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Barbashev scores in OT, Golden Knights beat Wild 4-3 in Game 4 to even first-round seriesVideo
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Some puck luck finally went the Vegas Golden Knights’ way, and they avoided getting pushed to the brink of elimination. Ivan Barbashev scored at 17:26 of overtime, and the Golden Knights beat the Minnesota Wild, 4-3, in Game 4 on Saturday to even their first-round playoff...
Streaking Journalism is 3-1 morning line favorite for 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill DownsVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Red-hot Journalism is the 3-1 morning line favorite for the 151st Kentucky Derby with a favorable No. 8 post position that has tied for the second-most victories in the horse racing’s marquee event. Sovereignty is the 5-1 second choice of 20 horses and will start from the...
Full-strength Wolves take series lead into Game 4 vs. Lakers, as health looms large in NBA playoffsVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves have the assets to repeat or even surpass their run last year to the Western Conference finals, with a go-to player who is one of the biggest stars, a couple of shutdown defenders and a productive and versatile bench, to name a few. They are...
NASCAR returns from only break of season with drivers hoping to stop Bell, Hamlin and LarsonVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala. — NASCAR is back in action after its only weekend off of the 38-race schedule with a Sunday showdown at Talladega Superspeedway, where the drivers will try to halt the early domination shown by Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson. The trio arrived at the Alabama track...
Penn State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles settling in quickly with Nittany LionsVideo
STATE COLLEGE — It didn’t take long for Jim Knowles to confirm what he believed was true when Penn State hired him to be defensive coordinator just three months ago. Then, Knowles was fresh off coaching Ohio State’s defense to a national championship win not long after the Nittany Lions...
Shedeur Sanders’ long wait ends when Browns take him in the 5th round of the NFL draft
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Shedeur Sanders’ long wait finally has ended. The Cleveland Browns selected the Colorado quarterback and son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders in the fifth round with the 144th overall pick in the NFL draft on Saturday. That ended a stunning fall for Sanders, the most...
ICE deports Pa. mother of a breastfeeding infant and a 2-year-old who is a U.S. citizen
HARRISBURG — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have in recent days deported the breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, and in another case a 2-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen along with her Honduran-born mother, their lawyers say. Both cases raise questions about who is...
Trump and Zelenskyy briefly discuss the Russia-Ukraine war while at Pope Francis’ funeral
ROME — President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met briefly Saturday before the funeral for Pope Francis as the American leader steps up the pressure to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. It was the first face-to-face encounter between Trump and the Ukrainian leader since they argued during a...
Sen. Chris Murphy’s ’emergency’ message about Trump is connecting with Democratic voters
SAXAPAHAW, N.C. — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn’t drawing stadium-size crowds like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed concert hall in rural North Carolina, people are starting to view the Democrat as worthy...
Photo gallery: From mightiest to humblest, hundreds of thousands gather for Pope Francis’ funeral
VATICAN CITY — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always made a point to minister to, hundreds of thousands of people participated at the Vatican Saturday for the funeral rites for the late pontiff. U.S. President Donald Trump and some...
Mighty and meek bid farewell to Pope Francis at funeral where he is remembered as pope of the peopleVideo
VATICAN CITY — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered as a simple pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners...
Trump pays his respects to a pope who publicly and pointedly disagreed with him, meets Zelenskyy
ROME — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St. Peter’s Square as more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries attended the funeral of the Catholic Church leader who pointedly disagreed with the American on a variety of...
Woman who accused Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking case dies by suicide
The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. She was 41. Virginia Giuffre died by suicide Friday at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was...
Shedeur Sanders still available in 3rd round of NFL draft as stunning fall continues for Colorado QBVideo
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The wait continues for Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was widely viewed as a first-round talent but was still available in the third round of the NFL draft on Friday. It was a stunning fall for Sanders, who garnered so much attention over the last several...
Bomb threat prompts plane evacuation at Florida airport; no explosives found
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A bomb threat note found Friday on a plane at a Florida airport prompted the evacuation of the aircraft and a temporary closure, but no explosives were found, officials said. A flight attendant on Allegiant Airways Flight 2006, heading from the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to...
1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi: 1st-round QB Jaxson Dart welcomed to Giants by Eli Manning
Jaxson Dart received a video message from a familiar face, one who knows what it takes to be a franchise quarterback for the New York Giants. And one also from Ole Miss, at that. Two-time Super Bowl winner Eli Manning welcomed Dart to the team Friday, a day after the...
WNBA training camps set to open this weekend with Caitlin Clark preparing for Year 2Video
A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier will be back on the court Sunday to renew their chase of a coveted WNBA championship when training camps open and last year’s rookie sensation Caitlin Clark begins Year 2 in the league. Stewart and the New York Liberty will be chasing a...
Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby with 2 contenders after serving a 3-year suspensionVideo
Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in four years, having served his punishment for Medina Spirit’s failed drug test and coming to the place where he has won a record-tying six times. He has settled in at his old Barn 33, the signs boasting...
Warriors’ Draymond Green wins NBA Hustle Award for 2024-25 season
Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors is this season’s winner of the NBA Hustle Award, the league announced Friday. The award has been presented since 2017. Oklahoma City’s Cason Wallace was second, Philadelphia’s Guerschon Yabusele was third, Oklahoma City’s Lugentz Dort was fourth and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels was fifth....
19 states sue Trump administration over push to end diversity programs in public schools
CONCORD, N.H. — Nineteen states that refused to comply with a Trump administration directive aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools went a step further Friday, filing a federal lawsuit challenging what they consider an illegal threat to cut federal funding. The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts...
College journalists wrestle with transparency as students fear deportation for speaking out
CHICAGO — Over the past few weeks, Greta Reich, editor-in-chief of Stanford University’s student newspaper, has had almost two dozen requests to take down quotes, bylines, photos and opinion articles from current and former sources and writers. She and her staff at the Stanford Daily have been reviewing them on...
Elon Musk’s X sues to overturn Minnesota political deepfakes ban
MINNEAPOLIS — X Corp., the social media platform owned by Trump adviser Elon Musk, is challenging the constitutionality of a Minnesota ban on using deepfakes to influence elections and harm candidates, saying it violates First Amendment speech protections. The company’s federal lawsuit filed this week also contends the 2023 state...
Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against him. Mangione, 26, stood with his lawyers as he entered the plea, leaning forward toward a...
Trump administration reverses course on foreign students’ U.S. visa registrations
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, a government lawyer said Friday. The records in a federal student database maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been...
Ex-U.S. Rep. George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud and identity theft
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment. The New York Republican, who served in Congress for barely a year before his House colleagues...
