IAAF President Sebastian Coe addresses low turnout at worlds, heat and doping scandal By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer April 11, 2020, 11:24 AM 5 min read DOHA, Qatar — Sebastian Coe has a concise message for athletes who are dissing on Doha: Deal with it. The head of worldwide track and field says any […]
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ISTANBUL — Police across Turkey are conducting routine ID checks on the streets, stopping anyone who looks under 20 or over 65 as they enforce a coronavirus curfew for the young and the elderly. Yet factory workers are still going to their jobs, people freely ride buses and many offices remain open. Turkey has charted
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Alec Baldwin was back as Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” — on the phone — calling in to “Weekend Update,” and bragging that America is now “number one in the world” for COVID-19 (in cases and deaths). Besides, “my TV ratings are through the roof, and every night at 7 p.m. all of New York
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s national soccer team described their World Cup qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang as a “rough” match played under strange conditions that may be raised with FIFA. The historic match ended in a scoreless draw Tuesday at huge Kim Il Sung Stadium, which was empty of spectators. The match
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World shares have held steady in quiet Good Friday trading after Wall Street closed out its best week in 45 years thanks to the Federal Reserve’s titanic effort to support the economy By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer April 10, 2020, 11:32 AM 3 min read 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this
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CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt. With the New York area still deep in
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“Hey, it’s good to be here, though it’s … weird to be here hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ from home,” announced Tom Hanks in a surprise appearance at the start of the historic stay-at-home “SNL.” The actor, direct from his own personal ordeal with COVID-19, captured the bizarre other-worldness of a streamed “SNL” with the entire
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and North Korea will meet on the qualifying path to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar but it’s unclear whether a rare match between them in Pyongyang will materialize considering their political tension. With the Koreas, there’s never a separation between sports and politics. The North has previously refused
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Japanese health care facilities are getting stretched thin amid a surge in coronavirus patients April 12, 2020, 5:58 AM 3 min read 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and
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Jack Nicklaus was down, playing poorly, and his pride was hurt. The unwelcome, hurting question kept coming: “When are you going to retire?” But it was a newspaper article which really enraged golf’s Golden Bear. “It said I was dead, washed up, through, with no chance whatsoever. I was sizzling. I kept thinking, ‘Dead, huh?
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