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By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer For the 2021 season that ends this weekend with the first set of 17th games in NFL history, a slew of marks are about to be set. Major records, too. Start with the most successful quarterback in NFL annals, naturally. Tom Brady leads in completions (456), yards passing
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By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer For the 2021 season that ends this weekend with the first set of 17th games in NFL history, a slew of marks are about to be set. Major records, too. Start with the most successful quarterback in NFL annals, naturally. Tom Brady leads in completions (456), yards passing
Continue ReadingJessie Yeung, CNN A 3,000-year-old cemetery containing the tombs of a wealthy clan has been uncovered in central China following two years of excavation by archaeologists. The site in Anyang, Henan province, is thought to have been home to a clan named “Ce” during the Shang dynasty, said the Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and
Continue Reading By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer NFL teams will play their 17th regular-season game this weekend for the first time. The league had a 16-game schedule for the past 43 years. Thirteen of the 16 games on the ledger this week will have a bearing on the playoff bracket. There are 18 teams still
Continue Reading By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer NFL teams will play their 17th regular-season game this weekend for the first time. The league had a 16-game schedule for the past 43 years. Thirteen of the 16 games on the ledger this week will have a bearing on the playoff bracket. There are 18 teams still
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Covid-19 hospitalization rates among children are soaring in the United States, with an average of 4.3 children under 5 per 100,000 hospitalized with an infection as of the week ending January 1, up from 2.6 children the previous week, according to data from the US Centers for Disease
Continue ReadingCNN By Travis Caldwell, CNN With Covid-19 tests hard to find in many parts of the country and the Omicron variant spreading rapidly, health experts are advising those with symptoms to isolate themselves if they even only suspect they have the virus. And with the recent news that rapid antigen tests may lag in detecting
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The road from South Africa to anywhere is a long one. That’s one reason Gary Player takes such pride in being the ultimate global player. Plenty of South Africans have followed him, and three are at Kapalua for the Sentry Tournament of Champions. There was
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s celebrated hiring of Fred Hoiberg has not yet sparked a turnaround in the long-suffering basketball program. Hoiberg is in his third season in Lincoln and is 20-54 overall and 5-38 in the Big Ten. His .270 winning percentage is the lowest through any Nebraska
Continue Reading By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Derek Carr practiced game-winning drives over and over when he was growing up. The eight-year veteran ranks second since entering the league in 2014 with 29 game-winning drives, second only to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who has 30. This year, the Raiders have needed
Continue Reading By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Derek Carr practiced game-winning drives over and over when he was growing up. The eight-year veteran ranks second since entering the league in 2014 with 29 game-winning drives, second only to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who has 30. This year, the Raiders have needed
Continue Reading By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Derek Carr practiced game-winning drives over and over when he was growing up. The eight-year veteran ranks second since entering the league in 2014 with 29 game-winning drives, second only to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who has 30. This year, the Raiders have needed
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Top-ranked Ash Barty has advanced to the Adelaide International semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin while Rafael Nadal advanced via a walkover in tune-up tournaments ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam event. Barty used her usual backhand slice and powerful forehand drive but
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye.” But the Nobel laureate also completed plays, poems, essays, and a handful of short stories, one of which is coming out as a
Continue Reading By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan has declared that constitutional order is “mainly restored” after the country was engulfed in unprecedented unrest in recent days. He was quoted by his spokespeople as saying Friday that “an anti-terror operation has commenced. Law enforcement agencies are working hard. Constitutional order has
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets are mixed after more declines in big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. Tokyo and Taiwan declined but other regional markets advanced. On Thursday, the S&P 500 wobbled between gains and losses for much of the day before shedding 0.1%. Weakness
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets are mixed after more declines in big technology stocks pulled major indexes lower on Wall Street. Tokyo and Taiwan declined but other regional markets advanced. On Thursday, the S&P 500 wobbled between gains and losses for much of the day before shedding 0.1%. Weakness
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By Mallika Kallingal, CNN A fast-moving winter storm that pummeled parts of Kentucky and Virginia is expected to cause widespread disruption across the Northeast on Friday and Saturday, dumping between 4 and 12 inches of snow on the region’s major cities. More than 60 million people are under winter weather alerts, and local officials have
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group. But Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski denied the Pegasus software was being used to target his political opponents. Kaczynski said the secret
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group. But Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski denied the Pegasus software was being used to target his political opponents. Kaczynski said the secret
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