Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page gave evidence at a 2016 trial Led Zeppelin have triumphed in a long-running copyright dispute after a US appeals court ruled they did not steal the opening riff in Stairway To Heaven. The British rock legends were accused in 2014 of ripping […]
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Fourth-ranked Florida State enters the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament as the No. 1 seed for the first time in the history of the men’s basketball program By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer March 9, 2020, 8:36 PM 5 min read Florida State has accomplished several milestones in Leonard Hamilton’s nearly two decades with the Seminoles,
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Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether he needs to reduce how many hands he shakes, but he has shown reluctance to change his actual habits — long before the current outbreak, he made a habit of slathering his hands with sanitizer once he finishes with crowds. At a closed-door fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, he
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LONDON — Europe had already been teetering toward trouble. Even before the coronavirus outbreak quarantined the industrial heart of Italy and emptied the teeming streets of Venice, before France banned public gatherings and major trade shows were canceled in Germany and Spain, economists were openly warning about the prospect of an economic downturn across the
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ROME — Tensions in Italy’s overcrowded prisons erupted Monday over new coronavirus containment measures, with riots in at least two dozen lock-ups and the deaths of six inmates who broke into an infirmary and overdosed on methadone. Italy’s national prisoner rights advocate urged wardens to take immediate measures to calm the situation and mitigate the
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Blue Ivy hails from music royalty, but meeting the King of basketball Sunday had her looking up in awe. Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s oldest child was caught on video asking LeBron James for an autographed ball after his Lakers beat the rival Clippers at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (See the clip below.) In video
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Confusion reigned in northern Italy over who can go where and under what circumstances on the first business day since the government locked down a vast area to contain the country’s coronavirus epidemic By COLLEEN BARRY and ANTONIO CALANNI Associated Press March 9, 2020, 7:25 PM 4 min read MILAN — Confusion reigned in northern
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LOS ANGELES — Mike Bohn took over as athletic director at Southern California on Nov. 7. His first major assignment was to assess the state of the program and determine whether Clay Helton would continue to be the Trojans’ head coach. He had about two weeks to make a decision that could potentially cost USC
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Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race Cory Booker became the latest former presidential candidate to endorse Joe Biden, and our
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NEW YORK — Coronavirus fears and a crash in oil prices sent a shudder through financial markets Monday, with stocks plummeting so fast on Wall Street that they triggered the first automatic halt in trading in over two decades. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 2,000 points at one point during the day,
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