All Stories from July 18, 2020 (Change date)
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Illinois programs to get $7M in federal COVID-19 reliefJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - More than $7 million in federal funding will be going to organizations to help Illinois communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, state ...
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Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero'Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning - when he was just a kid wanting to b...
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More celebrations for promoted Leeds with 2nd-tier titleJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - LEEDS, England (AP) - A day after securing its return to the Premier League after 16 years, Leeds won the League Championship without kicking a ball. The second-tier tit...
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NBA going with shorter games for Disney exhibition openersJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial mat...
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As camp approaches, how will NFL handle players opting out?Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - The 60-game mini-season Major League Baseball assembled this summer was still long enough that a dozen or so health-concerned players, even a few stars, decided to skip ...
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Petition urges Trader Joe's to change ethnic food labelsJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Responding to calls for Trader Joe's to stop labeling its international food products with ethnic-sounding names, the grocery store chain said it ha...
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Police close down packed Barcelona beach amid virus spikeJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Police in Barcelona closed down access to a large area of the city's beaches on Saturday after too many sunbathers ignored authorities' request t...
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Indiana reports 17 more COVID-19 deaths, 855 new casesJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Seventeen more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19 while another 855 Hoosiers - the largest number in recent weeks - have been diagnosed with t...
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Play ball? Experts send mixed signals on MLB 60-game seasonJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty baseball teams from 28 cities, trying to play 60 games each amid a coronavirus pandemic that seemingly hasn't peaked in the United States. Plausi...
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Fighting between armed groups in eastern Congo kills dozensJul 18, 2020 7:00 am - KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Days of fighting between armed groups in villages in Congo's South Kivu province killed at least 43 people, many of them women and children, resid...