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China says more than 10 U.S. balloons flew in its airspace
BEIJING — China on Monday said more than 10 U.S. high-altitude balloons have flown in its airspace during the past year without its permission, following Washington’s accusation that Beijing operates a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world. The United States denied that it operates any surveillance balloons over China....
U2 returning to stage in Las Vegas, minus one of quartet
NEW YORK — U2 is returning to the concert stage later this year for the first time since 2019 but without one of the original quartet, as drummer Larry Mullen Jr. is on the injured list. The band offered a hint about its reemergence on the biggest stage possible —...
Super Bowl magic: Mahomes, Chiefs beat Eagles 38-35
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Patrick Mahomes was magical when the Kansas City Chiefs desperately needed him to pull off another Super Bowl comeback. Playing on an injured ankle, Mahomes threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and scrambled 26 yards on the go-ahead drive before Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard...
Pregnant Rihanna soars in Super Bowl halftime performanceVideo
Rihanna was above it all. She began and ended the Super Bowl 57 halftime show hovering high above the field at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The performance delivered on fan expectations but it included a major surprise — the singer is pregnant with her second child. She wore...
Super Bowl ads use nostalgia, star power and light laughsVideo
NEW YORK — Advertisers bet big that viewers were turning to the Super Bowl for a comforting escape, and delivered a series of advertisements that relied on familiar celebrity faces, light humor, and plenty of cuddly dogs. This wasn’t a year for edgy humor or experimentation. After the global pandemic,...
New Mexico State cancels season after sex, harassment allegationsVideo
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State called off the rest of its men’s basketball season Sunday after reviewing a police report that cited three players for false imprisonment, harassment and counts of criminal sexual contact against a teammate. In a statement, chancellor Dan Arvizu said “this action is clearly...
De La Soul co-founder Trugoy the Dove dead at 54
David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54. His representative Tony Ferguson confirmed the reports Sunday. No other information was immediately available. In recent years, Jolicoeur, had said...
Scheffler repeats at Phoenix Open to regain No. 1 rankingVideo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler successfully defended his WM Phoenix Open title Sunday at TPC Scottsdale to regain the No. 1 spot in the world. Scheffler closed with a 6-under-par 65 to beat Nick Taylor by two strokes in breezy conditions on the firm and fast Stadium Course. The 26-year-old...
Damar Hamlin makes appearance on field at Super BowlVideo
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Damar Hamlin has made it to the Super Bowl. The Buffalo Bills safety made his third appearance in Phoenix during Super Bowl week, this time on the field at State Farm Stadium prior to Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. It’s been a...
U.S. jets down 4 objects in 8 days, unprecedented in peacetimeVideo
WASHINGTON — A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace that Pentagon officials believe has...
Robert Morris wins 71-64 against Purdue Fort WayneVideo
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Michael Green III scored 24 points as Robert Morris beat Purdue Fort Wayne, 71-64, on Sunday. Green also contributed five assists for the Colonials (12-15, 7-9 Horizon League). Kahliel Spear added 12 points while shooting 5 of 10 from the field and 2 for 4 from...
‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ wins Super Bowl weekend box office
The third installment in the “Magic Mike” series danced its way to the top of the box office charts this weekend with a James Cameron double header, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Titanic” (yes that “Titanic”), looming close behind. ” Magic Mike’s Last Dance ” earned $8.2 million in...
Mars Wrigley fined after workers fall into vat of chocolate
ELIZABETHTOWN — Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Mars Wrigley in the June accident at the Elizabethtown M&M/Mars factory, saying...
Super Bowl week was back to its normal wildness this year
PHOENIX — From Super Bowl opening night to the night before the big game, the party was on all week long. The frenzy was back in full force this year after covid-19 restrictions limited the wild, zany atmosphere that surrounds the most-anticipated and most-hyped week on the sports calendar. More...
Biden hosts GOP, Dem governors at White House for dinner
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, hosting both Republican and Democratic governors for a black-tie affair at the White House, raised his glass for a toast. Standing under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, he told the people in the room to remember who they were. “We’re the United States of America....
Trudeau: U.S. fighter shot down object over northern Canada
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska. North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada...
Army sees safety, not ‘wokeness,’ as top recruiting obstacle
WASHINGTON — While some Republicans blame the covid-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military service says the bigger hurdles are more traditional ones: Young people don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put their lives on hold. They...
Sorrow turns to tension over Turkey earthquake response
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Six days after a massive earthquake killed more than 28,000 in Syria and Turkey, sorrow and disbelief are turning to anger and tension over a sense that there has been an ineffective, unfair and disproportionate response to the historic disaster. Many in Turkey express frustration that rescue...
Turkey detains building contractors as quake deaths pass 33K
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors, including a pregnant woman and two small children, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings. The death toll from the 7.8 magnitude...
Fox’s Super Bowl pregame planning is a year-long effort
PHOENIX — Even while watching last year’s Super Bowl, Bill Richards was planning how this year’s pregame show would look. Richards is the lead producer for Fox’s Super Bowl pregame show for the fifth time. The five hours leading up to Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia...
Scottie Scheffler holds WM Phoenix Open lead in bid to repeat
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to defend his title and regain the No. 1 spot in the world. The second-ranked Scheffler shot a 3-under-par 68 in front of some 200,000 fans at TPC Scottsdale to get to...
Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl matchup could come down to trenches
PHOENIX — The all-star cast of players in the trenches should decide the Super Bowl champion. Sure, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will make their share of plays. But Sunday’s game will come down to which team controls the line of scrimmage. The Philadelphia Eagles (16-3) reached this point mainly...
Trudeau: Warplane shot down object over northern Canada
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. warplane shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over northern Canada, acting a day after U.S. planes took similar action over Alaska. Shortly before Trueau’s tweet, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said it...
1st infant in Kentucky surrendered anonymously at ‘baby box’
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Kentucky has seen its first infant anonymously dropped off at one of its “baby box” safe surrender locations. At a news conference Friday, Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder and CEO Monica Kelsey said the child was dropped off within the last seven days at a Bowling...
Jill Biden not shy about her ‘Philly girl’ sports fandom
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden won’t let even a White House gala get between her and the Philadelphia Eagles. After a late night entertaining governors with President Joe Biden at a black-tie dinner on Saturday, the first lady was heading for the Super Bowl in Arizona on Sunday with hopes of...
