NCAA President Charlie Baker sees value in expanding the NCAA Tournament by a handful of teams and wants to reach a decision on the matter in the next few months. Baker spoke Thursday during Big 12 …
Director Ryan Coogler and other cast and crew members of the hit film “Sinners” visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the film is set, for a special screening. The film is set in 1930s …
Asian shares have advanced and U.S. futures jumped after a federal court blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. A three-judge panel …
Harvard University is holding it commencement Thursday. The nation's oldest and wealthiest school at the forefront of legal efforts to defend higher education in America from what increasingly seem …
The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill that significantly weakens a voter-backed measure requiring employers to offer paid sick leave. The Republican-led effort managed it with the help of a …
A federal trade court has blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. Legal challenges argued that Trump exceeded his authority and …
A man has been killed and another injured after a dumpster they were sleeping in was emptied into a garbage truck in New York. Suffolk County police say the two men had been in a dumpster at a …
Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an important role in the civil rights movement. Clayborn Temple, in Memphis, …
Teak Ty Brockbank posted online that Colorado’s top election official should die and her former counterpart in Arizona should also be put to death. Brockbank is facing up to five years in prison …
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy expressed optimism this week about brokering an agreement to halt the Israel-Hamas war and return more of the hostages captured in the attack that …
A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs …
The African Development Bank Group has elected Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its ninth president. Tah election win on Thursday sees him taking the helm of Africa’s premier development …
Major League Baseball is investing in Athletes Unlimited to support its softball league that will debut next month, marking the first time MLB will have a comprehensive partnership with a …
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — A Christian hymnal called “The Sacred Harp” is at the heart of a more than 180-year-old American singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. …
The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a New York public high school teacher who shows how theater skills can apply to a career in the arts and also far away from it. Gary Edwin …
The president and vice president of the World Anti-Doping Agency have been reelected to unprecedented third terms in a move the agency’s critics say undercuts its promise to make meaningful …
A grand jury has indicted a crypto investor who was charged with kidnapping and torturing a man for weeks in an upscale Manhattan townhouse. John Woeltz has remained jailed since his arrest Friday …
Police in Washington state say seven people were shot and wounded, three of them critically, at a park in a Tacoma suburb. Lakewood Police Sgt. Charles Porche tells KOMO-TV that officers responding …
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply. …
For its annual analysis of CEO pay, The Associated Press used data provided by Equilar, an executive data firm. Equilar examined regulatory filings detailing the pay packages of 344 executives. …