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Here’s a list of notable performances in Class 5A and Class 4A boys/girls basketball for the week culminating on Saturday, Dec. 23. Class 5A Boys Legend 67, Cherry Creek 63 on Friday: The Titans (6-3) got their biggest win of the season thus far over the Bruins in the semifinals …

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Trail Blazers had flipped an early double-digit deficit into a one-point second-quarter advantage. And then Nikola Jokic went to work. The Nuggets’ big man took a nifty top-of-the-key pass from Jamal Murray and finished through contact for an old-fashioned 3-point play. He dunked over Jusuf Nurkic. …

WASHINGTON – Democrats who voted on a spending bill this week to keep the federal government open are facing backlash from their party for not demanding a permanent solution for thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Immigration advocates in and out of Congress are railing …

NEW YORK — What’s a bitcoin worth? Lately nobody knows for sure, but after a wild ride on Friday, it’s worth a good deal less than it was Thursday. After losses over the last few days, the digital currency fell as much as 30 percent overnight in Asia, and the …

Donald Trump has signed a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) tax cut programme into law. Although this is the first major overhaul of US tax laws in 21 years, it is far from the “largest tax cut in American history” – a claim repeatedly made by the President in recent days. It was …

A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted by Robert Mugabe’s government is the first to get his land back since new president Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power. With a military escort, Robert Smart,71, made his way into Lesbury farm about 120 miles east of the capital Harare almost six months after he …

Tough new sanctions will be imposed on North Korea after it tested a ballistic missile which Pyongyang claims could reach the US mainland. Members of the UN Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions including sharply lower limits on North Korea’s oil imports in a resolution on Friday. The resolution …

NEW YORK — Major League Soccer is postponing a decision on its next expansion team until next year. A day after selecting Nashville, Tennessee, as one of its next two additions, MLS said Thursday it still is considering which market to add from among Cincinnati, Detroit and Sacramento, California. MLS …

COURCHEVEL, France — There appears little to prevent Mikaela Shiffrin taking over from Lindsey Vonn as the unstoppable force in women’s ski racing. Shiffrin has a huge lead in defense of her overall World Cup title and her four wins this season have been in different disciplines. The 22-year-old Coloradan …

The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says in a letter he was not aware of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse allegations before law enforcement got involved, and that he had no knowledge of a settlement between USA Gymnastics and 2012 Olympic champion McKayla Maroney in a case involving the now-imprisoned …