Miami’s mad March sees men, women programs in Elite 8
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Miami is putting its reputation as a football school on the back burner. Basketball is now…
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Canada pledges Great Lakes funding after Trudeau-Biden talks
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Canada has pledged to step up spending to improve water quality in the Great…
Continue ReadingCanada pledges Great Lakes funding after Trudeau-Biden talks
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Canada has pledged to step up spending to improve water quality in the Great…
Continue ReadingSicilian island sees record-high migrant arrivals by boat
By Valentina Di Donato and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN A record of more than 2,000 migrants arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in the past day,…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Lula cancels trip to China because of pneumonia
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia, the presidential…
Continue ReadingVoting rights effort targets those held in jails across US
By GARY FIELDS and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except…
Continue ReadingTeen striker Ferguson raises Irish hopes with early success
By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer Teenage striker Evan Ferguson isn’t getting carried away after scoring his first goal for his national team. The…
Continue ReadingHungary: Criticism makes it hard to cooperate with West
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The West’s steady criticism of Hungary on democratic and cultural issues makes the…
Continue ReadingCincinnati hires former Memphis coach Katrina Merriweather
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Cincinnati has hired former Memphis coach Katrina Merriweather as its new women’s basketball coach. She…
Continue ReadingJehovah’s Witnesses mourn victims of Hamburg shooting
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany have held a memorial service for the six…
Continue ReadingPiquet fined for racist, homophobic comments about Hamilton
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay…
Continue ReadingPiquet fined for racist, homophobic comments about Hamilton
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay…
Continue ReadingVenice hunts for ‘idiot’ who jumped off three-story building into canal
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Italian authorities are searching for a man who jumped off a three-story building into a canal in Venice on Thursday.…
Continue ReadingNorth Carolina treasurer running for governor in 2024
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell says he’ll run for governor in 2024.…
Continue ReadingSnowfall, heavy rain in Afghanistan kill at least 3
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan government spokesman says snowfall and heavy rain have killed at least three people, including a child. The…
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Trump baselessly rails against ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ at Waco rally as investigations loom
By Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan, CNN Former President Donald Trump baselessly railed against what he called “prosecutorial misconduct”…
Continue ReadingSecrets uncovered as scientists explore Beethoven’s DNA
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The idea of time travel has always fascinated me. Since I was a kid, I’ve imagined a “Jetsons”-like…
Continue ReadingTwo migrants found dead in shipping container on train in Uvalde County, Texas
By Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Zoe Sottile and Paradise Afshar, CNN Two migrants were found dead in a shipping container on a train the authorities…
Continue ReadingNew Mexico St hires Sam Houston’s Hooten to attempt rebuild
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State has hired longtime Sam Houston coach Jason Hooten to try to restore a program that was shut down in the…
Continue ReadingDeath toll climbs to 7 in Pennsylvania candy factory explosion as all missing individuals are accounted for, officials say
CNN, WPVI By Elizabeth Wolfe and Celina Tebor, CNN Two additional bodies have been found by search and rescue teams working to locate missing…
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