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Like a Caitlin Clark 3-pointer, betting on women’s sports is soaring
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has helped increase the popularity of women’s basketball, and the…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has helped increase the popularity of women’s basketball, and the…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul…
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court ordered the release Wednesday of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after he was shot by an assailant following a political event. The…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A former warehouse assistant for the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia has pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending share of the…
Continue ReadingGALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road…
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Hungarian court of appeal has upheld a request from an Italian anti-fascist activist to be moved…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is considering the latest arguments on whether Texas must remove a…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering…
Continue Readingby JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about…
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans unexpectedly paused their spending in April from March as inflation continued…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock &…
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left…
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser is set to take the next step in his professional wrestling career. Hauser has declared…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States have signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile…
Continue ReadingPOTOSI, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year. Having previously…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers Five NHL players left their teams this season to receive care from an off-ice assistance program…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A 30-year-old prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” has become notorious in France overnight after a…
Continue ReadingBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — A new study suggests that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed Earth about 180…
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — The world of “Mad Max” has lived in George Miller’s head for nearly half a century.…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland’s Vietnamese community.…
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chances of restarting formal talks to mend Cyprus’ decades-long ethnic division…
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT STUMM Associated Press If you’ve tried meditating but can’t sit still, you’re not alone. Experts say many people try it only once…
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabia’s government and the…
Continue ReadingJOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died days after she was…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Preakness favorite Muth has been ruled out of the second leg of the Triple Crown after spiking a…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press A gag order. Legal wrangling over witness testimony. Angry denouncements of the judge overseeing the case. Some of…
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY, HOLLY MEYER and PETER SMITH Associated Press Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea, but…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says his regime is prepared to negotiate over the conflict in Ukraine in an interview with Chinese…
Continue ReadingCANNES, France (AP) — Start your engines. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolls into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. It returns the dystopian…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden’s…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Organizers of Spain’s Princess of Asturias Awards have awarded the prize for the social sciences to Canadian historian and writer…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says it has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed rocket system with a range of 400…
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital facing piles of rubbish during the…
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government approved a plan to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has convicted a man of murder and sentenced him to life in prison for carrying out a fatal stabbing on a train…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Used Teslas aren’t as expensive as you might think, especially with the company’s recent price cuts on its new models.…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The Premier League’s fourth and final representative for next season’s Champions League will be Aston Villa…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A massive manhunt is underway in France for an armed gang that killed two prison officers and seriously injured three others, to…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The use of a voice-cloning technology marrying old audio clips to an actor’s narration is…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE and MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nannies, housekeepers, and home care workers are excluded from many federal…
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer The stars have aligned for the WNBA with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese joining the ranks of A’ja Wilson,…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Natural gas producer CNX Resources says it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at…
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity during repression…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say a military helicopter crashed in Ghor province in western Afghanistan, killing at least one person. A defense…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending…
Continue ReadingBy JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL (AP) — South Korean young people are increasingly drawn to Buddhism due to social media-savvy influencers,…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A fire at a marina in Croatia has destroyed 22 boats and caused huge damage but no injuries. An investigation is underway to…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has convened a meeting of top ministers to discuss spiraling violence in the French Pacific territory…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers in southern Poland have recovered the body of a third miner a day after a cave-in in which 12 other workers were…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS, ABBY SEWELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians across the Middle East are marking the anniversary of…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 10 U.S.-supplied Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea early…
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq…
Continue ReadingBy KASPARMAN PILIANG and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds in a bid to…
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press MALAPPURAM, India (AP) — The political power of Muslims is declining in the world’s…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The bribery trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is ready to start with…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press TANGIERS, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has grown its automotive industry from virtually non-existent to Africa’s largest…
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some social media users are calling out celebrities for what they say is inaction in the face of…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Mexican citizens were among those going to work at a Florida watermelon…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong, days after court approved an…
Continue ReadingANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — First-year students at the U.S. Naval Academy are taking part in the annual Herndon Monument Climb, a ritual that marks the…
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband, then published a…
Continue ReadingBy JULIA DIAS CARNEIRO and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The passinho is a Brazilian dance style created in the 2000s by…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press When it was Shawnna Bolick’s turn to speak, the words tumbled out of her for 20 minutes. The conservative lawmaker…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s perhaps the biggest question swirling around the U.S. economy right now: Is…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A flotilla of about 100 fishing boats led by Filipino activists has sailed to a disputed…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is facing demands for speedy action…
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MERIDA, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say 11 people have been killed by shootings in a small town in…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential primary may be decided, but election season marches on. Voters in several…
Continue ReadingBy EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s deputy leader Lawrence Wong is set to be sworn in as the nation’s…
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker railed against Pride month, working women, President Biden’s leadership during…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The sun isn’t done yet. That’s the message from the National Oceanic and…
Continue ReadingBRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Steven Bradbury is back in the news for another good reason more than 20 years after winning an unlikely gold medal in…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Topping the list of contests in this week’s primaries in four states is a U.S. Senate race…
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers are questioning a sheriff’s decision to allow a Netflix…
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer FIFA’s gravest crisis erupted with police raids at its annual meeting in 2015. Nine years later soccer’s 211…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state will make $3.3 billion…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Jason Kelce is officially a member of ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” team. ESPN announced Kelce had signed a multiyear…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a 29-year-old man accused of shooting and wounding two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles last…
Continue ReadingMICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s defense attorneys have…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas public university leaders say hundreds of positions and programs across state…
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