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Heat face Celtics in first round after epic conference finals duel last season 04/20/2024 03:39pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� As the Boston Celtics prepare for what they hope will be their latest NBA title run, coach Joe Mazzulla had his team look to past NBA champions for inspiration. The list included sworn adversaries, like the Los Angeles Lakers and their 2010 run, as well as the last Boston team to ra Bayern beats Union 5-1 with Real Madrid in mind and Cologne heading toward relegation 04/20/2024 03:32pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Harry Kane scored again and Bayern Munich tuned up for its Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid with a comfortable 5-1 win at Union Berlin in the Bundesliga on Saturday. Kane raised his Bundesliga tally to 33 goals in 30 appearances, while fellow forwards Eric Maxim Choupo- Biden signs bill extending a key US surveillance program after divisions nearly forced it to lapse 04/20/2024 02:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation reauthorizing a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans��� data nearly forced the statute to lapse. Barely missing its midnight deadline, Two teams blowing everyone else away in NASCAR Cup. Can the others catch up at Talladega? 04/20/2024 02:41pm • TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) ��� The Rick Hendrick Express rolls into Talladega Superspeedway, with Joe Gibbs Racing nipping at their bumpers. Good luck to everyone else in the NASCAR Cup series. Even at this high-banked madhouse in rural Alabama, which is usually as much of a crapshoot as any track on the Pakistani province issues a flood alert and warns of a heavy loss of life from glacial melting 04/20/2024 02:40pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A Pakistani province has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and warned of a heavy loss of life if safety measures aren't undertaken, officials said Saturday. Pakistan has witnessed days of extreme weather, killing scores of people and destroying property and Recently arrested Morgan Wallen says he's "not proud" of behavior 04/20/2024 02:40pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Country music star Morgan Wallen, who faces charges stemming in part from accusations that he threw a chair off the rooftop of a six-story bar, says he���s ���not proud��� of his behavior and accepts responsibility. The ���One Thing at a Time��� singer responded publicly Fr David Pryor, former governor and senator of Arkansas, dies at age 89 04/20/2024 02:35pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, a Democrat who was one of the state���s most beloved political figures and remained active in public service in the state long after he left office, has died. He was 89. Pryor, who went undercover to investigate nursing h A call to get guns off the streets after 5 teens were shot and wounded in Prince George's Co. 04/20/2024 12:59pm • Prince George���s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is calling for more enforcement to get guns off the street after five teenagers were shot and wounded during a senior skip day Friday. ���The final days of being in their senior year, disrupted by violence,��� Alsobrooks told reporters Satu Virginia senators want flight expansion at DCA halted 04/20/2024 12:19pm • Thursday���s near collision at Reagan National Airport is raising concerns about plans to increase the number of flights at the airport. Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine said Thursday morning���s close call at Reagan National is another reason not to expand the number of flights at the It's Nuggets vs. Lakers again in Round 1, with a much different feel this time 04/20/2024 11:38am • A year ago when the Los Angeles Lakers faced the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs, they were weary and worn down. This year, it's different. That's why the Lakers feel like they have a chance ��� and why the Nuggets expect this to be a challenge. Nikola Jokic and the defending champion Nuggets will fa Republicans' defense of the 'Biden 16' House districts starts with Pennsylvania's primary election 04/20/2024 09:43am • NEW HOPE, Pa. (AP) ��� Mark Houck makes a potent appeal to conservative Republicans in this corner of eastern Pennsylvania when he describes his arrest and subsequent acquittal on federal charges that he pushed a Planned Parenthood volunteer outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic. The account has be Morning sickness? Prenatal check-ups? What to know about new rights for pregnant workers 04/20/2024 09:04am • Pregnant employees have the right to a wide range of accommodations under new federal regulations for enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act that supporters say could change workplace culture for millions of people. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency in charge of enforci NHL PLAYOFFS: Rangers begin their championship pursuit against Washington 04/20/2024 08:58am • All eight first-round matchups in the NHL playoffs are set after the last day of the regular season flipped two of the biggest series in the West. The defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights will open against West top seed Dallas. Connor McDavid���s Edmonton Oilers will face the Los A California is rolling out free preschool. That hasn't solved challenges around child care 04/20/2024 07:45am • CONCORD, Calif. (AP) ��� A year before I-Ting Quinn's son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in ���transitional kindergarten,��� a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds. Instead, they kept their son, Ethan, in a Maryland ranks sixth in states struggling with hiring, study says 04/20/2024 07:39am • Maryland ranks sixth on a list of states facing challenges filling job vacancies, according to a recent study by WalletHub.�� ���Many businesses in Maryland are still experiencing labor shortages,��� said Cassandra Happe, an analyst at WalletHub, in an interview with WTOP. ���They have this compa