By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.S. has been Ukraine’s biggest military backer since Russia’s full-scale invasion began three years ago. The suspension of that aid by the Trump administration doesn’t mean Ukraine’s defenses will quickly collapse. But it’s a major blow that threatens to remove some of the most formidable weapons
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All Times EST AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Athletics 7 3 .700 Toronto 6 3 .667 Kansas City 6 4 .600 New York 6 4 .600 Boston 5 4 .556 Houston 5 5 .500 Baltimore 4 4 .500 Los Angeles 5 6 .455 Tampa Bay 4 5 .444 Minnesota 3 4 .429 Seattle 5 7
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NEW YORK (AP) — A cybercrime crew stole then resold more than 900 digital tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and other pricey events on StubHub, according to prosecutors in New York. The international scam involved people working in Jamaica for a firm contracted by the online ticket marketplace, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Monday.
Continue Reading Here are the latest scores from today’s sports events: ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Boston 12 Pittsburgh 4 Final N.Y. Yankees 12 Philadelphia 3 Final Minnesota 0 Atlanta 0 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Tampa Bay 4 Detroit 1 Final Cleveland 8 L.A. Angels 1 Final Athletics 6 Texas 3 ___ NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at L-A Dodgers 8:05
Continue Reading By The Associated Press NBA Wednesday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at WASHINGTON 4 (233½) Utah at CHARLOTTE OFF (OFF) Minnesota at CLEVELAND 11 (225½) Miami at BOSTON 10 (225) Portland at MILWAUKEE OFF (OFF) Dallas at DENVER OFF (OFF) Sacramento at MEMPHIS OFF (OFF) Oklahoma City at LA CLIPPERS OFF (OFF) Detroit COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wednesday
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By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — If there is a still open wound in Latin America, it is that of the tens of thousands of disappeared people and decades-long pain that has accumulated in parts of the region such as Mexico and Colombia. Two visions of the trauma had a central role
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars. An estimated 19.7 viewers watched Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony, the biggest audience in five years, according to figures released by ABC on Tuesday. The triumph of “Anora,” which won five Oscars including best
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Smaller movies didn’t mean smaller viewer numbers for the Oscars. An estimated 19.7 viewers watched Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony, the biggest audience in five years, according to figures released by ABC on Tuesday. The triumph of “Anora,” which won five Oscars including best
Continue Reading Tuesday, Mar. 4 SOUTH Lenoir-Rhyne 73, Anderson (SC) 71, OT Lincoln Memorial 85, Wingate 67 Malone 72, Kentucky Wesleyan 62 ___
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By TIM SULLIVAN and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press The Trump administration is touting an immigration crackdown that includes putting shackled immigrants on U.S. military planes, expanding agents’ arrests of people here illegally and abandoning programs that gave some permission to stay. One tool that’s conspicuously absent from President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce illegal immigration:
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and CHRISTINA CASSIDY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Department of Justice is backing a former county election clerk in Colorado who was convicted for her role in allowing supporters of President Donald Trump to access confidential data about the 2020 election, the latest move by the administration to use its power
Continue Reading Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Tuesday, Mar. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Tuesday, Mar. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Tuesday, Mar. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Tuesday, Mar. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY and MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination. The $53
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By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered species protections. To do that, the federal government would have to activate a seldom-used committee nicknamed the “God Squad” because it can approve federal projects even if it leads to extinction of
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Continue Reading New York(AP)Final stocks LastChg. AT&TInc 26.22 —1.50 Altria 56.30 —1.01 AmerenCp 100.00 —3.67 AmExpress 283.47—12.02 ArchDanM 45.82 — .76 AutoZone 3473.66 —4.10 BPPLC 31.44 — .37 Boeing 158.90—11.16 BristMySq 59.44 — .43 Brunswick 55.44 —3.57 Chevron 152.00 —1.09 Citigroup 72.35 —4.82 CocaCola 70.19 —2.13 ConAgraBr 25.47 — .58 ConocoPhil 90.64 —1.99 Corning 46.49 —1.76 CurtissWright
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family photos that were posted on social media. “My initial shock turned to horror
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family photos that were posted on social media. “My initial shock turned to horror
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas-based iHeartMedia said it settled its legal dispute with Drake over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” after demonstrating that it “did nothing wrong.” Drake had alleged in a legal petition filed in November that iHeartMedia received illegal payments from Universal Music Group to boost
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Tuesday: OpenHighLowSettleChg. COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.; dollars per lb. Mar 63.45 63.73 62.04 62.04 —2.10 May 65.51 65.51 62.54 63.24 —2.27 Jul 66.62 66.62 63.80 64.52 —2.10 Oct 67.64 67.64 66.62 66.62 —1.70 Dec 68.05 68.09 66.00 66.52 —1.57 Mar 69.14 69.21 67.17
Continue Reading OpenHighLowSettleChg. LUMBER 27,500 bd. ft.; $ per 1,000 bd. ft. Mar 659.5 679.5 654.0 662.5 +5.5 May 685.0 699.0 674.0 683.0 Jul 698.0 710.0 688.5 688.5 —7.5 Sep 714.5 714.5 714.5 714.5 +10.0 Est. sales 2,803. Mon.’s sales 1,583 Mon.’s open int 6,383, up 440 LIBOR-1 MONTH $3 million; pts of 100 pct. No open
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio Pappano has gone underground since leaving The Royal Opera for the London Symphony Orchestra. “Now, more often than not, I take the Tube, which I never did when I was at the opera house because I had a car service,” he said. “This is a
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that the Oval Office blowup with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump last week was “regrettable,” adding that he stands ready to work under Trump’s “strong leadership” to get a lasting peace. Zelenskyy’s remarks — an apparent attempt to
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Mar 544¾ 544¾ 533¾ 534 —13½ May 561¾ 564 541½ 548½ —13½ Jul 576 578¼ 556½ 563¼ —12¾ Sep 592 593½ 572¼ 579 —12¼ Dec 612½ 614¼ 594¼ 601 —11¼ Mar 627½ 628¾ 611
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Mar 544¾ 544¾ 533¾ 534 —13½ May 561¾ 564 541½ 548½ —13½ Jul 576 578¼ 556½ 563¼ —12¾ Sep 592 593½ 572¼ 579 —12¼ Dec 612½ 614¼ 594¼ 601 —11¼ Mar 627½ 628¾ 611
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Mar 544¾ 544¾ 533¾ 534 —13½ May 561¾ 564 541½ 548½ —13½ Jul 576 578¼ 556½ 563¼ —12¾ Sep 592 593½ 572¼ 579 —12¼ Dec 612½ 614¼ 594¼ 601 —11¼ Mar 627½ 628¾ 611
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