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Associated Press

UConn head coach Dan Hurley, center, and his players celebrate after the NCAA college Final Four ch...
PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer

Fans welcome UConn’s repeat champs back to the ‘Basketball Capital of the World’

Fans lined the street in Eastern Connecticut to welcome the UConn team back and celebrate the Huskies' victory.
1 month ago
Actor Jonathan Majors leaves Criminal Court with his girlfriend Megan Good after his sentencing in ...
PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press

Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail time for assaulting his ex-girlfriend

Majors must complete a 52-week, in-person batterer's intervention program in Los Angeles, where the actor lives.
1 month ago
This photo provided by Consumer Product Safety Commission shows Tide Pods protects. Procter & G...
Associated Press

P&G recalls 8.2 million bags of Tide, Gain and other laundry detergents over packaging defect

Procter & Gamble is recalling bags of laundry detergent packets sold in the U.S. and Canada due to a defect in child-resistant packaging.
1 month ago
Armored trucks are parked outside the GardaWorld facility in the Sylmar section of Los Angeles on T...
Associated Press

This Los Angeles heist sounds like it came from a thriller novel. Thieves stole $30 million in cash

Now detectives are seeking to unravel the brazen cash heist, reportedly one of the largest on record in Los Angeles.
1 month ago
A live view of the coast of Okinawa, where there is a tsunami warning after an earthquake hit the c...
Associated Press

A strong earthquake rocks Taiwan, collapsing buildings

A powerful earthquake struck off Taiwan rocking the entire island and collapsing buildings.
2 months ago
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Coconino County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Samuel Bat...
JACQUES BILLEAUD

Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children

The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect, Samuel Bateman, near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines.
2 months ago
Trump bond lowered...
MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ

Trump posted $175M bond to avert asset seizure as he appeals NY fraud penalty

Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes.
2 months ago
A pond at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine is shown on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, nea...
Susan Montoya Bryan

Uranium is being mined near the Grand Canyon as prices soar and the US pushes for more nuclear power

Less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon, uranium is being mined by the largest uranium producer in the United States.
2 months ago
Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind uses a flashlight to try ...
CHRISTINA LARSON, AP Science Writer

Blind people can hear and feel April’s total solar eclipse with new technology

While solar eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event.
2 months ago
Social media apps are pictured on an iPhone in Salt Lake City....
Jeff Amy

Georgia joins states seeking parental permission before children join social media

Some states, including Utah, have passed laws that will make getting on social media a bit more difficult for children under the age of 16.
2 months ago
The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sits on top of the container ship Dali after the br...
Nick Perry

Baltimore bridge collapse puts the highly specialized role of ship’s pilot under the spotlight

The highly specialized role — in which a pilot temporarily takes control of a ship from its regular captain — is coming under the spotlight this week.
2 months ago
Shopping carts are parked outside a Home Depot in Philadelphia...
MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer

Home Depot buying supplier to professional contractors in a deal valued at about $18.25 billion

Home Depot will buy SRS Distribution, a materials provider for professionals, in a deal valued at approximately $18.25 billion.
2 months ago
us supreme court shown, court hearing case on ghost guns...
MARK SHERMAN

Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used pill

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for bans or severe restrictions on abortion in many Republican-led states, abortion opponents on Tuesday will ask the high court to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to the medication mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States last year.
2 months ago
File - The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. Instagram has star...
Associated Press

New Instagram feature limits display of political content

Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users' feeds.
2 months ago
ghost army Congressional gold medal ceremony...
JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

Ghost Army members who staged secret WWII battlefield deceptions awarded Congressional Gold Medal

Three of the seven known surviving members attended the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
2 months ago
Brigham Young Cougars center Aly Khalifa (50) shoots against the UCF Knights at the Marriott Center...
DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer

BYU’s Aly Khalifa heads into March Madness without food or water while observing Ramadan

It is a fast Khalifa is embarking on willingly, yet one that carries with it unusual challenges during the NCAA Tournament.
2 months ago
A JetBlue airplane is seen, March 16, 2017, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York....
The Associated Press 

JetBlue will drop some cities and reduce LA flights to focus on more profitable routes

JetBlue Airways will end service at several cities and reduce flying out of Los Angeles in a move to focus on stronger markets.
2 months ago
Two shades of purple tulips combine with a spring garden of emerging red-leafed lettuce. (Netherlan...
Mike Corder

AI robots are spotting sick tulips in Dutch bulb fields

As part of efforts to tackle the virus, there are 45 robots patrolling tulip fields across the Netherlands as the weather warms up.
2 months ago
Former US President and current GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press

Trump’s lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million civil fraud judgment

Trump's lawyers said “obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount” of the judgment “is not possible under the circumstances presented."
2 months ago
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohi...
MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press

Trump ramps up dark rhetoric in Ohio stump speech for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a "bloodbath" if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
2 months ago
a wrecked apartment in Ukraine is shown, Putin says Russian forces aim to set up a buffer zone insi...
Associated Press

With the election behind him, Putin says Russian forces aim to set up a buffer zone inside Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a news conference after the release of election returns that showed him securing a fifth six-year term.
2 months ago
An array of hats decorated for St. Patrick's Day is displayed at a park in New Orleans during an Ir...
KEVIN McGILL Associated Press

When it’s St. Patrick’s Day in New Orleans, get ready to catch a cabbage

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The grandly colonnaded old city hall was designed by an Irish architect. A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel. Landmark towers and spires of Catholic churches built for Irish immigrants dot the skyline. New Orleans is well known for a culture that evolved from early French […]
2 months ago
McDonald's global system outage...
COURTNEY BONNELL, AP

McDonald’s apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

McDonald's apologized Friday for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours.
2 months ago
Police lights pictured. Man arrested after. allegedly killing his father in west valley...
PATRICK WHITTLE, STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY, AP

Law enforcement should have seized man’s guns weeks before he killed 18 in Maine, report finds

Police should have seized a man's guns weeks before he committed Maine's deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.
2 months ago