By ADAM SCHRECK and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — A showdown between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin isn’t happening, but fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions between China and the West will be at the fore when leaders of the world’s biggest economies gather in tropical Bali
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By CODY FRIESEN Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech outlasted the Kansas Jayhawks 43-28 on Saturday night backed by a two touchdown day by Tyler Shough. Shough went 16-for-25 for 246 yards and a touchdown in his first start since the opening week of the season. Texas Tech totaled 506 yards, 260 yards
Continue Reading By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press A batch of votes from the Las Vegas area gave Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto a 5,000-vote lead late Saturday that The Associated Press determined she would not relinquish. With more ballots still to be counted in that part of the state likely to favor her as well, the
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los demócratas mantendrán su estrecha mayorÃa en el Senado de EE.UU. durante los próximos dos años, proyecta CNN, luego de victorias en contiendas reñidas en Nevada y Arizona. El partido desafió la tendencia histórica de que las elecciones intermedias quebraba el dominio del partido en el poder y superó
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has not yet called the governor’s race in Arizona between Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican former TV broadcaster Kari Lake. Vote counting in Arizona has been ongoing since Tuesday with officials in the state’s 15 counties releasing tallies of votes as
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By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Noah Burnette kicked a 33-yard field goal with 2:12 left and No. 15 North Carolina’s defense came up with two key fourth-quarter stops to beat Wake Forest 36-34 and secure spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. The Tar Heels won the league’s Coastal
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — LaMelo Ball is finally back with the Charlotte Hornets. The Hornets’ point guard — an All-Star a year ago — made his season debut at Miami and was in Charlotte’s starting lineup. He was inactive for each of Charlotte’s first 13 games because of a sprained
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Peyton Henry kicked a 43-yard field goal with 51 seconds left and No. 24 Washington snapped No. 6 Oregon’s eight-game winning streak with a 37-34 victory. The loss dealt a blow to the Ducks’ chances for a spot in the College Football Playoff. Michael
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar lost the final bout of his MMA career after he was dropped by Chris Gutierrez in the first round of their fight at Madison Square Garden. The 41-year-old Edgar took a knee to the head at UFC 281 and
Continue Reading By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Jordan Travis threw for three touchdowns, caught a touchdown pass and ran for another score, and No. 25 Florida State beat reeling Syracuse 38-3, the Orange’s fourth straight loss. Travis scored on a 3-yard run to cap the Seminoles’ first possession, then hit Malik McClain
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Zion Williamson scored 26 points and Brandon Ingram iced the game with six points in a 13-0 run in the final 2:07 to power the New Orleans Pelicans to a 119-106 victory over the Houston Rockets on Saturday night. The Pelicans led by as many as 18 points in the third
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic had 42 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for his third triple-double of the season, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Portland Trail Blazers 117-112. Spencer Dinwiddie scored 20 points, capped by three 3-pointers in the final 2½ minutes. The first of those tied it at 106 with 2:35 to
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Led by Kendall Lewis’ 24 points, the Illinois State Redbirds defeated the Northwestern State Demons 69-67 on Saturday night. The Redbirds improved to 2-1 with the win and the Demons fell to 1-2.
Continue Reading By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A batch of newly counted ballots from the Las Vegas area effectively handed Democrats control of the Senate late Saturday by tilting the Nevada race in favor of incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. She took a 5,000-vote lead in Nevada over Republican Adam Laxalt that The Associated
Continue Reading By GABE STERN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Democrat Cisco Aguilar has been elected as Nevada’s next secretary of state. Aguilar won the swing state’s top elections post against Jim Marchant, an election denier. Aguilar has vowed to restore faith in elections that have been tarnished by false claims
Continue Reading By The Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas — Led by Dima Zdor’s 16 points, the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros defeated the Southwestern Adventist Knights 115-33 on Saturday night. The Vaqueros improved to 1-1 with the win and the Knights fell to 0-2.
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN Fresno police in California arrested two people this week for the September killings of 18-year-old Yanelly Solorio-Rivera and her three-week-old daughter, Celine — and Yanelly’s sister is one of the suspects, according to authorities. The Fresno Police Department arrested 22-year-old Yarelly Solorio-Rivera and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Martin Arroyo-Morales, on Wednesday for
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,4 sacudió Chile la noche del sábado, según reportes del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El foco sÃsmico estuvo localizado a 10,1 kilómetros de profundidad y el epicentro estuvo ubicado a 18 kilómetros al nor noroeste de Lebu. A 89 kilómetros al noreste se ubica Concepción. La Oficina Nacional
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer WACO, Texas (AP) — Will Howard threw for three touchdowns after Adrian Martinez exited with an injury, and No. 23 Kansas State buoyed its Big 12 title hopes with a 31-3 victory over Baylor. The defending conference champion Bears will need help to get back to the championship game.
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The release of ballots on Saturday from Arizona’s largest county netted Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake a few thousand votes, but she’s still trailing Democrat Katie Hobbs by tens of thousands of ballots. Hobbs led Lake by 1.6 percentage points after the release of roughly 85,000
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