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Workers trapped week in China mine ask for pickles, porridge
BEIJING - Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday. The website of t...
Jan 19, 2021
Group: Billions in aid needed to help Afghan kids in 2021
KABUL - Some 10 million children in war-ravaged Afghanistan are at risk of not having enough food to eat in 2021, a humanitarian organization said Tuesday, and called for billions in new funds for aid...
Jan 18, 2021
Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them?
WASHINGTON - Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt comfo...
Jan 18, 2021
Biden's hefty to-do list starts with a flurry of orders
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has given himself an imposing to-do list for his earliest days as president and many promises to keep over the longer haul. Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden's...
Jan 18, 2021
Biden's national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency, but an inauguration-eve spurt of Senate confirmation hearings suggests that won't be the ca...
Jan 18, 2021
Exhausted hospital chaplains bring solace to lonely, dying
LOS ANGELES - Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chapl...
Jan 18, 2021
Roberts to swear in yet another president who opposed him
WASHINGTON - Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn't wish someone else was chief justice of the United States. Wednesday won't be that day. When Roberts leads Presiden...
Jan 18, 2021
Yellen urges Congress to do more to fight pandemic recession
WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to do more to fight a deep pandemic-induced recession, saying the threats of a longer and even worse downturn are too great ...
Jan 18, 2021
Inaugural event to celebrate resiliency of Black Americans
DETROIT - The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event that will celebrate the nation's diversity on the eve of Presiden...
Jan 18, 2021
Toronto Maple Leafs ride dominant second period to down Winnipeg Jets 3-1
TORONTO - Sheldon Keefe's first training camp as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs lasted just 10 days and included exactly zero exhibition games. Asked to explain by far his team's best stretch o...
Jan 18, 2021
