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Jim Carrey, as Biden, mocks Trump loss on ‘SNL’Video
LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for “Saturday Night Live” to come up with its comedic take on the presidential election results — complete with Maya Rudolph donning a white suit like Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore for her acceptance speech. Jim Carrey played President-elect Joe Biden, taking the...
Browns place QB Baker Mayfield on covid-19 list during bye
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns have placed quarterback Baker Mayfield on the Reserve/covid-19 list after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus. The team, which is on a bye this week, released a statement Sunday saying it was notified a day earlier of the positive test. Mayfield is believed...
Convention centers, museums become classrooms amid pandemic
MISSION, Kan. — In ordinary times, the airy convention center on a 61-acre site in Hesston, Kansas, hosts weddings, corporate retreats and church events. During the pandemic, it has become a schoolhouse for the district’s seventh- and eighth-graders. Megan Kohlman teaches literature and writing inside one of the rooms, separated...
5 states OK measures eradicating racist language, symbols
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a U-turn to eradicate the word “plantations” from the state’s official name. In a year when discussions...
Iran’s president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president called on President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the U.S. to Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported Sunday. Hassan Rouhani’s comments mark the highest-level response from Iran to Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris clinching...
Biden says it’s ‘time to heal in America’ in 1st address as President-elect
WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday and offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify” a country gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social...
Penn State loses to Maryland for 1st time in 5 years, stays winless
UNIVERSITY PARK — Taulia Tagovailoa competed 18 of 26 passes for 282 yards and three touchdown passes, and Maryland beat Penn State, 35-19, on Saturday. Rakim Jarrett caught five passes for 144 yards with a pair of touchdowns, Dontay Demus caught another and Jake Funk added 80 yards rushing and...
Fight for Senate control awaits in Georgia after Biden’s win
WASHINGTON — Control of the Senate likely won’t be decided until a January runoff in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday. That post-election cliff-hanger will determine the balance of power in Washington, as neither party appears to have a lock on a Senate majority...
Bryson DeChambeau and his Paul Bunyan power the talk of the MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The scene was straight out of the World Long Drive Championship spectacle. Bryson DeChambeau would consider that a compliment. He took a slow practice swing, then the next one at full force. Eyes focused, deep breath, chest fully expanded, exhale. Another violent practice swing. And another. Just...
Gun-waving St. Louis couple sues news photographer
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home allege in a lawsuit that a news photographer trespassed to capture an image of the confrontation. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, lawyers in their 60s, filed the lawsuit Friday...
‘This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeatVideo
Chanting “This isn’t over! and “Stop the steal,” supporters of President Donald Trump protested at state capitols across the country Saturday, refusing to accept defeat and echoing Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that the Democrats won the election by fraud. From Atlanta and Tallahassee to Bismarck, Boise and Phoenix, crowds ranging in...
After waiting game, media moves swiftly to call Biden winner
NEW YORK — With a fifth day of vote counting testing the nation’s patience, news organizations on Saturday moved swiftly following a crucial release of data from Pennsylvania to declare Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. CNN made its call at 11:24 a.m. Eastern, and was...
West Virginia comes up just short vs. No. 22 Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas stopped West Virginia on fourth-down passes into the end zone twice in the fourth quarter, enabling the No. 22 Longhorns to escape with a 17-13 victory Saturday. Texas (5-2, 4-2 Big 12) overcame an offense that produced nearly 100 yards and 27 points fewer than its...
Census takers say they were told to enter false information
Two census takers told The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the once-a-decade national headcount. Maria Arce said her supervisor in Massachusetts offered step-by-step instructions...
Doctors fear more death as Dakotas experience virus ‘sorrow’
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — With coronavirus cases running rampant in the Dakotas and elected leaders refusing to forcefully intervene, the burden of pushing people to take the virus seriously has increasingly been put on the families of those killed. The ranks of those who know what it means to lose...
World leaders congratulate Biden and Harris on election win
Although U.S. President Donald Trump wasn’t conceding defeat, world leaders swiftly congratulated Joe Biden for his election victory Saturday and expressed hope that the new White House will prioritize the fight against climate change. The news elicited cheers in an Italian coffee bar, encouraged protesters outside the house of Israel’s...
Biden win sparks smattering of protests; most stay peaceful
A smattering of protests broke out around the country Saturday after former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidency, with President Donald Trump and his supporters refusing to accept defeat and pushing unfounded suspicions that rampant voter fraud was denying him a second term. Outside the state capitol building in...
1st woman free-climbs El Capitan’s Golden Gate route in day
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Rock climber Emily Harrington has become the first woman, and fourth person, to free-climb the Golden Gate route on Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot granite wall in a single day. While most of the country was focused on the results of the U.S. presidential election early...
Elation and anger: Catharsis in the streets around U.S. as election ends
As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. And for...
Trump defied gravity; now falls back to earth, future TBD
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and businessman to the presidency, has fallen back to earth. In the end, his flurry of raucous rallies, an unprecedented turnout operation and sheer force of will could not overcome the reality of his enduring...
Explainer: Why The Associated Press called Pennsylvania for BidenVideo
Four years ago, President Donald Trump breached the Democrats’ “blue wall,” narrowly winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — a trio of Great Lakes states that had long served as a bulwark against Republican presidential candidates. On Saturday, Democrat Joe Biden captured it back — and also won the presidency —...
Trump isn’t conceding to President-elect BidenVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is not conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, promising unspecified legal challenges seeking to overturn the outcome of the race for the White House. Trump said in a statement that, “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why...
Kamala Harris becomes first Black woman, South Asian elected vice presidentVideo
Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries. The 56-year-old California senator, also the...
Biden wins White House, will become 46th president of U.S., vows new direction for divided country
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania catapulted its native son, Democrat Joe Biden, to victory and the White House on Saturday after a long, hard-fought and expensive campaign in which Democrats wrested the battleground state’s 20 electoral votes back from President Donald Trump after the Republican’s surprise victory in 2016. Biden also carried...
Officials: Clerk error in small Michigan county behind results favoring Biden
BELLAIRE, Mich. — A clerk’s error in a small Republican-leaning northern Michigan county earlier this week led to the reporting of unofficial voting results that favored Democrat Joe Biden, state officials said. Questions were raised after Antrim County, northeast of Traverse City, first reported a local landslide for Biden in...
