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Ole Miss and Vanderbilt flip locations for their home-and-home series because of winter storm 01/29/2026 01:16pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� No. 18 Vanderbilt and Mississippi are flipping the locations for their home-and-home men���s basketball series because of the impact of last weekend���s winter storm. The two teams had been scheduled to face off Saturday at Ole Miss. That game will now take place at Vanderb Here's when you'll get your tax refund from the IRS 01/29/2026 12:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tax filing season is underway, and the IRS expects 164 million people will file returns by April 15. The average refund last year was $3,167. This year, analysts have projected it could be $1,000 higher, thanks to changes in tax law. More than 165 million individual income tax r German leader hails Europe as an 'alternative to imperialism and autocracy' 01/29/2026 12:12pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hailed the European Union on Thursday as an ���alternative to imperialism and autocracy��� that can forge deals with like-minded partners in a world of increasing great power rivalry. Merz underlined the continuing value of a NATO in which Europe will New SafeSport CEO Fitzgerald Mosley wants to fix things quickly, saying 'it's a calling' 01/29/2026 11:46am • DENVER (AP) ��� Benita Fitzgerald Mosley has stood at the top of the podium at the Olympics. She's been part of fix-it projects and start-ups in that world, as well. None of those roles have presented the challenges she'll face in her new job ��� CEO of the U.S. Center for SafeSport. It's a post she FEMA could still support winter storm response in a shutdown, despite administration warnings 01/29/2026 11:41am • The Federal Emergency Management Agency would have enough money to respond to the massive winter storm still impacting large swaths of the U.S. even if a partial government shutdown begins at midnight Friday, experts and former FEMA officials said, despite Trump administration warnings to the contra theScore Bet Promo Code WTOP: Get $100 Bonus for NBA, CBB, SB 60 01/29/2026 11:32am • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Sports fans can sign up with theScore Bet promo code WTOP and grab a $100 bonus. Set up a new account and start betting on the NBA, Sup Sports on TV for Friday, Jan. 30 01/29/2026 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, Jan. 30 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) 6 p.m. CBSSN ��� Kent St. at Akron 7 p.m. FS1 ��� Providence at Villanova 8 p.m. CBSSN ��� Dayton at Saint Louis ESPNU ��� Mount St. Mary���s at St. Peter���s FOX ��� Michigan at Michigan St. Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Jan. 30 - Feb. 5 01/29/2026 10:00am • Feb. 3 1944 ��� Syd Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores six goals in a 12-6 victory over the New York Rangers. Howe is the first player to score six goals in a game since Cy Denneny of the Ottawa Senators in 1921. 1956 ��� Austria���s Toni Sailer wins the men���s downhill to become first Olympic sk Starmer and Xi call for deeper UK-China ties as Trump shakes up global relations 01/29/2026 09:29am • BEIJING (AP) ��� The leaders of Britain and China called Thursday for a "strategic partnership��� to deepen ties between their nations at a time of growing global turbulence as they sought to thaw relations after years of chill. Neither Prime Minister Keir Starmer nor President Xi Jinping publicly m Layoffs are piling up, heightening worker anxiety. Here are some of the biggest recent job cuts 01/29/2026 09:20am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� As layoffs pile up, workers are feeling increasingly anxious about the job market. In the U.S., economists have said that businesses are largely at a ���no-hire, no fire��� standstill, leading many to limit new work, if not pause openings entirely amid economic uncertainty. Hiring Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil's reliance on hydropower 01/29/2026 09:12am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world���s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large reservoirs, which could flood surrounding areas. After years of legal battles, authorities approv Heavy rain in Afghanistan collapses a house, killing a mother and her 6 children 01/29/2026 08:58am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� A mother and her six children have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after heavy rain caused their home to collapse while they were sleeping at night, authorities said Thursday ��� the latest of dozens of casualties caused by extreme weather in the impoverished country i Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa, study shows 01/29/2026 06:20am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds of thousands, researchers said Thursday. A study by the World Weather Attribution, which analyzed the recent he New Florida coach Jon Sumrall making players 'earn the logo' in offseason workouts 01/29/2026 06:00am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Jon Sumrall had no idea one of his first major moves as Florida���s football coach had been done before in Gainesville ��� more than two decades ago. Sumrall gave his players shorts, shirts and other gear without any Gators logos. It was reminiscent of Hall of Fame coach U What to know about the FAA's multibillion dollar air traffic control system upgrade 01/29/2026 04:55am • Even before Jan. 29, 2025, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission near Reagan National Airport struck the side of an American Airlines regional jet, killing 67 people, aviation experts realized the nation���s aging air traffic control system desperately needed an upgrade. ���We