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Oilers’ Draisaitl is first German to win Hart as NHL MVPVideo
EDMONTON, Alberta — Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP on Monday after leading the league in scoring. Draisaitl is the first German player to win the Hart Trophy. The league announced its most prominent award winners before Game 2 of the Stanley Cup...
Louisville police cancel vacations; prepare for Breonna Taylor decision
LOUISVILLE — Louisville, Ky., police said Monday that they had canceled vacations and were setting up barricades in preparation for the state attorney general’s announcement about whether he will charge officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death. A statement from the department said all requests for vacation and days off were...
U.S. cruises vow 100% coronavirus testing in plan for resuming sailingVideo
Major cruise lines say they will test all passengers and crew for covid-19 prior to boarding as part of their plan for resuming sailing in the Americas. The Cruise Lines International Association, a trade group that represents 95% of global ocean-going cruise capacity, said Monday that its members will also...
Analysis: DeChambeau charts path with new methods, hard workVideo
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The road to his U.S. Open title might have been tougher than anything Bryson DeChambeau faced at Winged Foot. And there were plenty of bread crumbs along the way. It was just under a year ago that DeChambeau tied for fourth in his final PGA Tour event...
Michigan official: Toilet display mocking mail-in voting is a crime
MASON, Mich. — A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official. The resident put a toilet on the lawn with a sign that says, “Place mail in ballots here.” Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a...
Toomey silent on whether Senate should consider court pick
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who endorsed waiting eight months until after the 2016 election to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, has not said whether he will support Senate consideration of a nominee in the weeks before November’s election. Toomey, of Lehigh Valley, remained silent Monday. President...
Trump to make court pick by Saturday, before Ginsburg burial
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court by week’s end, before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is buried, launching a monumental Senate confirmation fight ahead of the November election. Trump said he is planning to name his pick by Friday or...
Giants RB Saquon Barkley tears ACL, likely done for seasonVideo
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley likely will miss the rest of the season with a major injury to his right knee. The Giants (0-2) said an MRI on Monday confirmed Barkley tore the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee Sunday in a loss to...
Broncos QB Drew Lock week to week with shoulder injury; WR Courtland Sutton out for yearVideo
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Broncos star receiver Courtland Sutton will miss the rest of the season after tearing his left ACL in Denver’s 26-21 loss at Pittsburgh on Sunday, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. The person said an MRI on Monday confirmed fears the Pro...
Panthers’ Christian McCaffrey out multiple weeks with ankle sprainVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Christian McCaffrey said he plans to attack his rehabilitation from a high-ankle sprain the same way he does everything else — with a full head of steam. The All-Pro running back is expected to miss “multiple weeks” with a high-right ankle sprain he suffered in Carolina’s 31-17...
‘Match made in heaven’: Deion Sanders to coach Jackson StateVideo
JACKSON, Miss. — Deion Sanders wiped away tears of joy and passion before speaking. Jackson State’s new football coach then stated “I believe” many times about what he envisions happening on and off the field. “I have a commitment to excellence in each and every thing I do,” the Hall...
$20,000 acrylic case installed around Jefferson marker
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A $20,000 acrylic case now protects Thomas Jefferson’s original headstone on the University of Missouri campus, a response to vandalism concerns amid an ongoing dispute about whether the university should honor the third president who also was a slave owner. The clear case was installed Saturday over...
U.S. household wealth hits record even as economy struggles
WASHINGTON — Americans’ household wealth rebounded last quarter to a record high as the stock market quickly recovered from a pandemic-induced plunge in March. Yet the gains flowed mainly to the most affluent households even as tens of millions of people endured job losses and shrunken incomes. The Federal Reserve...
AG Barr announces $100M more to combat human trafficking
ATLANTA — U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says the federal government is awarding more than $100 million in grants to target human trafficking. The money will go to task forces combatting human trafficking, to victim services and victim housing. Barr made the announcement Monday in Atlanta with presidential adviser Ivanka...
Lufthansa pulls more big jets, issues gloomy outlook
German airline Lufthansa, already bailed out by the government, says it will have to make more staff cuts and mothball more jumbo jets than originally planned because the outlook for air travel is worse than the company first predicted. The company said Monday it would have to drop more than...
Ellen DeGeneres makes on-air apology, vows a ‘new chapter’
Ellen DeGeneres used her opening monologue of the new season of her daytime talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment, apologizing for things “that never should have happened.” “I know that I’m in a position of privilege and power and I realize that with that comes responsibility,...
UK experts issue stark warning on exponential virus cases
Britain’s top medical advisers warned the public Monday they must make further sacrifices to control the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, saying new coronavirus infections could increase tenfold to almost 50,000 a day next month if nothing is done now to stem the tide. In a briefing televised live...
Desert homes threatened by enormous California wildfire
JUNIPER HILLS, Calif. — An enormous wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert was still threatening homes on Monday, but officials said calmer winds could help crews corral the flames. At 165 square miles, the Bobcat Fire is one of the largest ever...
Archaeologists unearth 27 coffins at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened since they were buried more than 2,500 years ago near the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, said Neveine el-Arif, a spokeswomen for...
Review: 2 love affairs fuel ‘The Book of Two Ways’
Jodi Picoult’s “The Book of Two Ways” follows Dawn Edelstein, a death doula with a physicist husband and a teenage daughter. Dawn’s job is to help terminally ill patients and their loved ones transition from life to death. But before she was a death doula, she was a graduate student...
More Biden, Trump visits this week in fight for Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump will make his fourth and fifth appearances in September in Pennsylvania, flying into and out of rallies at two different airports this week. Tuesday’s event is at Pittsburgh International Airport and Saturday’s event is at Harrisburg International Airport. Trump’s visits underscores the importance of Pennsylvania to the...
Trump’s Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north
Peggy Lehner, a Republican state senator in Ohio, doesn’t sugarcoat what she has seen happen to support for President Donald Trump in her suburban Dayton district. “It hasn’t ebbed. It’s crashed,” said Lehner, who is not seeking reelection in the district of working-class and white-collar communities the president won comfortably...
With cash windfall, Biden adds GOP states to campaign map
Joe Biden is using a campaign cash advantage over President Donald Trump to add Republican-leaning Georgia and Iowa to his paid media footprint, bringing the Democratic challenger’s television and digital battleground map to an even dozen states. The expansion reflects Biden’s newfound status as a fundraising behemoth and his campaign’s...
High court front-runner Barrett hailed by right, feared by leftVideo
CHICAGO — A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative on hot-button legal issues from abortion to gun control. Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic, is hailed by...
Meghan’s lawyers deny she cooperated with royal book authors
Lawyers for a British newspaper publisher that’s being sued for invasion of privacy by the Duchess of Sussex argued Monday that she made personal information public by cooperating with the authors of a book about her relationship with Prince Harry. The former Meghan Markle is suing the publisher of the...
