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By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia even after hundreds of others have announced plans to curtail ties. The pace of businesses exiting Russia accelerated over the past week as the deadly violence and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine worsened, and as Western governments ratcheted
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valencia Click here for updates on this story QUEEN CREEK, Arizona (KTVK, KPHO) — A recent ranking placed four Arizona communities as some of the best places to raise a family in the West. And Queen Creek was ranked at No. 1. Dwellics analyzes city data, factoring in things like quality of life,
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Newcastle has moved further away from relegation trouble with a 2-1 over Southampton thanks to goals from two January signings that joined the club after this rearranged match was supposed to be played. Chris Wood equalized in the first half and Bruno Guimaraes netted a second-half winner in a game that
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Christian Koloko scored 24 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 20 and No. 2 Arizona held off Stanford 84-80 in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. The top-seeded Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Cardinal in a win late in the regular season and faced a similar issue to
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Christian Koloko scored 24 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 20 and No. 2 Arizona held off Stanford 84-80 in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. The top-seeded Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Cardinal in a win late in the regular season and faced a similar issue to
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Christian Koloko scored 24 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 20 and No. 2 Arizona held off Stanford 84-80 in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. The top-seeded Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Cardinal in a win late in the regular season and faced a similar issue to
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Christian Koloko scored 24 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 20 and No. 2 Arizona held off Stanford 84-80 in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. The top-seeded Wildcats had a hard time shaking the Cardinal in a win late in the regular season and faced a similar issue to
Continue Reading By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett’s grandmother says her grandson is a “justice warrior” and asked a judge Thursday not to include jail time in his sentence for Smollett’s conviction of lying to police in a staged hate crime. Sentencing for Smollett began shortly after Cook County Judge
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicaragua informó este jueves que retiró a su embajador en España, a través de una breve carta dirigida a la cancillería de ese país. “El Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional de la República de Nicaragua, a través de su Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, comunica
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett’s grandmother asks judge not to send him to prison: ‘If you do, send me along with him.’
Continue Reading RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says an Arizona man being held at a federal prison in North Carolina has pleaded guilty to charges that he assaulted an officer at a medical center. U.S. Attorney Michael Easley says court documents show 47-year-old Michael Anthony Mata, an inmate at the Federal Medical Center in Butner,
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman and Kris Bryant are among 138 free agents set to resume looking for a spot after a freeze on roster transactions lifts with the signing of baseball’s new labor deal. Teams combined to commit $1.4 billion to free agents in the hours before the lockout
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Major League Soccer will leverage a $25 million loan from a coalition of Black-owned banks in an effort to promote economic equity and justice. The partnership announced Thursday with the nonprofit National Black Bank Foundation aims to grow the banks’ capital through interest earned and fees — which
Continue Reading NEW YORK — Ryan Kalkbrenner had 14 points, nine rebounds and three assists and Ryan Hawkins recorded 18 points as Creighton defeated Marquette 74-63 in the Big East Conference Tourney quarterfinals. Darryl Morsell led the Golden Eagles on Thursday with 18 points.
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By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Latino, Black and Native American populations were significantly undercounted in the 2020 census, officials announced Thursday. The undercount rate for the Latino population was more than three times the rate for that group in 2010, according to Census estimates. Overall, officials estimate .24% of the nation’s population, or about 782,000
Continue Reading LEEDS, England (AP) — Aston Villa handed Leeds a sixth straight Premier League loss as Steven Gerrard’s impressive side won 3-0 Thursday at Elland Road. Philippe Coutinho’s deflected effort gave Villa a halftime lead and the visitors added further second-half goals through Matty Cash and Calum Chambers. It was Villa’s third straight Premier League win,
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Sonnet Swire and Jeremy Herb, CNN US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Thursday that actions committed by Russia against the Ukrainian people constitute war crimes, marking the first time a senior US official has directly accused Moscow of war crimes since last month’s attack on Ukraine began. “They constitute
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Hansler, Sonnet Swire and Jeremy Herb, CNN US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Thursday that actions committed by Russia against the Ukrainian people constitute war crimes, marking the first time a senior US official has directly accused Moscow of war crimes since last month’s attack on Ukraine began. “They
Continue Reading WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Watford’s dwindling hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation suffered another blow with a 4-0 loss to Wolverhampton on Thursday. The result leaves Watford with just one win from its last 16 Premier League games, with Roy Hodgson’s side three points from safety with 10 games remaining. Wolves jumped into a 3-0
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles hospital has donated a huge load of medical supplies to aid Ukrainians. The 200 boxes of supplies packed onto 10 pallets were being sent from Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Thursday to Project C.U.R.E., a global distributor of medical supplies. Materials manager Michael Alfaro says he believes the
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