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French teenager Risacher, G League's Buzelis headline list of top forward prospects in the NBA draft 06/22/2024 06:00am • The upcoming NBA draft is filled with talented forwards who either played internationally or bypassed college basketball. French teenager Zaccharie Risacher could very well be the No. 1 overall pick and checked in at No. 2 in the latest AP NBA Mock Draft, while Matas Buzelis and Ron Holland II went Cronenworth homers and has a career-high 5 hits as the Padres beat the Brewers 9-5, lose Tatis 06/22/2024 01:45am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jake Cronenworth homered, had a career-high five hits, including a go-ahead single in the seventh, and scored four runs for the San Diego Padres, who beat the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers 9-5 on Friday night for their third straight win. The Padres lost star right fielder Padres' Tatis leaves game versus Brewers with bruised left triceps after being hit by a pitch 06/22/2024 12:16am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. came out of Friday night's game against Milwaukee two innings after suffering a bruised left triceps when he was hit by a pitch. Tatis was hit by former Padres pitcher Colin Rea with two outs in the third. He went down on one knee in pain a 'Extremely dangerous heat' descends on DC region 06/21/2024 06:52pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. The heat is on for yet another day in the D.C. region, with temperatures peaking in the high 90s in some areas Friday afternoon, but the "feels like" temperature has exceeded 100 degrees. The rest of the weekend doesn’t look to b Netherlands coach feels VAR got it wrong over disallowed goal at Euro 2024 06/21/2024 06:46pm • LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman feels his team had a goal wrongly ruled out in its 0-0 draw with France at the European Championship on Friday. Xavi Simons thought he scored in the 69th minute when he fired inside the right post from a rebound after France goalkeeper Mike M Mbappé watches from subs' bench as France and Netherlands produce Euro 2024's first 0-0 06/21/2024 06:22pm • LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Kylian Mbappé watched from the substitutes’ bench as France and the Netherlands finished 0-0 in a heavyweight European Championship clash on Friday. Antoine Griezmann missed France's best chances while Xavi Simons had a goal ruled out for the Dutch in the first goalless The Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims 06/21/2024 03:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraini Biden's 2 steps on immigration could reframe how US voters see a major political problem for him 06/21/2024 01:41pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. while also offering potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The tandem actions � FACT FOCUS: Associated Press video manipulated to make it appear Slovak flags banned at soccer match 06/21/2024 01:38pm • Manipulated video from an Associated Press report circulated on the eve of the match between Slovakia and Ukraine at this year’s European Championship, with the false claim that Slovak flags had been banned from all games because of their similarity to the Russian flag. “UEFA has banned the Rus Prison, restitution ordered for ex-tribal leader convicted of defrauding Oglala Sioux Tribe 06/21/2024 11:37am • RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former tribal leader in South Dakota to serve nearly two years in prison and pay tens of thousands in restitution after a jury convicted him earlier this year of defrauding his tribe. Former Oglala Sioux Tribal President Julian Bear R Star Wars fans hone their lightsaber dueling skills at a Mexico City Jedi academy 06/21/2024 10:19am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A park on the south side of Mexico’s capital lights up with the multicolored glow of lightsabers, as a man slashing a white luminescent sword through the air shouts: “Check the defense!” Onlookers watch curiously and a dog-walker asks about the duel, which breaks out four Probe begins into police conduct during Kenya's anti-government protests 06/21/2024 06:48am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An investigation began Friday in Kenya into police conduct during protests against a government plan to impose new taxes, according to the country's police watchdog. The chairperson of Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority, Anne Makori, lauded protesters for demon An ex-gun lobbyist is revising New Zealand's gun laws, tightened after the 2019 mosque attack 06/21/2024 06:27am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government will overhaul the tighter gun laws introduced after a deadly mass shooting by a white supremacist five years ago, because they put excessive burdens on gun owners who feel vilified by law enforcement and the public, the lawmaker leading the UConn's Castle, Kentucky duo, Tennessee's Knecht headline the list of top guards in the NBA draft 06/21/2024 06:00am • John Calipari turned Kentucky into a factory for NBA talent, including 28 one-and-done players becoming first-round picks. Now at Arkansas, Calipari's last crop with the Wildcats features two headlining guards in the NBA draft next week in Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham. They’re lottery prospect Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures 06/20/2024 09:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erect