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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ST. LOUIS Adam Wainwright came off the COVID-19 injured list and hung tough, St. Louis got a lights-out performance from its bullpen and the Cardinals beat the New York Mets 6-5 Monday night for their fifth straight win. After the game, the Mets fired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting ...

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LOS ANGELES With LeBron James still working himself back to full strength from a sprained right ankle, the Los Angeles Lakers found out Monday theyll be without their other point guard for more than a week. Coach Frank Vogel said James and Dennis Schrder were out for Mondays game ...

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ATLANTA Chick-fil-A is set to gift $500,000 to a leadership development program at a historically Black college in Atlanta, the school announced Monday. The program at Morris Brown College will be aimed at preparing students for careers in hospitality and organizational leadership, the college said ...

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OAKLAND, Calif. Ramon Laureano homered for the third consecutive day and the Oakland Athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Monday night, spoiling Marcus Semiens return to the Coliseum. Stephen Piscotty also went deep for Oakland. Jed Lowrie doubled twice and had three hits. Frankie Montas ...

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LOS ANGELES Anthony Davis scored 25 points and had key plays on both ends of the floor in the final minute as the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 93-89 victory over the Denver Nuggets Monday night. The Lakers led by 14 points midway through the fourth ...

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SEATTLE Cedric Mullins and Freddy Galvis each hit a two-run homer in Baltimores five-run eighth inning as the Orioles rallied for a 5-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night. Shut down by Seattles bullpen for seven innings, the Orioles broke loose in the eighth. Mullins got it started with a...

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CAIRO As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out of fuel while ...

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