By Ashley Strickland, CNN The oldest ancestor of modern octopuses lived 328 million years ago and had 10 arms, according to a new study. Researchers have named the previously unknown species Syllipsimopodi bideni after US President Joe Biden. The creature’s discovery pushes back the time frame when vampyropods, the group to which cephalopods like octopuses
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer The Dallas Cowboys are using the franchise tag on tight end Dalton Schultz. The move buys time for the sides to agree on a long-term deal for one of Dak Prescott’s most reliable targets. The one-year contract will be worth about $11 million. The sides will have until
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has launched a $1 million fund to support spring training workers impacted by canceled games, matching the amount of the fund the players’ association had previously announced. MLB says the money will be administered by teams to part-time and seasonal workers based on financial need. Eligible groups include
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Going back to some of the most common equations you may have learned in high school, Study.com collected a list of ways math still impacts our daily lives.
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Real estate platform ZeroDown compiled a list of the 10 richest real estate investors, using data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Real estate platform ZeroDown analyzed housing market statistics from Redfin’s Data Center to see which metros saw the biggest changes in home inventory over the past year.
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PokerListings explains eight iconic times when AIs beat human players at classic games and video games, using news stories and scholarly research.
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — The four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and the sport’s governing bodies have jointly made a donation of $700,000 to aid humanitarian relief efforts via Global Giving’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund and to support the Ukraine Tennis Federation. The WTA, ATP and the International Tennis Federation joined the groups that run
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiators for locked out players and Major League Baseball held bargaining sessions ahead of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s deadline for a deal that would preserve a 162-game season. Union chief negotiator Bruce Meyer and general counsel Ian Penny headed a bargaining team that left MLB’s office
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian soccer federation has appealed to have its FIFA and UEFA bans frozen and other punishments overturned. Russian teams were expelled from competition on Feb. 28 “until further notice” following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. FIFA and UEFA did not specify their legal reasons. The Court of Arbitration for Sport
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By Alisha Ebrahimji and Cheri Mossburg, CNN San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is partnering with legislators on a proposal to ban victim DNA from being entered in searchable databases that could eventually identify them as criminal suspects in unrelated, future cases. The proposal comes with an endorsement from San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott,
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By Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Tierney Sneed, CNN Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, has been charged with conspiracy in the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. The superseding indictment unveiled Tuesday includes several other members of the Proud Boys who are
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Una extraordinaria guerra de palabras está teniendo lugar entre el jefe de la agencia espacial de Rusia y uno de los exastronautas más famosos de la NASA, mientras la asociación ruso-estadounidense en la Estación Espacial Internacional (ISS, por sus sigas en inglés) alcanza el punto más bajo desde su creación. Scott
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press player of the year in the Southeastern Conference. No. 4 Auburn’s Bruce Pearl is coach of the year and his freshman forward Jabari Smith is newcomer of the year. The AP All-SEC team was released Tuesday. Like
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press player of the year in the Southeastern Conference. No. 4 Auburn’s Bruce Pearl is coach of the year and his freshman forward Jabari Smith is newcomer of the year. The AP All-SEC team was released Tuesday. Like
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeking to fully phase out its dependency on Russian energy “well before 2030” to ensure the 27-nation bloc no longer faces difficult decisions about hurting their own economies in geopolitical crises like the invasion of Ukraine. The EU leaders meet in Versailles outside
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Mike Gesicki is getting a big raise from the Miami Dolphins. What remains unclear is if he’ll be getting a longer deal. The Dolphins announced they have placed the franchise tag for the coming season on Gesicki. The move ensures the tight end will
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Teachers in the Minneapolis School District have gone on strike after failing to reach agreement on a new contract. Tuesday’s move paused classes for some 29,000 students and nearly 3,300 teachers in one of Minnesota’s largest school districts. Meanwhile, the teachers in neighboring St. Paul reached a
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking a Wyandotte County judge to dismiss two lawsuits filed against Kansas officials over new congressional district lines enacted by Republican lawmakers. Schmidt’s request Monday came three days after the Kansas Supreme Court refused to dismiss the lawsuits and another in Douglas County at the Republican
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken have signed forward Jared McCann to a five-year contract extension worth an average of $5 million per season, locking up one of their young core players for the future. McCann is Seattle’s leading scorer with 33 points despite missing eight games. He was
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