BERLIN Bavarian officials on Monday canceled Oktoberfest festivities for a second year in a row due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19, saying there are too many risks in hosting the celebrations which bring in visitors from around the world during a global pandemic. Bavarian Governor Markus ...

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Stocks were solidly higher Monday, and investors cheered a strong dose of positive earnings reports as well as economic data that showed the U.S. economy is growing. The S&P 500 index was up 0.4% as of 12:17 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 287 points, or 0.9%, to 34,161 and the...

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Bobby Unser, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and part of the only pair of brothers to win The Greatest Spectacle in Racing has died. He was 87. He died Sunday at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico of natural causes, Indianapolis Motor Speedway said Monday. Unser won the Indy 500 in 1968, 1975 ...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis moved to suspend all remaining COVID-19 restrictions imposed by communities across his state, signing into law on Monday freshly passed legislation giving him sweeping powers to invalidate local emergency measures put in place during the pandemic including...

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Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive home of the NFLs Thursday Night Football package a year earlier than originally anticipated. Amazon and the league announced Monday that Prime Video will take over the entire package in 2022, which will make it an 11-season deal through 2032. It ...

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CHICAGO The gunshot detection system that set in motion the recent fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago routinely reports gunshots where there are none, sending officers into predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods for unnecessary and hostile encounters, community groups argued...

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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Mourners gathered Monday for the funeral of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man shot and killed by deputies in North Carolina, with the Rev. Al Sharpton issuing a powerful call for transparency and the release of body camera footage. At an invitation-only service in a church in ...

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CHICAGO The leader of Chicago Public Schools announced Monday that shes leaving the post later this year because its time to pass the torch to new leadership of the nations third-largest school district. The move follows a tumultuous tenure for longtime educator Janice Jackson, ...

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NEW YORK The Los Angeles Times on Monday said that ESPN executive Kevin Merida, an editor with extensive newspaper experience, will be its new executive editor. Merida has been editor in chief of ESPNs The Undefeated, a site that examines race and culture as well as sports. He spent 22 years ...

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NEW YORK New York Citys subway will begin rolling all night again and existing capacity restrictions for houses of worship and most types of businesses will lift statewide in mid-May as COVID-19 infection rates continues to decline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. City subway service will...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A federal judge on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Flix Verdejo held without bail after he was charged in the death of his 27-year-old pregnant lover whose body was found in a lagoon. Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and carjacking resulting in the death of Keishla Rodrguez...

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CLEVELAND Center Anderson Varej'o is expected to sign with the Cavaliers for the remainder of the season after the NBA granted the team a roster hardship exception, a person familiar with the decisions told the Associated Press on Monday. Varej'o, who spent 12 seasons with Cleveland before he was ...

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that Republicans are willing to spend up to $600 billion on infrastructure, far less than President Joe Biden is seeking, even as he ruled out supporting a higher corporate tax rate to pay for it. Instead McConnell is ...

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MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota made guard Luke Loewe the latest piece of a major offseason roster revamp, picking up the graduate transfer from William & Mary. The Gophers announced the addition of Loewe on Monday. The 6-foot-4, 186-pound Loewe was a two-time All-Defensive Team pick in the Colonial Athletic ...

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EAGAN, Minn. The Minnesota Vikings declined the fifth-year contract option for cornerback Mike Hughes on Monday, with the injury-hampered 2018 first-round picks future with the team in doubt. Hughes has 13 passes defensed, three fumble recoveries and two interceptions in 24 career games. He ...

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Donald Trump and his supporters are intensifying efforts to shame and potentially remove members of their party who are seen as disloyal to the former president and his false claims that last years election was stolen from him. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican...

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BOISE, Idaho The moment a 19-year-old intern reported that she was raped by an Idaho lawmaker became public, the harassment began. One state representative sought a copy of her police report, and made inquiries into how the young woman could be herself referred from criminal charges for reporting ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. Patients in Louisianas medical marijuana program would be able to smoke raw cannabis, rather than rely on the more processed forms of marijuana currently available, if the Senate agrees to a bill that easily won House passage Monday. The House voted 73-26 with little debate ...

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RENO, Nev. The Biden administration says a U.S. judge exceeded his authority when he gave federal wildlife officials a May 21 deadline to decide whether to formally propose endangered species protections for a rare desert wildflower at the center of a fight over a proposed lithium mine in Nevada. ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. The fight over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep peoples information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts on Monday went before a judicial panel that must decide if the method provides enough data ...

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The Treasury Department says it expects to borrow $463 billion in the current April-June quarter and $2.28 trillion for the full budget year, as the government finances continued pandemic relief measures. Treasury officials announced Monday that the $463 billion in borrowing for the current quarter ...

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FRANKFORT, Ky. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signaled Monday that he will consider relaxing more coronavirus-related restrictions before the state reaches a key vaccination target. Nearly 1.85 million Kentuckians have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine slightly more than half the statewide ...

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MINNEAPOLIS One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal. A photo, ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. Republican lawmakers on Monday cut Kansas income taxes, lowered the age for carrying a concealed gun and tightened state election laws by overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys vetoes of those measures. A series of votes in the GOP-controlled Legislature demonstrated that...

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TOPEKA, Kan. Conservative Republicans in Kansas failed Monday to overturn the Democratic governors veto of a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girls and womens sports, unable to convert successes in other states or Caitlyn Jenners support into enough momentum. The ...

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LOS ANGELES Three men drove around the Hollywood area in late February, on the prowl for expensive French bulldogs to steal, prosecutors said. Their night would end in gunfire and the violent theft of pop star Lady Gagas beloved pets. The robbery would prompt headlines around the world and motivate ...

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PHILADELPHIA Claude Giroux had two goals and an assist, Kevin Hayes gave Philadelphia a rare early lead, and the Flyers skated to an easy 7-2 victory over the first-place Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night. Joel Farabee had a goal and two assists and Shayne Gostisbehere, Wade Allison and Robert ...

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ATLANTA Carmelo Anthony of the Portland Trail Blazers moved into 10th place on the NBAs career scoring list with 14 points against the Hawks on Monday night. Anthony now has 27,318 points in his career, surpassing Elvin Hayes (27,313) to move into the Top 10. Next up for the 36-year-old ...

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DETROIT Mo Bamba had 22 points and 15 rebounds both career highs and the Orlando Magic beat the Detroit Pistons 119-112 on Monday night. Saddiq Bey led Detroit with 26 points in a game that had little at stake with the possible exception of lottery positioning. The Pistons (19-46) have []
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CP A sleepy Taiwanese girl has caught the attention of social media users after she was caught sleeping sideways on the lap of a scooter-rider, believed to be her grandmother on Sunday. POSwag According to a Facebook post captioned Swag noon nap, the short video clip featured a parental figure ...

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