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16 February

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 …

16 February

An accident at a construction site in Italy’s Florence kills 3 workers and leaves 2 missing

ROME (AP) — An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence on Friday killed at least three workers and left two others missing, local officials said. The accident happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said rescue teams were searching for the missing …

16 February

Judge rejects Texas AG Ken Paxton’s request to throw out nearly decade-old criminal charges

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s attempts to throw out felony securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The decision by state District Judge Andrea Beall, an elected Democrat, keeps Paxton on track for an April 15 trial on charges that he duped investors in a tech …

16 February

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 …

16 February

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 …

16 February

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 …

16 February

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 …

16 February

Flores silvestres de rojo brillante brotan entre las cenizas en el sur de Israel

REIM, Israel (AP) — Cada año, a medida que se acerca la primavera, surgen flores silvestres en todo Israel, un toque de color antes del duro verano de Oriente Medio. En ningún lugar tal espectáculo es más dramático que en el sur de Israel, cerca de Gaza, donde las anémonas de un color rojo brillante estallan con tal intensidad que …

16 February

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 …

16 February

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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