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Brazil's Lula gets image boost at Rio Carnival, but also faces legal risks

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome hosted a glitzy parade Sunday evening celebrating Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a year he bids for his fourth inconsecuti...

The Shaq of Bobsled: Canadian Olympian named after Shaq and Penny has a most interesting story

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — He was named after two basketball stars, with his father hoping he would end up following in their footsteps. In a way, he has. Meet Shaquille Anfernee Murray...

California braces for a major winter storm expected to bring heavy rain and snow

Much of California on Monday was preparing to be hit by a powerful winter storm carrying treacherous thunderstorms, high winds and heavy snow in mountain areas. Jacob Spender, a National We...

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Searchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale in the late 19th century, completing a quest that began almost 60 years ago. Sh...

Obama shuts down alien buzz and says there's no evidence they've made contact

Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the...

No, George Washington didn't have wooden teeth. Yes, he led the Siege of Boston

BOSTON (AP) — More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution. The Siege of ...

A fisherman is Jamaica's new bobsled pilot. He wants to make the team known beyond 'Cool Runnings'

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Monday would have been a fantastic day for fishing in Jamaica. The weather was just about perfect with bright sunshine, forecasters calling for temperatures i...

Iran meets UN nuclear watchdog in Geneva ahead of a second round of US talks

GENEVA (AP) — Iran's top diplomat met with the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on Monday, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear progra...

An 'ice bath from the ground up': How 2 US bobsledders ended up barefoot post-run

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Frank Del Duca and Josh Williamson quickly began icing down after their first two runs of the two-man bobsled event at the Milan Cortina Games. It was not in...

Abduction of Mexican mine workers raises doubts over touted security improvements

CONCORDIA, Mexico (AP) — Deep in the coastal mountains above the sparkling Pacific resort of Mazatlan, towns spaced along a twisting road appear nearly deserted, the quiet broken only by the...

NAACP asks judge to protect against 'misuse' of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia's Fulton County

ATLANTA (AP) — The NAACP and other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the FBI from an elections warehouse just outside Atlanta. Georgia...

Last at halfway, smiling at the finish: Israel’s first Olympic bobsled run

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — AJ Edelman and Menachem Chen are in last place out of 26 sleds at the midway point of the Olympic two-man bobsled race at the Milan Cortina Games. And they'r...
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