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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Shaka Smart was voted the AP men’s basketball coach of the year after leading Marquette to regular-season and Big East Tournament titles. He received 24 of 58 votes from a national panel to beat out Kansas State coach Jerome Tang, who had 13 votes, and Kelvin Sampson of Houston,

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Friday approved an agreement with the state to revamp policing, nearly three years after a city officer killed George Floyd. The state Department of Human Rights issued a blistering report last year that said the police department had engaged in a pattern

By AMANDA SEITZ and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An annual report on Social Security and Medicare says the financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions of young people are counting on will run short on funds to pay full benefits within the next decade. The Social Security and

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday urged Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges — allegations the newspaper denies. “Let him go,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about his message to Russia on the arrest

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday after his indictment in New York City.  Court officials confirmed the arrangement Friday. Trump’s surrender will usher in the unprecedented scenario of a former U.S. commander-in-chief being arrested and arraigned. Trump’s indictment was announced Thursday.

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Shamier Anderson is well aware that his Hollywood profile is rising, and he isn’t taking the moment for granted. “I’ve been on the grind for a very long time, and I’m still grinding. And it’s not lost on me that I’m pretty ubiquitous in the

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former high school journalist and the Nebraska High School Press Association filed a lawsuit Friday, claiming that a school district’s shutdown of the school newspaper after it published an LGBTQ-focused edition was unconstitutional. The federal lawsuit names Grand Island Northwest Public Schools and the district’s superintendent. The lawsuit claims the

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Biden administration cleared the way Friday for California’s plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state’s efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas like ports along the coast. The decision by

MONTREAL (AP) — Authorities in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne said Friday one child is missing after the bodies of six migrants of Indian and Romanian descent were pulled from a river that straddles the Canada-U.S. border. The victims were trying to enter the United States illegally from Canada, said Lee-Ann O’Brien, deputy chief of

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says that Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a written statement on Friday that the pope’s recovery has been “normal” and that he ate a