Mora trying to make an independent UConn competitive
By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Jim Mora is taking over UConn’s football team during a time of conference mega-mergers.…
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Pick Six: Cowing, Grubbs are among elite on struggling teams
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Great players are spread around college football, of course. Fans just don’t hear much about some…
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Doctors stay in Ukraine’s war-hit towns: ‘People need us’
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed…
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Some LA County residents are asked to suspend outdoor watering for 15 days as utility seeks to fix leaky pipeline from Colorado River
By Stephanie Elam and Mike Valerio, CNN More than 4 million people facing Southern California’s prolonged drought have been asked to suspend…
Continue Reading Bomb threats put tiny Moldova, Ukraine’s neighbor, on edge
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders…
Continue Reading Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…
Continue Reading Tech stocks lead Wall Street lower, breaking winning streak
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading Friday with a broad slide for stocks that left the…
Continue Reading The AP Interview: Refugee head sees lesson in Ukraine crisis
By RENATA BRITO Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency director says Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled…
Continue Reading Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It’s an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: A van…
Continue Reading Nationals rally against Darvish, Hader to beat Padres 3-1
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nelson Cruz drew a bases-loaded walk off Josh Hader to bring in the go-ahead run with one out in…
Continue Reading The remains of a 23-year-old killed during a bombing mission in World War II have been identified
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The remains of a 23-year-old from Utah who was killed during a bombing mission in World War II have been identified, a federal…
Continue Reading Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…
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Luke Knox, Florida International University football player and brother of NFL’s Dawson Knox, dies at 22
By Matt Foster, CNN Florida International University football player Luke Knox, the younger brother of Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox, has died,…
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Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River
By SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be…
Continue Reading Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River
By SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be…
Continue Reading Loyd has big finish, Storm beat Mystics 86-83 in Game 1
SEATTLE (AP) — Breanna Stewart had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Jewell Loyd scored 12 of her 16 points in the final five minutes and the…
Continue Reading Lakes are drying up everywhere. Israel will pump water from the Med as a solution
By Hadas Gold, CNN Despite its name, the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is actually a freshwater lake, and it’s one that has sustained life…
Continue Reading The hotel that inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’ has burned down
By Lilit Marcus, CNN Somebody put Baby in a corner: the remains of an upstate New York hotel that inspired the movie “Dirty Dancing” have…
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UTEP Soccer fall 3-0 in 6 minute blitz from UC Davis in season opener
EL PASO, Texas — After going 4-12 last season the Miners were looking to make a splash in their home opener against UC Davis, but the Aggies had…
Continue Reading Russian vehicles seen inside turbine hall at Ukraine nuclear plant
By Paul P. Murphy, Tim Lister and Rob Picheta, CNN New video has emerged online showing Russian military vehicles inside a turbine hall connected to…
Continue Reading North Korea rejects South’s aid offer, calls President Yoon ‘really simple’
By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea has rejected South Korea’s offer of economic support in exchange for denuclearization, saying…
Continue Reading Smith, error-prone Seahawks struggle in 27-11 loss to Bears
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Geno Smith did little to distinguish himself in his battle with Drew Lock for Seattle’s starting…
Continue Reading R. Kelly victim testifies 20 years later about sexual abuse, including some recorded on video, that allegedly started when she was just 14
By Sonia Moghe, CNN Twenty years after she denied to a grand jury that R. Kelly had sex with her as a girl and recorded some of their encounters, the…
Continue Reading Brazilian President Bolsonaro tries to grab cell phone from YouTube heckler, video shows
By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jennifer Hauser, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got physical with a YouTuber who heckled him in the capital Brasilia…
Continue Reading 3 men indicted in the beating death of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amy Simonson and Rob Frehse, CNN Three men have been indicted in the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted…
Continue Reading 3 men indicted in the beating death of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
James “Whitey” Bulger, who was captured in 2011 after 16 years on the run, was found dead at a high security facility in West Virginia…
Continue Reading 3 men indicted in the beating death of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
Three men were indicted in connection with the beating death of James “Whitey” Bulger, according to a statement released by the United States…
Continue Reading Man who lost his wife and daughter in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash testifies he lives in fear of the graphic photos resurfacing
By Nouran Salahieh, Natasha Chen and Jason Kravarik, CNN Christopher Chester, who lost his wife and daughter in the helicopter crash that also killed…
Continue Reading Springer, Guerrero lead Jays to 9-2 rout of slumping Yanks
By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — George Springer went 5-for-5, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run…
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Judge partially blocks DeSantis’ anti-‘woke’ law
A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ruled that a law pushed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting conversations around race in…
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