nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor1 38Z1|||How The Rockets-Thunder Delay Could Foreshadow Challenges To This NBA Season||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||The NBA postponed the Wednesday game after three Rockets players had positive or inconclusive coronavirus tests and four others were in quarantine. It left the team without enough players to play.


How The Rockets-Thunder Delay Could Foreshadow Challenges To This NBA Season

James Harden of the Houston Rockets was fined $50,000 for violating the NBA’s health and safety protocols. He’s seen on the court during a preseason game against the San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 17.

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How The Rockets-Thunder Delay Could Foreshadow Challenges To This NBA Season



The NBA postponed the Wednesday game after three Rockets players had positive or inconclusive coronavirus tests and four others were in quarantine. It left the team without enough players to play.


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20 migrants dead off Tunisia after boat sinks, more missing

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Kairos CEO Ankur Jain provides insight on âAmericaâs Newsroom.â

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Dec 24

California reaches 2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases

By John Antczak, Don Thompson, Associated Press

nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor1 38Z1|||’All Is Not Calm’: Congress Scrambles After Trump Blasts COVID-19 Relief Package||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||Democrats and Republicans separately took the president up on two of his suggestions: increasing direct payments to Americans and decreasing foreign aid. Each party blocked the other’s measure.


'All Is Not Calm': Congress Scrambles After Trump Blasts COVID-19 Relief Package

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a press conference on Sunday. Congress is scrambling after President Trump blasted a major aid and spending package that lawmakers passed Monday.

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‘All Is Not Calm’: Congress Scrambles After Trump Blasts COVID-19 Relief Package



Democrats and Republicans separately took the president up on two of his suggestions: increasing direct payments to Americans and decreasing foreign aid. Each party blocked the other’s measure.


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Dan Levinson, son Bob Levinson, says Iran needs to be held accountable for the kidnapping and ‘probable death’ of the retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007

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The Hill columnist Joe Concha reacts to the $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package on âAmericaâs Newsroom.â

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=”https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-house-will-vote-2000-stimulus-checks-trump-reversal“>Pelosi demands vote on $2,000 relief payments, as Democrats block GOP effort to rein in spending