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 …

ATLANTA (AP) — Una amiga de la fiscal de Georgia Fani Willis testificó el jueves que la relación personal de Willis con un fiscal especial empezó antes de que éste fuera contratado para el caso de interferencia electoral contra Donald Trump. El testimonio de Robin Yeartie contradice directamente la declaración de Willis de que su relación con Nathan Wade no …

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 Dakota State Bison (12-13, 5-5 Summit League) at Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (11-13, 5-6 Summit League) Tulsa, Oklahoma; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Golden Eagles …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A truck’s fuel tank exploded early Thursday in a neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles, sending a fireball into the air and injuring nine of the 10 firefighters responding to the blaze, including two critically, fire officials said. All nine Los Angeles firefighters were rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and were stabilized, and one of the …

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. Dartmouth Big Green (5-15, 1-6 Ivy League) at Columbia Lions (12-8, 3-4 Ivy League) New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Dartmouth visits the Columbia Lions after …

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. Ohio Bobcats (13-11, 7-4 MAC) at Toledo Rockets (15-9, 9-2 MAC) Toledo, Ohio; Friday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Ohio visits the Toledo Rockets after Jaylin Hunter scored …

Lisa Lopez-Galvan was a music lover and DJ in the Kansas City area who played at weddings, quinceañeras and an American Legion bar and grill. She mixed Tejano, Mexican and Spanish music with R&B and hip-hop, and volunteered as a host on a radio program. She also was a devoted fan of Kansas City’s professional sports teams and went with …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Shane van Gisbergen and his girlfriend moved in December to Mooresville, North Carolina, and so far, he’s experienced only small moments of culture shock after coming from his old home in Brisbane, Australia, where he lived since 2007. “It’s cold, I’ll you that,” he said, laughing. “I’ve never lived anywhere this cold before. It’s pretty …

NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Browne, ever the master showman of American fashion, closed out New York Fashion Week on a blustery day with his own wintry landscape, blanketing the floor with fake snow and presenting his latest inventive designs to the words of Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling “The Raven.” With celebrities like Janet Jackson and Queen Latifah in the …

MADISON, Wisconsin, EE.UU. (AP) — La legislatura de Wisconsin se dispone a votar en las próximas horas sobre leyes para regular la inteligencia artificial, sumándose al número creciente de estados que buscan cómo controlar la tecnología a medida que se acercan las elecciones de noviembre. La primera votación será sobre una iniciativa bipartidista que obligaría a los candidatos y agrupaciones …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, called Sora, isn’t the first of its kind. Google, Meta and the startup Runway ML are among the other companies to have demonstrated …

Mauricio Pochettino is just over a week away from his first final as Chelsea manager and maybe his first trophy in English soccer. The League Cup final date with Liverpool at Wembley might as well be next year, though, considering the weight on Pochettino to turn around Chelsea’s form in the Premier League. There’s not likely to be any relief …

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday signed legislation censuring a conservative member of the state Board of Education whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player triggered threats against the girl and led state officials to call for the board member’s resignation. Both legislative chambers had swiftly passed a resolution …

LOISABA CONSERVANCY, Kenya (AP) — Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades. The successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos to a new home will give them space to breed and could help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who are struggling to repay federal student loans because of financial hardship could get some of their debt canceled under President Joe Biden’s latest proposal for widespread loan forgiveness. Several categories of borrowers would be eligible for relief under Biden’s second try at widespread cancellation after the Supreme Court rejected his first plan last year. Those …