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Explainer: Why did the military stage a coup in Myanmar?Video
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A coup in Myanmar has left the military in control under a one-year state of emergency, while the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians have been detained. Here’s a look at what could be behind the military’s actions. Why now? Monday...
Virus may reduce total Super Bowl bets, but online to surge
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Here’s one more thing the coronavirus pandemic has ruined for at least some people: betting on the Super Bowl. The American Gaming Association, the gambling industry’s national trade group, released a report Tuesday predicting that the number of people planning to make a bet on the...
Online shopping surge delivers record revenue for UPS
NEW YORK — A surge in online shopping helped UPS post record revenue during the last three months of 2020. Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. rose 5% before the stock market opened Tuesday. UPS and other delivery companies have benefited as more people shop online during the pandemic and...
Police: 6 killed at Oklahoma home, person taken into custody
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Six people were killed early Tuesday in Oklahoma, including five children, and a person with a gun was taken into custody, police said. Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to a call of multiple people shot at a home in Muskogee, about 45 miles southeast of Tulsa, police...
Iran: Sailors from seized South Korean tanker to be released
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s foreign ministry said Tuesday the sailors from a South Korean tanker seized in the Persian Gulf by Iranian troops last month are free to leave the country, state TV reported. Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said a legal investigation into the tanker and its captain would continue....
Pfizer swings to small profit as vaccines begin to roll out
Pfizer, the first company to get U.S. emergency use authorization for a covid-19 vaccine, swung to a small profit in the fourth-quarter as it started shipping vaccines globally. The drugmaker expects roughly $15 billion in revenue this year from the vaccine, which won emergency clearance in mid-December in the U.S....
Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to prison
MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison on charges that he violated the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. Navalny, who is the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, had earlier denounced the proceedings...
Punxsutawney Phil says there will be 6 more weeks of winterVideo
PUNXSUTAWNEY — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow on a snowy Tuesday morning to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Members of Phil’s “inner circle” woke up the furry critter at 7:25 a.m. at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to...
Rochester suspends officers who pepper-sprayed 9-year-old girlVideo
The city of Rochester has suspended police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical “irritant” in the face of a distraught and handcuffed 9-year-old girl, officials announced Monday. The city did not specify how many officers were suspended. The suspensions will last at least until an internal police investigation...
GOP’s McConnell blasts ‘loony lies’ by Ga. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
WASHINGTON — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings...
Devoted Browns fan cuts hair after 6 years to celebrate winning season
SANDUSKY, Ohio — For years, Cleveland Browns season ticket holder and devoted fan, Jeff Panovich, has let his hair grow as his team saw losing season after losing season. That changed this year with the Browns ending the regular season 12-5, so Panovich got his first hair cut in six...
Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill offers to race Buccaneers’ Scotty Miller
Kansas City Chiefs star Tyreek Hill wants to be the Super Bowl halftime show. Hill said Monday he’d be willing to race Tampa Bay receiver Scotty Miller during intermission Sunday at Raymond James Stadium. “Someone line that up for us,” Hill said. Miller raised eyebrows last week when he said...
Column: One number looms large in Super Bowl of numbers
The Super Bowl is always defined by numbers, this one perhaps more than others because there’s one number — positive tests for covid-19 this week — that no one wants to see. Still, this Super Bowl like no other remains a Super Bowl much like any other. That means the...
House Democrats mount effort to punish Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
WASHINGTON — House Democrats are mounting an effort to formally rebuke Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Georgia Republican with a history of making racist remarks, embracing conspiracy theories and endorsing violence directed at Democrats. Democrats have teed up action Wednesday to send a resolution to the House floor...
Wall Street recovers some of last week’s drop, silver climbsVideo
Stocks notched broad gains Monday on Wall Street, clawing back some of their losses following the market’s worst weekly loss since October. The S&P 500 rose 1.6%. The benchmark index was coming off a 3.3% slide last week, when volatility spiked as online traders hoping to inflict damage on hedge...
Chiefs’ Robinson, Kilgore land on covid-19 list as close contactsVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs placed a pair of backups, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson and center Daniel Kilgore, on the covid-19 list as close contacts Monday as they begin final preparations for the Super Bowl against Tampa Bay. Chiefs coach Andy said he was told of the...
St. Louis police: Carjacker tossed 1-year-old out of vehicleVideo
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police are looking for suspects after armed robbers stole a woman’s car then threw her 1-year-old son out of the vehicle. The crime occurred around 3 a.m. Sunday. Police say a 22-year-old woman was sitting at a stoplight in north St. Louis with two men...
‘A long two days’: Major storm pummels Northeast with heavy snowVideo
NEW YORK — A sprawling, lumbering winter storm walloped the Eastern part of the country on Monday, shutting down coronavirus vaccination sites, closing schools and halting transit as snow piled up from the Appalachians to New England, with the heaviest accumulations yet to come in many places. With flakes falling...
Luzerne County couple slain as a result of snow disposal argument; suspect also dead
A northeastern Pennsylvania shooting stemming from an argument Monday between neighbors over snow disposal left two people dead, and the suspect was later found dead at his home, authorities said. Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said a husband and wife were shot to death in the street outside their...
CBO projects 4.6% growth in Biden’s first year, jobs lag
The economy is projected to grow at a robust 4.6% annual rate this year, but employment isn’t expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday. The 10-year outlook said the economic recovery from the coronavirus got a boost from an unprecedented wave of government...
CDC report: Many nursing home staff decline first covid shotsVideo
A little more than a third of nursing home workers have been getting covid-19 vaccines when the shots are first offered, U.S. health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave a national accounting of a problem that’s been reported anecdotally — many nursing home workers are...
Tom Brady on playing past 45: ‘I would definitely consider that’
Tom Brady keeps raising the bar about how long he could keep playing quarterback in the NFL. As the 43-year-old Brady prepares for his record 10th Super Bowl and first since joining Tampa Bay this past offseason, he said he’s already considering surpassing his previous goal and playing beyond age...
‘Saved by the Bell’ star Dustin Diamond dies of cancer at 44
“Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative. He was 44. “Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful,” the actor’s spokesman, Roger Paul, said in a statement. Diamond,...
Spacewalkers complete 4 years of power upgrades for station
A pair of spacewalking astronauts completed a four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station’s power grid on Monday, installing one last battery. Over the weekend, flight controllers in Houston used the space station’s big robot arm to replace the last pair of old-style batteries with a single better-quality one....
Packers planning for long-term future that includes Aaron Rodgers
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and coach Matt LaFleur say they expect Aaron Rodgers to remain their team’s starting quarterback in 2021 and beyond. Gutekunst and LaFleur made those comments Monday during season-ending Zoom sessions with reporters. After the Packers’ 31-26 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in...
