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History on the line: It takes something special to skate with Ovi 04/03/2025 06:36am • Not everyone can keep pace with greatness. And while Alex Ovechkin looks to conclude his 20-year chase of Wayne Gretzky's 894 career goals, he knows he hasn't scaled hockey's heights alone. Over the years he's skated with a wide array of teammates on his line, from one-night pairings to long-term si Some diehard baseball fans in sports-crazed Sacramento welcome Athletics and hope they stay awhile 04/03/2025 06:00am • WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Van Thompson walked through the busy concourse shortly before first pitch and sang along to the national anthem, a white Athletics ball cap in hand covering his heart. Earlier Wednesday morning, Susan Falcon took her dog out on the other side of town near a bustling Red Bull-demoted Liam Lawson doesn't sound hopeful of a move back up to its top F1 team 04/03/2025 03:51am • SUZUKA, Japan (AP) ��� No one knows better than Liam Lawson how quickly things can change in results-driven, money-driven Formula 1. Last week the New Zealander was suddenly demoted to Racing Bulls after two poor Formula 1 races with the top team ��� Red Bull ��� in Australia and China to start the US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens 04/03/2025 12:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned. Four people with direct knowledge of the m Rare greenhouse gas law in Southern state could get pulled back by GOP legislators 04/03/2025 12:07am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor worked together in 2021 to enact a rare energy law in the South that sought to sharply reduce power plant emissions by 2030 and ultimately reach carbon neutrality. ���Today, North Carolina moves strongly into a re Measuring the cost of extending Trump's tax cuts becomes a flashpoint in Congress 04/03/2025 12:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An obscure but consequential bookkeeping matter has become the latest flashpoint in Congress as Republicans labor to enact President Donald Trump's sprawling tax cut agenda. Senate Republicans are looking to change how extending many of Trump���s 2017 tax cuts would be scored whe Danish prime minister visits Greenland as Trump seeks control of the Arctic territory 04/03/2025 12:02am • NUUK, Greenland (AP) ��� Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is in Greenland for a three-day trip aimed at building trust and cooperation with Greenlandic officials at a time when the Trump administration is seeking control of the vast Arctic territory. Frederiksen announced plans for her visit The Latest: Business leaders warn Trump tariffs will raise prices for US consumers 04/02/2025 08:53pm • President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday, saying ���our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered��� by other nations. The aggressive rhetoric came as Trump showed a willingness to dismantle a global economic system that the United States helped to build after Supreme Court appears divided over whether states can cut off Planned Parenthood funding 04/02/2025 08:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which comes amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation���s largest abortion provider. Low-income patients who go there Anne Arundel Co. police officer indicted on vehicular manslaughter charges in fatal 2024 crash 04/02/2025 08:19pm • An Anne Arundel County police officer has been indicted on charges, including vehicular manslaughter, in connection with what investigators say was an unauthorized chase that led to the death of 21-year-old Joshua VanderZiel of Laurel, Maryland, last year. At a media conference on Wednesday, Mary Maryland's Buzz Williams confident in school's commitment as he takes over basketball program 04/02/2025 08:18pm • COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) ��� Whatever misgivings Kevin Willard may have had about coaching basketball at Maryland, Buzz Williams' arrival shows the job is still pretty enticing. In Williams, the Terrapins hired an experienced replacement who has had some success in highly competitive leagues. He wa Senate rebukes Trump���s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports 04/02/2025 08:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night that would thwart President Donald Trump���s ability to impose tariffs on Canada, delivering a rare rebuke to the president just hours after he unveiled sweeping plans to clamp down on international trade. The Senate resolution, p Fmr. President Barack Obama accidentally photobombs family photoshoot at the Tidal Basin 04/02/2025 07:53pm • When Portia Moore and Damien Thomas' family photographer changed the plans for their afternoon photo shoot at the Tidal Basin this week, the couple liked the idea. "We were supposed to go out Monday afternoon," Moore said. "But she said, 'No, 7:30 a.m. is just better. You miss the traffic, yo Who me? Willard downplays criticism by unhappy Maryland as he takes Villanova job 04/02/2025 07:46pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Kevin Willard deadpanned that ��� no, he hadn't heard the laundry list of complaints lodged against him by Maryland fans and former players and, well, the list goes on ��� that he threw his program under the bus and then happily got behind the wheel to steamroll over their carc Georgia bill to reduce prison sentences for domestic violence survivors on its way to becoming law 04/02/2025 07:41pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia bill that would reduce sentences for those who could tie their crimes to domestic abuse is on its way to becoming law. Women nationwide are in prison for killing their abusive partners in self-defense. Others were coerced into committing crimes with their abusers. Women of