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Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

BEIJING - China's leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak's epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to contain an illn...

Jan 26, 2020

China counts 2,700 cases of new virus, 80 deaths

BEIJING - The death toll from a new virus has risen to 80 with more than 2,700 confirmed cases, China's government said Monday, after the health minister warned that the virus's ability to "spread is ...

Jan 26, 2020

Woods stunned to learn of Kobe Bryant's death

SAN DIEGO - Tiger Woods has heard just about everything from playing before the biggest crowds in golf, and he tends to ignore it. Most puzzling was what he kept hearing along the back nine Sunday at ...

Jan 26, 2020

Librarians honour books by Luiselli and Higginbotham

NEW YORK - Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" and Adam Higginbotham's nonfiction "Midnight in Chornobyl" have been awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal, a $5,000 prize presented by the Amer...

Jan 26, 2020

The Latest: Lizzo, Billie Eilish each win early Grammys

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday at Los Angeles' Staples Center (all times local): 4 p.m. Lizzo and Billie Eilish have won their first career Grammys in what could...

Jan 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant, Lakers great and basketball icon, dies in crash

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, ...

Jan 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant, daughter perish in copter crash, 3 others dead

CALABASAS, Calif. - NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday, his sudden death at age 41 touching off an out...

Jan 26, 2020

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman...

Jan 26, 2020

At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 500 and leaving some 30 trapped in the wreckage...

Jan 26, 2020

Pentagon: 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran strike

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned t...

Jan 26, 2020