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December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

WA Lottery

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ These Washington lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

EU, Britain to toughen rules, fines for tech giants

LONDON (AP) — Big tech companies face hefty fines in the European Union and Britain if they treat rivals unfairly or fail to protect users on their platforms, in proposed regulations unveiled Tuesday by officials in Brussels and London.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'

NEW YORK (AP) — Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

John le Carre, who probed murky world of spies, dies at 89

LONDON (AP) — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

The Latest: Kansas mayor resigns over mask mandate threats

KANSAS — A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next U.S. president, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively chose the Democrat. Foreign leaders joined the parade, too, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Trump asking about special prosecutor for Hunter Biden case

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is considering pushing to have a special counsel appointed to advance

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

The AP names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020

Making a breakthrough in pop culture during any year is hard. Doing it during a global pandemic is an entirely different thing.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Virus shuts many UK theaters but online the show goes on

LONDON (AP) — When Andrew Lincoln steps onstage at London’s Old Vic Theatre as Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol,” he looks out on an empty auditorium.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

AP Breakthrough Entertainer Anya Taylor-Joy living in Narnia

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a span of seven months this year alone, Anya Taylor-Joy played a meddling British brat in “Emma,” a Russian mutant with teleportation powers in the latest “X-Men” film, and an American orphan who turns out to be a chess phenom who can checkmate grown men by the time she’s 8 in “The Queen’s Gambit.”

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Biden's challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

OR Lottery

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ These Oregon lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

City struggles in attack again in 1-1 draw with West Brom

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City’s lack of cutting edge proved costly again as Pep Guardiola's stuttering side was held to a 1-1 draw by next-to-last West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday to remain off the pace in the Premier League.

December 16, 2020 12:06 a.m.

Music Review: Paul McCartney is fab on 'McCartney III'

Paul McCartney, “McCartney III" (Capitol Records)

December 15, 2020 11:06 p.m.

Minnesota juvenile lifer walks free after 18 years in prison

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Black man sent to prison for life as a teenager took his first steps of freedom Tuesday to the sound of ringing bells and cheering family members and supporters, hours after a pardons board commuted his sentence in a high-profile murder case.

December 15, 2020 10:07 p.m.

Embed-Virus Outbreak-COVID 2020 Atlas, ADVISORY

VIRUS OUTBREAK-COVID 2020 ATLAS — The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. On every continent, households have felt its devastation. But each nation has its own story of how it coped. The following charts assess how the 13 countries have weathered the pandemic — and where the case counts of those nations stand on the cusp of year two of the contagion. These charts automatically update on a daily basis. Source: Johns Hopkins University. Charts and introductory video loop pair with Virus Outbreak-COVID 2020 Atlas.

December 15, 2020 10:07 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020

Almost no place has been spared — and no one.

December 15, 2020 10:03 p.m.

Biden's challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home. President-elect Joe Biden, surrounded by just a handful of aides in Delaware, is using Zoom to oversee his plans to assume power.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory