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White Sox players embrace higher expectations after young core showed promise last season 01/30/2026 09:59pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Colson Montgomery grew up in Indiana rooting for the Hoosiers and committed to play baseball for them before the Chicago White Sox made the slugging shortstop a first-round pick in the 2021 draft. Fair to say, he's inspired by the football team's historic transformation under coach What a reporter found when she returned to Cuba after last trip 3 years ago 01/30/2026 09:54pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Caribbean correspondent D��nica Coto returned to Cuba in late January, more than three years after her last visit to the island. The landscape and lives in Cuba are now very different, and more changes are anticipated since the fallout of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Cuba���s strong Senate passes Trump-backed government funding deal, sending to House 01/30/2026 08:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September while carving out a temporary extension for Homeland Security funding, giving Congress two weeks to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. With a weekend shutdow Seahawks sale rumors swirl ahead of Super Bowl, Paul Allen's estate denies report 01/30/2026 08:03pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after the team's appearance in the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, ESPN reported Friday night. Citing unnamed sources, ESPN said talks between Seahawks ownership and the NFL have been going on over the past week. The estate of late Seahawks owner Paul Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump's election executive order 01/30/2026 07:59pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A federal judge on Friday blocked certain federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms, the latest blow to a wide-ranging executive order on elections President Donald Trump signed last year. U.S. District Judge Colleen Ko Moira Rose, Delia Deetz, Cookie Fleck and Kevin's mom: Catherine O'Hara's memorable roles 01/30/2026 07:31pm • Now is certainly not the time for pettifogging. But can we confabulate about the comic brilliance of Catherine O���Hara? These radically arcane words, like so many others, dripped off the gifted comedian���s tongue so silkily as Moira, her singularly eccentric matriarch in ���Schitt���s Creek,��� th Texas A&M University to end women's studies due to new policy on race and gender topics 01/30/2026 07:12pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Texas A&M University is ending its women���s and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling six classes as part of a new policy that limits how professors can discuss some race and gender topics, school officials announced Friday. The ch Mayors warn that Trump's hardline immigration tactics could dent trust in law enforcement 01/30/2026 06:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Elizabeth Kautz says she now carries her passport around the Minneapolis suburb where she's been the mayor since 1995. ���Those ICE agents don't know that I'm the mayor of the city of Burnsville,��� Kautz, a Republican who has occasionally diverted from the Trump administration's Twins executive Derek Falvey departs in mutual agreement as organizational revamp continues 01/30/2026 06:44pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Since assuming control of the Minnesota Twins, Tom Pohlad has taken a bold and decisive approach to reinvigorating the family-run franchise. Deep conversations with his top executive produced another startling move, when the Twins and president of baseball and business operation Arab allies urge restraint from US and Iran as Trump demands deal on nuclear program 01/30/2026 06:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region, according to an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter. Saudi Arab Judge calls Justice Department's statements on slavery exhibit display 'dangerous' and 'horrifying' 01/30/2026 06:19pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers on Friday that they were making ���dangerous��� and ���horrifying��� statements when they said the Trump Administration can decide what part of American history to display at National Park Service sites. The sharp exchange erupt Cubans scramble to survive as US vise on island tightens in push to oust government 01/30/2026 06:12pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is meant to force a popular uprising and usher in a new government. A sharp increase in U.S. sanctions was already suffocating Cub United Nations faces 'imminent financial collapse' without urgent action, UN chief says 01/30/2026 06:04pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The United Nations chief is warning that the world body faces ���imminent financial collapse��� unless its financial rules are overhauled or all 193 member nations pay their dues ��� a message likely directed at the United States and the billions it owes. Secretary-General An Expanded work requirements for the biggest US food aid program are kicking in for more states 01/30/2026 05:42pm • Work requirements are kicking in for more older adults and parents of teenagers across the U.S. who get help with groceries through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The implementation dates vary by state: In some, people could lose benefits as soon as Sunday if they can���t show they�� Data Doctors: Should I be using Microsoft PC Manager? 01/30/2026 05:10pm • Q: What does Microsoft���s PC Manager do, and should I use it? If you���ve ever searched for ways to clean up or speed up your Windows PC, you���ve probably seen plenty of third-party utilities promising dramatic results. Microsoft���s answer to that category is Microsoft PC Manager, a free tool