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Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, announces she's pregnant
Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries has announced that she is missing this season because she and her husband, former bobsledder Travis Armbruster, are expecting their first child. Humphries made the revelation Monday, saying the baby is due in June. “Baby on board,” she...
China's Xi welcomes President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus to Beijing
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke of a “strengthened political mutual trust and international coordination” with Belarus after he met with the European country's president in Beijing, according to official media. China has sought to make Belarus a core member of...
A secret trip by Henry Kissinger grew into a half-century-long relationship with China
BEIJING (AP) — Official China called Henry Kissinger “an old friend.” A commentator likened him to a giant panda, a goodwill ambassador between two countries that have been at odds more often than not over the decades. Kissinger, who died Wednesday, developed a special...
Ruling in Russian Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case could be delayed to February
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — There could be yet another delay in the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, with a ruling now potentially coming more than two years since her positive test rocked the Beijing Winter Olympics. The International Skating Union said in a...
A Hong Kong court hears final arguments in the subversion trial of pro-democracy activists
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court started hearing the final arguments Wednesday of some of the city's best-known pro-democracy activists tried under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent. The activists' subversion trial is the biggest prosecution yet...
Beijing police investigate major Chinese shadow bank Zhongzhi after it says it's insolvent
HONG KONG (AP) — Police are investigating suspected crimes of a Chinese wealth company owned by Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, according to the Beijing Public Security Bureau, days after the firm told investors it was insolvent. In a statement published on the social media platform...
Beijing court begins hearings for Chinese relatives of people on Malaysia Airlines plane
BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court began compensation hearings Monday morning for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to Beijing, a case that remains shrouded in mystery after almost a decade. Security was tight around...
China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
BEIJING (AP) — A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country's health ministry said Sunday. Recent clusters of respiratory infections...
WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters
GENEVA (AP) — Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters...
Bobsledder Kaysha Love pushed her way to an Olympics. She now wants to drive to another
Kaysha Love is trying to pull off perhaps the most difficult transition in bobsledding, the one where a push athlete tries to become a driver. Last year, the results weren't great. This year, so far, they are. Hard as this may be to believe, the...
