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Matthew Tkachuk's numbers are down from last year. The Panthers insist his value has gone up 06/06/2024 01:57pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Matthew Tkachuk���s basic offensive numbers for the Florida Panthers are all down this season. Goals, down. Assists, down. Points, down. Shooting percentage, down. On paper, that doesn���t look great. On ice, Florida sees things very differently. ���You just have to lo Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago 06/06/2024 01:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The horse transformed human history ��� and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that���s when humans started to spread domesticat Doris Burke on calling NBA Finals: 'I am sort of mindful that there is something meaningful here' 06/06/2024 01:52pm • Doris Burke has been a mentor to many female analysts and announcers. However, it will be one of the announcers who helped pave the way for Burke to eventually become the first woman to serve as a game analyst on TV for a championship final in one of the four major professional U.S. sports leagues w Jaap van Zweden ending tenure as New York Philharmonic music director after 6 seasons 06/06/2024 01:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jaap van Zweden decided during the pandemic that he wanted to jettison the jet-setting life of a transatlantic conductor, so the less-flying Dutchman cut short his New York Philharmonic tenure, the orchestra���s shortest for a music director since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77. ���I s Papal switcheroo as Francis changes plans at last minute to visit different Rome community 06/06/2024 01:09pm • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican on Thursday to meet with members of a local Roman parish as part of his new initiative of surprise papal prayer sessions ahead of next year���s Jubilee. The 30 or so families who met with Francis in a building courtyard in the far west neighborho The Latest | D-Day's 80th anniversary brings World War II veterans back to the beaches of Normandy 06/06/2024 01:07pm • World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion, which began on June 6, 1944, led to the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the war. The assault began with Allied air Black Music Month has evolved since the 1970s. Here's what you need to know 06/06/2024 12:47pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry professionals celebrate Black Music Month. It's an opportunity to highlight the contributions of Black artists and position Black art at the center of American culture across popular music and bey In Washington, D.C., the city���s ���forgotten river��� cleans up, slowly 06/06/2024 12:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Bruce Holmes, 65, grew up fishing on the Anacostia River, a 9-mile (14-kilometer) urban waterway that flows through Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland, and has long been defined by pollution and neglect. Back then, Holmes would keep what he caught with his family ��� usually Methodist church regrets Ivory Coast's split from the union as lifting of LGBTQ ban roils Africa 06/06/2024 12:12pm • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ��� Leaders of the United Methodist Church expressed regret over last week's decision by the branch in Ivory Coast to leave the union following the church's decision to repeal a long-standing ban on LGBTQ+ clergy but pledged to accept it. The developments were the latest in a s Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever hope 4-day break can help recharge season after early struggles 06/06/2024 12:10pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever finally got the break they needed this week. Now everyone is ready to see if four days off will help change their results. Despite Clark's selection as the WNBA rookie of the month for May, she and her new teammates have dealt with all kinds Here's what happened this week in the UK election, from the return of Farage to tussles over tax 06/06/2024 11:44am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s July 4 election is less than a month away. The campaign has already produced drama and disputes, even before the parties unveil their manifestos with detailed lists of promises in the coming days. This week saw Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Labour Party Dakota Fanning finds a character she is drawn to in Ishana Night Shyamalan's 'The Watchers' 06/06/2024 11:31am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� It can sometimes be difficult for child actors to shed public conceptions of them as a kid, hindering them from being taken seriously in Hollywood as adults. But at 30, Dakota Fanning is feeling better than ever about her creative voice and agency. ���At this point in my life, I Belmont at Saratoga means shortening the 3rd Triple Crown race, but most are OK with that 06/06/2024 11:07am • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) ��� The Belmont Stakes is the final test of the Triple Crown ��� the third resume booster to edge a horse into the history books. It's not an easy feat. The third leg is the longest of the three races at 1�� miles and requires a horse with endurance to handle it. There ha Fossil-hunting diver says he has found a large section of mastodon tusk off Florida's coast 06/06/2024 10:45am • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon. Lundberg and his diver co One image, seen by millions: A social media effort to draw attention to Rafah surges 06/06/2024 10:32am • The image shows tents in a camp, highlighted to spell out one single phrase: ���All Eyes on Rafah.��� It has been shared more than 50 million times. A single image, not even an authentic photograph, is the focus of a singular campaign on Instagram that has caught the attention of the algorithm and