But with the Anne Arundel County Public Schools winter sports season on hold amid ...
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MILFORD, Del. (AP) - When Delaware writer Jennifer Antonik decided to pen her first children's book, she knew she wanted to create something that would take her young readers on an adventure.
Building from her professional experience as a storyteller, working in journalism and public relations, and from reading to ...
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MILAN (AP) - Weston McKennie scored to help Juventus beat Bologna 2-0 in Serie A on Sunday and bounce back from its demoralizing loss to title rival Inter Milan.
The American netted Juve's second goal, in the 71st minute, after Arthur had given the Bianconeri the lead in the first ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Hertha Berlin fired coach Bruno Labbadia and general manager Michael Preetz on Sunday after a poor run of form left the big-spending club near the Bundesliga relegation zone.
Labbadia spent nine months in charge and becomes the fourth permanent Hertha coach to leave the post in ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The Women's Tennis Association has announced a new tournament in Melbourne for players undergoing a 14-day quarantine without an opportunity to practice ahead of the Australian Open beginning Feb. 8.
The new tournament will be staged from Feb. 3-7 and will cater for players who have ...
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DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) - A Russian social media celebrity was being deported from Indonesia on Sunday after he held a party at a luxury hotel on the resort island of Bali attended by more than 50 people despite coronavirus restrictions.
The party held on Jan. 11 violated health protocols put ...
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - At least one person was injured after a police car plowed through a crowd of pedestrians Saturday night who were watching a downtown street race, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported.
The incident happened just before 7 p.m. when a crowd of about 100 people watched several ...
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ROME (AP) - Embattled Roma gained some relief with a 4-3 win over visiting Spezia in Serie A on Saturday.
Lorenzo Pellegrini scored the winner two minutes into stoppage time after former Roma winger Daniele Verde had equalized in the 90th.
Borja Mayoral scored twice and Rick Karsdorp also found ...
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Larry King, the longtime talk show host whose iconic interviews and signature style helped make him become one of the biggest names in broadcasting, died Saturday morning in California at the age of 87.
Mr. King's death was confirmed in a statement issued by Ora Media, the parent company of ...
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) - Last season's FA Cup winner Arsenal was eliminated from the competition in the fourth round on Saturday thanks to Gabriel's own goal in a 1-0 loss to Southampton.
In an otherwise close game, Gabriel's decision to try to block a shot from Kyle Walker-Peters proved decisive ...
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) - It was a sunny August morning, and she had plans to go hiking. But cruelly and without warning, Angela Carter found herself instead inside the hospital room holding her mother's hand.
The stroke came quickly and mercilessly. With the final sound of her daughter's voice, Linda ...
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WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) - Wolverhampton has signed Brazilian striker Willian José on loan from Spanish club Real Sociedad until the end of the season, the Premier League club said Saturday.
The loan signing adds depth to the Wolves squad after forward Raúl Jiménez suffered a fractured skull against Arsenal on ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tyrrell Hatton's overnight lead was reduced to one shot by Rafa Cabrera Bello on Saturday morning as the second round of the Abu Dhabi Championship was completed.
Hatton held a 5-shot lead when play was halted Friday because of fading light but Cabrera ...
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Never mind that Patrick Mahomes got knocked silly and out of a game barely a week ago. He was always going to play Sunday against Buffalo, and because it's the AFC Championship - instead of, say, Week 3 of the regular season - the only way the Chiefs' star wouldn't ...
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - For almost two years, Randy Lawrence of Boca Raton suspected who had his stolen collection of about 1,300 comic books worth $2 million, a treasure he had been building for 54 years as a retirement nest egg.
But back then, no one - not he, ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Kristyna Brabencova's life took a drastic turn in February.
Instead of prepping for a game at Memphis with the USF women's basketball team, the freshman wing sat in a doctor's office at USF Health. Persistent blurred vision had led Brabencova to an ophthalmologist, but the expected ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A raging pandemic, tumultuous presidential election and deadly Capitol insurrection have combined to make the annual tradition of Dry January more moist than air-tight for some.
