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  legend Kobe Bryant: Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association. Wikipedia Born: August 23, 1978, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died: January 26, 2020, Calabasas, California, United States Playing career: 1996–2016 NBA draft: 1996 / Round: 1 / Pick: 13th overall Spouse: Vanessa Bryant (m. 2001–2020) Number: 8, 24 Children: Gianna Bryant, Natalia Diamante Bryant, Bianka Bella Bryant, Capri Kobe Bryant

  There’s a $600 government payment, 11 additional weeks of unemployment benefits and more help for small businesses in the new coronavirus stimulus bill that is expected to pass later Sunday or Monday. The negotiations are done and congressional leaders of both parties in both houses have signed off on the contents, paving the way for the House and Senate to debate and approve the measure. “More help is on the way,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced on the Senate floor. “It will be another major rescue package for the American people. If our citizens continue to battle the coronavirus this holiday season, they will not fight alone.”

  GLENDALE, Ariz. -- — DeAndre Hopkins had a rare fumble early in Sunday's game and immediately knew the problem. Arizona's leading receiver usually wears gloves that are size 5 XL, but the ones he tried early in the game were only 4 XL. Once that problem was rectified, the three-time All-Pro was back to filling up the highlight reel. Hopkins and his huge hands had a season-high 169 yards receiving — including a spectacular 20-yard touchdown catch for the go-ahead score — and the Cardinals improved their playoff position by beating the Philadelphia Eagles 33-26 on Sunday. “I don't even know why I tried to put them on," Hopkins said, grinning about his 4 XL-glove experiment. “But I won't wear those gloves anymore.” Arizona (8-6) won its second straight game as it tries to make the postseason for the first time since 2015. The Cardinals are in third place in their division behind the Rams and Seahawks and would currently be the No. 7 and final seed in the NFC playoff...

  It was a powerful moment of football symbolism. Just as Tua Tagovailoa plunged forward for the touchdown that effectively eliminated the New England Patriots from playoff contention, Tom Brady connected with Antonio Brown for a picturesque 46-yard score that vaulted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ahead of the Atlanta Falcons, completing a 17-point comeback.

  BALTIMORE -- — No drama, no comeback and, thankfully, no cramps. Instead, Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens enjoyed a feel-good, confidence-building blowout that boosted their chances of reaching the playoffs for the third consecutive year. Jackson threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score, and Baltimore built a 26-point halftime lead against helpless Jacksonville in a 40-14 victory Sunday. The Ravens (9-5) have won three straight following a three-game skid and remained in the hunt to secure one of three AFC wild-card spots. “We just got to keep focus on what we have in front of us, and pray next week the (teams) we need to lose, lose," Jackson said. After Jackson returned from a bout with cramps to deliver a thrilling 47-42 win in Cleveland on Monday night, the Ravens had no desire for any angst at home against Jacksonville (1-13). Baltimore got the desired result, taking a 26-0 lead in the second quarter before cruising to the finish to hand the Jaguars their 13th...

 NEW ORLEANS -- — Patrick Mahomes' repertoire of side-arm throws, basketball-style push passes, underhanded flips and renowned improvisation humbled yet another highly regarded defense. Mahomes passed for 254 yards and three touchdowns, and the Kansas City Chiefs extended their winning streak to nine games with a 32-29 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. “Patrick is more impressive than I could imagine,” said running back Le'Veon Bell, who joined the Chiefs in mid-October and scored a 12-yard touchdown on an option pitch from Mahomes. "He’s even more impressive in person. ... I’m fortunate to be his teammate.” The Kansas City defense did its part to spoil Drew Brees' return from rib fractures and a punctured lung that had kept the record-setting passer out four games. While Brees passed for 234 yards and three TDs, he completed fewer than half of his passes and was intercepted for just the fourth time this season. “I wasn’t real efficient, obviously, in the ...

 Before the 2018 draft, Baker Mayfield boldly claimed that if the Cleveland Browns wanted to finally turn their franchise around, they’d better draft him. Mayfield is about to make good on that promise. Sunday night, the third-year quarterback took the Browns another step toward finally ending the NFL’s longest playoff drought, leading them to a 20-6 victory over the New York Giants. With the win, Cleveland moved to 10-4 and into the No. 5 seed in the AFC playoff picture. The Browns, who face the 1-13 New York Jets next weekend, now have a 90% chance to advance to the postseason, according to ESPN’s Football Power Index.

 The latest Google Doodle celebrates Winter Solstice and the Great Conjunction with an animated graphic on December 21. Winter solstice usually takes place between December 19 and December 23 in the northern hemisphere. Today's animated Doodle "celebrates the Northern Hemisphere's first day of winter as well as this rare double planet sighting- or "Great Conjunction"- which can be viewed from anywhere around the globe!"

  After months of failed negotiations, lawmakers have reached a deal on a second stimulus package. Known as “the four corners,” congressional leaders House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, met multiple times throughout the week and weekend and have reached an apparent deal. Included in the deal are stimulus checks, an extension of federal unemployment benefits, money for schools, and more.

 Islamabad's newly opened drive-in cinema has received a "massive response", the capital's deputy commissioner Muhammed Hamza Shafqaat has said. The deputy commissioner, sharing photographs of the cinema, said that he eyes improving it in the future.

