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Explainer: Competing for ‘another’ country is nothing new
BEIJING — U.S.-born athletes have taken center stage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality-switching. Eileen Gu, the prodigious — and, depending on who you ask, prodigal — freestyle skier who chose to compete for her mother’s native China over...
Spiked Champagne in Bavarian bar leaves 1 dead, 8 sick
BERLIN — One man died and eight other people were hospitalized in serious condition after unknowingly drinking Champagne spiked with Ecstasy at a bar in Bavaria, German prosecutors said Monday. The man who died was 52, and the others were between 33 and 52, police told the German news agency...
Prince Charles’ wife Camilla tests positive for covid
LONDON — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for covid-19 four days after her husband, Prince Charles, was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, the couple’s office said Monday. Clarence House said Camilla was self-isolating. Charles has been isolating since he tested positive on Thursday, but Camilla had...
Woman killed by man who followed her into NYC apartment
NEW YORK — A woman was stabbed to death inside her lower Manhattan apartment by a man who followed her from the street into her building, authorities said. Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was found fatally wounded in her bathtub at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. The suspected killer was...
Trevor Noah to headline White House correspondents’ dinner
WASHINGTON — Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will be the featured entertainer for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 30. It will be the first time the event, usually held annually, will take place since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. “Trevor...
Democrats eye key governors’ races as backstop against GOP
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was in a familiar spot earlier this month when Republican legislators sent him a bill that would have banned anti-racist teachings in schools. For the 66th time since taking office in 2019, he pulled out his veto pen. The rejection was the latest reminder of the...
What to know about Super Bowl 56, from Cooper Kupp to Eminem
From a thrilling late touchdown drive that gave the Rams a 23-20 win over the Bengals, to Eminem taking a knee and Meadow Soprano driving an electric Chevy, here’s what happened Sunday at Super Bowl 56. HERE’S WHY THE RAMS WON THE SUPER BOWL: Down 20-16, the Rams went on...
Ivan Reitman, producer, ‘Ghostbusters’ director, dies at 75
Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died. He was 75. Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. “Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband,...
Rams edge Bengals in Super Bowl with late TD from Kupp, 2 sacks from DonaldVideo
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Even the star-studded Los Angeles Rams have a limit to the number of injuries they can withstand, and they were all but out of playmakers in the second half of the Super Bowl. They still had Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp, and they still had Matthew Stafford....
Halftime Review: Dre, Snoop and friends deliver epic showVideo
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Dr. Dre & Co. took the weight of the hip-hop culture on the Super Bowl stage, shouldered the pressure from skeptics and delivered a strong halftime show to prove that edgy rap can work at the world’s biggest sporting events. All it took was hip-hop’s most controversial...
Scottie Scheffler tops Patrick Cantlay in Phoenix Open playoff for 1st winVideo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler was even par Sunday and three strokes behind after bogeying the par-3 12th in the WM Phoenix Open. “If you would have told me on 13 tee I was going to be in a playoff, I would have been pleased,” Scheffler said. “I felt a...
Mickey Guyton slows it down, ‘The Rock’ turns it up at Super Bowl
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — “Quickie Mickey” slowed it down for the Super Bowl. Mickey Guyton, who told the Associated Press this week that she’d earned the nickname for singing “The Star Spangled Banner” in a tight 1 minute, 30 seconds, sang it in about 1:50 on Sunday before the Los Angeles...
U.S. looks to build off Erin Jackson’s historic speedskating gold
BEIJING — The U.S. speedskating team had been waiting for someone, anyone, to win an Olympic medal. The sport that has delivered more medals than any other for the U.S. in the history of the Winter Games has been in a deep freeze. Erin Jackson provided a welcome thaw with...
Super Bowl ads look toward the future — and the past
NEW YORK — Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the future: of electric vehicles, mind reading Alexas, robots and cryptocurrency — and also to harken back to the nostalgic past of ’90s movies like “Austin Powers” and “The Cable Guy.” The...
West Virginia school district investigating religious eventVideo
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia school superintendent is investigating a Feb. 2 religious revival event that occurred at Huntington High School, saying he believes some students’ rights have been violated. Cabell County Schools Superintendent Ryan Saxe announced the investigation in a statement issued on Friday. About 100 students at...
Suspect charged 40 years after Pennsylvania woman was killed
MARCUS HOOK, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder and kidnapping more than 40 years after an 18-year-old woman was killed, prosecutors announced Friday. Investigators had long suspected two men named in the announcement Friday had played a role in the death of Denise Marie Pierson, who...
From campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost
America’s elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni — a practice that critics say is rooted in racism and bestows an unfair advantage to students who need it least. Fueled by the national reckoning with racial...
‘Death on the Nile’ tops a quiet box office weekend
NEW YORK — Hollywood’s Super Bowl weekend largely fizzled with the muted debut of Kenneth Branagh’s long-delayed Agatha Christie whodunit, “Death on the Nile,” a tepid reception for the Jennifer Lopez romantic-comedy “Marry Me” and modest box-office bumps for Oscar nominees. “Death on the Nile,” Branagh’s follow-up to the 2017...
Graham becomes early player to watch in Supreme Court drama
WASHINGTON — The list of Republicans willing to support President Joe Biden’s forthcoming nominee to the Supreme Court “is longer than you would initially imagine,” the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat recently teased to reporters. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin declined to name names. But it’s clear that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is...
Key U.S.-Canada bridge reopens after police clear protesters
WINDSOR, Ontario — The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday after protests against covid-19 restrictions closed it for almost a week, while Canadian officials held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa. Detroit International Bridge Co. said in a statement that “the Ambassador Bridge...
Super Bowl matchup: Veteran Rams versus upstart Bengals
Across both Super Bowl rosters, there is a great divide. The Rams are the team loaded with veterans and the Bengals are the new kids on the block. Los Angeles has the star power, which figures with Hollywood next door. Cincinnati has a bunch of relative no names outside of...
Payton Willis, Eric Curry help Minnesota beat Penn State, snap skid
MINNEAPOLIS — Sixth-year senior Eric Curry scored a career-high 22 points, Payton Willis scored 13 of his 18 in the second half and Minnesota beat Penn State, 76-70, on Saturday night to snap a five-game losing streak. Willis made 3 of 4 from 3-point range and finished with 10 assists...
No slip this time: Jackson wins Olympic speedskating gold
BEIJING — Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. A gold one, at that. Jackson won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first...
Ryder aces wild 16th, Theegala holds onto Phoenix Open leadVideo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sam Ryder brought down the house with a hole-in-one on the stadium 16th hole Saturday in the WM Phoenix Open, where newcomer Sahith Theegala topped a leaderboard as crowded as the course. Ryder’s wedge shot on the 124-yard hole landed just right and short, bounced a couple...
Keep it clean, and the Lombardi Trophy could be yoursVideo
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Stay clean. Avoid the critical mistakes. That’s a mantra both the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams should have adopted as they head to Sunday’s Super Bowl. Limit the turnovers and costly penalties. Don’t waste timeouts, particularly in the second half. Get physical rather than fancy. Being...