Not Sarah Arvizo. She considers it her easiest yet.
As much as the 32-year-old Manhattanite would love to partake in ...
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KITZBÜHEL, Austria (AP) - Swiss skier Beat Feuz won a men's World Cup downhill on the classic Streif course for the first time Friday as teammate Urs Kryenbühl crashed badly on the final jump.
Approaching the finish at nearly 150 kph (93 mph), Kryenbühl lost his balance in the air ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Spanish club said Friday.
The announcement came two days after Zidane coached the team in a 2-1 loss at third-tier Alcoyano in the Copa del Rey.
The club has not provided any other information on ...
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DUBLIN (AP) - Conor McGregor has been sued in Ireland by a woman who accused the mixed martial arts star of assaulting her.
The civil actions - one for assault and the other for personal injury - were filed this week in Ireland's High Court and named McGregor and another ...
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A look at the weekend action around the Southeastern Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
No. 6 Tennessee (10-2, 4-2 SEC) tries to rebound from a humbling loss with a visit to 19th-ranked Missouri in a matchup of two of the league's three ranked teams. The Volunteers fell 75-49 to a ...
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A look at what's happening in European soccer on Friday:
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Sixth-division club Chorley will try to pull off another FA Cup upset when it hosts Premier League team Wolverhampton Wanderers. The club from northern England has already eliminated professional teams Wigan, Peterborough and Derby in previous rounds. Chorley manager ...
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LONDON (AP) - It's still not time for "No Time to Die."
Producers of the forthcoming James Bond thriller say the film's release has been delayed again, until the fall of 2021, because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
The official 007 Twitter account said late Thursday that the ...
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A look at the upcoming week around the Atlantic Coast Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
No. 20 Clemson at Florida State. Saturday's game lost some luster after two straight losses by Brad Brownell's Tigers (9-3, 3-3), the first being a 35-point loss to No. 13 Virginia last weekend followed by ...
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When Syracuse center Bourama Sidibe was injured just four minutes into the season and the novel coronavirus was wreaking havoc with the team, the Orange were in a bad place.
The 6-foot-10, 220-pound Sidibe, who excelled at the end of last season and figured to be an important piece of ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has tested positive for the coronavirus, saying Thursday he has experienced some symptoms.
The Argentine had already been self-isolating after being identified as a close contact of someone infected.
"I had some symptoms and I'm following doctor's orders for recovery. Take ...
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The Jacksonville Jaguars hired Trent Baalke as general manager Thursday, removing the interim tag from his title and pairing him with new coach Urban Meyer.
Team owner Shad Khan is switching to a coach-centric model in which Meyer and Baalke will both report to him to "have transparency and (fill) ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - The president of a historically Black university in Maryland was so captivated by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's poem during President Joe Biden's inauguration that he offered her a job -- on Twitter.
Morgan State University President David Wilson joined the many people lauding Gorman, 22, Wednesday after ...
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GENEVA (AP) - As UEFA prepares a final proposal to change the Champions League format in 2024, the governing body of European soccer joined FIFA on Thursday in warning clubs against breaking away to run their own competition.
Players who take part in a Super League-type competition - likely limited ...
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PARIS (AP) - Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France's storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The splendid Musee de l'Eventail in Paris, classed as a historical monument, is the cultural world's latest coronavirus victim.
It has until Jan. 23 to pay up over 117,000 euros ($142,000) ...
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When Diogo Dalot signed for Manchester United, the excitement was mixed with regret at missing out on the chance to play with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The veteran striker had departed for what appeared to be a career swan song at the Los Angeles Galaxy just before a teenage Dalot arrived at ...
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PARIS (AP) - Google has signed a deal with a group of French publishers paving the way for the internet giant to make digital copyright payments for online news content.
After months of talks, Google France and the Alliance de la Presse d'Information Generale said Thursday that they agreed to ...
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SALISBURY, England (AP) - David Halls isn't a doctor, nurse or ambulance driver, but he wanted to contribute in the fight against COVID-19. So he did what he does best: He sat down on the bench beside at Salisbury Cathedral's historic organ and began to play.
