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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NBA Friday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Boston 4½ (198) at ORLANDO at MILWAUKEE 5 (230½) Indiana at MINNESOTA 3 (205½) LA Lakers MLB Friday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at DETROIT -126 Baltimore +108 at N.Y YANKEES -138 Toronto +118 Boston OFF at CLEVELAND OFF at MINNESOTA -205 LA Angels
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, closing the basilica for just an hour and a half Thursday morning
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA PRECIUTTI and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St. Peter’s Basilica and give her final farewell to the late Pope Francis. She believed the special moment of prayer was well worth
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By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or lesbian partners as “intrinsically disordered.” Yet unlike his predecessors, Francis incrementally conveyed through his actions, formal statements
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By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year, aiming to ensure public funds don’t buy Chinese technology or even T-shirts, coffee mugs and key chains for tourists. They’re also targeting sister-city relationships between American and Chinese communities. After years celebrating
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year, aiming to ensure public funds don’t buy Chinese technology or even T-shirts, coffee mugs and key chains for tourists. They’re also targeting sister-city relationships between American and Chinese communities. After years celebrating
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war
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By JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicks off on Thursday, bringing together a smorgasbord of the city’s most iconic homegrown artists for the next two weeks. The festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of attendees, began in 1970 as a homage to the
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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who dropped his appeals and said he deserved to die for a 2010 rape and murder was executed Thursday evening, using his final words to apologize to the woman he killed. James Osgood, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. following a three-drug
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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The songs released in that time — and in the years that followed — sought to highlight
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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Grieving relatives and survivors of a mass shooting at a 2022 July Fourth parade recounted harrowing details for hours in a packed courtroom this week, telling a judge that the attack has done long-lasting damage. But the man who admitted to carefully planning the shooting, and
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The evening news brought the Vietnam War into American living rooms, but once the news was over, so was the war. Prime-time shows brought nary a mention of it as networks looked to bring uncontroversial content to the broadest possible audience. But the war simmered below the surface as
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations that drove the world’s most powerful country, the U.S., into a long, gruesome and hopeless conflict. FICTION “The
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the “Kansas Pick 3 Evening” game were: 2, 2, 5 (two, two, five) 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, 5, 9 (four, five, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz pledged Wednesday night to do everything in his power to protect Minnesotans from the chaos that he said President Donald Trump has unleashed on the country and the world. Delivering his annual State of the State speech to a joint session of
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security say the agency didn’t violate a judge’s order detailing when people may be deported to countries other than their own because it was the Defense Department — not DHS officials — doing the deporting. Justice Department attorney Mary Larakers made the argument in
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing of the “Missouri Cash Pop” game were: 3 (three) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump will mark his first 100 days in office next week with a rally in Michigan, his first since returning to the White House earlier this year. Trump will visit Macomb County on Tuesday, the White House press secretary said. The region is just
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz pledged Wednesday night to do everything in his power to protect Minnesotans from the chaos that he said President Donald Trump has unleashed on the country and the world. Delivering his annual State of the State speech to a joint session of
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By COLLIN BINKLEY and JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America’s colleges and the accreditors that oversee them, part of his escalating campaign to end what he calls ” wokeness ” and diversity efforts in education. In a series of executive actions signed Wednesday, Trump
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By RUSS BYNUM and MEG KINNARD Associated Press DATAW ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Republican Rep. Nancy Mace faced criticism over the legal wrangling concerning universities and allegations of antisemitism during a town hall at a private, gated island community in her coastal South Carolina district. The crowd of several hundred, mostly gray-haired attendees on Dataw
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