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By Colleen Barry | The Associated Press
THE prospect of winning prize money isn’t what brings high jumper Vashti Cunningham, sprinter Andre De Grasse and other top names in track to an indoor meet in Arkansas this weekend.
BEIJING — A Chinese city has brought 2,600 temporary treatment rooms online as the country’s north battles new clusters of coronavirus.
HOMESTEAD, Florida—Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden’s plan to provide a path to US citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism on Wednesday amid a seismic shift in how the American government views and treats them.
PARIS—Frenchwoman Jeanne Pouchain has an unusual problem. She’s officially dead. She has been trying for three years to prove that she is alive.
FAIR HAVEN, Vt.—A goat and a dog that were both elected mayor have helped raise money to renovate a Vermont community playground.
Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk of breast cancer for women without a family history of the disease, and how common these flawed genes are in the general population.
SAN FRANCISCO—The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced last Tuesday.
WASHINGTON—Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts last Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would transform how Americans drive and get their power.
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York—Members of the Church of Satan are grieving the destruction of a historic “Halloween House” north of New York City that authorities say was set ablaze this week by an unidentified arsonist.
DRIVING to Dublin—it’s, well, a long way from Tipperary. Too long for Dean Gardiner, especially with a new baby and full-time university courses.
GENEVA—Former Fifa President Sepp Blatter spent a week in an induced coma after having heart surgery in December, his family said Thursday.
NEW YORK—The United States has a new president and a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew.”
LAUSANNE, Switzerland—Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
NEW YORK—Hallie Knight, a high-school senior from Jacksonville, Florida, has some well-formed ideas about where the country is and how she’d like to see it change.
DENVER—Howard Jones, who’s 83, was on the phone for three to four hours every day trying to sign up for a coronavirus vaccine.
TOKYO—International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and local organizers are pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be canceled.
WASHINGTON—With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice Thursday that America’s war on Covid-19 is under new command, promising an anxious nation progress to reduce infections and lift the siege it has endured for nearly a year.
ATHENS, Greece—Greek Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou appeared before a public prosecutor in Athens Wednesday in relation to sexual assault accusations she made that have ignited a nationwide debate on misconduct and encouraged multiple victims to make their claims public.
WASHINGTON—Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation’s historic confluence of crises.
WASHINGTON—Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took the oath Wednesday to hold the nation’s second-highest office.
President Joe Biden is calling on Americans to overcome their divisions, declaring in his first address in office that “without unity, there is no peace.”
As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the US recorded its first confirmed case of Covid-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had the virus “totally under control.”
MELBOURNE, Australia—Three more people linked to the Australian Open have tested positive for Covid-19 in Melbourne, increasing to 10 those associated with the Grand Slam tennis tournament which begins February 8.
Tiger Woods has suffered a setback with his back, disclosing Tuesday that he recently had a fifth surgery that will keep him from starting the year until after the West Coast Swing on the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour.
LONDON—Lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex asked a British judge on Tuesday to settle her lawsuit against a newspaper before it goes to trial by ruling that its publication of a “deeply personal” letter to her estranged father was “a plain and a serious breach of her rights of privacy.”
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