DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bill Self will miss top-seeded Kansas’ second-round NCAA Tournament game against Arkansas on Saturday, the school announced. Self, who is recovering from a heart procedure he received earlier this month, has been with his team since it arrived in Des Moines and attended meetings and practices. Self declined to comment
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bill Self will miss top-seeded Kansas’ second-round NCAA Tournament game against Arkansas on Saturday, the school announced. Self, who is recovering from a heart procedure he received earlier this month, has been with his team since it arrived in Des Moines and attended meetings and practices. Self declined to comment
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a slave trafficked into Italy, an expert on the Renaissance artist has claimed. In a new novel, a dramatized account of her life, Renaissance scholar Carlo Vecce writes that Leonardo’s mother, Caterina, was originally from the Caucasus but was sold into slavery
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — On Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the museum announced it would be closing for the day. However, according to the museum, the closure had nothing to do with the anniversary but was related to a protest that
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a predawn shooting at a Columbus nightclub left two people dead and four wounded. Dispatchers said that officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to an after-hours club called Tha Plug on the city’s south side. They said one person died at the scene and another was
Continue Reading MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Gunfire erupted in an area of Miami Beach crowded with people on spring break, killing one person, wounding another and sending dozens scrambling for safety, police said. Two males were shot Friday night, and one person was detained at the scene, the Miami Beach Police Department tweeted. It wasn’t clear
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Bills similar to Florida’s controversial legislation that bans certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools are being considered in at least 15 states, data compiled by the American Civil Liberties Union and reviewed by CNN shows. Some of the bills go further than the Florida law, dubbed by
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that his arrest is imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An unprecedented wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty was extended just before its expiration date, officials said Saturday.
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD and GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Saturday it had closed its embassy in Nicaragua after the country’s government proposed suspending diplomatic relations, the latest episode in a yearslong crackdown on the Catholic Church by the administration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The Vatican’s representative to Managua,
Continue Reading By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Islamabad (AP) — Police in Pakistan have stormed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence in the eastern city of Lahore and arrested more than 60 people. The action Saturday came amid tear gas shelling and someone opened fire from the roof of the building. Police say they moved in
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova and Tim Lister, CNN The chief of Russia’s Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin announced on Saturday that he plans to recruit about 30,000 new fighters by mid-May, according to a voice message published on Telegram. Prigozhin also claimed Wagner recruits about 500 to 800 people on average per day, sometimes up
Continue Reading CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by depleted oxygen levels in the river after recent floods and hot weather. Residents of the Outback town of Menindee in New South Wales state complained of a terrible smell from
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida man was bitten on the leg by an unexpected visitor: An alligator waiting right outside his door. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told CNN in an email that they received a call about the bite on March 4. The 56-year-old man received a bite injury to his
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes. Putin visited an art school and a children’s center
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes and Paula Reid, CNN Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested in connection with the yearslong investigation into a hush money scheme involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels and called on his supporters to protest any such move. In a social media post, Trump, referring to
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN South Carolinians Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, along with other presidential hopefuls, on Saturday addressed a Christian conservative forum on Saturday and presented their vision for 2024 as they eye the White House and aim to make their case to a crucial voting bloc in the early voting state. The forum,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Nostalgia never gets old. There is something so comforting in looking back on memories of times past — the good ones, of course — and Hollywood knows this. That’s in large part why it continues to serve up reboots, and that leads us to this week’s newsletter. Something to sip
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN The R&A and United States Golf Association (USGA) held a press conference Tuesday to announce their proposals to roll back the distances that golf balls can fly at elite tournaments. In response, several of golf’s elite let fly. Speaking ahead of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship, world No. 15 Sam Burns
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republicans who are seeking to lead their party in the 2024 presidential race gathered in South Carolina this weekend with a goal at the forefront of their agenda: taking on “woke ideology.” On Saturday in North Charleston, the group Palmetto Family, which lobbies for what
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