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All NFL teams to enter intensive COVID-19 protocol Saturday

The NFL is placing all teams in intensive protocol starting Saturday to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 as the number of cases rises around the country. Use of masks will be mandatory at all times at te...

Nov 19, 2020

Report finds Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghans

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A shocking Australian military report into war crimes has found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians. Australian...

Nov 18, 2020

Wolves select Edwards with No. 1 pick in delayed NBA draft

Anthony Edwards was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 1 pick Wednesday night in an NBA draft delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic. Edwards became the 11th straight...

Nov 18, 2020

A rusty Giuliani returns to the courtroom on Trump's behalf

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Rudy Giuliani, representing a client inside a courtroom for the first time in nearly three decades, showed some rust as he tried to make the case that President Donald Trump has be...

Nov 18, 2020

Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory

President-elect Joe Biden's winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records. Biden has already set ...

Nov 18, 2020

Catholics divided as bishops examine Biden's abortion stance

Catholics split almost evenly in supporting Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the presidential election. Now they're sharply divided over a declaration by the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop...

Nov 18, 2020

GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat - but not in public

WASHINGTON - When Kamala Harris returned to the Senate this week for the first time as vice-president-elect, her Republican colleagues offered their congratulations and Sen. Lindsey Graham greeted her...

Nov 18, 2020

'Tired to the bone': Hospitals overwhelmed with virus cases

Overwhelmed hospitals are converting chapels, cafeterias, waiting rooms, hallways, even a parking garage into patient treatment areas. Staff members are desperately calling around to other medical cen...

Nov 18, 2020

New York City schools to close again as city fights virus

New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. school systems to br...

Nov 18, 2020

US charges against former Mexican general are dropped

NEW YORK - A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted the Department of Justice's request to drop the drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican Defence Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos and...

Nov 18, 2020