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Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants’ right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan. In the video, Mamdani vowed...
Tony Pollard runs for 161 yards and 2 TDs as Titans outlast Shedeur Sanders and Browns 31-29
CLEVELAND — Tony Pollard rushed for a career-high 161 yards and two touchdowns, Cam Ward passed for two scores and the Tennessee Titans held off the Cleveland Browns, 31-29, on Sunday to snap a seven-game skid. Cleveland’s Shedeur Sanders passed for 364 yards and three touchdowns in his third start,...
NFL Week 14: Daniel Jones hurt in Jaguars’ 11th consecutive home win against the Colts
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Trevor Lawrence threw two touchdown passes, Travis Etienne ran for two scores and the Jacksonville Jaguars moved atop the AFC South with a 36-19 victory against rival Indianapolis on Sunday. The Jaguars (9-4) won their fourth consecutive game and extended the Colts’ misery in Jacksonville. Indianapolis (8-5)...
Notre Dame joins Iowa State and Kansas State in declining bowl bids
Snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame snubbed its nose at a second-tier bowl game. The ninth-ranked Fighting Irish responded to getting dropped in the CFP rankings for the second consecutive week by turning down an invitation to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Fla. “Overwhelming shock and...
Tom Hicks, the Texas businessman who owned Stars, Rangers and Liverpool teams, dies at 79
DALLAS — Tom Hicks, the Texas businessman and philanthropist who owned two Dallas-area professional sports franchises and an English Premier League soccer team, has died. He was 79. Spokesperson Lisa LeMaster said in statement that Hicks died peacefully Saturday in Dallas surrounded by family. Hicks owned the NHL’s Dallas Stars...
Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties
Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case. Trump blasted Cuellar for “Such a lack of LOYALTY,” suggesting the Republican president might have...
Government waives part of a Biden-era fine against Southwest Airlines
The U.S. Department of Transportation is waiving part of a fine assessed against Southwest Airlines after the company canceled thousands of flights during a winter storm in 2022. Under a 2023 settlement reached by the Biden administration, Southwest agreed to a $140 million civil penalty. The government said at the...
No. 2 Indiana caps Curt Cignetti’s incredible turnaround by beating No. 1 Ohio State for Big Ten title
INDIANAPOLIS — From the moment Curt Cignetti took Indiana’s head coaching job, he made it clear this would be a different program. He refused to tolerate any moral victories or close calls and instead expected to win, to win big and win immediately. In just 737 days, he turned what...
Alabama, Miami in, Notre Dame out and Indiana No. 1 in College Football Playoff rankings
Nobody paying attention for the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana — yes, Indiana — leading the way into this year’s College Football Playoff. But anyone paying attention over the last 24 hours knew the only sure thing beyond that was that the selection committee was destined...
Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
HONOLULU — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to...
Trump awards medals to the Kennedy Center honorees in an Oval Office ceremony
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled. This year’s recipients are actor Sylvester...
Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, 7 decades later
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon have been made public for the first time, and they illustrate aspects of her legacy that are...
Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine as the Kremlin praises new U.S. security strategy
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Sunday welcomed the Trump administration’s new national security strategy in comments by the Kremlin spokesman published by Russia’s Tass news agency. Dmitry Peskov said the updated strategic document was largely in line with Moscow’s vision. “There are statements there against confrontation and in favor of...
Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire’s 2nd phase soon
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire,” after Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza. Netanyahu spoke during a news conference with visiting German Chancellor...
Java island zoo releases photos of 1st panda cub born in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A zoo on Java island released photos of Indonesia’s first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing signs of being in good health. The mother, 15-year-old Hu Chun, gave birth to Satrio Wiratama — nicknamed Rio — on November 27 at the zoo’s...
Man arrested after pepper spray attack in London’s Heathrow Airport parking garage
LONDON (AP) — Police arrested a man in London after a group of people were assaulted with pepper spray Sunday in a Heathrow Airport parking garage. Ambulance crews treated 21 people at the scene and five were taken to the hospital, though their injuries were not believed to be serious,...
Nobel laureates arrive for a week of events and awards in Stockholm and Oslo
STOCKHOLM — Nobel week was underway in Stockholm and Oslo with laureates holding news conferences and lectures before they will be awarded the prestigious prizes. Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who won the Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, was...
Longshot Duke beats Virginia in OT to claim 1st outright ACC championship since ’62
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke won its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference title since 1962 and threw the College Football Playoff into chaos Saturday night when Darian Mensah connected with Pine-Richland graduate Jeremiah Hasley for a 1-yard touchdown on a fourth-down play in overtime, and the unranked Blue Devils held on...
Indiana stuns Ohio State to end Big Ten title drought, stake claim to top playoff seed
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza made all the big plays Saturday night. Then his Hoosiers teammates and their fans celebrated like it was 1967. Mendoza’s neatly tucked 17-yard pass to Elijah Sarratt gave the No. 2 Hoosiers the lead they needed and the defense shut down No. 1 Ohio...
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth, adds Trump’s birthday
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year — which also happens to be Flag Day — but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. The new list of free admission days for...
Man wounded in 2nd stabbing attack on North Carolina commuter train since August
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city’s trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack. Oscar Solarzano, 33, was...
No. 10 Iowa State ‘steals spirit’ of No. 1 Purdue in dominant upsetVideo
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Milan Momcilovic scored 20 points, and Iowa State sank 11 3-pointers to propel No. 10 Iowa State to a dominant 81-58 win over No. 1 Purdue on Saturday. Momcilovic, Killyan Toure and Joshua Jefferson all hit three 3-pointers. Toure scored 13, Blake Buchanan 12 and Jefferson...
West Virginia can’t stop Juke Harris, loses to Wake Forest at Holiday HoopfestVideo
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Juke Harris hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 28 points, Tre’von Spillers scored 16 points on 8-of-13 shooting, and Wake Forest beat West Virginia, 75-66, on Saturday night at Holiday Hoopfest. Omaha Biliew hit a 3-pointer that gave the Demon Deacons a one-point lead 24 seconds into...
Cameron Boozer scores 18 in No. 4 Duke’s win over No. 7 Michigan State
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Cameron Boozer scored 18 points, including 16 in the second half, and Caleb Foster added 12 points Saturday to help No. 4 Duke hold on for a 66-60 victory over No. 7 Michigan State in a game that had the intensity of an NCAA Regional Final....
Georgia ends Alabama’s hold on rivalry, beats Crimson Tide to win SEC championship
ATLANTA — Gunner Stockton threw three touchdown passes as No. 3 Georgia solidified its position for a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff and beat Alabama in the SEC championship game for the first time, pounding the 10th-ranked Crimson Tide, 28-7, on Saturday. Georgia (12-1, No. 3 CFP), had...
