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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Marshall and East Carolina will open the 2020 football season a week earlier than scheduled to accommodate a national television broadcast marking the 50th anniversary of …
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2/20/20
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GENEVA (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi was charged Thursday by Swiss federal prosecutors in connection with a wider bribery investigation linked to World Cup television …
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR
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2/20/20
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jury deliberations in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial are set to continue for a third day on Thursday.
So far, jurors have been focusing a lot of attention on actress Annabella …
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2/20/20
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a common thread among the 11 felons who found favor with President Donald Trump this week — all who were pardoned or set free had advocates among the president’s …
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By MICHAEL BIESECKER
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2/19/20
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — To hear the fighters talk, the heavyweight title fight Saturday night between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is so big it took two TV networks to make it happen.
That’s only …
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By TIM DAHLBERG
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2/19/20
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MOSCOW (AP) — In October 2016, the head of Russia's largest oil company traveled to the birthplace of Hugo Chávez, in the empty, sweltering plains of Venezuela, to unveil a of the late socialist …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DARIA LITVINOVA
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2/19/20
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again.
Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will embark on a European tour that starts in England on …
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By ANDREW DALTON
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2/19/20
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho said Wednesday the film's "biggest pleasure and the most significant meaning” to him is that it succeeded even though …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG
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2/19/20
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ja’Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died.
DuBois’ song …
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2/18/20
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NEW YORK (AP) — Zoe Caldwell, a four-time Tony Award winner who brought humanity to larger-than-life characters, whether it be the dotty schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie, an aging opera star Maria …
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By MARK KENNEDY
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2/18/20
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James is stepping to the plate for ballplayers furious over baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred's handling of the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scam.
The four-time NBA …
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2/18/20
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt's death on the final lap of the Daytona 500 may have saved Ryan Newman's life.
Earnhardt died 19 years ago Tuesday, the same day Roush Fenway Racing …
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By JENNA FRYER
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2/18/20
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Clayton Kershaw is pleased practically everybody in the sport seized the opportunity to tee off on the cheating Houston Astros and Commissioner Rob Manfred's handling of the …
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By GREG BEACHAM
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2/18/20
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Even before “Fresh Off the Boat” hit the airwaves on ABC in February 2015, the show was facing pressure that other new shows weren't.
It was set to be the first network TV comedy with an …
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By TERRY TANG
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2/18/20
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CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, calling the sentence “ridiculous.” Blagojevich was convicted of …
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By MICHAEL TARM
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2/18/20
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Karen Pence has no shortage of projects.
The wife of Vice President Mike Pence promotes the healing power of art therapy and help for military spouses. She's into honeybees and …
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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2/18/20
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EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 …
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by MICHAEL REZENDES
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2/18/20
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ratings for the NBA All-Star Game were up 8% over last year, with an average of 7.3 million viewers watching Sunday night’s broadcast on TNT.
About 8 million viewers were tuned …
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2/17/20
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CHICAGO (AP) — It's been almost a month since Kobe Bryant died, almost two months since NBA Commissioner Emeritus David Stern preceded him. If one measure of a man is how much he's missed, well, …
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By JIM LITKE
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2/17/20
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CHICAGO (AP) — Players were taking charges, bodies were hitting the floor, calls and non-calls were being screamed about on both ends. The fourth quarter of the NBA All-Star Game was as intense as …
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By TIM REYNOLDS
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2/16/20
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