Halls is one of ...
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Fourth downs in the NFL used to be reserved for kicks, except in the most dire of circumstances.
But with teams scoring at a record pace and becoming more analytics friendly each year, teams are going for it on fourth down these days in scenarios that would have been unfathomable ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Kevin Durant scooped up the box score on the table in front of him and quickly scanned the statistics next to Collin Sexton's name to make sure he was being accurate.
There they were: 42 points, 15 coming in the second overtime when Cleveland's guard drained four ...
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The College of Charleston has postponed its remaining four games in January due to a positive coronavirus test in the Cougars program.
The school and the Colonial Athletic Association said Wednesday that Charleston's games ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - One name missing in President Donald Trump's flurry of pardons is "Tiger King" Joe Exotic.
His team was so confident in a pardon that they'd readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk away the zookeeper-turned-reality-TV-star, who is now serving a 22-year ...
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After a troubled year of cancellations, disruptions and migrations to online play, the chess world is starting 2021 on a refreshing note of normalcy — an actual over-the-board elite tournament played at classical time controls in one of the great traditional venues for the game.
Norwegian world chess champ Magnus ...
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LONDON (AP) - England rugby coach Eddie Jones is isolating after being in contact with one of his assistants who has tested positive for the coronavirus, the team said Wednesday in a blow to its preparations for the Six Nations tournament.
Matt Proudfoot, England's South African-born forwards coach, tested positive ...
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LONDON (AP) - Dozens of U.K. music stars including Elton John, Ed Sheeran and conductor Simon Rattle say musicians have been "shamefully failed" by the British government, which has left them facing post-Brexit restrictions on touring in the European Union.
In a letter published Wednesday in the Times of London, ...
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Gaga. J. Lo. Hanks. Legend. Miranda. Bruuuuuce.
It's a far cry from a normal inauguration, with Washington locked down due to security concerns, and most inaugural events gone virtual because of the raging coronavirus pandemic. But one thing is back that virtually disappeared four years ago: the A-list.
A slew ...
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a chance to make history at Green Bay on Sunday. If they do, it might come with an asterisk.
No team has ever played a Super Bowl in its home stadium. Tom Brady and the underdog Bucs (13-5) will try to become the first to ...
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Things to watch this week in Pac-12 Conference basketball:
GAME OF THE WEEK: Oregon State at No 21 Oregon, Saturday. One of the nation's longest home winning streaks will be on the line when the rivalry once known as the Civil War hits the hardwood. The Ducks (9-2, 4-1 ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Harry Brant, a rising model and son of supermodel Stephanie Seymour and publisher Peter M. Brant, has died. He was 24.
The younger Brant died Sunday of an accidental overdose, his family said in a statement to The New York Times, saying "his life was cut ...
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"Before She Disappeared," by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)
Frankie Elkin is a nomad. Owning only what she can carry, she wanders from town to town hunting for missing people whom the police have been unable to find.
She is neither a police officer nor a private detective. She has ...
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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Torino hired former player Davide Nicola as coach on Tuesday to replace the fired coach Marco Giampaolo.
Giampaolo was let go on Monday after a poor start to the season left Torino 18th in the league standings, a point from safety.
Nicola is known as ...
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey on Tuesday slapped advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their non-compliance with a controversial new law that requires social media platforms to appoint legal representatives in the country.
The law - which human rights and media freedom groups say amounts to censorship - ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Five members of North Carolina State University's basketball program are in quarantine after two people tested positive for COVID-19, the team's head coach said.
Kevin Keatts made the comments Monday, a day after the Atlantic Coast Conference announced the Wolfpack's Wednesday game against the University ...
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi college marching band is set to participate in an official event celebrating diversity ahead of the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Jackson State University's Sonic Boom of the South will be a featured band in the "We ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - High school artists can compete to have their pieces displayed at the U.S. Capitol for a year in the 2021 Youth Congressional Art contest.
The competition is open to high school students but exceptions are made for schools that have seventh through 12th grades on one ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Vandals heavily damaged a high school baseball field in West Virginia after a fence had been removed to accommodate the construction of a locker room clubhouse.
