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By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was home to Lolita, the beloved Orca that died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country’s unity and “could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ appeal came ahead of an

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Fox will expand its coverage of college football with a package of Friday night games. The schedule of games, which will include matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences, likely won’t be announced until late May or early June after conferences and the networks hold

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. general for the Middle East tells Congress that exploding regional violence fueled by Iran presents the most likely threat to the U.S. homeland. He says the risk of an attack by violent extremists in Afghanistan on American and Western interests abroad is increasing.

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two Jewish students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lawsuit filed Thursday accuses the university of tolerating antisemitism that has resulted in the two students being intimidated, harassed and assaulted. A statement from MIT says the university does not typically comment

LONDON (AP) — Britain says it’s providing 10,000 drones to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps made the announcement Thursday during a visit with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The investment includes 125 million pounds ($160 million) of new funding on top of 200 million pounds ($256 million)

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of theft. Republicans are seizing on the recent death of a nursing student in Georgia to rebuke President Joe Biden’s border policies just hours ahead of his State

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A school headteacher in northwestern Nigeria says gunmen who attacked the school abducted 287 students as they were about to start classes. It marks the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Locals told The Associated Press the assailants surrounded

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Now that he’s been doing it for well over half a century, Anthony Hopkins believes acting is much “easier” now. The 86-year-old stars as real-life hero Nicholas Winton in “One Life,” out March 15. Winton saved more than 600 children during World War II by organizing train

By PETER SMITH Associated Press The city of Baltimore has agreed to pay $275,000 toward the legal fees of a far-right Catholic media group to settle a lawsuit over the city’s unsuccessful attempt to block a rally in 2021. The agreement with St. Michael’s Media, the parent firm of the Church Militant website, comes even

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster. After years of favoring smaller movies like “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland, ” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” —

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Security Service says it arrested four people on suspicion of preparing “terrorist offenses” with links to Islamic extremism and organized crime. The service did not say where or when the alleged attacks were to have taken place, but in a brief statement it added that it had “worked on the

A CORUNA, Spain (AP) — Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months. When she and her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself, traveling across about 30,000 miles (48,280

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work on compromise budget legislation Virginia lawmakers will take up later this week is complete, and the bill does not include language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria. Top Senate negotiator L. Louise Lucas says she remains

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay legal fees to a company founded by a former British spy that he sued for making what he claimed were false claims that harmed his reputation. A London judge threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal investigators said Thursday they confirmed pilots’ account of a brief failure of rudder controls on a Boeing 737 Max after it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey last month. United Airlines pilots said pedals that control rudder movement on the plane were stuck as they

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-controlled Statehouse is once again looking to tweak how books can be removed from school library shelves. This is despite concerns that the latest proposal could result in the Bible being banned. The legislation is the latest development in the ongoing battle many conservative leaders

By THEODORA TONGAS and MICHAEL VARAKLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek novelist and his partner are the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens’ city hall following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The mayor of the Greek capital officiated at the wedding on Thursday of Petros Hadjopoulos,

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The future of online gambling will be more social, more engaged with players and more targeted to their individual interests. That’s according to panelists at an internet gambling forum Thursday in New York. They say the industry, which is still in its infancy after 10 years,

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping bank regulatory proposal will be significantly revised by year’s end, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, a potential victory for the large banks that have aggressively opposed the likely changes. The proposed rule, issued last summer by the Fed and other regulatory agencies,