By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer The NCAA and ESPN have agreed to a $920 million, eight-year deal that will give the network exclusive rights to 40 championships, including the Division I women’s basketball tournament. The women’s side of March Madness has been growing in popularity and the association has been accused of
Continue ReadingLANETT, Ala. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was killed Thursday morning after being stuck by another law enforcement vehicle during a police chase. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Sheriff Eric Minix was killed in the early morning crash in east Alabama. Georgia law enforcement were chasing a stolen vehicle, and the chase
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance. The deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed “Hercules” was
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 were buckled up and ready to land at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport as their pilot made a final approach. “Cleared to land,” the pilot repeated after receiving an instruction from air traffic control to put the jet down on a specific runway. About two minutes
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, Holly Yan, Jessica Flynn, Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Nevada judge was assaulted in court immediately after she denied a defendant’s request for probation, video from a Clark County district court shows. Defendant Deobra Redden was in the Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday to be sentenced on a charge
Continue ReadingCNN By Joe Sutton, Holly Yan, Jessica Flynn, Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Nevada judge was assaulted in court immediately after she denied a defendant’s request for probation, video from a Clark County district court shows. Defendant Deobra Redden was in the Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday to be sentenced on a
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team told a federal judge on Thursday that special counsel Jack Smith and prosecutors in his office should be severely sanctioned and possibly held in contempt after they continued to submit filings in the case following a stay order from the judge. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two consultants hired to analyze new state legislative boundary lines in Wisconsin after the state’s high court tossed the current Republican-drawn maps will be paid up to $100,000 each in taxpayer money. Under the terms of the contracts made public Thursday, each consultant will be paid
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Dakin Andone, Evan Perez and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people Thursday morning at Perry High School near Des Moines, Iowa, authorities said. The five people wounded include four students and one school administrator, officials said. The school’s principal, Dan
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday. Those
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A winter weather system moving through the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mix of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast — although it’s too early to say exactly which areas will get what kind of precipitation and how much.
Continue ReadingBy FADI TAWIL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital. Draped in Palestinian and Hamas flags,
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-“Shang-Chi” Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment. A producer told him she picked him after looking
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-“Shang-Chi” Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment. A producer told him she picked him after looking
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Thursday following signals that the job market remains solid, though it may be a touch too strong. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading and on track for its first losing week in the last 10. The Dow Jones
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Police in Perry, Iowa, say multiple people were injured in a shooting at the city’s high school, on students’ first day back in classes after their annual winter break. An active shooter was reported at Perry High School at 7:37 a.m. Thursday morning and officers arrived
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Investigators believe suicide bombers likely carried out an attack on a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. That’s according to a state media report Thursday, which comes as Iran grapples with its worst mass-casualty attack in decades and as the wider Mideast remains
Continue ReadingBy Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN (CNN) — Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic landmark developed a natural line of defense against the looming risk of deterioration, a new
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Hundreds of students and others have marched in silence in the Czech capital to honor the victims of the country’s worst mass killing two weeks ago that left 14 dead. They gathered at an impromptu memorial in front of Prague’s Charles University headquarters where thousands came to light candles after the Dec 21 shooting.
Continue ReadingBy Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out of their home. “Our parents worked real hard … and then they bought this house on Annie Street,”
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