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US Rep John Lewis of Georgia says he has pancreatic cancer
ATLANTA - Congressman John Lewis of Georgia announced Sunday that he has stage IV pancreatic cancer, vowing he will stay in office and fight the disease with the tenacity with which he fought racial d...
Dec 29, 2019
Schwartz scores twice, Blues beat Jets for 8th straight win
ST. LOUIS - Jaden Schwartz scored twice and Jordan Binnington made 25 saves to help the St. Louis Blues beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-1 on Sunday for their season-best eighth straight victory. Ryan O'Reill...
Dec 29, 2019
Canada's Joe Veleno suspended for next game of world junior hockey championship
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Canadian forward Joe Veleno was suspended for one game of the world junior championship on Sunday by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Veleno is being punished fo...
Dec 29, 2019
DJ Don Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79
NEW YORK - Radio personality Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial sl...
Dec 29, 2019
Runaway leader Liverpool already has soundtrack of champions
LONDON - Liverpool fans ended 2019 by chanting "Champions of the world" for the first time at Anfield. "Champions of England" will surely be sung by the Kop in 2020. Sadio Mane ensured Liverpool reach...
Dec 29, 2019
Mounties eyed Cold War candid camera scheme, declassified documents show
OTTAWA - Declassified records show RCMP intelligence officials devised a secret Cold War plan to use a hidden briefcase camera to photograph Communists and Soviet Bloc officials travelling t...
Dec 29, 2019
WJHC Roundup: USA grabs first place in Group B with 5-3 win over Russia
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Arthur Kaliyev and Nicholas Robertson scored goals six seconds apart late in the second period to help lift the United States past Russia 3-1 on Sunday at the world...
Dec 29, 2019
2 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at church near Fort Worth, Texas
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas - Two people were killed in a shooting at a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday morning and a third person has been taken to a hospital in critical condition, officials sa...
Dec 29, 2019
US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor's death
WASHINGTON - The U.S. has carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting a militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor, a Defence Department spokesman said Sunday. ...
Dec 29, 2019
Man arrested in Alberta bank robbery where suspect allegedly fled on snowmobile
ALIX, Alta. - Police in central Alberta say they've made an arrest in a bank robbery where the suspect allegedly fled on a snowmobile. RCMP began investigating on Dec. 20 when they said a lone ma...
Dec 29, 2019
