The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Marquette Golden Eagles (19-5, 10-3 Big East) at UConn Huskies (23-2, 13-1 Big East) Hartford, Connecticut; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Huskies -6.5; over/under is 147.5 …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner. The 96th Oscars may be a coronation for “Oppenheimer,” which comes in with a leading 13 nominations, though other films, including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Denny Hamlin leaned into the window of Christopher Bell’s winning Toyota to congratulate his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate on beating him in a Daytona 500 qualifying race. Hamlin then gave Bell detailed directions to victory lane. “Been to victory lane at Daytona a time or three,” Hamlin wrote on social media. “Had to show (Bell) …

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory’s largest ever money laundering case, involving about 14 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.8 billion) some of it linked to a scam case in India. The seven local residents, aged between 23 and 74, were part of a large-scale transnational syndicate that used various shell …

DUBÄI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Varios misiles fueron disparados el viernes aparentemente contra un barco frente a las costas de Yemen en el mar Rojo, en el más reciente ataque presuntamente ejecutado por combatientes hutíes de Yemen en medio de la guerra entre Israel y Hamás en la Franja de Gaza. El capitán del barco informó sobre una explosión …

BERLÍN (AP) — Un hombre que también es sospechoso de la desaparición de la niña británica Madeleine McCann fue a juicio el viernes por varios delitos sexuales no relacionados que presuntamente cometió en Portugal entre 2000 y 2017. El juicio se pospuso rápidamente hasta la próxima semana. El hombre de 47 años y de nacionalidad alemana, identificado por los medios …

With portraits, candles and flowers, thousands of people around the world paid their respects Friday to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after Russia’s prison agency announced he had died in an Arctic penal colony at age 47. Among Russians living abroad, there was an outpouring of grief. From London to Frankfurt and Belgrade to Buenos Aires, fans of the outspoken …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Los precios mayoristas en Estados Unidos se aceleraron en enero, en la señal más reciente de persistencia de algunas presiones inflacionarias. El Departamento de Trabajo informó el viernes que su índice de precios al productor, que rastrea la inflación antes de que llegue al consumidor, aumentó 0,3% de diciembre a enero, después de haber caído 0,1% de …

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic on Friday, saying the decision by his wife to invoke marital privilege made it impossible for them to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. The Bruins said he will not return from his leave of absence this season. “Milan Lucic will remain on indefinite …

MADRID (AP) — Ana Maria Knezevic traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for a while. Her family and friends say the naturalized American originally from Colombia has been going through a nasty divorce from her Serbian husband, but the trip was also a chance to explore new places. Then, she vanished — two weeks ago, …