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A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks along a street during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions and mass testings after several coronavirus infections last week. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Amid virus fears, China urges workers to skip holiday travel

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, a man walks past a closed store in Wilmette, Ill., amid the coronavirus pandemic. Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020 and led to many new laws that will take effect in the new year. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Virus aid, police reform dominate new US laws for 2021

By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks along a street during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions and mass testings after several coronavirus infections last week. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Asia Today: Thailand reports 250 new coronavirus cases

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Big Freedia, PJ Morton to rep New Orleans on New Year’s Eve

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2020, file photo, Florida head coach Dan Mullen yells to a referee about a call during an NCAA college football game against South Carolina in Gainesville, Fla. Oklahoma and Florida will play in the Cotton Bowl on Wednesday, Dec. 30 in Arlington, Texas. (Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun via AP, File)

Florida-Oklahoma in Cotton Bowl dozen years after title game

By STEPHEN HAWKINS - Associated Press

Workers from Landmark Signs carefully carry a panel of Waterford crystal triangles to place on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, behind them, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, in New York, in preparation for the New Year's Eve ball drop. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Workers install 192 crystals on Times Square New Year’s ball

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George Washington's personal recipe for eggnog is strong indeed, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: The real deal: George Washington’s eggnog

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Marguerite Mouille, left, is greeted by her grandson Thierry Mouille at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, eastern France, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. Thierry Mouille is torturing himself over the government's Christmas offer of a three-week window of relaxed rules. He's changed his mind again and again about whether to bring his 94-year-old grandmother Marguerite out to share a holiday meal. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, file photo, the trophy is displayed before a news conference for the NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game, in New Orleans. The more people who get angry with the College Football Playoff, the more likely it is to change. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Analysis: Change seems likely amid frustration with CFP

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall (10) throws against Troy during an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Coastal Carolina, Cincinnati headline Bowl Day snubs

By CLIFF BRUNT - Associated Press

European Union flags flutter in the wind outside EU headquarters in Brussels, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. The European Union and the United Kingdom were starting a &quot;last attempt&quot; to clinch a post-Brexit trade deal, with EU fishing rights in British waters the most notable remaining obstacle to avoid a chaotic and costly changeover on New Year. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Fishing talks move at snail’s pace in EU-UK Brexit standoff

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

USC Running back Stephen Carr, right, runs for a first down and is tackled by Oregon safety Jamal Hill first half of an NCAA college football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)

Oregon holds off USC late, grabs Pac-12 title with 31-24 win

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

Taylor Wood and her boyfriend, Ryan Bowser, talk about their financial situation inside their Corvallis, Ore., apartment on Dec. 11, 2020. The family is unsure where they will go if an eviction moratorium is not extended and they are kicked out of their home. (AP Photo/Sara Cline)

States grapple with next steps on evictions as crisis grows

By SARA CLINE - Associated Press

FILE - Video Vanguard award recipient Jennifer Lopez performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Aug. 20, 2018. Lopez will help bring in the New Year with a headlining performance in New York’s Time Square for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2021." ABC and dick clark productions announced Tuesday that the pop star will perform live before the icon ball drop on Dec. 31. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event will be closed to the public. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ with Jennifer Lopez in Times Square closed to public

By Mesfin Fekadu - Associated Press

FILE - Video Vanguard award recipient Jennifer Lopez performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Aug. 20, 2018. Lopez will help bring in the New Year with a headlining performance in New York’s Time Square for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2021.&quot; ABC and dick clark productions announced Tuesday that the pop star will perform live before the icon ball drop on Dec. 31. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event will be closed to the public. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

J. Lo, Billy Porter to perform at ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’

By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press

Pope Francis wears a face mask as he arrives at the Spanish Steps in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Pope Francis has made a surprise early morning visit to the Spanish Steps in Rome to pray for people struggling in the pandemic. The Vatican last week said Francis, due to social distancing concerns, was canceling the traditional Dec. 8 afternoon visit to the square that draws big crowds. Instead, on Tuesday, Francis popped up in the square at the foot of the Spanish Steps at 7 a.m., two hours after the end of Italy's overnight curfew. (Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

Pope’s Midnight Mass to start early to respect COVID-19 curfew

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

FILE- In this Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, file photo, Marshall's Micah Abraham (6) celebrates after a Middle Tennessee turnover during an NCAA college football game in Huntington, W.Va. An unusual college football season has produced some unexpected unbeaten teams dotting the AP Top 25 with about a month left. Led by No. 7 Cincinnati and No. 8 BYU, five teams from outside the Power Five conferences have yet to lose. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP, File)

What’s the ceiling for UC, BYU, Marshall, Coastal & Liberty?

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

Ex-Kansas forward de Sousa charged in New Year’s Day battery

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 file photo, a man adjusts a victim's photograph displayed with floral tributes and Turkish flags, outside the Reina night club following the New Year's day attack, in Istanbul. A Turkish court has on Monday, Sep. 7, 2020 sentenced an Islamic State militant to life in prison over the New Year’s Eve attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead in 2017. Albulkadir Masharipov of Uzbekistan was charged with membership in a terror group, murder and attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, among other charges. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, file)

Turkey gives IS militant 40 life sentences for 2017 attack

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Health workers screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a slum in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Several Indian states imposed weekend curfews and locked down high-risk areas as the number of coronavirus cases surged past 900,000 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The Latest: 2 more big Calif cities keeping schools shut

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