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How private equity is changing the global soccer landscape with big investments in clubs and leagues 02/06/2024 06:58pm • MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid is revamping its training facilities. Sevilla and Valencia are rebuilding their stadiums. Sporting Gijon is expanding its youth academy. Spanish clubs this week are meeting to showcase and discuss projects funded by their shares of the $2.1 billion that private equity High school football gave hope after deadly Maui wildfire. Team captains will be at the Super Bowl 02/06/2024 04:48pm • WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Teva Loft, a high school football player in the Hawaii town that was destroyed by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, has never been to Las Vegas nor has he watched an NFL game in person. But he and three of his fellow Lahainaluna High School captains will be at What does King Charles III actually do as Britain's head of state? 02/06/2024 02:10pm • LONDON (AP) — The news of King Charles III's cancer diagnosis has refocused attention on the responsibilities of Britain's monarch and revived a central question about the country's centuries-old system of government: What does the king actually do? Under Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the A computer scientist says he's the mystery creator of bitcoin. A London judge aims to find the truth 02/06/2024 02:09pm • LONDON (AP) — One of the enduring mysteries of the cryptocurrency industry took center stage Tuesday in a London court where a trial could finally settle the debate over the identity of bitcoin's founder. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright entered the witness box at the High Court and test The NFL long had shunned Las Vegas. Now the city will host the league's biggest game 02/05/2024 02:58pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A meeting scheduled in the 1980s between the NFL and sportsbook directors sparked hope in Las Vegas that their relationship would soon take a much more positive turn after decades during which the league kept the city at arm's length. When all it turned out to be was a league offi Watch: Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring on Groundhog Day 2024 02/02/2024 06:36am • Check out the weather forecast for Groundhog Day and what a meteorologist thinks of the tradition. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (CBS) -- Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow on Groundhog Day 2024, meaning an early spring is on the way. Like most Feb. 2s in the past 137 years, crowds gathe (Base) Path of totality: Guardians' home opener on collision course with solar eclipse in Cleveland 01/31/2024 03:26pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Talk about high drama. By the time the first pitch is thrown at the Cleveland Guardians' home opener on April 8 at Progressive Field, fans will have seen something more unusual than a no-hitter, more rare than a perfect game and astronomically more exciting than an unassisted trip Early money heavily on Kansas City Chiefs to repeat as Super Bowl champions 01/31/2024 02:52pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Minutes after beating Baltimore 17-10 on Sunday to clinch a spot in the Super Bowl, Travis Kelce had a message to send. "The Chiefs are still the Chiefs,” Kelce said. Bettors agree. The early money is heavily on Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City to repeat as Super Bowl ch 'The Woman King,' 'Love & Basketball,' 'Swagger' filmmakers join WTOP to salute 'Genius: MLK/X' 01/31/2024 02:29pm • The Civil Rights Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Their lives are explored in Season 4 of “Genius" subtitled "MLK/X," which premieres on National Geographic on Thursday, Feb. 1 before streaming on Hulu and Disney on Friday, Feb. 2 to kick off Black H Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but other details are scant 01/31/2024 08:11am • NEW YORK (AP) — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was “recovering well. A British painting stolen by mobsters is returned to the owner's son — 54 years later 01/29/2024 08:44pm • An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office announced Friday. The 40-inch-by-50-inch (102-cm-by-127-cm) John Opie p Review: 'Maltese Falcon' Detective Sam Spade comes out of retirement in 'Monsieur Spade' on AMC 01/26/2024 02:08pm • In 1941, Humphrey Bogart played Detective Sam Spade in John Huston's film noir masterpiece "The Maltese Falcon," ranked by the American Film Institute as the No. 6 mystery film of all time. Now, Clive Owen dons the fedora in the new six-episode miniseries "Monsieur Spade," a neo noir co-productio Paris Couture: Jennifer Lopez shimmies, Elie Saab shimmers, and Valentino's Piccioli finds his mojo 01/24/2024 04:39pm • PARIS (AP) — As the Paris spring couture shows entered their third day, Jennifer Lopez ensured that the power of runway designs was matched by the power of a VIP audience. The singer and actress energized the Palais de Tokyo, arriving at the last minute for Elie Saab's show amid pandemonium. She a Small-town Colorado newspapers stolen after running story about rape charges at police chief's house 01/21/2024 12:07am • Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief's house while the chief was asleep, Jadon Sancho wins a penalty and Dortmund wins again in Bundesliga. Leader Leverkusen beats Leipzig 01/20/2024 03:17pm • COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Jadon Sancho is picking up where he left off at Borussia Dortmund. Sancho won a penalty in a 4-0 win over Cologne in the Bundesliga on Saturday, his first start for Dortmund since 2021. He arrived on loan from Manchester United last week, after having not played since Augus