RAWALPINDI : Two female coronavirus patients succumbed to the pandemic virus on Sunday as the number of the patients continue to rise amid violations of precautionary guidelines. Both patients including Akseer Bibi and Safia died in Holy Family Hospital (HFH). The number of infected patients in HFH, Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH), and Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) is 135. Among them, 13 are on ventilators while 96 are on oxygen. The health department has increased virus testing during the second wave of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak. The health experts said that the patients were taking longer to recover than the first wave. Meanwhile, the smart lockdown policy has failed and the administration has turned a blind eye to the issue too. The open disregard of precautionary guidelines is also underway by the people at public sites.

  KARACHI : Pakistan skipper Babar Azam is out of the three-match T20I series against New Zealand with a thumb injury, and this may prove to be the final nail in Men in Green’s coffin who were already not a 100 per cent after visiting the no-Covid haven. Pakistani players already had a lot of baggage to deal with as they had to quarantine in isolation for 14 days, where they were warned after protocol breaches, lost the exemption to start training after just 10 days in isolation, saw no less than 10 fellow players test positive for coronavirus – all this mental exhaustion even before the series had started. And now with their leader out of the T20Is and the vice-captain Shadab Khan also doubtful to participate, there won’t be a lot of confidence left their tank. Babar’s omission doesn’t only deprive Pakistan of a young and able captain on the field, but all batsmen will now be looking at each other so as to ascertain that who will take his place as the anchor at the opening spot or...

  WASHINGTON : Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg. The hack is so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday, said one of the people familiar with the matter. US officials have not said much publicly beyond the Commerce Department confirming there was a breach at one of its agencies and that they asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI to investigate. National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot added that they “are taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation.” The US government has not publicly identified who might be behind the hacking, but three of the people familiar with the investigation said Russia is currently believed to be responsib...

  Twitter said on Saturday it had “inadvertently” limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets with “disputed” labels but later reversed its action. Some users on the social media platform had noticed earlier on Saturday that the ability to like, re-tweet or reply to Trump’s tweets with a “disputed” label was not working. “We inadvertently took action to limit engagements on the labeled Tweet you referenced. This action has been reversed”, a Twitter spokesman told Reuters in an emailed statement. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

  KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp reported on Monday that one its workers died after contracting Covid-19, the first death since an outbreak at its dormitories and factories. The world’s largest glove maker told Reuters in an email that the 29-year-old worker from Nepal passed away on Saturday due to Covid-19 pneumonia with lung fibrosis.

  Social network firm Reddit said on Sunday it would buy short-video platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a spokeswoman for Reddit said the acquisition was based on a combination of cash and stock.

  Mexicans should drop festivities and even try not to trade Christmas presents to beat the Covid, the president said on Friday, pitching a thrifty merry season to one of the world's biggest capital urban communities as diseases scaled new statures.  "We should leave Christmas presents for some other time," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated, asking individuals to downsize or forego customary family social occasions over Christmas and New Year.  Lopez Obrador said individuals should remain at home except if they had something "genuinely critical to do" as he reported medical clinics would build understanding limit, gear and staff. In any case, he said there would be no obligatory lockdowns.  Mexico revealed 12,127 new Covid contaminations on Friday, a record number for a solitary day rise, notwithstanding one day in October the public authority has said was because of a measurable blip. It was additionally the first run through Mexico had recorded in e...

  The Trump organization on Friday picked not to allow ByteDance another augmentation of a request requiring the Chinese organization to strip TikTok's US resources, yet talks will proceed over the short video-sharing application's destiny, two sources advised on the issue said.  A Depository Office delegate said late on Friday the Board of trustees on Unfamiliar Interest in the US (CFIUS) "is drawing in with ByteDance to finish the divestment and different advances important to determine the public security chances."  A week ago, CFIUS allowed TikTok parent ByteDance a one-week augmentation until Friday over the request to shed TikTok's US resources.  President Donald Trump's August request enabled the Equity Office to implement the divestiture request once the cutoff time lapsed, however it is indistinct when or how the public authority may look to force divestiture.  Trump was said to have by and by settled on the choice not to endorse any extra expansions ...

  Over 1.5 million individuals have lost their lives because of Coronavirus with one passing revealed like clockwork on a week by week normal, as inoculations are set to start in December in a small bunch of created countries.  A large portion of 1,000,000 passings happened over the most recent two months, showing that the seriousness of the pandemic is a long way from being done. Almost 65 million individuals all around the world have been contaminated by the sickness and the most exceedingly terrible influenced nation, US, is presently engaging a third flood of Covid diseases.  In the most recent week alone, in excess of 10,000 individuals on the planet kicked the bucket on normal each and every day, wh ich has been consistently rising each spending week. Numerous nations over the world are currently battling second and third waves significantly more prominent than the first, compelling new limitations on regular day to day existence.  The epic Covid caused a large...

  The last and just useful choice left with the 11-party resistance partnership – the Pakistan Vote based Development – to propel their target of toppling the occupant government is to leave the gatherings as once huge mob, a senior PML-N pioneer stated, precluding the chance of a much discussed PTI-style long walk. Nonetheless, the PDM has not yet offered an official expression on the alternative of holding a long walk.  The senior chief, mentioning namelessness, disclosed to The Express Tribune that after the acquiescences, the congregations would get old and lose their authenticity locally just as worldwide, which will make an emergency like circumstance in the nation, driving the public authority to leave.  He said that the JUI-F and the PML-N had just concurred on the choice of acquiescences; notwithstanding, prior, the PPP was suspicious about it yet had to give it a genuine thought because of the G-B political decision results. He said that the matter of abdication...