Council and Wagner host Sacred Heart

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. Sacred Heart Pioneers (12-14, 6-5 NEC) at Wagner Seahawks (12-11, 6-5 NEC) Staten Island, New York; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Wagner hosts the Sacred Heart Pioneers …

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Antes de la amenaza satelital rusa ya existían los satélites \”matrioshka\” y otros con brazos robot

WASHINGTON (AP) — ¿Qué pasaría si Rusia llegara a utilizar ojivas nucleares para destruir satélites estadounidenses? El sistema eléctrico y de agua de tu casa podrían fallar. El tráfico aéreo, ferroviario y vehicular podrían paralizarse. Tu celular podría dejar de funcionar. Estos son algunos de los motivos por los que los informes de que Rusia podría tener planes para colocar …

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Ex-FBI official sentenced to over 2 years in prison for concealing payment from Albanian businessman

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship. Charles McGonigal, 55, supervised national security operations for the FBI in New York …

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LSU visits No. 11 South Carolina after Johnson’s 22-point showing

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. LSU Tigers (12-12, 4-7 SEC) at South Carolina Gamecocks (21-4, 9-3 SEC) Columbia, South Carolina; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 11 South Carolina hosts the LSU …

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Charges filed against man accused of shooting 3 Washington police officers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors have filed assault and gun charges against a Washington, D.C., man accused of shooting three police officers trying to serve an animal cruelty warrant, touching off a daylong standoff. The officers were treated for leg and arm wounds at hospitals in the nation’s capital and have since been released, the Metropolitan Police Department said Friday. A …

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Cleary’s 21 help Le Moyne down Central Connecticut State 69-64 in OT

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. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Kaiyem Cleary had 21 points in Le Moyne’s 69-64 overtime victory against Central Connecticut State on Thursday night. Cleary had 11 rebounds for the …

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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says

Follow the latest updates on this story. Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. The stunning news — less than a month before an election that will give …

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Zimbabwe’s vice president says the government will block a scholarship for LGBTQ+ people

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices. The state university scholarship for people between the ages of 18 and 35 is sponsored by GALZ, a membership organization for LGBTQ+ people …

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How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 2/16/2024

Stocks slipped to send Wall Street to a rare losing week, just its second in the last 16. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% Friday after a report on inflation at the wholesale level came in hotter than expected. The benchmark index set a record high a day earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite fell …

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Israel’s defense chief says military ‘thoroughly planning’ offensive in crowded Gaza border town

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister on Friday said Israel is “thoroughly planning” a military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, signaling determination to move ahead despite growing international concerns about the safety of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians seeking refuge there. U.S. President Joe Biden has urged Israel not to carry out the operation without …

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