By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East, bringing a renewed potential that President Donald Trump could opt to order airstrikes on Iran over its crackdown on protesters. The carrier, along with three destroyers, “is currently deployed to the
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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be able to do so. “If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without
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The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking. Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (31) 21-0 775 1 2. UCLA 19-1 740 3
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 7 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall. Producers of the show announced the date and location Monday. Nominations will be announced May 5. Radio City can seat
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some people see the glass as half full and some as half empty. Marc Shaiman is something else entirely. “I’m not even happy with the glass,” he says with a laugh. The award-winning Hollywood and Broadway composer and lyricist cheerfully likes to call himself an
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Dior turned the Musée Rodin into a celebrity waiting room — then into a garden — on the first day of Paris Couture Week. Guests packed into the museum as the start time for the show drifted. French first lady Brigitte Macron arrived. Lauren Sánchez Bezos
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NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has named Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as its next president as it tries to move forward from two years of turmoil that included campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and President Donald Trump’s subsequent campaign to squelch student activism and force changes at the
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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer From family-run cafes to retail giants, businesses are increasingly coming into the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, whether it’s public pressure for them to speak out against aggressive immigration enforcement or becoming the sites for such arrests themselves. In Minneapolis, where the Department of Homeland Security
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By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former GOP gubernatorial candidate who once tried to unseat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is seeking the office again, joining a crowded field of Republicans running in the battleground state. Oakland County businessman Perry Johnson announced his second bid for governor Monday. His entrance to the
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan will decide by next Monday whether to participate in the T20 World Cup after disagreeing with the International Cricket Council’s move to bring Scotland into the tournament in place of Bangladesh. The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who met with prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday, wrote on X that
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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aiming to shake up the Golden State’s media landscape, the California Post launched on Monday with a new tabloid newspaper and news site that brings a brash, cheeky and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple to the West Coast. The Los Angeles outpost of the New
Continue ReadingBANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Nineteen members of Indonesia’s elite marine force are among 42 people missing after being swept away or buried by a deadly weekend landslide that tore through a mountainside in West Java province, officials said Monday. The marines were training in rugged terrain and heavy rainfall when Saturday’s predawn landslide swallowed their
Continue Reading By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Jan. 27 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 4 p.m. CBSSN — Northwestern St. at Stephen F. Austin 6 p.m. ACCN — Wake Forest at Pittsburgh 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Michigan St. at Rutgers 7 p.m. CBSSN — Richmond at VCU ESPN — Arkansas
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 51 33 14 4 70 179 130 14-9-0 19-5-4 6-3-1 Detroit 53 32 16 5 69 167 159 18-8-1 14-8-4 10-4-2 Buffalo 51 29 17 5 63 172 155 16-6-3 13-11-2 9-3-2 Montreal 52 28 17
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 51 33 14 4 70 179 130 Detroit 53 32 16 5 69 167 159 Buffalo 51 29 17 5 63 172 155 Montreal 52 28 17 7 63 177 175 Boston 52 30 20 2 62 174 162
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 51 33 14 4 70 179 130 14-9-0 19-5-4 6-3-1 Carolina 52 32 15 5 69 180 150 18-8-2 14-7-3 11-3-0 Detroit 53 32 16 5 69 167 159 18-8-1 14-8-4 10-4-2 Buffalo 51 29 17 5 63
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf Detroit 33 11 .750 — 8-2 W-1 18-5 14-6 22-6 Boston 29 17 .630 5 6-4 W-1 14-7 15-10 21-11 Toronto 29 19 .604 6 6-4 W-4 13-10 16-9 22-12 New York 27 18 .600 6½ 4-6 W-2 17-6 9-12 20-11
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PARIS (AP) — A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be tarnished following U.S. President Donald Trump’s false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATO countries avoided the front line during that war. Alice Rufo, the minister delegate at the Defense Ministry, laid a
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By The Associated Press Negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are yielding apparent signs of progress, but major challenges remain on the path to a final settlement, a senior Kremlin official said Monday. Talks between envoys from Ukraine, Russia and the United States in recent days in Abu Dhabi were constructive and another
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By JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel brought home the remains of the last hostage in Gaza on Monday, closing a painful chapter for the country and clearing the way for the next and more challenging phase of its ceasefire with Hamas. The next step is likely to be the
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, an anti-immigration Conservative lawmaker, on Monday became the latest politician from the party to defect to hard-right rival party Reform UK. Braverman, who was fired from her job as interior minister in 2023 after repeatedly diverging from government policy, said she
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang’s postwar false promise of living in “paradise on Earth,” ordering its government to pay them 22 million yen ($143,000) each, a decision welcomed by
Continue ReadingNORTHALLERTON, England (AP) — Repeatedly heading a soccer ball “likely” contributed to the brain injury that was a factor in the death of former Manchester United and Scotland defender Gordon McQueen, a coroner found Monday. McQueen died in June 2023 at the age of 70, with the cause of death given as pneumonia after he
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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two special elections Tuesday in heavily Democratic Twin Cities-area state legislative districts will decide control of the Minnesota House of Representatives for the third time in less than a year. Republicans hold a 67-65 advantage in the chamber after two Democratic representatives were elected to other offices
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By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health. Duterte is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Monday, Jan. 26. 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
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Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final Atlanta 132 Indiana 116 Final Charlotte 130 Philadelphia 93 Final Cleveland 114 Orlando 98 Final L.A. Lakers 129 Chicago 118 Final Houston 108 Memphis 99 Final Minnesota 108 Golden State 83 Final Boston 102 Portland 94 ___ NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Final N-Y Islanders 4 Philadelphia 0 Final
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