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By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Another day, another record broken by Iowa’s Caitlin Clark. In the Hawkeyes’ 95-62 Big Ten Tournament win against the Penn State Lady Lions on Friday, Clark eclipsed NBA star Steph Curry’s record of most three-pointers hit in a single NCAA Division-I season. Curry, who shared the record with Liberty
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a $30 million buy across battleground states after Super Tuesday, casting himself as more effective than his predecessor, Donald Trump. The 60-second spot opens with 81-year-old Biden addressing one
Continue ReadingPADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving 10 others missing. Mud, rocks and uprooted trees rolled down a mountain and reached a river that burst its banks and tore through mountainside villages in West Sumatra province. The spokesperson
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top U.S. Treasury official has pressed Lebanese authorities to prevent funds from being funneled to Hamas by way of Lebanon during a visit to Beirut. Jesse Baker visited Lebanon and met with financial sector and political officials Thursday and Friday. A senior Treasury official says Baker
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Intense rainfall has swept across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, causing localized flooding and disrupting flights at the world’s busiest airport for international travel. Nearly 2 inches of rain fell in Dubai over six hours Saturday — a heavy amount when the country as a whole averages
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Temperatures are starting out in the mid 50s and low 60s before they rise into the 70s midmorning. Be ready to shed some layers if you’re heading out to the BNP Paribas Open this weekend as daytime high temperatures rise into the upper 70s and low 80s! While some additional cloud cover is expected for
Continue ReadingROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says police shot and killed a man during a foot chase after he was taken down by a police dog and pulled a weapon. State Attorney General John Formella says New Hampshire state police troopers killed Joseph Russell, 36, during the pursuit with the Rochester Police
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert was issued a costly technical foul in his team’s game on Friday night after appearing to make a money gesture towards an official following a controversial call. Gobert was called for his sixth foul, and therefore ejected, with under 30 seconds remaining of the
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — It was over before it really began in Saudi Arabia as Anthony Joshua pummeled his way past Francis Ngannou with a devastating knockout blow in the second round. It was a much-needed victory for the 34-year-old Briton who has struggled to find his best boxing over the last few
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE and JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Presidential candidates in Senegal have kicked off their election campaigns, following weeks of violent protests across the African country after the vote was delayed. The campaigns started on Saturday. The candidates now have a shorter period to rally supporters ahead of the March
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is typically
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO forces “is not unthinkable” and that he appreciates the French president for not ruling out that idea. Radek Sikorski made the observation during a discussion marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s accession to NATO in the Polish parliament
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot food and drinks at high altitude? And most important of all, how does a toilet work at 40,000 feet? We often think about how planes work –
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian government has won a yearslong legal dispute with a Canadian mining company seeking damages over failed plans to open a gold and silver mine in the Eastern European country. Gabriel Resources was seeking $4.4 billion in damages from the Romanian state, which owned a 20% stake in the mining
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Hockey Writer NHL teams combined to make 23 trades on Friday, dealing a total of 33 players and more than 20 draft picks, before the league’s deadline, with some teams and players seeming to win — and some seeming to lose. The defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights, three-time defending
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A bold plan to genetically engineer a version of the woolly mammoth, the tusked ice age giant that disappeared 4,000 years ago, is making some progress, according to the scientists involved. The long-term goal is to create a living, walking elephant-mammoth hybrid that would be visually indistinguishable from its
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Beyond the towering rolls of barbed wire, the world was on fire — continents ravaged, a death toll spiraling into the millions. Inside the fence, captured allied soldiers practiced their putting. It was the Nazi Germany prisoner-of-war (POW) camp from which arguably history’s most famous break-out was sprung, yet
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Officials say an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set off explosions ahead of a Singapore-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden. It’s the latest in a campaign of assaults by the Iranian-backed group over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tyler Robertson scored 22 points and sixth-seeded Portland knocked off seventh-seeded Loyola Marymount, 78-70 in a second-round battle in the West Coast Conference Tournament Friday night. The Pilots advance to third-seeded San Francisco in a quarterfinal-round match-up. Robertson had eight rebounds and seven assists for the Pilots
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But all the women killed by femicide in Italy have one thing in common: they knew their killers. More than 100 women were killed in 2023. The term ‘femicide’ – which is
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