By JOE McDONALD BEIJING (AP) — Companies in Shenzhen, a major Chinese business center, will be allowed to reopen while efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks progress, the government said Thursday, following a citywide shutdown that rattled financial markets. Testing of everyone in the city of 17.5 million people is “progressing smoothly,” said a deputy mayor,…
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By MATT OTT WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs continue to fall amid a strong job market rebound. Jobless claims fell by 15,000 to 214,000 for the week ending March 12, down from the previous week’s 229,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications for jobless aid generally…
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The progressive experiment is failing in California. Take a walk around any of the cities controlled by Democrats here and you’ll see dozens of homeless encampments, feces, and heroin needles littering sidewalks and streets. Despite containing only 12% of the nation’s population, California is home to a whopping 28% of its homeless, and an astronomical…
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Associated Press President Joe Biden will speak Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ongoing economic competition between the two countries and Russia’s war against Ukraine. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the upcoming phone call in a Thursday statement that said it’s “part of our ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of…
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By ANDREA ROSA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Survivors began to emerge Thursday as authorities worked to rescue hundreds of civilians trapped in the basement of a theater blasted by Russian airstrikes in the besieged city of Mariupol, while ferocious Russian bombardment killed dozens in a northern city over the past day, the local governor said.…
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El Pollo Loco is serving shredded beef birria for a limited time in tacos, burritos and quesadillas. Birria is a meaty soup from the Mexican state of Jalisco, and El Pollo Loco will serve its birria items with a cup of broth for dipping. Birria has become something of a fad on social media and…
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer INDIAN WELLS — Nursing a nagging foot injury, Rafael Nadal improved to 18-0 this season, edging Reilly Opelka, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5), on Wednesday in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open. “I can’t say it’s a dream because I even couldn’t dream about that three months ago,…
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PROVO, Utah — The Long Beach State men’s basketball team held a five-point halftime lead, but second-seeded BYU used a big second-half run to roll to a 93-72 win in a first-round game of the NIT on Wednesday night at BYU. Long Beach (20-13) was without forwards Aboubacar Traore and Romelle Mansel for much of…
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LOS ANGELES — The scouting report on the Clippers: They’re always gonna give you a game. “I know this team plays really hard, they play really hard,” Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse said before his team escaped with a 103-100 victory over the Clippers on Wednesday before a sellout crowd of 19,068 at Crypto.com Arena.…
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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA >> The Santa Margarita baseball team continued its hot start to the season Wednesday by grinding out a 5-4 win against JSerra at Santa Margarita High. UCLA commit Logan De Groot drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Santa Margarita (11-0, 2-0) the walk-off win. “For…
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