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Good morning, Chicago. Life expectancy in Chicago during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic dropped almost two years from 2019-2020, the city’s Department of Public Health reported. This is one of the sharpest single-year decreases in life expectancy on record, the agency said, and the steepest declines for Black and Latinx Chicagoans, with COVID-19…
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Los Angeles and Orange counties once again had some of the best high schools in the country, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report — with Southern California in general having a strong showing in the statewide rankings. Whitney High School in Cerritos ranked 14th nationally, California Academy of Mathematics and…
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By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is seeking the Supreme Court’s go-ahead to end a controversial Trump-era immigration program that forces some people seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their hearings. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday in the administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as it seeks to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus. Paxlovid, produced by Pfizer, was first approved in…
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By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly $44 billion to buy the social platform and take it private. Assuming that happens, next up on his agenda will be planning how to fulfill his promises to develop new Twitter features, open its…
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Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s civilian population are clearly “crimes against humanity,” said an expert on the law and ethics of armed conflict, who was one of the panelists at a recent symposium at Cal State University Fullerton. As one of seven experts speaking at the Royce International Symposium on New Challenges for U.S. Foreign…
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No quarterbacks in the top 10. No running backs in the first round. Lots of teams who want to trade back. No consensus top player. Welcome to the 2022 NFL Draft, where anything can happen. Here is my first and only mock draft, taking a crack at how it might shake out for the top…
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Over the last five weeks of the 2021 season, the Ravens relied on Kevon Seymour, Robert Jackson, Daryl Worley and Chris Westry to play significant snaps at cornerback. This was not the plan for a franchise that has invested so much cap space in its secondary in recent seasons, one that was turning away qualified…
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Q: Victor Oladipo’s defense, playmaking and ability to break down a defense prove him more valuable than Duncan Robinson and Caleb Martin. That proved true the second he came into Game 4, when Miami went on a run. Scoring will come, but like Erik Spoelstra always preaches, it’s not what’s always in the box score.…
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While the Orioles won a series against the Los Angeles Angels as part of a three-city road trip, several of Baltimore’s minor leaguers put together displays that might warrant looks for the major league roster in the near future. There are hot-hitting prospects up and down the farm system, and the top pitching prospect in…
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