By NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who
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By RAF CASERT and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day conflict as it celebrates the defeat of ultimate
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NBA Friday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Cleveland 2½ (229½) at INDIANA Oklahoma City 5 (233½) at DENVER MLB Friday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at DETROIT -275 Texas +225 Boston OFF at KANSAS CITY OFF Baltimore -142 at LA ANGELS +120 at SEATTLE -136 Toronto +116 N.Y Yankees -142 at
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mass transit grants for the Seattle area or homelessness services grants for Boston, New York, San Francisco and other local governments. The new conditions were
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Continue ReadingNATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_Donovan, St. Louis, .331; Alonso, New York, .328; Tatis, San Diego, .319; Turang, Milwaukee, .318; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .307; Machado, San Diego, .306; Stowers, Miami, .303; Lux, Cincinnati, .302; J.Lee, San Francisco, .301. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 40; Carroll, Arizona, 30; Tucker, Chicago, 30; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 29; Happ, Chicago, 29; Soto,
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By SALLY HO and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SUQUAMISH, Wash. (AP) — For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of miles away. George is a geoduck diver. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam
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By The Associated Press Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining moment of history. Victory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia’s most important
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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was her night once again. Lainey Wilson took home the top prize at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards — the title of entertainer of the year — for a second year in a row. And that was after she cleaned house,
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By LLAZAR SEMINI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Some of the architects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns have reunited in Albania as they try to help a Trumpian candidate prevail in this weekend’s elections. They include Chris LaCivita, who served as co-campaign manager of Trump’s successful 2024 effort, Trump’s longtime pollster
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 3 Evening” game were: 4, 7, 9 (four, seven, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 1, 1, 9 (zero, one, one, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 3” game were: 4, 4, 6 (four, four, six) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Missouri Lotto” game were: 9, 29, 30, 35, 36, 43 (nine, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-six, forty-three) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Missouri Show Me Ca$h” game were: 3, 7, 11, 13, 16 (three, seven, eleven, thirteen, sixteen) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 3 Evening” game were: 0, 7, 8 (zero, seven, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 1, 7, 8 (zero, one, seven, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 1, 2, 12, 16, 35 (one, two, twelve, sixteen, thirty-five) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three of five former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers were acquitted by a jury Wednesday on all state charges including second-degree murder in the January 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. The other two ex-officers previously agreed to plead guilty to the state charges. The acquittals are the most recent development in
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO and ANDRY RINCON Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year, but it denied that their arrival to the United States occurred under an international
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Missouri Cash Pop” game were: 2 (two) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers in helmets streamed into Columbia University Wednesday evening to remove a group of mask-clad protesters who staged a Pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library. Videos shared on social media show a long line of NYPD officers entering the library hours after dozens of protesters pushed their way past
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers in helmets streamed into Columbia University Wednesday evening to remove a group of mask-clad protesters who staged a Pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library. Videos shared on social media show a long line of NYPD officers entering the library hours after dozens of protesters pushed their way past
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By SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press/Report MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The city of Birmingham is one step closer to losing control over Alabama’s largest water utility after the governor signed a bill on Wednesday that would give more power to neighboring suburbs, despite a pending federal lawsuit alleging the move would constitute racial discrimination. The bill
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday that a Mississippi man who harassed Jennifer Aniston for two years before crashing his vehicle through the front gate of the “Friends” star’s Los Angeles home has been charged with felony stalking and vandalism. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of New Albany, Mississippi,
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By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A deadly midair collision in January between a military helicopter and a commercial airliner, several additional crashes and technical problems that resulted in mass cancellations at New Jersey’s biggest airport have prompted officials to pledge a fix for the nation’s outdated air traffic control system and vow to hire more
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By NADIA LATHAN and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Six people in a rural Texas county, including two City Council members and a school board trustee, have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, bringing felony charges to a case that Latino rights
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday said he’ll order the Trump administration to provide more information about the terms under which dozens of Venezuelan immigrants are being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador, moving a step closer to deciding whether to require the
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