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By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An NCAA panel is calling for the removal of marijuana from the organization’s list of banned drugs, suggesting that testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances. The proposal released Friday from the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports would mark a big change

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A bus carrying seniors to a casino that collided with a semi-trailer truck in a crash that killed 15 people did not have the right of way, police said Friday, after watching video of the accident. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Rob Lasson said police also obtained

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police say a bus carrying seniors to a casino that collided with a semi-trailer truck that killed 15 people did not have the right way. Police say they obtained video of the accident. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Rob Lasson says police also obtained witness statements

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Griner missed the Phoenix Mercury’s game at the Washington Mystics because of a hip injury. Griner was ruled out 20 minutes before tip-off. It’s the first game she has missed this season since returning from her imprisonment in Russia. Griner was nevertheless embraced by opponents

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Three men face federal charges alleging they vandalized multiple homes associated with New Hampshire journalists in retaliation for a report detailing sexual misconduct allegations against a prominent businessman. The men from Salem, Seabrook, and Nashua were charged Friday with conspiring to commit stalking through interstate travel.

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered “private” or “restricted” messages. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company’s plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and the Democrat who is trying to unseat him this year, Brandon Presley, traded barbs about crime, courts and transgender health care Friday in separate appearances before newspaper editors and publishers. Reeves, seeking a second term, said at the Mississippi

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors charged former “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson with reckless driving Friday, three months after authorities said he crashed into a Beverly Hills home. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed one misdemeanor count of reckless driving against the actor and writer

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints. The probe began in April 2021, a day after former officer Derek Chauvin, who

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. “Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself),” multiple subreddits wrote in

MONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of fatally shooting his three young sons admitted to planning the killings and lined them up before executing them with a rifle, prosecutors said Friday. Chad Doerman, 32, who is also accused of wounding the boys’ mother at the family’s home, has been charged with aggravated

DAUPHIN, Manitoba (AP) — Canadian health officials say six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in Canada that killed 15 were listed in critical condition in hospital. The remaining four were also in hospital, with most suffering from head injuries and broken bones. They were among a group of seniors from rural Dauphin,

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday. Amis, who died of esophageal cancer at the age of 73

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses. The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4%, to 4,409.59 after wobbling through the day. It still closed out a fifth straight winning