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'Everyone's so soft': NHL players past and present on how they see fighting in hockey today 02/27/2024 11:15am • NHL players past and present give their thoughts on fighting���s role in hockey: ___ The goal of hockey was the team that scores more goals than the other that wins the game. So, to me, that was the most important. Fighting was never the most important thing in my life, but I did it anyway and I fo West Virginia Senate passes bill that would remove marital exemption for sexual abuse 02/26/2024 04:36pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain sexual assault acts against their spouses for the first time under a controversial bill passed`Monday by West Virginia���s Republican-dominated Senate. The bill, sponsored by former prosecuting attorney Republic What you need to know about using artificial intelligence on your smartphone 02/26/2024 05:03am • Q: Is it possible to use AI on my smartphone and if so, how do I do it? A: Artificial intelligence is the most talked about technology right now and much of the hype is well-deserved. Some are predicting AI will be as transformative as electricity was 100 years ago, in that it will impact virt Spirituals celebrate the music, life and legacy of Roland Hayes 02/25/2024 11:28pm • Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating��Black History Month. Join us on air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. Jackson Caesar will be sharing excerpts from his audio documentary production on Thursday at the Lamond-Riggs Library in Nor AT&T will give $5 to customers hit by cellphone network outage 02/25/2024 07:00pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� AT&T says it will give affected customers $5 each to compensate for last week's cellphone network outage that left many without service for hours. The Dallas-based company said on its website that customers will get the $5 credit on their account within two billing cycles. The John Wooden stamp unveiled at UCLA honoring the coach who led Bruins to a record 10 national titles 02/24/2024 09:57pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A U.S. stamp honoring John Wooden was unveiled on the UCLA campus Saturday, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jamaal Wilkes on hand to honor their coach who guided the Bruins to a record 10 national championships in the 1960s and '70s. Abdul-Jabbar used a cane to approach the lectern Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity 02/23/2024 06:04pm • Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would ���overcompensate��� in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn���t make sense. The partial explanation for why its images put peopl Olympic all-around champ Sunisa Lee is happy competing again. She also wants a skill named for her 02/23/2024 04:38pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Simply competing is an encouraging sign that Sunisa Lee is in a good, healthy place, especially the latter. Health is obviously a huge matter considering the reigning Olympic all-around champion endures a kidney-related issue that halted her college career after her sophomor New designers make a splash at Moschino, Tod's and Blumarine during Milan Fashion Week 02/23/2024 04:20pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Designers are giving their first impressions at their new fashion houses during Milan Fashion Week. In a game of musical chairs, Matteo Tamburini showed his first collection for Tod's on Friday just hours before his predecessor there, Walter Chiapponi, made his debut as creative direc AT&T says the outage to its US cellphone network was not caused by a cyberattack 02/23/2024 07:02am • AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored. AT&T blamed the i Biathlon's governing body confirms its president is under investigation in Austria 02/23/2024 05:29am • SALZBURG, Austria (AP) ��� The governing body for the Winter Olympic sport of biathlon has confirmed its president Olle Dahlin is under investigation by Austrian authorities. At the same time, its former president Anders Besseberg is awaiting a verdict in an alleged corruption trial in Norway. The NCAA provides a glimpse into the process of choosing the teams for March Madness 02/22/2024 10:24pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Selection Sunday also happens to be the biggest complaint day on the sports calendar. How could they leave my team out? Why is mine playing that far away? You seriously gave (my favorite team) a No. 8 seed instead of 6? Settle down. Selecting, seeding and bracketing the 68 teams f 2nd manager charged in scheme to rob DC Walgreens of $30K, court docs show 02/22/2024 08:48pm • A second former manager of a D.C. Walgreens was arrested and charged Thursday morning in connection with a series of robberies during which a group of four stole nearly $30,000 from the drugstore, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. London Teeter, 20, is the fourth person to be charged in co Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says 02/22/2024 04:18pm • ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) ��� A Black high school student���s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a judge ruled on Thursday. Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular Ho Putin takes a flight in nuclear-capable bomber in a tough message to the West ahead of election 02/22/2024 02:52pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday took a co-pilot's seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber on a flight that appeared aimed at bolstering his image ahead of next month's election he's all but certain to win. Putin's 30-minute flight in a Tu-160M supersonic strategic bo