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Curtain rising Sunday night on total lunar eclipse
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza. Sunday night, the Earth will slide directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There won’t be another until 2021. It will also be the year’s first supermoon, when a full...
Students seen mocking Native Americans could face expulsion
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Students at a Kentucky Catholic school who were involved in a video showing them mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a Washington rally could potentially face expulsion, according to the diocese. In a joint statement , the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic...
Democrats aren’t buying Trump’s shutdown-ending ‘compromise’
WASHINGTON — In a bid to break the shutdown stalemate, President Donald Trump offered to extend temporary protections for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones in exchange for his long-promised border wall. But while Trump cast the move as a “commonsense compromise,”...
Founder of Dead Poets Society is published, posthumously
PORTLAND, Maine — The late founder of the Dead Poets Society of America can be inducted to the society of fallen bards now that he’s now a published poet. Walter Skold visited the gravesites of more than 600 poets, and one of his criteria was that the subjects had to...
Super Bowl berths on the line in conference title games
The Los Angeles Rams are back inside the stadium where they lost for the first time this season, looking for retribution and a Super Bowl berth as they face the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game. The Superdome is coming alive for the last time this football season...
Penguins defense unravels in loss to Golden Knights
LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Marchessault scored three goals for his second career hat trick to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Phil Kessel, Dominik Simon and Sidney Crosby scored for the Penguins, and Casey DeSmith finished with 28 saves. Marc-Andre...
Winter storm misses Southwest Pa.
Most of Western Pennsylvania escaped snowfall during the day Saturday as temperatures remained in the 30s and brought steady, sometimes heavy, rains. The region Is expected to receive 1 to 3 inches of snow overnight as temperatures drop, while northern counties such as Butler and Indiana could get significantly more...
Phil Mickelson drains long birdies for Desert Classic lead
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Phil Mickelson made three long birdie putts on the back nine Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Desert Classic. Making his first start of the year, the 48-year-old Mickelson shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 on the Stadium Course at PGA...
Second-half surge leads Syracuse past Pitt
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim breathed a sigh of relief. Five days after his Orange’s biggest win of the season, there was no letdown. Tyus Battle scored 22 points, Boeheim’s son Buddy had a season-high 13 points and Syracuse beat Pitt, 74-63, on Saturday, the Orange’s zone defense...
World Economic Forum warns of impact of global tensions
LONDON — International tensions and nationalist politics can further weigh on the global economy this year and hinder efforts to deal with big issues such as climate change, the organizers of this week’s Davos forum warned last weekWednesday. In its annual Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum said the...
Patriots to test Chiefs’ suddenly stingy defense
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The only defense the Kansas City Chiefs played most of this season was, well, in defense of their own defense, which gave up so many yards and points that it became a running joke around the league. Yes, the Chiefs scored in bushels. They also allowed...
Snow, ice blanket Midwest as storm heads to New England
DETROIT — People throughout parts of the Midwest woke Saturday to a heavy and steady snowfall that forced the cancellation of hundreds of airline flights and made driving dangerous. More than 460 flights were canceled Saturday morning at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and about 50 flights were canceled...
Man gets 10 to 20 years in death of Lock Haven woman missing since 1991
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — A man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years on a murder conviction in the disappearance a quarter-century ago of a woman whose body has never been found. Senior Lycoming County Judge Kenneth Brown sentenced Loyd Groves in Clinton County Thursday to the maximum term...
Model in Russian court apologizes for U.S. election claim
MOSCOW — A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said Saturday that she apologizes to a Russian tycoon for the claim and won’t say more about the matter. Anastasia Vashukevich made the statement in...
Products made of threatened African wildlife sold at U.S. expo
RENO, Nev. — Photos and video taken by animal welfare activists at a recent trophy hunting convention show an array of products crafted from the body parts of threatened big-game animals, including boots, chaps, belts and furniture labeled as elephant leather. Vendors at the Safari Club International event held last...
Trump offers a ‘Dreamers’ deal for border-money proposal
WASHINGTON — In a bid to break the shutdown impasse and fund his long-promised border wall, President Donald Trump on Saturday offered to extend temporary protection for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But while Trump cast the move as a “common-sense compromise,” Democrats were quick to...
Shutdown leads to delays in lawsuits against government
RICHMOND, Va. — During the longest-ever government shutdown, the federal judiciary has remained open, allowing the wheels of justice to keep turning in most criminal cases. But many civil cases have come to a halt because the U.S. Department of Justice doesn’t have enough attorneys working to handle them. Judges...
Black teen’s family laments sentence given to white officer
CHICAGO — The explosive video of a white Chicago officer shooting a black teenager 16 times shocked consciences around the world with footage of Laquan McDonald getting gunned down as he walked away from police. The graphic images of McDonald crumpling to the street while bullets kept striking him stirred...
Serena Williams untested heading into Week 2 of Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Maybe Serena Williams will be tested in the Australian Open’s fourth round, because no one has come close to making her work too hard so far. Playing clean and powerful tennis, Williams overwhelmed 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1, on Saturday. Williams grabbed a pair of...
Exhibit of important papers marks MLK’s 90th birthday
ATLANTA — A collection of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers on display in Atlanta provides insight into the slain civil rights leader’s thought processes as he drafted some of his most well-known speeches and notable sermons. “The Meaning of Hope: The Best of the Morehouse College Martin Luther...
Jermaine Haley’s layup caps comeback, lifts West Virginia over No. 7 Kansas
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Kansas coach Bill Self left his postgame news conference, saw West Virginia’s Bob Huggins down a hallway and stopped for a handshake. “Go win the rest of them,” Self said. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but Huggins will gladly take this one over his friend in what has become...
Penguins beat Coyotes on Phil Kessel’s OT winner
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Phil Kessel scored on a power play with less than a minute left in overtime. Matt Murray stopped 30 shots, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Arizona Coyotes, 3-2, on Friday night. Outscored 10-4 in consecutive losses, the Penguins fell behind on Clayton Keller’s first-period goal following...
Strike by Los Angeles teachers enters fifth day amid talks
LOS ANGELES — Teachers picketed and rallied Friday as a strike against the giant Los Angeles Unified School District extended to a fifth day with a new round of contract negotiations underway. Drums, whistles, shouts and honks from supportive drivers echoed through downtown as groups of teachers and backers walked...
Neo-Nazi publisher ordered to turn over personal information
HELENA, Mont. — A judge has ordered the publisher of a neo-Nazi website to reveal his net worth and identify any phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts and technology he used when he called for his readers to unleash a “troll storm” on a Montana woman. U.S. Magistrate Judge...
20 dead, 60 burned in fire at tap on Mexico fuel pipeline
MEXICO CITY — A huge fire exploded at a pipeline leaking fuel in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 20 people and badly burning 60 others as locals collected the spilling gasoline in buckets, officials said. The leak was caused by fuel thieves illegally tapping the pipeline in a...
