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Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White dead at 74

 NEW YORK (AP) — Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, whose horn-driven band sold more than 90 million albums and made hits like...

Surge in racist displays in Russian football

MOSCOW (AP) _ The number of racist displays by Russian football fans has doubled in the country which will host the World Cup in...

Report: MLS shows overall improvement in gender diversity

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An annual report on Major League Soccer's hiring practices show an improvement in gender diversity in the league office. The report...

Coca-Cola tells FIFA to start independent reform commission

FIFA has been told by sponsor Coca-Cola to appoint an independent commission to lead a reform process aimed at cleaning up world soccer's scandal-ridden...

US women's team to play post-World Cup match in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ The U.S. women's soccer team won't know whether it will play another Women's World Cup game until after Friday night's quarterfinal...

Soccer officials arrested in Zurich; World Cup votes probed

ZURICH (AP) _ Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, only hours after seven soccer officials...

Barcelona's Dani Alves eats banana in response to racist taunt

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Barcelona has defended Dani Alves for his response to a racist taunt and teammate Neymar posted a photo of himself...

Soccer star Sydney Leroux says she was object of racial abuse

USA's Sydney Leroux said Canadian fans directed racial slurs at her. (AP Photo)(AP Photo/Colin E Braley)   NEW YORK (AP) - American women's...

Stories of the dead and injured in Boston bombing

BOMB VICTIMS--This combination of undated file photos provided to the Associated Press shows, from left, Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, a Boston University graduate student. Richard, Campbell and Lu were killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/File) BOSTON (AP) — The twin bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday. Here are the stories of those killed and some of the injured.

Hollywood responds to deadly Conn. school shooting

by Nicole Evatt Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the entertainment industry should take some responsibility for such violence. FOXX SPEAKS OUT ON VIOLENCE--This undated publicity image released by The Weinstein Company shows, Christoph Waltz as Schultz, left, and Jamie Foxx as Django in the film, "Django Unchained," directed by Quentin Tarantino. (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Andrew Cooper, SMPSP) Jamie Foxx, one of the industry's biggest stars, said Saturday as he promoted Quentin Tarantino's upcoming ultra-violent spaghetti Western-style film about slavery, "Django Unchained," that actors can't ignore the fact that movie violence can influence people.

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