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In this July 26, 2018 file photo former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch during the U.S. national championships swimming meet in Irvine, Calif. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Gianna also died in the crash. She was 13.

Kobe helicopter tried to climb to avoid clouds before crash

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The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into a hillside outside Los Angeles, killing former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and eight others, told air traffic controllers in his last radio message that he was climbing to avoid a cloud layer, an accident investigator said Monday ...

Father arrested in killings of 5 of his infant children

This undated booking photo from the Yolo County Sheriff's Office shows Paul Perez. The 57-year-old California man has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children, a case the sheriff said had haunted his agency for years, the sheriff's office said Monday, Jan. 27, 2020.

Los Angeles unites in grief for adopted son Kobe Bryant

Nicole Mascarenhas, wipes her eyes in front of a screen with the late Kobe Bryant at a memorial for Kobe Bryant near Staples Center Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in Los Angeles.

Mom of 2 missing kids found in Hawaii with new husband

FILE - This combination photo of undated file photos, released by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, show missing children Joshua

Justices allow enforcement of new green card rule

Alabama fire chief confirms deaths as fire destroys 35 boats

A tribute to Kobe Bryant could be seen on the side of the Target Center in Minneapolis Monday.

Bryant's helicopter flew in fog that grounded other choppers

The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others that crashed into a rugged hillside outside Los Angeles was flying in foggy conditions considered dangerous enough that local police agencies grounded their choppers...

Prince Andrew called uncooperative in Jeffrey Epstein probe

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein.

China extends holiday to contain virus as death toll rises

Employees work to prevent a new coronavirus at Suseo Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures' potential for success is uncertain.

Officials: Multiple rockets hit US Embassy in Baghdad

In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, file photo, U.S. Embassy is seen from across the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq.

Survivor in Slovenia turns 100 on Holocaust Remembrance Day

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, Nazi camps survivor Marija Frlan, who will turn 100 on the Holocaust Remembrance day, talks to the Associated Press during an interview at her home in Rakek, Slovenia. Frlan, who was held at the Ravensbruck camp in northern Germany for over a year in 1944-45, will join other survivors and officials in Poland on Monday for the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp.

In this Jan. 9, 2020, photo provided by the Anti-Poaching Special Squad, police gather outside a store suspected of trafficking wildlife in Guangde city in central China's Anhui Province. The outbreak of a new virus linked to a wildlife market in central China is prompting renewed calls for enforcement of laws against the trade in and consumption of exotic species.

China temporarily bans wildlife trade in wake of outbreak

A group of 19 prominent researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nation's top universities had called for the government in China to crack down on wildlife markets such as the one at the center of the Wuhan outbreak ...

US Consulate to evacuate staff from epidemic-stricken Wuhan

A policeman wearing a face mask takes a tourist's temperature at the Qinhuai scenic zone in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020.

'This is huge': Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region.

Europe's bishops mark Auschwitz anniversary denouncing hate

In this Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, the sun lights the buildings behind the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland. World leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp _ once on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Jerusalem and again on Jan. 27 at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland. The fact that there will be two competing ceremonies reflects how politically charged World War II remains for nationalist governments in Russia and Poland.

Coalition of states sue over rules governing 3D-printed guns

This May 10, 2013, file photo shows a plastic pistol that was completely made on a 3D-printer at a home in Austin, Texas. A coalition of gun-control groups has filed an appeal in federal court seeking to block a recent Trump administration ruling that will allow the publication of blueprints to build a 3D-printed firearm.

NFL free agent Antonio Brown appears at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., via video link Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.

Former NFL player Antonio Brown released on bail by Florida judge

Naval base in Illinois on lockdown amid search for vehicle

In this Jan. 3, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Iran, at his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Fla. A new poll shows Americans are more likely than not to support President Donald Trump’s decision to order a drone strike that killed an Iranian general, and took the U.S. to the edge of a new Middle East war, even amid widespread skepticism about his foreign policy overall.

Poll: Many in US support Trump decision to kill Iran general

A new poll shows Americans are more likely than not to support President Donald Trump's decision to order a drone strike that killed an Iranian general, even amid widespread skepticism about his foreign policy overall ...

Early voting means 2020 primary is already here for millions

The Iowa caucuses are more than a week away, but millions of Americans are already free to vote...

This Jan. 9, 2020 photo shows voting booths set up at the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis in preparation for the start of early voting on Friday, Jan. 17, in Minnesota's March 3 presidential primary.

Doomsday Clock moves closest to midnight in 73-year history

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded after the creation of the atomic bomb in World War II and focuses on the greatest threats to human survival, said it moved the clock from two minutes to midnight to 100 seconds to midnight — a 20-second advance ...

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