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Reed, Demary hoping to help UConn win title with transfers again
STORRS, Conn. — In the days and weeks after Silas Demary Jr. arrived on the next stage of his basketball career, he sought out the one UConn men’s player who was navigating a similar path coming from another power conference school. The year before Demary left Georgia to try to...
Luigi Mangione’s trials delayed until September and October in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione ‘s state and federal trials in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson were both postponed on Wednesday, with the state case delayed until September and the federal case pushed back to October. Judge Gregory Carro rescheduled the state trial from June 8 to Sept....
Whispers in the Supreme Court as Trump takes a front-row seat for oral arguments
WASHINGTON — People spoke in whispers and craned their necks Wednesday to watch as President Donald Trump broke with all sitting presidents before him and took a seat in the front row of the chamber’s public seating area to hear a Supreme Court argument. He sat there silently with his...
Woods turns down Ryder Cup captain’s job and seeks treatment
Tiger Woods formally turned down the Ryder Cup captaincy Wednesday as he steps away from golf activities, and a Florida judge approved his motion to leave the country to seek treatment. The developments come one day after Woods entered a not guilty plea to suspicion of driving under the influence...
Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. The Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t reach any conclusions...
New DNA testing links unsolved death of Utah teen in 1974 to serial killer Ted Bundy
SALT LAKE CITY — New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the local sheriff’s office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime, 17, went missing Halloween night 51 years ago after she left a party alone to...
Pioneering female NFL official sues league, alleges humiliating incident at Steelers training camp
NEW YORK — In a new lawsuit, one of the first three women to officiate an NFL game describes her three years at the pinnacle of her profession as a descent into the grip of a sexist institution unable to treat a woman as an equal. Robin DeLorenzo cited gender-based...
From TMZ to Trump, pressure grows to bring Congress back during partial shutdown
WASHINGTON — TMZ built its brand by tracking celebrities. Now it is turning its attention to Congress, chasing down paparazzi-style shots of lawmakers on break from Washington during a record-long partial government shutdown. Videos and photos posted by the tabloid website showing lawmakers in airports, Las Vegas and even Disney...
Italian coast guard finds 19 migrants dead and rescues 58 from dinghy off Lampedusa
ROME — The Italian coast guard found 19 people dead and rescued 58 others after intercepting a dinghy filled with migrants that was in distress about 80 nautical miles from the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Tuesday night. The Italian coast guard operated in the Libyan search and rescue...
Oil and gas prices won’t immediately return to normal even if the Iran war ends, the EU warns
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Skyrocketing oil and gas prices in Europe as a result of the ongoing Iran war won’t return to normal levels any time soon, even if peace is declared tomorrow, the European Union’s energy commissioner warned Tuesday. Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said although there are no immediate oil and...
Activist vessel collides with krill trawler in Antarctic confrontation
MIAMI — A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with an industrial krill trawler in Antarctica in what the ship’s Norwegian owner said was a “deliberate attack” that endangered its crew and could’ve caused a disaster in the same environmentally sensitive waters the activists...
Movie Review: Jittery, edgy and magnetic, Riz Ahmed takes ‘Hamlet’ for a spin
“To be, or not to be,” Hamlet says in his best-known speech — questioning the value of life itself and, more immediately, his own. But surely, these words have rarely if ever been uttered with such an apparent death wish as when Riz Ahmed, our latest troubled prince, hurtles down...
Four astronauts await liftoff on humanity’s first flight to the moon in half a century
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts strapped into NASA’s new moon rocket and awaited liftoff Wednesday on humanity’s first lunar trip in more than half a century. The three Americans and one Canadian waved and shaped their hands into hearts as they emerged from crew quarters to cheers and said...
Retail sales rise 0.6% in February, but impact of Iran war threatens to derail spending
NEW YORK — Shoppers increased their spending in February after pulling back at the start of the year, reflecting volatile and cautious activity by American consumers even before the Iran war sent gasoline prices soaring. Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in February, after registering a 0.1% decline in January,...
Trump plans to attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to sit in on Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court. The Republican president’s official schedule, sent out by the White House, included a stop at the Supreme Court,...
Supreme Court seems poised to reject Trump’s birthright citizenship limits as he attends arguments
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to reject President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a momentous case that was magnified by his unparalleled presence in the courtroom. Conservative and liberal justices questioned whether Trump’s order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United...
Vance and Rubio’s differing postures on Iran war highlight their challenges ahead of 2028 election
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump assembled his Cabinet last week, he asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance to give an update on the Iran war. Rubio, known for his hawkish views, gave an impassioned defense of the war, calling it “a favor” to the...
Iran hits Kuwait airport and a tanker off Qatar while strikes batter Tehran ahead of Trump speech
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday while airstrikes battered Tehran — an unrelenting tempo hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was nearly ready to wind down the war. Trump, who is scheduled to address...
Trump claims Iran’s president wants a ceasefire ahead of his address to Americans
President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed Iran’s president wanted a ceasefire ahead of his speech to the American people. Trump made the claim on his Truth Social website. Iran had no immediate response to Trump’s post. Before that post, Trump said the military could end its Iran offensive in two...
Tiger Woods says he’ll step away, seek treatment after pleading not guilty to DUI
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods said he’ll step away and seek treatment Tuesday, days after his vehicle crashed in Florida and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. “This is necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being and work toward lasting recovery,” he said in...
Texas’ Schaefer chasing an elusive title in 4th women’s Final Four
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas coach Vic Schaefer has come agonizingly close to winning a national championship. Close as in three previous trips to the Final Four. And two title game appearances, including one lost on a last-second 3-pointer. The 65-year-old Schaefer is close again. Only he’s over being close in...
Underwood waited 26 years for D-I job, now has Illinois in Final Four
Illinois’ Brad Underwood coached for 26 years before landing his first Division I head coaching job. Now in Year 39, the well-traveled 62-year-old finally is heading to the Final Four, where the Fighting Illini meet UConn on Saturday. He’s doing it in what he’s long referred to as his dream...
Nebraska-Missouri and Penn State-Kentucky volleyball matches are set for Wrigley Field in September
CHICAGO — Wrigley Field will host a women’s college volleyball doubleheader to highlight the Big Ten/SEC Volleyball Challenge Week in September. The conferences announced Monday that Nebraska will play Missouri, and Penn State will meet Kentucky at the home of the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 6. Matchups between Big Ten...
A playoff salary cap is coming to the NHL. GMs get a calculator to help them navigate it
NEW YORK — Gone are the days of NHL teams stashing players on long-term injured reserve through the end of the regular season and dressing them at the start of the playoffs. Starting this spring, the lineup for each game must fit under the salary cap, which until now did...
Judge blocks Trump order to end funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for...