Tire tracks as much as 4 inches deep were left in the grassy areas of the baseball field at Spring ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
The International Testing Agency said late Monday it charged Rahimov and Dumitru Captari of Romania with "an anti-doping rule violation for 'Urine Substitution' ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - LaMarcus Aldridge scored 22 points, DeMar DeRozan had 20 points and 11 assists and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Portland Trail Blazers 125-104 on Monday.
Rudy Gay and Patty Mills came off the bench for 21 points apiece as the Spurs' reserves outscored Portland's backups ...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The woman who relinquished ownership of one of Georgia's largest barrier islands to ensure its preservation has died at age 108.
The family of Eleanor "Sandy" Torrey West owned Ossabaw Island for more than five decades before she sold it in 1978 to the state of ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Reliever Archie Bradley and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized their $6 million, one-year contract on Monday.
The deal had been agreed to Thursday, pending a successful physical.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 2.95 ERA and six saves in 16 games last season with Arizona and Cincinnati, ...
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus is open to the Springboks' series against the British and Irish Lions being played away if that ensures it's not canceled.
Erasmus said Monday the Springboks "will go to option Z" to make the three-test series happen ...
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Timo Werner was the headline signing in Chelsea's $300 million offseason spending spree, a player whose pace and composure in front of goal would supposedly help transform the team into a Premier League title contender.
So how has it got to the point where, four months into his time in ...
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LONDON (AP) - The Davis Cup Finals will expand to 11 days from seven in 2021, and the International Tennis Federation is considering holding the competition in three European cities instead of just Madrid.
The ITF announced Monday that the international men's tennis team event will run from Nov. 25 ...
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LONDON (AP) - Phil Neville, who led England to the Women's World Cup semifinals in 2019, is leaving the coach's job ahead of an anticipated switch to men's soccer in the United States.
The Football Association has released Neville from his contract immediately after being informed he was in talks ...
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With no way out, tennis players in lockdown are figuring out ways to keep themselves fit within the confines of their Melbourne hotel rooms as they prepare for the Australian Open.
Angelique Kerber, who won the Australian Open in 2016, spent her birthday in quarantine on Monday. At times in ...
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - Famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri turns 90 in July, and is selling his home on Palma Sola Bay.
But that doesn't mean he plans to slow down any time soon or that he is leaving Bradenton. Bollettieri and his wife, Cindi, just want to move closer ...
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In the 1990s, the Bills buffaloed their way to four successive - if not successful - Super Bowls. No other franchise has managed that.
About a decade later, the long-downtrodden Buccaneers swashbuckled to an NFL title.
Ever since, pretty much nothing for those teams. Until now.
Next weekend, Buffalo, ...
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PARIS (AP) - There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew: The famous Rodin Museum sculpture gardens is reopening to visitors.
Though the rococo museum, showcasing the world's largest collection of Rodin sculptures, ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - The International Ice Hockey Federation will make a decision in the coming days on whether to pull its world championship from Belarus as pressure increases from sponsors over a crackdown on opposition groups in the country.
German motor oil manufacturer Liqui Moly said Sunday it ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Some users have fled Facebook and Twitter after the platforms booted President Donald Trump and some of his confederates for inciting unrest and spreading false claims about election fraud. Some migrated to far-right friendly sites like Parler or Gab. Others joined a service that aims to stand ...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Fans are highly unlikely to return to German soccer stadiums before the end of the season, the chief executive of the top two men's divisions has said.
Christian Seifert, CEO of the German Football League, said he presumes there will be no change to the policy ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump's impeachment, President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration and the fallout from the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists (all times local):
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Actor-playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and rockers Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen are among the stars who will ...
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MILAN (AP) - Lorenzo Insigne scored two and set up another as a stunning first-half performance saw Napoli blow Fiorentina away, winning 6-0 to move into the top four in Serie A on Sunday.
Napoli moved third, three points below Inter Milan and six below league leader AC Milan.
The ...
