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A Border Patrol-led immigration crackdown is coming to southeast Louisiana. Here’s what to know

By JACK BROOK, REBECCA SANTANA and SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around 250 federal border agents are expected to launch a monthslong immigration crackdown on Monday in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi dubbed “Swamp Sweep.” The deployment, which aims to arrest 5,000 people, is centered in liberal New Orleans and

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Venezuelan leader Maduro may seem desperate. But his loyalty vs punishment strategy is hard to crack

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion. But as the White House now ponders whether the U.S. military should strike Venezuela, Maduro is embracing

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Nebraska Daybook

Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Sunday, Nov. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see

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Missouri Daybook

Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Sunday, Nov. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see

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Iowa Daybook

Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Sunday, Nov. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To

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Kansas Daybook

Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Sunday, Nov. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To

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AP-Scorecard

Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events: ___ NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Minnesota 119 Boston 115 Final OT Charlotte 118 Toronto 111 Final Indiana 103 Chicago 101 Final Milwaukee 116 Brooklyn 99 Final Detroit 138 Miami 135 Final Golden State 104 New Orleans 96 Final Denver 130 Phoenix 112 Final Dallas 114 L.A. Clippers

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Sports Betting Line

By The Associated Press NFL Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG LA Rams 9½ 10½ (45½) at CAROLINA at MIAMI 4½ 5½ (42½) New Orleans at TAMPA BAY 5½ 3½ (44½) Arizona San Francisco 7 5½ (35½) at CLEVELAND at INDIANAPOLIS 3½ 3½ (44½) Houston Atlanta 1½ 3 (37½) at NY JETS Jacksonville 7 6½

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Hondurans vote to elect new president in a close race under shadow of Trump’s surprise intervention

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans began casting ballots Sunday to elect a new president only days after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced that he would pardon a former president. At a voting site in the capital, the country’s

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NCAA Football Scores

EAST Boston College 34, Syracuse 12 Delaware 61, UTEP 31 Eastern 28, Franklin & Marshall 24 Frostburg St. 23, California (Pa.) 21 Georgia Southern 24, Marshall 19 Johns Hopkins 34, Springfield 14 Kutztown 56, Assumption 19 Miami 38, Pittsburgh 7 Penn St. 40, Rutgers 36 Rhode Island 27, CCSU 19 Salisbury 35, Endicott 28 Susquehanna

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The AP Top 25 Fared

No. 1 Ohio St. (12-0) beat No. 15 Michigan 27-9. Next: vs. No. 2 Indiana, Saturday. No. 2 Indiana (12-0) beat Purdue 56-3, Friday. Next: at No. 1 Ohio St., Saturday. No. 3 Texas A&M (11-1) lost to No. 16 Texas 27-17, Friday. Next: TBA. No. 4 Georgia (11-1) beat No. 23 Georgia Tech 16-9,

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Trump’s pardon of ex-Honduran president Hernández injects wild card into election

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The day before Honduras elects a new president, suddenly the main topics of conversation here shifted from domestic matters to U.S. President Donald Trump and the former Honduran president he said he will pardon. Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first

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Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said the Czech-born Stoppard — often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation

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British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ has died at 88

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his

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Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams ‘colonial threat’

By JOSH BOAK and GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety,” an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. His government accused Trump of

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