NBA’s Mavs and NHL’s Stars chase a Dallas double with their deepest playoff run together
By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — The NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and NHL’s Dallas Stars are deeper in the playoffs together…
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UVA to pay $9 million related to shooting that killed 3 football players, wounded 2 students
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three…
Continue ReadingFamily of Utah man held in Congo coup attempt has no proof he’s alive
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah family whose son has been implicated in a thwarted coup in Congo says…
Continue ReadingAnswers to your questions about Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial conviction
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Will Donald Trump go to prison? Could he pardon himself? What about…
Continue ReadingOldest living National Spelling Bee champion reflects on his win 70 years later
By HOLLY RAMER and RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) — As contestants from the latest Scripps National Spelling Bee head…
Continue ReadingMan who injured police officer during Capitol riot is sentenced to 5 years in prison
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran who was convicted of injuring a police officer’s hand during the Jan.…
Continue Reading1 Malaysian climber dead, 1 rescued near the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A climber from Malaysia who was stranded for three days near the top of North…
Continue ReadingNYC’s rat-hating mayor, Eric Adams, is once again ticketed for rats at his Brooklyn property
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s rat-hating mayor has once again been ticketed for a rat infestation at his Brooklyn property. Mayor Eric Adams’…
Continue ReadingUS Energy Secretary calls for more nuclear power while celebrating $35 billion Georgia reactors
By JEFF AMY Associated Press WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is calling for more nuclear reactors to be built in the…
Continue ReadingCentral African Republic accuses a European NGO worker arrested last week of spying
By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Central African Republic are…
Continue ReadingNashville to launch investigation into complaint alleging police lobbied to gut oversight panel
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell has announced an independent investigation…
Continue ReadingBiden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war
By AAMER MADHANI, CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase…
Continue ReadingUpside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump’s guilty verdict
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — After Donald Trump’s historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing…
Continue ReadingBirmingham-Southern loses D-III World Series opener 7-5 on same day the liberal arts college closes
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — Birmingham-Southern is down to one last swing. The Panthers lost their opening game in the…
Continue ReadingAir National Guard unit that was suspended after classified documents leak will restart mission
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air National Guard intelligence unit involved in the massive classified documents leak…
Continue ReadingBiden calls Trump’s claims on hush money conviction ‘reckless’ as campaign grapples with verdict
By SEUNG MIN KIM and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says Donald Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury…
Continue ReadingChobani yogurt billionaire buys San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Co.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. — maker of its famous Anchor Steam and Christmas Ale beers — has been purchased by…
Continue ReadingTrump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?
By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bravado behind Donald Trump’ s boastful hypothesis in 2016 — “I could stand in…
Continue ReadingKilling of Minneapolis police officer stuns a department that’s been struggling to fill its ranks
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE AND JOSH FUNK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned…
Continue ReadingBiden breaks unofficial rule about headwear while hosting the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has broken an unofficial political rule about headwear when helped…
Continue ReadingFederal officials are investigating another close call between planes at Reagan National Airport
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which an American Airlines plane rolling down the runway canceled its takeoff…
Continue ReadingEvers appoints replacement for University of Wisconsin regent who refuses to step down
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has appointed a replacement for a conservative-leaning…
Continue ReadingRunning for US president from prison? Eugene V. Debs did it, a century ago
By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current presumptive…
Continue ReadingZambia’s former first lady and daughter arrested over properties worth more than $2 million
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s former first lady and one of her daughters have been arrested over their ownership of several properties worth…
Continue ReadingGoogle makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial…
Continue ReadingLedecky says faith in Olympic anti-doping system at ‘all-time low’ after Chinese swimming case
NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global…
Continue ReadingWoman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors say a woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis after surgeons…
Continue ReadingElon Musk sees another big advisory firm come out against his multibillion dollar pay package
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A second shareholder advisory firm has come out against reinstating a pay package for Tesla CEO Elon…
Continue ReadingPoland says a fake news report on mobilizing 200,000 men was likely the work of Russia
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say that a fake news report saying that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on…
Continue ReadingPsychedelic drug MDMA faces questions as FDA considers approval for PTSD
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are set to review the first request to approve the mind-altering…
Continue ReadingSouth Sudan receives its first batch of a new vaccine for malaria from the WHO
By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan has received its first batch of a new malaria vaccine from the World Health…
Continue ReadingUS plans to impose new visa restrictions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials after security verdicts
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The United States has expressed its deep concerns about the convictions of 14 pro-democracy…
Continue ReadingRussia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press SUMY REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs…
Continue ReadingNot guilty plea for suspect in killing of nursing student found on University of Georgia campus
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia…
Continue ReadingResearchers find a single, surprising gene behind a disorder that causes intellectual disability
By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate…
Continue ReadingTexas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
By JIM VERTUNO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to one of the most…
Continue ReadingAP Decision Notes: What to expect in the Montana presidential and state primaries
By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The general election for a race that could determine the Senate majority begins right after…
Continue ReadingDemocratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia registers as independent, citing ‘partisan extremism’
By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has announced he…
Continue ReadingFrance files preliminary terrorism charges against teenager accused of plan to attack Olympic fans
PARIS (AP) — French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to an 18-year-old accused of a plot targeting spectators attending…
Continue ReadingAP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat
By SETH BORENSTEIN, MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN and ANITA SNOW Associated Press David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to…
Continue ReadingAP Decision Notes: What to expect in the South Dakota presidential and state primaries
By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Republicans’ tug-of-war over their party identity continues in Tuesday’s…
Continue ReadingNicole Brown Simpson’s sisters want you to remember how she lived, not how she died
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Legal Affairs Writer In the familiar images that circulated after her June 1994 death, Nicole Brown Simpson appears frozen in…
Continue ReadingTests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders
By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial…
Continue ReadingTrump Media shares swing wildly and then tumble a day after former president was convicted
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group closed lower Friday after swinging wildly over the course of the…
Continue ReadingUK’s first Black female lawmaker ‘free’ to stand for Labour at election after row over her future
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s first Black female member of parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in…
Continue ReadingChina says it’s ‘hard to meet’ discussions on Russia-Ukraine war, citing problems with arrangements
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will be “‘hard to meet” calls for discussions on the Russia-Ukraine war because of problems with arrangements.…
Continue ReadingIsrael confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city
JULIA FRANKEL JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military confirmed Friday that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding…
Continue ReadingImprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder pleads not guilty to new charges
By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has pleaded not…
Continue ReadingTesla recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix seat belt warning system
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Tesla is recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix a seat belt warning system that may increase the risk of…
Continue ReadingChinese online retailer Temu latest to face EU’s strictest level of digital scrutiny
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the…
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