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Dutch cyclist Wilco Kelderman and two of his teammates on the Bora-Hansgrohe team have been hospitalized after a car crashed into their training group, the German team said Sunday.
Kelderman, who was third in the Giro d'Italia for Sunweb last year, has a concussion and a fractured vertebrae. Teammate Andreas ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - She is Black, she is American and she has ancestral roots in Africa, but Gigi Best-Richardson does not refer to herself as African American.
"I choose to tell people I am part of the African diaspora," Best-Richardson said. "To say I am African American would deny ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Vaccines from the West, Russia or China? Or none at all? That dilemma faces nations in southeastern Europe, where coronavirus vaccination campaigns are off to a slow start - overshadowed by heated political debates and conspiracy theories.
In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania ...
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BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) - Bologna ended its winless run by beating Hellas Verona 1-0 in Serie A on Saturday.
Bologna's first win since November followed a run of three defeats and five draws.
Riccardo Orsolini scored from the penalty spot in the first half after Verona goalkeeper Marco Silvestri brought ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince William says he is concerned about the mental health of U.K. ambulance drivers, police officers and other first responders who are being exposed to extraordinary levels of trauma and death as coronavirus cases soar.
William, a former search and rescue helicopter pilot, told emergency workers on ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai on Saturday unveiled the signature pavilion for the upcoming Expo 2020, the world's fair that is scheduled to open later this year even as the global pandemic that forced its postponement continues to rage.
The Terra Pavilion, which features a towering 130 meter-wide ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hours after an angry mob of Trump supporters took control of the U.S. Capitol in a violent insurrection, Selena Gomez laid much of the blame at the feet of Big Tech.
"Today is the result of allowing people with hate in their hearts to use platforms ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Organizers of the Boston Marathon - postponed indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic - have launched a virtual Athletes' Village to reproduce at least some of the camaraderie of the real thing.
The Boston Athletic Association says it's an attempt to keep runners connected as the group ...
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - I have arrived at a neutral location - the parking lot of a Virginia Beach Barnes & Noble - to procure a bag of hamburgers that can't be found at any restaurant.
The burgers in question are not good, as it turns out. They are, ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Nadiem Amiri has accepted an apology from a Union Berlin player who verbally abused him when the Bundesliga teams played Friday.
"He came to me in the changing room after the game," Amiri said Saturday on Leverkusen's website. "There were ugly words on the ...
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FLACHAU, Austria (AP) - Clement Noël led the first run of a rare men's World Cup slalom held in Flachau as a late backup venue during the coronavirus pandemic.
Noël was 0.23 seconds faster than Sebastian Foss-Solevaag on a course named for hometown favorite and Austrian skiing great Hermann Maier.
...HONOLULU (AP) - Shawn Stith had 13 points as Cal State Bakersfield narrowly beat Hawaii 60-55 on Friday night.
Taze Moore had 10 points and nine rebounds for Cal State Bakersfield (8-4, 4-1 Big West Conference), which won its fourth consecutive game.
Junior Madut had 12 points and 10 rebounds ...
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - In the gift shop at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, you can still purchase an official 1969 front-row photograph. A very young A. J. Foyt on the pole; Bobby Unser on the outside.
The man in the middle is the driver who went on to win his only ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even after canceling the Tournament of Roses parade during the summer and scaling back the pregame festivities normally associated with the Rose Bowl, David Eads and his staff were still preparing for a College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year's Day to be played at the ...
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MILAN (AP) - Italy's fashion chamber is opening on Friday the first Milan Fashion Week that won't have VIPS populating runway front rows, as the reality of Italy's persistent resurgence of the coronavirus has forced an all-virtual format for presenting menswear previews.
The National Fashion Chamber maintained a live ...
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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) - Tina Hermann of Germany won a World Cup skeleton race on the historic St. Moritz track Friday, and Katie Uhlaender posted the best finish of any U.S. sliding athlete so far this season.
Hermann prevailed with Austria's Janine Flock finishing second and Germany's Jacqueline Loelling ...
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BOSTON (AP) - A major memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston, where they met and studied in the 1950s.
