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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins was carried off the floor with a right knee injury in the first quarter of top-seeded Southern California’s game against Mississippi State in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Monday night. Watkins, one of the biggest stars in the women’s game, was streaking to

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Sailing the Whitsunday islands. Surfing an iconic break in the Sunshine state. Rowing in the crocodile-inhabited Fitzroy River on the central coast of Queensland. Extra tourism-focused venues and a new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium to be built in inner-city parkland have been unveiled as part of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest peace effort. Calling the situation unfolding in the country “dire,” Nicholas Haysom said international

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country’s military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago. Dozens of families are still waiting to know whether their parents, children, siblings and friends are in

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for a shooting in 2022 where he chased after the man accused of molesting his son. Velasquez was sentenced in Santa Clara County after he pled no contest to attempted murder, felony assault,

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The National Women’s Soccer League, its players union and the Orlando Pride and Gotham FC have denounced reports of “hateful language” directed at Pride forward Barbra Banda. The statements Monday came in response to a report about a fan behavior at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey,

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — It’s a line that dates back about two decades, to Maryland’s 2006 run to the national title. “Overtime is our time,” coach Brenda Frese said. The Terrapins pulled off another extra-period escape Monday, outlasting Alabama 111-108 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on Monday that he hoped to bolster Virginia’s rainy-day fund by $300 million in light of economic uncertainty surrounding the White House’s overhaul of federal jobs and its impact on the state’s workforce. At a news conference, Youngkin announced

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press Prosecutors in New Mexico say the evidence that police have collected in connection with a weekend shooting at a park that left three people dead and 15 others injured is “strong.” That includes the accounts of multiple witnesses who identified two of the shooters by name, as well as police