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Minions will get their Olympic moment as Spanish figure skater gets final approval for his music 02/06/2026 06:54am • MILAN (AP) — Those mischievous Minions will have their Olympic moment after all. Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate obtained the final approval he needed for his music on Friday, allowing the Spanish figure skater to perform his short program — set to a medley from the animated comedy from Universal P Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination 02/06/2026 06:46am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing. Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes aut Arturas Karnisovas launches Bulls' rebuild with series of trades at deadline 02/06/2026 06:30am • CHICAGO (AP) — Arturas Karnisovas finally decided he'd seen enough. The Chicago Bulls' top basketball executive took a wrecking ball to the roster leading up to Thursday's trade deadline, dealing Nikola Vucevic to Boston, Kevin Huerter to Detroit, Coby White to Charlotte and Chicago product Ayo Do History awaits: Will the Super Bowl finally see a punt return touchdown? 02/06/2026 06:00am • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The first touchdown in Super Bowl history came on a pass from Bart Starr to Max McGee 59 years ago for the Green Bay Packers. The most recent came on a 50-yard deep strike from Patrick Mahomes to Xavier Worthy last year. In between those, there have been 323 additional touc Graduates of DC tennis program get trip of a lifetime to Abu Dhabi 02/06/2026 05:07am • The Washington Tennis and Education Foundation has been providing students in D.C.'s Wards 7 and 8 with after-school academic support and tennis instruction for decades. Now, the nonprofit is serving up the experience of a lifetime for three of its Alumni Bridge students. For the second straight Cash-strapped Lebanon finds itself sitting on a gold mine, as precious metal prices surge 02/06/2026 03:41am • BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) — Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at gold as a way to protect their battered assets. Lebanon’s econom Booker and Crump push No. 4 Texas over No. 5 LSU 77-64 as Longhorns run home win streak to 39 02/06/2026 03:28am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Madison Booker scored 18 points, Aaliyah Crump added 16 and No. 4 Texas used a big run at the start of the fourth quarter to pull away from No. 5 LSU for a 77-64 victory Thursday night. Texas' Kyla Oldacre scored four points in the 10-0 Texas run. Her layup with 5:01 left push Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms 02/06/2026 02:11am • KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For every crawfish Courville dumps out of a trap, three or four snails clang onto the boat’s metal Lightning beat Panthers 6-1 before Olympic break 02/06/2026 01:03am • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots to improve to 16-0-1 in his past 17 games, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 6-1 on Thursday night in the final game for both teams before the Olympic break. Brandon Hagel, Oliver Bjporkstrand, Jake Guentzel, Erik Cerna Australia's chaotic buildup to cricket's T20 World Cup: Injuries, omissions and losses 02/06/2026 12:45am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitch Marsh's Australia squad has had a chaotic buildup to the Twenty20 World Cup, he'll fully agree. Josh Hazlewood was ruled out Friday because of a long-term hamstring injury, meaning Australia will go into a World Cup tournament for the first time since 2011 without Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city's multicultural past 02/06/2026 12:44am • ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown's multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals r The Mavs are leaving no doubt that Cooper Flagg is their future after trading Anthony Davis 02/05/2026 11:53pm • DALLAS (AP) — Cooper Flagg is in the midst of an unprecedented run for an NBA teenager just as the Dallas Mavericks are firmly declaring their rookie No. 1 pick the future face of the franchise. The day was coming regardless. It arrived with Dallas trading Anthony Davis, the 10-time All-Star who j What to know about Thailand's election as economic growth slows and nationalism rises 02/05/2026 11:29pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's political parties geared up Friday for their last campaign rallies before voters head to the polls on Sunday for a general election being held against a backdrop of chronically slow economic growth and heightened nationalist sentiment. There also have been accusations of Antetokounmpo remains with Bucks as an extremely hectic NBA trade deadline passes 02/05/2026 11:13pm • Giannis Antetokounmpo remained with the Milwaukee Bucks while plenty of other players changed addresses as the NBA trade deadline passed Thursday. An extremely busy deadline, at that: There were 28 trades made in the week leading up to the deadline, the most that the NBA has seen in over that timefr Argentina and US sign a major trade deal to slash tariffs and boost a political alliance 02/05/2026 10:44pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other's goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina’s protectionist economy and a push by the Trump administration to reduce food pr