Hong Kong officials imposed a strict 48-hour lockdown Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to stay in their homes as the coronavirus outbreak in the city has worsened. Authorities made the unprecedented move in the city’s Yau Tsim Mong district, focusing
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Police tried to sweep protesters off the streets of multiple Russian cities Saturday but thousands across the country defied protest bans to march for the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. At least 100 people were arrested and bundled
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Hong Kong officials imposed a strict 48-hour lockdown Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to stay in their homes as the coronavirus outbreak in the city has worsened. Authorities made the unprecedented move in the city’s Yau Tsim Mong district, focusing on 16
Police tried to sweep protesters off the streets of multiple Russian cities Saturday but thousands across the country defied protest bans to march for the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. At least 100 people were arrested and bundled into vans
Saudi Arabia intercepted what they described as a “hostile target” over the capital of Riyadh, state media revealed. “I heard a loud sound and thought that something had fallen from the sky,” one resident said, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday. “The whole house
Larry King, the Brooklyn-bred man who became cable TV’s most well-known talk-show host, died Saturday. He was 87. King had been hospitalized with COVID-19. He passed away Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company King
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Shortly after the ACC announced that Northwestern athletics director Jim Phillips would be its next commissioner, a veteran administrator in the league expressed a sense of relief. A few of the candidates who had been mentioned publicly for the job came from
USA TODAY Sports is marking the first anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others with a six-day series of stories, photos and videos looking back at the Lakers legend and the aftermath of his death. Over wings,
The only commitment NFL owners have to racial diversity is to standing in its way. How else to explain yet another shameful hiring cycle, when Eric Bieniemy is likely to go without a job – again – while white 30-somethings with half
