By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer The Baltimore Ravens are one victory away from passing Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers for the longest preseason winning streak in NFL history. Beating Washington on Saturday would make it 20 in a row. The Packers won 19 in a row from 1959-1962. The little piece of history mattered
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of evictions and others predict will be just a growing trickle after a U.S. Supreme Court action allowing lockouts to resume. The high court’s conservative majority late Thursday blocked the
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of evictions and others predict will be just a growing trickle after a U.S. Supreme Court action allowing lockouts to resume. The high court’s conservative majority late Thursday blocked the
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of evictions and others predict will be just a growing trickle after a U.S. Supreme Court action allowing lockouts to resume. The high court’s conservative majority late Thursday blocked the
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tenant advocates and court officials were gearing up Friday for what some fear will be a wave of evictions and others predict will be just a growing trickle after a U.S. Supreme Court action allowing lockouts to resume. The high court’s conservative majority late Thursday blocked the
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Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — El pleno del Congreso de Perú aprobó este viernes la cuestión de voto de confianza al gabinete ministerial presidido por Guido Bellido. 73 legisladores votaron a favor, 50 en contra y ninguno se abstuvo. Expectativa en Perú por la aprobación del gabinete de Pedro Castillo Bellido fue nombrado como
Continue Reading By The Associated Press For fantasy players, stats geeks and analytics gurus, the Football Outsiders Almanac is a godsend, packed with all sorts of categories that break down the game the way teams compile game plans. In tracking every play of every game, Football Outsiders came up with the DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average), which
Continue Reading By The Associated Press For fantasy players, stats geeks and analytics gurus, the Football Outsiders Almanac is a godsend, packed with all sorts of categories that break down the game the way teams compile game plans. In tracking every play of every game, Football Outsiders came up with the DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average), which
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Abbott Laboratories says the supply of its at-home Covid-19 tests may be constrained in the coming weeks as demand has grown to “unprecedented” levels during the current surge of coronavirus infections driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant. “We’re seeing unprecedented demand as case rates rise — and we’ve been scaling
Continue ReadingCNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Abbott Laboratories says the supply of its at-home Covid-19 tests may be constrained in the coming weeks as demand has grown to “unprecedented” levels during the current surge of coronavirus infections driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant. “We’re seeing unprecedented demand as case rates rise — and we’ve been
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — School officials in Las Vegas have assigned a task force to craft an anti-racism policy by next January. That’s amid calls from parents for the Clark County School District to follow a new state anti-discrimination law — and efforts by officials to avoid a culture wars flashpoint. Critical race theory is
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — An equestrian supply store in Nevada has sold out of a drug primarily used to deworm horses that vaccine skeptics are peddling as a remedy to the coronavirus. KTNV-Las Vegas reports that V & V Tack and Feed in the northwestern Las Vegas metro area no longer has any Ivermectin. The
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Continue Reading By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the coronavirus but believe China’s leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic, according to results released Friday of a review ordered by President Joe Biden. According to an unclassified summary, four
Continue Reading FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in Northern California fatally shot a man they say was suspected in a shooting at a mobile home. The Fremont Police Department said Thursday that officers responded to a 911 call Wednesday about a person who had been shot in the head at Southlake Mobile Home
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italy coach Roberto Mancini has recalled all the fit players from his European Championship-winning squad while Nicolò Zaniolo returns from a lengthy injury layoff. Mancini has named 34 players in his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria, Switzerland and Lithuania. The injured Leonardo Spinazzola is the only absentee from the 26-player
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. State Department has raised concerns to Jordan about the possible mistreatment of a former top official imprisoned for sedition in an alleged plot against the Western-allied monarchy. The lawyer for Bassem Awadallah, who is a U.S. citizen, has said the trial lacked
Continue ReadingCNN By Rob Picheta and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Afghans who narrowly avoided the terror attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday have described horrifying scenes and piles of victims’ bodies at the site of the blast. Muhammad, who said he assisted US forces and worked with NATO in Afghanistan, was at the airport with his family
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Nilly Kohzad, CNN Afghans who narrowly avoided the terror attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday have described horrifying scenes and piles of victims’ bodies at the site of the blast. Muhammad, who said he assisted US forces and worked with NATO in Afghanistan, was at the airport with his family Thursday,
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