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Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighbourhood

MIAMI - Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighbourhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds. He was joined by his children at the event set u...

Dec 29, 2020

First reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado

DENVER - The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The variant was found in a man...

Dec 29, 2020

Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video...

Dec 29, 2020

Biden criticizes pace of vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is "falling far behind." Biden said "it's gonna take ...

Dec 29, 2020

Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Trump's pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives and fo...

Dec 29, 2020

Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of COVID-19, the state prisons system said. At the ti...

Dec 29, 2020

Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet - optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice - has been removed from its perch in downtow...

Dec 29, 2020

Shanghai police say suspect detained in games tycoon's death

BEIJING - Police in Shanghai say they have detained a suspect in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that makes films based on the popular scienc...

Dec 29, 2020

'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers

NEW YORK - One of television's hottest shows is also among its oldest. It's not the first time that's been said about "60 Minutes" since its 1968 debut. In the frenzied news year of 2020, however, the...

Dec 29, 2020

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia; 1 death reported

ZAGREB, Croatia - A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said a girl was killed and at le...

Dec 29, 2020