The AP Top 25 women’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. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USA Basketball announced Thursday that Jennifer Rizzotti will coach the defending Olympic gold medalist women’s 3×3 team at this year’s Paris Games, and …
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PSG president confirms plan to leave Parc des Princes after city hall decides not to sell
PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi confirmed plans for the French league champion to leave its home stadium after Paris city hall officials decided the venue was not for sale. Speaking on Thursday at the margins of UEFA’s executive committee meeting in the French capital, Al-Khelaïfi said: “It’s easier for us now, we know what we want. It’s …
Read More »San Jose State faces Colorado State, looks to stop 6-game skid
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. San Jose State Spartans (8-15, 1-9 MWC) at Colorado State Rams (18-5, 6-4 MWC) Fort Collins, Colorado; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: San Jose State looks to …
Read More »Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, pumpkins and tomatoes on farms around the Aral Sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life near Muynak, in northwestern Uzbekistan, tending the land. Farm …
Read More »Abandoned by his colleagues after negotiating a border compromise, GOP senator faces backlash alone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before the Senate voted Wednesday to kill the border deal he spent the last four months negotiating, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford climbed a set of marble stairs outside the chamber and joined his wife in the visitors’ gallery. As the Republican quietly watched from a floor above, briefly the outsider after defending his legislation in a …
Read More »Bills hire ex-Saints assistant Ronald Curry to coach QBs as part of offseason staff shuffle
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Ronald Curry is going from working with Derek Carr in New Orleans to Josh Allen in Buffalo after being hired as the Bills quarterbacks coach on Wednesday. Curry fills the role left open by Joe Brady, who took over as Buffalo’s interim offensive coordinator in November and was hired for the job on a full-time …
Read More »AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters. The FCC just made them illegal
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlawed robocalls that contain voices generated by artificial intelligence, a decision that sends a clear message that exploiting the technology to scam people and mislead voters won’t be tolerated. The unanimous ruling targets robocalls made with AI voice-cloning tools under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a 1991 law restricting junk …
Read More »Phelps’ 16 help SMU down Rice 95-69
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. HOUSTON (AP) — Zhuric Phelps scored 16 points as SMU beat Rice 95-69 on Wednesday night. Phelps had five rebounds and six assists for the Mustangs (16-7, 7-3 …
Read More »Parker’s 33 lead Saint Louis past La Salle 102-84
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. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sincere Parker’s 33 points led Saint Louis over La Salle 102-84 on Wednesday night ending the Billikens’ six-game losing streak. Parker added six rebounds for …
Read More »Texas man sentenced to 180 days in jail for drugging wife’s drinks to induce an abortion
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation. Mason Herring, a 39-year-old Houston attorney, pleaded guilty Wednesday to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. He had initially been charged with felony assault to induce …
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