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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins was carried off the floor with a right knee injury in the first quarter of top-seeded Southern California’s game against Mississippi State in the women’s NCAA Tournament on Monday night. Watkins, one of the biggest stars in the women’s game, was streaking to

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Sailing the Whitsunday islands. Surfing an iconic break in the Sunshine state. Rowing in the crocodile-inhabited Fitzroy River on the central coast of Queensland. Extra tourism-focused venues and a new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium to be built in inner-city parkland have been unveiled as part of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest peace effort. Calling the situation unfolding in the country “dire,” Nicholas Haysom said international

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country’s military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago. Dozens of families are still waiting to know whether their parents, children, siblings and friends are in

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for a shooting in 2022 where he chased after the man accused of molesting his son. Velasquez was sentenced in Santa Clara County after he pled no contest to attempted murder, felony assault,

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The National Women’s Soccer League, its players union and the Orlando Pride and Gotham FC have denounced reports of “hateful language” directed at Pride forward Barbra Banda. The statements Monday came in response to a report about a fan behavior at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey,

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — It’s a line that dates back about two decades, to Maryland’s 2006 run to the national title. “Overtime is our time,” coach Brenda Frese said. The Terrapins pulled off another extra-period escape Monday, outlasting Alabama 111-108 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on Monday that he hoped to bolster Virginia’s rainy-day fund by $300 million in light of economic uncertainty surrounding the White House’s overhaul of federal jobs and its impact on the state’s workforce. At a news conference, Youngkin announced

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press Prosecutors in New Mexico say the evidence that police have collected in connection with a weekend shooting at a park that left three people dead and 15 others injured is “strong.” That includes the accounts of multiple witnesses who identified two of the shooters by name, as well as police

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses. The filmmaker Hamdan

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that his was “purposefully distorted,” according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. House Democrats said in a statement that the oil

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from casino mogul Steve Wynn, who had challenged a landmark libel ruling as part of a lawsuit against The Associated Press. The court declined to hear the case in a brief order without comment, as is typical. Wynn had sued over a story about

By TINO TESTORIDES and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched through North Macedonia’s capital Skopje late Monday to demand greater accountability over a nightclub fire that killed 59 people and injured scores of others. Demonstrators marched past government offices and parliament and applauded medical staff at a nearby

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer The New York Times on Monday denounced “intimidation tactics” by President Donald Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper’s reporting on Elon Musk and the Defense Department. The newspaper said in a post on X — the platform owned by Musk — that

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step. Embassies in at least 17 countries have put up posts featuring images of administration figures, including President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward knew every set of eyes in the building was on him. For 45 minutes, the Miami quarterback went through his entire repertoire of throws: short, deep, slants, sideline routes, even some sidearm ones. And the last play was a trick one —

By TARA COPP, AAMER MADHANI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. Habba, who turns 41 Tuesday, takes over the interim post from John Giordano, whom the president said he’s naming to

By WAFAA SHURAFA, EDITH M. LEDERER and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from Bulgaria and wounding five other employees. The world

By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they’re forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job. For Russia, China and other adversaries, the upheaval in Washington as Musk’s Department

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith could have let his infamous Oscar slap be his cinematic fade out with a career bruised, marriage dissected and reputation in a free fall. But instead of retreating, he turned inward for self-reflection. In the process, Smith rediscovered a long-neglected creative outlet

By The Associated Press Firefighters in North and South Carolina were battling multiple wind-driven wildfires Monday in rugged terrain that complicated containment efforts, officials said. Hundreds of miles north, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service was battling a blaze in the Wharton State Forest. Mandatory evacuations were announced over the weekend in parts of Polk

By The Associated Press The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The move comes amid concerns that a disgruntled former employee could seek to sell secrets to a foreign

ISABELLA VOLMERT, DAVID A. LIEB and OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press Virginia lawmaker Jackie Glass said she got a “safety brief” when she joined the Legislature. “I was told who not to go drink with, who not to be alone with and who to just watch out for,” she said on the Statehouse floor in 2024.

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans. From layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Pentagon purge of archives that documented diversity in the military,

By MARK SHERMAN and SARA CLINE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. Several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and its co-founder and CEO has resigned as the struggling genetic testing company continues its push to cut costs. San Francisco-based 23andMe announced on Sunday that it will look to sell “substantially all of its assets” through

SAO PAULO (AP) — A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court will open proceedings Tuesday to decide whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and several of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup d’etat. The far-right leader was charged in February with plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Friday after a sharp slide for Walmart helped pull Wall Street off record highs. In Japan, where investors were watching currency swings, the benchmark Nikkei 225 edged up 0.3% in afternoon trading to 38,781.99. A weak yen is a boon for some

By MORGAN LEE and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S. deportations. U.S. and Venezuelan authorities confirmed the deportations that relied on