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Search for Brazil dam survivors renews amid growing despair
BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Brazilian officials on Sunday resumed the search for hundreds of missing people in the wake of a massive dam collapse, with firefighter crews returning to mud-covered areas after a several-hour suspension over fears that a second dam was at risk of breach. Authorities evacuated several neighborhoods in...
Duke medical school apologizes over complaint about Chinese
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University’s medical school has issued an apology and launched a review after an administrator admonished students over speaking Chinese in a school building. Megan Neely, who served as graduate studies director in the biostatistics master’s program, wrote an email Friday urging students to “commit to using...
Wayne Newton celebrates 60 years in Las Vegas with new show
LAS VEGAS — Wayne Newton dropped out of high school his junior year to perform with his brother at a Las Vegas hotel. It was 1959, and he was too young to spend his breaks at the casino and too broke to eat dinner there. Six decades later — with...
‘Glass’ is No. 1 again, McConaughey’s ‘Serenity’ flops
NEW YORK — Matthew McConaughey notched one of the worst debuts of his career, Oscar nominees saw only modest bumps and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” easily remained No. 1 on a quiet weekend in movie theaters. The weekend’s two new wide releases — McConaughey’s tropic noir “Serenity” and the updated...
Trump rollbacks for fossil fuel industries carry steep cost
BILLINGS, Mont. — As the Trump administration rolls back environmental and safety rules for the energy sector, government projections show billions of dollars in savings reaped by companies will come at a steep cost: more premature deaths and illnesses from air pollution, a jump in climate-warming emissions and more severe...
Trump sets odds of reaching deal on wall at less than 50-50
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Sunday that the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.” As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers prepared to return to work, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t think...
Hat tricks on the rise around NHL this season
DENVER — In keeping with hockey tradition, a tip of the cap to honor Alex Ovechkin and Patrik Laine . They’ve each recorded a hat trick of hat tricks this season. Easy as one, two, three. Or so it may seem. Around the league, there have been 61 hat tricks...
Military recruits getting Made-in-the-USA athletic sneakers
NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine — Thanks to congressional intervention, military recruits are going be outfitted in Made-in-the-USA goods right down to their sneakers used for physical fitness training. New Balance in New England, along with two companies based in Texas and Missouri, is producing Made-in-the-USA running shoes for military recruits — bolstering...
AP analysis: NFL keeps going younger and cheaper
By the time NFL players reach their third and fourth years in the league, the vast majority are struggling just to hang on because of injuries or younger, faster and often cheaper rookies out for their jobs. In 2006 and 2011, the players union and the NFL tried to do...
Workers still cautious as post-shutdown government reopens
MINNEAPOLIS — Park rangers were once again greeting visitors at some national parks across the United States and flight operations at major airports were returning to normal, one day after a partial government shutdown came to an end. While there were signs on Saturday that some government machinery was grinding...
Suspect in Louisiana shooting deaths caught in Virginia
DONALDSONVILLE, La. — A man suspected of killing his parents and three other people - including a girl he was dating - has been captured after an intense manhunt spanning several states, authorities in Louisiana said Sunday. Dakota Theriot, 21, was located in Virginia early Sunday after fleeing the day...
Analysis: Give first round to Pelosi over Trump in shutdown skirmish
WASHINGTON — In the year’s first test of divided government, give round one to Nancy Pelosi. And it wasn’t really competitive. When the record 35-day partial federal shutdown began before Christmas, Pelosi was just a month removed from her vote-by-vote struggle for enough Democratic support to become House speaker. To...
Conservatives say Trump caved, but confident he’ll get wall
WASHINGTON— No retreat, no surrender is how President Donald Trump frames his decision to temporarily reopen the government while still pursuing a border wall deal. Some of his conservative backers have a different take: “pathetic” and “wimp.” Other Trump supporters seem willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt,...
Prince Philip tells car crash victim he is ‘deeply sorry’
LONDON — Britain’s Prince Philip has apologized to a woman who was injured when the car she was riding in collided with a Land Rover that he was driving. The 97-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II told the woman he was “deeply sorry” that she was injured in the Jan....
‘Amazing’ Djokovic tops Nadal for record 7th Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so pretty much perfect, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance. Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed opponent — just a guy, really — and one so out of sorts that Nadal even...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby earns MVP, leads team to All-Star game title
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby had two goals and three assists, and Henrik Lundqvist pitched a first-half shutout to lead the Metropolitan Division to a 10-5 victory over the Central Division in the championship round of the NHL All-Star game Saturday night. Selected MVP, Crosby finished...
Duke’s Daniel Jones sparks North to Senior Bowl victory
MOBILE, Ala. — Daniel Jones got his bad Senior Bowl moments out of the way long before kickoff. The Duke quarterback threw a touchdown pass and ran for another score in the third quarter to lead the North to a 34-24 victory over the South on Saturday, putting a nice...
To teammates, Patriots’ Tom Brady stands alone as he chases 6th ring
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Seventeen years ago, Tom Brady was 24 years old and in his second NFL season when he led the Patriots to a last-second victory over the St. Louis Rams for New England’s first Super Bowl title. Four rings later, Brady will arrive in Atlanta for the Patriots’...
Experts, images suggest a Saudi ballistic missile program
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the type of weapons program it has long criticized its archrival Iran for possessing. Further raising the stakes for any such program...
Rams’ Todd Gurley says he doesn’t care about Super Bowl role
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Todd Gurley is a serious sports fan who loves going to the Super Bowl each winter, attending all of the decadent parties and soaking up the game-day atmosphere. The Los Angeles Rams superstar running back will miss out on most of those wild parties this year...
12 immigrant workers at Trump golf course fired, lawyer says
NEW YORK — A dozen immigrant workers at one of President Donald Trump’s golf clubs in New York who are in the U.S. illegally were fired this month even though managers had known about their legal status for years, a lawyer for the workers said Saturday. As the president railed...
West Virginia starts fast, stalls in loss to No. 1 Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lamonte’ Turner made the most of a rare start for Tennessee. Turner scored 23 points, and the top-ranked Volunteers held West Virginia scoreless for a 91/2-minute stretch Saturday on its way to an 83-66 victory. The 21-year-old Turner also had five assists in his first start since...
With 44 newcomers, Pro Bowl could be more intense than usual
ORLANDO, Fla. — Chicago Bears safety and Pro Bowl newcomer Eddie Jackson posed the same question to several veterans this week: What’s the tempo of practices and the game? “They told me, ‘If you go out there and pull a hamstring, you’re going too hard,’” Jackson said. It wasn’t exactly...
Aliquippa teen convicted of arranging parents’ 1996 slayings resentenced
A man convicted as a teenager of hiring a pair of classmates to kill his parents in their western Pennsylvania home more than two decades ago could have a chance of parole beginning at age 76 following resentencing. Brian Samuel, 39, was sentenced in 1997 to two consecutive life terms...
Pitt fades down stretch in loss at No. 23 Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The shots weren’t falling for No. 23 Louisville on Saturday, so the Cardinals needed to make sure the same thing happened to Pitt. Jordan Nwora scored 17 points to help Louisville rally past Pitt, 66-51, and avenge its only conference loss this season. The Cardinals (15-5, 6-1...
