The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. IUPUI Jaguars (6-20, 2-13 Horizon League) at Detroit Mercy Titans (0-26, 0-15 Horizon League) Detroit; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Detroit Mercy hosts the IUPUI Jaguars after …

Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. She’s 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) from her natural habitat under the waves off southern California. And she hasn’t shared a tank of water with a male of her species in at …

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that are traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Cadence Design Systems Inc., down $12.25 to $294.33. The maker of hardware and software for validating chip designs gave investors a weak earnings forecast. Hasbro Inc., down 69 cents to $50.60. The maker of G.I. Joe, Play-Doh and other toys reported disappointing fourth-quarter financial …

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Right-hander Adrian Sampson has agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers and will report to big league spring training camp with the World Series champions that opens Wednesday. Sampson is returning to the Rangers for the first time since 2019. The 32-year-old didn’t pitch in the majors last season after right knee surgery …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans bade a typically joyous goodbye to Carnival season Tuesday with Mardi Gras parades, street parties and what amounted to a massive outdoor costume festival around the bars and restaurants in the French Quarter. Revelers in capes, wigs, spandex and feathers danced in front of St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square while Latin music blared. …

The longest Super Bowl game will also go down as the most-watched program in U.S. television history. According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, Kansas City’s 25-22 overtime victory over San Francisco on Sunday night averaged 123.7 million viewers across television and streaming platforms. That shattered last year’s mark of 115.1 million for Kansas City’s last-play victory over Philadelphia and is …

CIUDAD DEL CABO, Sudáfrica (AP) — Sudáfrica dice que ha presentado “pedido urgente” a tribunal de la ONU por acciones de Israel en Rafah.

NEW YORK (AP) — Igor Shesterkin stopped 30 shots for his first shutout of the season and the New York Rangers beat the Calgary Flames 2-0 on Monday night for their fifth straight win. Will Cuylle and Jimmy Vesey scored for the Rangers, who are 6-1-1 in their last eight games. Shesterkin got his 12th career shutout and second straight …

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Con música, baile y ofrendas a la Pachamama, la Madre Tierra en indígena aymara, centenares de bolivianos cerraron el martes el cuarto día de carnaval. Adornados con globos y papeles de vivos colores, negocios, casas y hasta automóviles se sumaron a la fiesta, caracterizada por la entrega de ofrendas a la naturaleza en el martes …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Michigan State Spartans (15-9, 7-6 Big Ten) at Penn State Nittany Lions (12-12, 6-7 Big Ten) University Park, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Michigan State visits …