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NCAA may consider single site for part of future tourneys
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA used the single-site concept for its marquee championship out of necessity.Now it could become part of the tournament's future.A day after crowning a national champion for...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

McConnell warns biz off political speech, says it’s ‘stupid’
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday it's "quite stupid" for corporations to speak out against the Georgia voting law, intensifying his warnings for big business to ...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

Nearly half of new US virus infections are in just 5 states
Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states - a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sendin...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

US weighs Beijing Olympics boycott with partners, allies
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Tuesday the Biden administration is considering a possible boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China's human rights record. Departmen...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

MLB officially moves All-Star Game to Denver’s Coors Field
Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to extensive changes to Georgia's voting laws. Coors Field last hosted...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

Doormen fired for failing to intervene in anti-Asian attack
NEW YORK (AP) - Two New York City apartment building workers have been fired for failing to help an Asian American woman as she was being violently attacked on the sidewalk outside, the building's man...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

Education Department reviewing campus sex assault rules
The Education Department on Tuesday moved forward with plans to revise federal rules around campus sexual assault, paving the way for an overhaul of a Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden has vow...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

US, Iran expected to begin indirect nuclear talks in Vienna
VIENNA (AP) - Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear program stepped up a gear Tuesday as Iran and the five world powers still in the accord met in Vienna while W...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

Official: Biden moving vaccine eligibility date to April 19
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden was set to announce Tuesday that he is shaving about two weeks off his May 1 deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines. With states...
Syndicated Author Apr 06, 2021

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to at least partially offset any disadvantages that might arise ...
Syndicated Author Apr 05, 2021
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