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International Olympic Committee member Hayley Wickenheiser says that plans for the Tokyo Games to go ahead are "insensitive and irresponsible".

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration says individuals and businesses will be allowed to delay paying their 2019 tax bills for 90 days past the usual April 15 deadline. The extension announced Tuesday is an effort to inject up to $300 billion into the economy at a time when the ...

Administrator Prashant Kumar said the bank had made adequate preparations for any surge in withdrawal of deposits

The winners of the contest will share a $100,000 grant to apply their ideas in real world settings, sponsored by Jewish organizations.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 P.M.) – Two images released by Sputnik Arabic on Tuesday showed the destruction of three Turkish-supplied vehicles during the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) advance in the southwestern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate in February. In the first image shared by Sputnik Arabic, three destroyed Turkish-supplied vehicles can be seen in the town […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Item number 14 out of 37 on the Concord City Council’s March agenda was all positive, literally.

Belgium declared a lockdown for the entire country over the coronavirus crisis from noon on Wednesday (18 March) until 5 April, following the example of several European countries, including neighbouring France, which took the same decision earlier this week.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison after he was connected to the rape of a woman through DNA evidence from a sexual assault kit that had sat unanalyzed for years.

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Every country in Europe should be taking the boldest actions possible to try to halt or slow the epidemic of COVID19 disease caused by the new coronavirus the World Health Organizations European director said on Tuesday Reuters reports

Notre Dame, Ind. The Holy Cross College Department of Athletics is canceling all competitions and practices effective immediately, for the remainder of the spring semester due to the impact of COVID-19. The decision was made in conjunction with university leadership, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC), which canceled all spring events starting Monday.

Flagship devices today all come equipped with specialised AI processing chips, known and neural engines or neural processing units, from Apple's A12 Bionic CPU to Huawei's Kirin 980 or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845, and more and more tasks are using their advanced processing capabilities.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The lawyer for a Massachusetts man convicted of running a large-scale marijuana growing operation out of the family plumbing business wants the verdicts vacated because his client has died.

IRAN may soon be able to develop nuclear weapons if new stringent sanctions aren't put on the nation, according to a frustrated MP.

It’s the first thing that made me laugh in days.

The United Arab Emirates detected 15 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 113, according to state-run news agency WAM citing the health ministry.

1. Mysterious man-made circle of mammoth bones resurfaces after 20,000 years  Yahoo News UK
2. Mysterious mammoth bone circle discovered in Russia could help explain how humans survived last Ice Age  The Independent
3. This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones  The New York Times
4. Eerie ‘Bonehenge circle’ created from mammoth remains by ancient humans leave experts baffled  The Sun
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The mayor's comments come as Gov. Cuomo says peak of infectious outbreak could still be 45 days away.

NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball's teams have pledged $30 million for ballpark workers who will lose income because of the delay to the season caused by the new coronavirus.

Good move: On Tuesday, MLB took measures to look after some of the forgotten victims of postponed games.

MLB clubs come together and pledge to support their idle staff for the first two months of the season

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing ahead with a vote on the House coronavirus bill while Senate Republicans ramp up their efforts to unify around a set of priorities for the third economic package.

Tom Brady has been a spectacular quarterback, the ideal player to execute his coach’s vision on offense, but there is so much more to what has made the Patriots great than the number of points they score.

It will only serve takeaways, deliveries and drive-thru orders.

The call was planned after Ankara opened its borders to migrants trying to enter the bloc.

Italy has announced a new figures that show it has one-third of the world's total deaths from the new virus.