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MELBOURNE, Australia — As thousands of fans queued to get into the Australian Grand Prix for the first Formula One weekend of the season, the teams and drivers were packing up to leave.

JUNEAU, Alaska — A man has tested positive for the new coronavirus in Alaska, the first such case in the state, officials said. Gov. Mike Dunleavy's office said the individual arrived in Anchorage Wednesday. The state's chief medical officer, Dr.

NEW YORK — Baltimore slugger Chris Davis was driving down Florida's west coast on Interstate 75 from Sarasota to Fort Myers for an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins when he got the call. No game tonight. No games for a while.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former Olympic high jumper Erin Aldrich claims one of her track coaches, John Rembao, began grooming her for a sexually abusive relationship when she was 16 before physically taking advantage of her two years later.

WASHINGTON — The notes started popping up on Congress’ office doors this week. Elbow greetings only. A six-foot radius. And that’s for lawmakers who are taking visitors at all. “No offence ,” read one, posted outside the office of North Carolina Rep.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Rapper Kodak Black pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapons charge stemming from a stop at the Canadian border crossing near Niagara Falls last April.

March Madness came to a screeching halt before a bracket could even be filled out.

WASHINGTON — A senior Brazilian official who attended weekend events with President Donald Trump in Florida has tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first time that someone known to have the virus was in close proximity to the president.

NEW YORK — Edwidge Danticat's story collection “Everything Inside” has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank moved Thursday to try to calm financial markets and restore some degree of confidence. It didn't quite work.