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Going primetime: “The Jump” serving as pregame for ABC games

ESPN has gone through many pairings and approaches trying to build a pregame show during its 18 seasons broadcasting the NBA. This time it's using a s...
16:43 18 January 2022
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2020′s first big test? Not Iowa, but a tiny Texas House race

KATY, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is livestreaming again. Joe Biden and Julián Castro are making their presence felt. Mike Bloomberg has knocked on doors an...
15:58 18 January 2022
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Cities can’t opt out of legal pot under new state proposal

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico would legalize recreational marijuana sales without exceptions for dissenting cities and counties under a rebooted proposa...
15:53 18 January 2022
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Splits in France’s strike movement trigger fears of violence

PARIS — A French government minister warned that seditious groups bent on violence were hijacking the protest movement against pension reform that has...
15:25 18 January 2022
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Reservations brace for winter storms amid slow recovery

PINE RIDGE, S.D. —
14:37 18 January 2022
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Gun-rights activists gear up for show of force in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. — Police are scouring the internet for clues about plans for mayhem, workers are putting up chain link holding pens around Virginia's pi...
13:20 18 January 2022
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s compulsive claims of ‘biggest’ ever

WASHINGTON — Size matters to President Donald Trump. So much that he exaggerates continually, sometimes spectacularly, the size of what he does.
13:10 18 January 2022
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Scientists seek rare species survivors amid Australia flames

Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national ...
12:35 18 January 2022
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Turkey’s Erdogan: Europe must back Libyan govt in Tripoli

Ankara — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the European Union to support the internationally recognised Libyan government in Tripol...
11:54 18 January 2022
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China reports 4 more cases in viral pneumonia outbreak

BEIJING — Four more cases have been identified in a viral pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that has killed two people and promp...
8:57 18 January 2022
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Canadian network kicks off 6 NHL broadcasts in Plains Cree

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Clarence Iron believes he is on a divine mission to revitalize the Plains Cree language through hockey.
8:10 18 January 2022
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Putin’s moves leave Russian opposition with few options

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin played it differently this time.
7:53 18 January 2022
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Federer, Nadal seem sure all will be OK at Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia — As messages on video boards cautioned Australian Open spectators to "be aware we are expecting a reduction in air quality" Satu...
7:53 18 January 2022
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USC women upset previously unbeaten No. 7 UCLA in double OT

LOS ANGELES — Anytime Southern California beats UCLA it is special. The fact that the Trojans upset the nation's only remaining unbeaten team in Divis...
7:24 18 January 2022
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Chicago flights halted; plane slides off Kansas City taxiway

CHICAGO — The Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport for hours Friday night due to a sprawling wint...
4:19 18 January 2022
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Hawks complete late rally to stun Spurs 121-120

SAN ANTONIO — Trae Young scored 31 points and the Atlanta Hawks rallied from a 14-point deficit in the final quarter to stun the San Antonio Spurs 121...
4:13 18 January 2022
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Winfrey details her decision to withdraw from Simmons film

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey said Friday that Russell Simmons attempted to pressure her about her involvement with a documentary in which several women de...
1:01 18 January 2022
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Virginia’s highest court upholds weapons ban at gun rally

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's highest court on Friday upheld a ban on firearms at a pro-gun rally in the state's capital next week, an event that authori...
23:57 17 January 2022
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3 more linked to neo-Nazi group arrested in Georgia

WASHINGTON — Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-f...
23:57 17 January 2022
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Witherspoon, Washington team in front of and behind camera

PASADENA, Calif. — Tired of others influencing her career choices, Reese Witherspoon launched her own production company eight years ago. She has been...
23:40 17 January 2022
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Iowa Democrats treat Warren-Sanders dust-up as ‘Who cares?’

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ann Stromquist watched this week’s Democratic presidential debate like the research scientist she is. She studied the candidates' an...
23:39 17 January 2022
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Billionaire Bloomberg is granted financial disclosure delay

WASHINGTON — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won't have to publicly disclose his finances until late March, well after voters in more than a dozen state...
23:33 17 January 2022
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Calmer McGregor: Irish star returns vs Cerrone at UFC 246

LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor became a two-division UFC champion because he was a tremendous fighter. He became the biggest mixed martial artist in the w...
23:29 17 January 2022
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How Trump’s impeachment differs from a criminal trial

WASHINGTON — Yes, it's a trial — but the Senate's impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump won't resemble anything Americans have seen o...
22:37 17 January 2022
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2 years after ‘step up,’ Grammys step into another mess

NEW YORK — The leadership at the Recording Academy thought they were in the clear: After the Academy's then-CEO made comments that seemed to belittle ...
22:14 17 January 2022
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Pentagon adding to restrictions on foreign military students

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is imposing new restrictions and controls on all international military students at American bases, including barring them f...
21:39 17 January 2022
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Pacino, De Niro among Producers Guild Awards presenters

LOS ANGELES — Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Melissa McCarthy are among the presenters for Saturday’s Producers Guild of America Awards.
21:30 17 January 2022
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Who’s who on Trump’s legal team for impeachment trial

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team for his Senate impeachment trial will include a pair of well-known attorneys who have vigorously defe...
21:25 17 January 2022
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Protests close Louvre museum in Paris amid pension strikes

PARIS — Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre museum and forced the famous Paris landmark to close Friday while they denounced the F...
21:22 17 January 2022
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Anti-Trump protests have shrunk. What’s it mean for 2020?

CHICAGO — Days after President Donald Trump killed an Iranian general and said he was sending more soldiers to the Middle East, about 100 protesters s...
21:14 17 January 2022