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Celtics have short to-do list as they look to become 1st repeat NBA champion since 2018 06/18/2024 03:42pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� It took more than a decade, savvy front office and draft moves, and some free agency luck for the Celtics to ultimately build the roster that brought an end to their 16-year championship drought. But with NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown already locked up long-term and fellow All-Star Jay Kyrie Irving sounds ready to keep chasing titles in Dallas after NBA Finals loss to Boston 06/18/2024 03:10pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Kyrie Irving is a year away from having the option to leave the Dallas Mavericks, and at that point would be closing in on his longest stint anywhere since asking out of Cleveland, where he was drafted, in 2017. Yet the mercurial guard sounded as if Dallas could be his basketball hom Euro 2024: Scotland aims to bounce back against Switzerland after being routed by Germany 06/18/2024 03:05pm • COLOGNE, Germany (AP) ��� Scotland was routed 5-1 by Germany in the opening game of the European Championship and on Wednesday takes on a Switzerland team that beat Hungary 3-1 in its first match in Group A. The teams play at Cologne Stadium. Kickoff is at 9 p.m. local time (1900 GMT). Here���s what Arrow McLaren makes another IndyCar driver change, signs 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to multiyear deal 06/18/2024 03:01pm • Arrow McLaren made yet another driver change Tuesday when it signed 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to drive the remainder of the IndyCar season. He will be the third driver to race the No. 6 this year. Siegel will replace F2 champion Theo Pourchaire beginning this weekend at Laguna Seca in California. Po Retail sales rise a meager 0.1% in May from April as still high inflation curbs spending 06/18/2024 02:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Consumers barely increased spending in May from April as still high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates curbed spending. Retail sales rose 0.1% in May, below the pace that economists projected, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And April sales wer Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's life 06/18/2024 02:46pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing investigation destroyed the girl's life. Jessica Norton said her dau MLB switching to challenge system full-time for robot umpires experiment at Triple-A 06/18/2024 02:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Baseball's top minor leagues are switching to a challenge system full-time for their test of robot umpires. Major League Baseball has been experimenting with the automated ball-strike system in the minor leagues since 2019. It has been used at all Triple-A ballparks this year for t Here���s where courts are slowing Republican efforts for a state role in enforcing immigration law 06/18/2024 02:27pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The federal government has long had sole authority over immigration policy in the United States, but several Republican-led states have continued to push for a role in enforcing regulations out of frustration with current policy and as a way to criticize Democratic U.S. Pre Golf updates scorecard rule by allowing extra 15 minutes to fix errors and avoid disqualification 06/18/2024 02:24pm • PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) ��� The temptation would be to refer to a change in the scorecard procedure as the ���Jordan Rule," only because Jordan Spieth was the most recent example. Players now have an additional 15 minutes to correct their scorecard before it is deemed to have been returned. Players wer Lawyer for man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie says client doesn't want offered plea deal 06/18/2024 02:10pm • MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) ��� The New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie is not interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hadi Matar, 26, sat Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn pleads not guilty in Arizona���s fake elector case 06/18/2024 01:55pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in a case about trying to overturn former President Donald Trump���s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden. The hearing Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom mark Fisker files for bankruptcy protection, the second electric vehicle maker to do so in the past year 06/18/2024 01:28pm • Electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology. Fisker Group Inc. said in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Del Music Review: Concert album from the Tomasz Stanko Quartet explains the jazz lineup���s staying power 06/18/2024 12:44pm • Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko ���s first notes on the new album "September Night,��� dark and slightly distant, sound as though they���re coming from the hereafter. Stanko died in 2018, and his new album is a previously unreleased recording of a 2004 concert by his quartet. Along with the trumpeter, Absentee voters in France scramble to make their voices heard in high-stakes legislative election 06/18/2024 12:05pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Voters who don't expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France's high-stakes legislative election by signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said Tuesday t Estonia convicts a university professor from Russia of spying for Moscow 06/18/2024 11:26am • A university professor was jailed Tuesday in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russian military intelligence, part of a campaign of sabotage, electronic warfare and information gathering that Estonian officials blame on Moscow. Viacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen who taught at Estonia