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Completed Wisconsin recount confirms Biden’s win over Trump
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin finished a recount of its presidential results on Sunday, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded. Dane County was the second and last county to finish...
NFL inactives: Tagovailoa out, Fitzpatrick to start for Dolphins
Tua Tagovailoa is inactive for the Miami Dolphins with a left thumb injury, so Ryan Fitzpatrick will start at quarterback against the winless New York Jets. Tagovailoa was downgraded to doubtful Saturday after he hurt the thumb on his throwing hand in practice Wednesday. He was limited at practice throughout...
Fauci: U.S. may see ‘surge upon surge’ of virus in weeks ahead
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the U.S. may see “surge upon a surge” of the coronavirus over the coming weeks, and he does not expect current recommendations around social distancing to be relaxed before Christmas. “When you have the kind of inflection that we have, it...
AP source: NFL fines Saints $500,000, Patriots $350,000
The NFL has fined the New Orleans Saints $500,000 and stripped them of a 2021 seventh-round draft pick for violating league covid-19 protocols, a person with direct knowledge of the discipline told The Associated Press on Sunday. The New England Patriots were fined $350,000 for similar violations, the person said,...
Despite federal ban, renters still being evicted amid virus
BOSTON — A nationwide eviction ban was supposed to protect tenants like Tawanda Mormon, who was forced out of her two-bedroom apartment last month in Cleveland. The 46-year-old, who was hospitalized in August for the coronavirus and can’t work due to mental health issues, said she fell behind on her...
Mike Tyson returns to ring, draws in exhibition with Jones
LOS ANGELES — Mike Tyson stepped through the ropes in his signature black trunks and heard the opening bell in a boxing ring for the first time in 15 years. The former heavyweight champion of the world traded lively punches with Roy Jones Jr. for eight entertaining rounds that ended...
Dave Prowse, actor who played Darth Vader, dies at 85
LONDON — Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85. Prowse died Saturday after a short illness, his agent Thomas Bowington said Sunday. Born in Bristol, southwest England, in 1935,...
This date in sports history: Nov. 29Video
1890 — Navy beats Army, 24-0, in the first matchup of this historic series. 1934 — The Detroit Lions play their first traditional Thanksgiving home game and lose to the Chicago Bears, 19-16, in front of 26,000. CBS Radio does the first national broadcast of an NFL game. 1987 —...
Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller makes history, but Missouri dominateVideo
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Sarah Fuller made history, but her barrier-breaking kickoff was the only highlight for Vanderbilt as Missouri dominated the Commodores, 41-0, on Saturday. Fuller became the first woman to participate in a Power 5 conference football game when she kicked off to start the second half. Fuller delivered...
Pa. Supreme Court rejects Rep. Mike Kelly-led lawsuit challenging election
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state. The state Supreme Court,...
AP source: All Broncos QBs pulled out of practice over virusVideo
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos quarterbacks Drew Lock, his backup Brett Rypien and practice squad member Blake Bortles were pulled off the practice field Saturday and sent home over concerns about their contact with QB Jeff Driskel, who is infected with covid-19, a person with knowledge of the situation told...
Detroit Lions fire coach Matt Patricia, general manager Bob QuinnVideo
Matt Patricia opened his final postgame news conference with the Detroit Lions by thanking his wife and children for their support. Patricia probably knew what was coming. His boss, general manager Bob Quinn, might not have expected the same fate. The Lions fired Patricia and Quinn, who hired the coach...
Colts hope short-handed defense can stand up to Henry and run-heavy TitansVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis spent all week preparing for Derrick Henry. Facing the league’s leading runner with a short-handed defensive line makes the challenge more daunting. With Pro Bowl defensive tackle DeForest Buckner out after being placed on the reserve/covid-19 list earlier this week, starting defensive end Denico Autry still inactive...
Jamari Wheeler leads Penn State past VMI in Jim Ferry’s 1st game as coachVideo
STATE COLLEGE — Jamari Wheeler scored a career-high 18 points, and Penn State used a 17-3 run early in the second half on Saturday to break away for an 86-65 win over VMI in Jim Ferry’s first game as the Nittany Lions coach. Ferry, a veteran coach who was an...
Penn State beats Michigan for 1st win of season
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sean Clifford threw for 163 yards and scored one of Penn State’s three rushing touchdowns, and the Nittany Lions finally broke their winless skid to start the season, beating Michigan, 27-17, on Saturday. Keyvone Lee and Will Levis also ran for TDs, and Penn State (1-5,...
Ethiopia’s Tigray capital reported to be ‘heavily bombarded’
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s military launched an offensive on the Tigray regional capital Saturday in a quest to arrest the region’s defiant leaders, and the city was being “heavily bombarded,” Tigray TV reported. Humanitarians confirmed the shelling in Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people, which immediately raised...
Pope elevating 13 new cardinals in ceremony marked by COVID
ROME — Pope Francis on Saturday was formally elevating 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to receive the honor, in a ceremony marked in every way by the coronavirus pandemic: Two of the cardinals stayed home, the rest eschewed the usual celebrations and St. Peter’s Basilica was practically empty...
With no action by Washington, states race to offer virus aid
SANTA FE, N.M — Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small-business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak. In some cases, elected officials are spending the last of a federal relief package...
Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights
As vice president in 2012, Joe Biden endeared himself to many LGBTQ Americans by endorsing same-sex marriage even before his boss, President Barack Obama. Now, as president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting...
Black firefighters in N.C. allege racism amid larger reckoning
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much for Timika Ingram to bear. “It caused...
Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
SELMA, Ala. — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, died Monday. He was 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, on Tuesday confirmed his passing. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white...
Iran’s supreme leader vows revenge over slain scientist
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday called for the “definitive punishment” of those behind the killing of a scientist linked to Tehran’s disbanded military nuclear program, a slaying the Islamic Republic has blamed on Israel. Israel, long suspected of killing Iranian scientists a decade ago amid tensions over...
Tony Hsieh, retired Zappos CEO, dies at 46
LAS VEGAS — Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos.com who spent years working to transform the city’s downtown area, has died. He was 46. Hsieh was with family when he died Friday, according to a statement from DTP Companies, which he founded. Downtown Partnership...
2 shot, killed at Northern California mall on Black Friday
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Police are looking for a gunman who shot and killed two teens at a Northern California mall in the midst of Black Friday, sending shoppers running for safety, authorities said. Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento was evacuated shortly after 6 p.m. when shots were fired near one...
Champion Ken Jennings will be first interim ‘Jeopardy!’ host
NEW YORK — “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday. Producers announced Monday that Jennings, who won 74 games in a row and claimed the show’s “Greatest of All Time” title in a...