King Boston, the privately funded organization coordinating the estimated $9.5 million project, said this week that fabrication of a roughly 22-foot-high ...
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ZURICH (AP) - Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand have caused next month's Club World Cup to shrink from seven teams to six.
Auckland City told FIFA on Friday it could no longer represent Oceania at the tournament in Qatar because of the "COVID-19 pandemic and related quarantine measures required by ...
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MUNICH (AP) - German doctor Mark Schmidt was convicted and sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison on Friday for his role as head of an international blood doping ring uncovered in the Operation Aderlass criminal investigation.
The Munich regional court also banned the 42-year-old Schmidt from working ...
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STOKE, England (AP) - Ireland international James McClean was suspended by English second-division club Stoke for allegedly breaching coronavirus regulations by training in a private gym.
There will be a disciplinary hearing into McClean's conduct, Stoke said late Thursday.
The 31-year-old McClean, who tested positive for COVID-19 in November while ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Elvis Presley's Graceland is now offering online tours for fans around the world, including those who can't travel to the Tennessee tourist attraction during the coronavirus pandemic.
Graceland said the two-hour guided tours will take virtual visitors into Presley's former Memphis home, which has been turned ...
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A look at the first full weekend around the Southeastern Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND
Arkansas at Alabama. The Crimson Tide (10-3, 5-0 SEC) stands alone atop the league standings after an 85-65 win over Kentucky at Rupp Arena. It's the first time Alabama has won its first five SEC ...
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UFC docked for a third time at Fight Island, and this time a pair of old rivals are primed to make the trip -- with a few thousand fans set to attend fights for the first time in 10 months.
They might cheer the loudest for Conor McGregor.
The ...
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Earth's rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.
While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said last year ...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A person familiar with the search says Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars are "working toward finalizing" a deal to make him the team's coach.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Thursday because an agreement was not yet in place. ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club's failure to enforce Palm Beach County's mask ordinance at its New Year's Eve bash has resulted in a warning but no fine or other punishment.
The county sent a letter to the club's manager, Bernd Lembcke, on Wednesday telling ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Browns coach Kevin Stefanski is back with his playoff team after having COVID-19.
Stefanski returned to the team's facility Thursday, 10 days after he tested positive with the virus and after he missed Cleveland's playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.
He had been isolated ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A free annual music festival that celebrates New Orleans' historic French Quarter returns in the fall after last year's event became a casualty to COVID-19.
The 2021 French Quarter Festival, traditionally held in April, will take place Sept. 30-Oct. 3, organizers said. It will return to ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina State University reported it has identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases associated with its athletics department.
The school made the announcement Wednesday on its website, but did not say how many people tested positive. A "cluster" is defined by the N.C. Department of Health ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden's inauguration and Jennifer Lopez will give a musical performance on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol when Biden is sworn in as the nation's 46th president next Wednesday.
The announcement of their participation comes one day ...
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Andy Murray has tested positive for the coronavirus days before he was due to leave Britain for the Australian Open, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The three-time Grand Slam champion is isolating at home near London and still hopes to compete in ...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) - Russia is giving up its place on the FIFA Council and proposing its soccer federation president as a candidate to join the UEFA executive committee, the European soccer body said Thursday.
The FIFA seat is being vacated by Alexey Sorokin, who joined the council four years ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brian Robbins directed "Varsity Blues" and was the producer of "Coach Carter," but both of those might have been eclipsed last Sunday with Nickelodeon's successful kids-oriented broadcast of an NFL playoff game.
Even a couple days after last Sunday's game, the president of Nickelodeon as well ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta rapper YFN Lucci is wanted for murder in a December shooting that left one dead and another wounded, authorities said.
Atlanta police also announced a $5,000 reward on Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of the 29-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett, ...
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LONDON (AP) - England prop Kyle Sinckler will miss the team's opening match of the Six Nations against Scotland on Feb. 6 after receiving a two-week ban on Wednesday for swearing at a referee in a club game.
The incident took place when Sinckler was playing for Bristol Bears in ...
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