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The Latest: Lizzo, Billie Eilish each win early Grammys

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday at Los Angeles' Staples Center (all times local): 4 p.m. Lizzo and Billie Eilish have won their first career Grammys in what could...

Jan 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant, Lakers great and basketball icon, dies in crash

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, ...

Jan 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant, daughter perish in copter crash, 3 others dead

CALABASAS, Calif. - NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday, his sudden death at age 41 touching off an out...

Jan 26, 2020

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman...

Jan 26, 2020

At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 500 and leaving some 30 trapped in the wreckage...

Jan 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant dead following helicopter crash

CALABASAS, CALIF - NBA Legend Kobe Bryant has died in a California helicopter crash according to multiple media sources.At the age of 41, Bryant was reportedly one of at least four people travelling o...

Jan 26, 2020 (Jonathan Backman/Canadian Press)

Pentagon: 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran strike

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned t...

Jan 26, 2020

6 killed in Germany shooting, including suspect's parents

BERLIN - Six people were killed and another two wounded in a shooting in the southwestern German town of Rot am See on Friday, police said. The suspect's parents were among the dead and the other vict...

Jan 26, 2020

Career Border Patrol official picked to lead agency

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday named a 27-year Border Patrol veteran who has forcefully advocated for the president's agenda to lead the agency after a surge of asylum-seeking familie...

Jan 26, 2020

2 killed, 20 injured when warehouse explosion shakes Houston

HOUSTON - A massive explosion Friday levelled a warehouse in Houston, killing two workers, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened residents from their sleep miles away, authorities...

Jan 26, 2020