All Stories from December 19, 2018 (Change date)
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St. John's wins 11th straight, beats St. Francis (Brooklyn)Dec 19, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - LJ Figueroa and Mikey Dixon scored 13 points apiece and St. John's won its 11th straight and remains undefeated with an 86-52 victory over St. Francis (B...
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Airbnb making new push for smoke, carbon monoxide alarmsDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Airbnb wants more of its rental properties to have smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Starting Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company w...
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Chiefs on shaky injury ground heading to Seattle showdownDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Chiefs coach Andy Reid delivered some promising news Wednesday when he rattled off the list of players who wouldn't be practicing for this weeken...
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SoftBank mobile subsidiary has bitter debut on Tokyo marketDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - SoftBank Group Corp.'s Japanese mobile subsidiary suffered a bitter debut Wednesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, slumping 15 percent, hurt by a recent servi...
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'Amigo!' Jury hears cheerful El Chapo on tape at US trialDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Secretly recorded phone calls played Wednesday at the U.S. trial of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman make him sound as if he was enj...
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Chechen critic fears for his life as he faces deportationDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A gravelly voice rings out from the phone's loudspeaker: "Aren't you scared of me?" The man on the screen, 32-year-old Chechen video blogger Tumso Abdurakh...
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UK judge rules wealthy Russian died of natural causesDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - A British judge says a wealthy Russian businessman who collapsed near his home outside London died from a heart attack. Alexander Perepilichnyy collapsed w...
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Uber loses UK case on worker rights, expected to appealDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Uber pledged Wednesday to challenge a U.K. Court of Appeal decision that drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed employees, a verdic...
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Pitt bolsters backfield during early signing periodDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh tried to lock up its backfield of the future during the early signing period that began Wednesday. The Panthers signed 18 players in all, in...
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AG wants Gary council member to give up pay from 2nd jobDec 19, 2018 6:00 am - GARY, Ind. (AP) - The Indiana attorney general's office is seeking to recover about $133,000 collected by a Gary City Council member who also had another government job....