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. JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Matt Mayers scored 18 points and Jacksonville State beat Middle Tennessee 76-68 on Wednesday night. Mayers added six rebounds for the Gamecocks (13-14, 5-7 …

Feb. 27 1918 — The first neutral site game in NHL history is held in Quebec City. Frank Nighbor scores twice in the first period to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens. 1955 — Boston beats Milwaukee 62-57 at Providence, R.I. in a game which set records for fewest points scored by one team, …

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. North Florida Ospreys (15-13, 8-5 ASUN) at Jacksonville Dolphins (13-14, 4-9 ASUN) Jacksonville, Florida; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville hosts the North Florida Ospreys after Robert …

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. UMBC Retrievers (9-18, 4-8 America East) at Maine Black Bears (11-15, 3-8 America East) Bangor, Maine; Thursday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UMBC visits the Maine Black Bears …

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University condemned what it called a “flagrantly antisemitic cartoon” that an undergraduate group posted on social media over the weekend. It also appeared on the Instagram account of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Copied from a newsletter published by students in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the image features a …

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. Binghamton Bearcats (12-13, 4-8 America East) at UMass-Lowell River Hawks (17-7, 8-3 America East) Lowell, Massachusetts; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UMass-Lowell plays the Binghamton Bearcats after …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi’s Republican leaders now say they are open to the policy — if they can require new enrollees to have a job. That approach could hinge on presidential politics and an ongoing legal battle in Georgia. In a statement to The Associated Press, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann …

SEATTLE (AP) — Photographer Matt McDonald had lived on Puget Sound for years, but had never seen a whale, so he was elated when he spotted a giant marine mammal just off Seattle’s waterfront one evening. The excitement was short-lived. As McDonald tracked the whale in his camera’s viewfinder, a state ferry that dwarfed the animal came into the frame. …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia said Wednesday they are investigating a traffic stop in which a state official was pulled over after he was spotted driving erratically but was allowed to continue operating the vehicle without being cited. Charleston Police Chief Scott Dempsey said in a statement that officers conducted the traffic stop on southbound Interstate 77 …

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. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Sonny Wilson had 18 points in Toledo’s 72-64 win against Akron on Tuesday night. Wilson shot 7 of 11 from the field and 4 …

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines says it plans to resume flights to Israel next month, reviving a route that was suspended in October at the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The airline said Wednesday that it will start flights from Newark, New Jersey, to Tel Aviv with a stop in Munich on March 2 and March 4. United said it …

The financially struggling Metropolitan Opera will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81. Met general manager Peter Gelb kept up his pivot to contemporary works, starting the season with Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded” on Sept. 23, then presenting Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar” opening Oct. 15 and John Adams’ “Antony …

From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. But as the fighting rages on with no end in sight, the humanitarian catastrophe there has only worsened. United Nations agencies and aid groups say the ongoing hostilities, the Israeli military’s …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden on Wednesday announced $100 million in federal funding for research and development into women’s health as part of a new White House initiative that she is heading up. The money is the first major deliverable of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, which was announced late last year. The money comes from the …

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Se necesitarán más de 400 millones de dólares para la recuperación y reconstrucción del occidente de Afganistán tras el terremoto devastador de octubre que dejó unos 2.000 muertos, informó Naciones Unidas el miércoles. El sismo de magnitud 6.3 del 7 de octubre, uno de los más destructivos de la historia reciente del país, arrasó aldeas enteras en …