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Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY - As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonn...
Dec 30, 2020
Padres acquire RHP Yu Darvish in blockbuster trade with Cubs
CHICAGO - The aggressive San Diego Padres traded for another big arm on Tuesday night, acquiring Yu Darvish in a blockbuster deal with the Chicago Cubs. The Padres got Darvish, catcher Victor Caratini...
Dec 29, 2020
Kispert, Ayayi lead No. 1 Gonzaga over Dixie State 112-67
SPOKANE, Wash. - Corey Kispert scored 25 points, Joel Ayayi added 21 points and 11 rebounds, and top-ranked Gonzaga beat short-handed Dixie State 112-67 on Tuesday night. Oumar Ballo added 17 points o...
Dec 29, 2020
Reports: Convicted US spy Pollard arrives in Israel
JERUSALEM - Israeli media say Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, has landed in the country with his wife. The U.S. Justice Department announced in November that...
Dec 29, 2020
China sentences 10 seeking to flee Hong Kong to prison terms
BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced 10 people who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat earlier this year to between seven months and three years in prison. The Yantian District Court in the south...
Dec 29, 2020
Month on, women hold the fort at India farmer protests
NEW DELHI - The men arrived first. And they arrived with a bang. Tens of thousands of them, marching like an army, driving trucks and trailers, prepared to choke key highways that feed into India's bu...
Dec 29, 2020
Argentine Senate weighs fate of abortion in pope's homeland
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The decades-long fight by Argentine women's groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate that spilled into the early hours of Wednesday before a vote...
Dec 29, 2020
Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks
TEHRAN, Iran - As the coronavirus pandemic ravages Iran, home to the Mideast's worst outbreak, a women's group hopes to empower its members by helping them make and sell face masks. The organization c...
Dec 29, 2020
Louisiana congressman Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19
BATON ROUGE, La. - Luke Letlow, Louisiana's newest Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41 ye...
Dec 29, 2020
Embiid scores 29 points, Raptors winless after loss to Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid scored 29 points to lift the Philadelphia 76ers over Toronto 100-93 on Tuesday, and the Raptors remain winless three games into the NBA season. Kyle Lowry had 24 points, nin...
Dec 29, 2020