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  • Copa Del Rey: Real Betis rallies past Sociedad to reach quarter-finals; Villarreal advance after beating Girona

    Levante won 4-2 at Valladolid in a game between two top-tier teams.

  • Barcelona reschedule presidential elections to 7 March, allow vote by mail

    Voting will take place at six polling stations and by mail after the Catalan government made a change in the legislation "to allow for postal voting for sporting bodies," Barcelona said.

  • Biden to reopen 'Obamacare' markets for COVID-19 relief

    Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Joe Biden plans to reopen the HealthCare.gov insurance markets for a special sign-up opportunity geared to people needing coverage in the coronavirus pandemic. Biden is expected to sign an executive order Thursday, said two people familiar with the plan, whose details were still being finalized. Although the number of uninsured Americans has grown because of job losses due to the economic hit of COVID-19, the Trump administration resisted calls to authorize a “special enrollment period” for people uninsured in the pandemic.

  • Key Players Rested, India Not Too Important for England?

    England’s Test series against India gets underway on 5 February.

  • US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages

    Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects to provide enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or early fall. Biden, calling the push a “wartime effort,” said Tuesday the administration was working to buy an additional 100 million doses of each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines. Shortages have been so severe that some vaccination sites around the U.S. had to cancel tens of thousands of appointments with people seeking their first shot.

  • WWE: After a 6-month hiatus, Charlotte Flair is refreshed and rejuvenated

    A 6-month hiatus in 2020 played a role in the evolution of Charlotte Flair as both a person and a professional wrestler.

  • AP Exclusive: DOJ rescinds ‘zero tolerance’ immigration rule

    The Justice Department rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations. Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson issued the new memo to federal prosecutors across the nation on Tuesday, saying the department would return to its longstanding previous policy and instructing prosecutors to act on the merits of individual cases. “Consistent with this longstanding principle of making individualized assessments in criminal cases, I am rescinding — effective immediately — the policy directive,” Wilkinson wrote.

  • Pakistan vs South Africa LIVE Score, 1st Test, Day 2 in Karachi

    Follow our blog for live updates from Day 2 of first Test match between Pakistan and South Africa

  • Kerry aims to talk US back into a lead role in climate fight

    From a wood-paneled library in his Boston mansion, new climate envoy John Kerry is talking the U.S. back into a leading role in global climate action, making clear the nation isn't just revving up its own efforts to reduce oil, gas and coal pollution but that it intends to push everyone in the world to do more, too. Kerry’s diplomatic efforts match the fast pace of domestic climate directives by the week-old Biden administration, which created the job Kerry now holds. At 77, Kerry is working to make a success out of the global climate accord that he helped negotiate in Paris as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state — and that he then saw rejected by President Donald Trump, who also spurned all other Obama-era legacy efforts to wean the U.S. and global economies off climate-damaging fossil fuels.

  • NBA Reporter and Analyst Sekou Smith Dies at 48: 'We're All So Saddened'

    "Sekou's love of basketball was clear to everyone who knew him, and it always shined through in his work," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement Tuesday

  • Walmart plans to fill online orders with help from robots at some U.S. stores

    Walmart Inc will add small robot-staffed warehouses to dozens of its stores to help fill orders for pickup and delivery, the company said on Wednesday, as Americans shift their spending online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The robots will work behind the scenes, picking frozen and refrigerated foods as well as smaller general merchandise items from inside the warehouses, or local fulfillment centers, that will carry "thousands of frequently purchased items." The world's largest retailer, which operates nearly 5,000 stores nationwide, did not say how many stores will have the new centers but said it was "planning dozens of locations, with many more to come."

  • Tesla Earnings Today: Why Guidance Is Key

    Here's why investors may want to pay particularly close attention to management's projection for vehicle deliveries this year.

  • Rescued Chinese miners 'feel reborn' after harrowing ordeal

    Two Chinese miners have described how they survived while trapped underground for two weeks.

  • 'Too early' to say whether AstraZeneca Covid vaccine will go to older people in Australia

    'Too early' to say whether AstraZeneca Covid vaccine will go to older people in Australia. Vaccine advisory chief says Australian regulator still evaluating data after EU says AstraZeneca may only be authorised for young people in Europe . Follow the Australia liveblog . NSW hotspots; state-by-state restrictions and rules

  • AP sources: Biden to pause oil and gas sales on public lands

    President Joe Biden is set to announce a wide-ranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands and waters, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment and address climate change. Two people with knowledge of Biden’s plans outlined the proposed moratorium, which will be announced Wednesday. The move follows a 60-day suspension of new drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters announced last week and follows Biden’s campaign pledge to halt new drilling on federally controlled land and water as part of his plan to address climate change.

  • Walmart to build more robot-filled warehouses at stores

    NEW YORK — Walmart is enlisting the help of robots to keep up with a surge in online orders, The company said Wednesday that it plans to build warehouses at its stores where self-driving robots will fetch groceries and have them ready for shoppers to pick up in an hour or less. Walmart declined to say how many of the warehouses it will build, but construction has started at stores in Lewisville, Texas; Plano, Texas; American Fork, Utah; and Bentonville, Arkansas, where Walmart’s corporate offices are based. A test site was opened more than a year ago at a store in Salem, New Hampshire. Walmart hopes the warehouses will speed up curbside pickups, where orders are brought outside to shoppers' cars. Both options became increasingly popular as virus-weary shoppers avoid going inside stores. At the start of the pandemic last year, Walmart said delivery and pickup sales grew 300%. The company said the robots won’t roam store aisles. Instead, they'll stay inside warehouses built in separate areas, either within a store or next to it. Windows will be placed at some locations so shoppers can watch the robots work. The wheeled robots carry crates of apple juice, cereal and other small goods to Walmart workers, who then bag them for shoppers. Rival Amazon uses similar technology in its warehouses, with robots bringing books, vitamins and other small items to workers to box and ship. Walmart said the robots save time since employees don’t have to walk store aisles to find items. Workers will, however, have to go into the store to pick out fresh groceries, such as meat, fish and vegetables. They’ll also have to grab TVs, vacuum cleaners and other large items that are too large for the robots to carry. _____ Follow Joseph Pisani on Twitter: @ josephpisani Joseph Pisani, The Associated Press

  • Marner's goal in 3rd period lifts Maple Leafs over Flames

    Mitch Marner's goal midway through the third period was the winner, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Tuesday night. Marner scored Toronto’s fourth goal at 12:14 of the third period. With his assist on an Auston Matthews' goal, Marner has two goals and four assists in his last four games.

  • Walmart to launch local fulfillment with grocery-picking robots

    "This whole process can take just a few minutes from the time the order is placed to the time it’s ready for a customer or delivery driver to collect," says Walmart U.S. SVP Tom Ward.

  • An Industry First: David Morris Debuts High Jewelry Collection on Farfetch

    For the first time, a high jewelry collection will launch directly on an e-commerce platform — an alternative to virtual presentations taking place during Paris' haute couture week.

  • UN global climate poll: ‘People’s voice is clear – they want action’

    UN global climate poll: ‘People’s voice is clear – they want action’Biggest ever survey finds two-thirds of people think climate change is a global emergency In countries where fossil fuels are a major source of emissions, people strongly supported renewable energy. Photograph: John Giles/PA