Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lizzo and Lil Nas X are among the leading nominees for this year’s awards The 62nd annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Billed as “music’s biggest night”, the ceremony is more like “music’s longest day” – with festivities kicking off at lunchtime in LA […]
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In the heart of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, ordinary people worked tirelessly and at great risk to themselves to help those whose lives were threatened. Among them was Ruth Winkelmann, who witnessed 16 members of her family being taken away to concentration camps. She managed to live in a garden shed for two years, hiding her
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Spanish football was marred by a player being racially abused during a league game on Saturday along with street clashes between rival fans outside stadiums before two matches January 25, 2020, 11:59 PM 2 min read BARCELONA, Spain — Spanish was marred by a player being racially abused during a league game on Saturday, along
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WASHINGTON — For an hour one evening in 2018, President Trump sat around a table in a private room in his Washington hotel with a group of donors, including two men at the center of the impeachment inquiry, talking about golf, trade, politics — and removing the United States ambassador to Ukraine. The conversation, captured
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Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum By PAN PYLAS Associated Press January 24, 2020, 10:09 AM 3 min read LONDON — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that
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Darius Perry set career highs with 19 points and five 3-pointers, and No. 6 Louisville rolled over Clemson 80-62 for its sixth consecutive victory By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer January 25, 2020, 9:42 PM 2 min read LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Darius Perry set career highs with 19 points and five 3-pointers, and No.
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Representative Adam B. Schiff, the lead House manager, for the first time took head-on the Republican criticism that he mocked President Trump during a hearing by pretending the president’s call with his Ukrainian counterpart was a mob shakedown. At a hearing in late September, Mr. Schiff portrayed “the essence” of the real call by pretending
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Geo Baker hit a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds left to lift No. 24 Rutgers to a 75-72 victory over Nebraska By MATT SUGAM Associated Press January 25, 2020, 9:58 PM 2 min read PISCATAWAY, NJ — Geo Baker hit a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds left to send No. 24 Rutgers past Nebraska 75-72 Saturday to
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CLEVELAND — Next month, Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s second largest, will begin sending letters and fliers, making phone calls and hosting information fairs to alert struggling citizens of a change about to befall them: Come April, able-bodied adults without children may lose their food stamps if they do not find work fast. A Trump administration rule
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London’s police force says it will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer January 24, 2020, 5:08 PM 4 min read LONDON — London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in
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