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Southern California women sweep UCLA 3-0, win fourth straight beach volleyball championship 05/05/2024 02:24pm • GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Twin sisters Nicole and Audrey Nourse won the deciding match for a second straight season and top-ranked Southern California won its fourth straight beach volleyball championship with a 3-0 sweep over No. 2 UCLA on Sunday. It was the first championship — since the NCAA r In Maryland, GOP primary feels like a warmup for Hogan ahead of rare consequential general election for Senate 05/05/2024 02:23pm • Republican voters in Maryland head to the polls with an opportunity to choose a candidate to represent the party in what could be one of the most competitive Senate campaigns in recent memory. Despite a field of more than a half-dozen candidates, the Republican primary has lacked the heat of its Sports on TV for Monday, May 6 05/05/2024 10:55am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, May 6 COLLEGE GOLF 3 p.m. GOLF — The PGA Works Collegiate Championships: First Round, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. MLB BASEBALL 6 p.m. FS1 — Detroit at Cleveland 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at Oaklan Today in Sports - Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits his first MLB home run 05/05/2024 10:00am • May 6 1895 — African American jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-year-old joins fellow African American jockey Alonzo Clayton as the youngest jockey to ride a Derby winner. 1915 — Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hit Methodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants 05/05/2024 08:38am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century's worth of denominational bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriages. But when asked at a news conference about the lightning speed of the changes, the Rev. Effie McAvoy took a longer view. “Oh, How the Ethiopian community is celebrating Orthodox Easter in the DC area 05/05/2024 07:21am • This weekend, Orthodox Christians, including many from the Ethiopian community in the D.C. area, are celebrating Fasika, or Easter, marking the end of the 55-day fast called Abiy Tsome, or the Great Lent. Ethiopians, along with Eritrean, Greek, Russian and Serbian cultures celebrate the holiday i King Charles III’s openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation 05/05/2024 03:16am • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey. Charles has used his illness to highlight the need for early The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled 05/05/2024 12:59am • NEW YORK (AP) — They’re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions. They date from the early days of what would become the United States to the sights and sounds echoing across the landscapes of the nation’s colleges and universities during this activist sp Bob Avellini, quarterback who teamed with Walter Payton to lead Bears to 1977 playoffs, dies at 70 05/05/2024 12:48am • CHICAGO (AP) — Bob Avellini, the former Chicago quarterback who teamed with Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton to lead the Bears to the 1977 playoffs, died Saturday. He was 70. The Bears said Avellini died after a battle with cancer. Avellini and Payton had the finest seasons of their c Virginia attorney general joins efforts to fight back against Title IX changes 05/04/2024 09:59pm • Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has joined a multi-state effort to stop new Title IX rules from going into effect. The list of new rules designed to protect victims of campus sexual assaults and the rights of LGBTQ+ students has come under attack by Republican attorneys general in several 25 arrested at University of Virginia after police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters 05/04/2024 09:04pm • Twenty-five people were arrested Saturday for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus, and demonstrators at the University of Michigan chanted anti-war messages and waved flags during commencement ceremoni UCLA men's volleyball beats LBSU 3-1 for 2nd straight and record 21st NCAA title 05/04/2024 09:02pm • LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Ethan Champlin had 15 saves and six blocks, Merrick McHenry added 10 kills on .818 hitting with five blocks and No. 1 seed UCLA beat Long Beach State 25-20, 25-21, 27-29, 25-21 Saturday to win its second consecutive NCAA men's volleyball championship. UCLA (26-5) has won Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024's rare contest between two presidents 05/04/2024 08:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished business and an itch to get it done. Their track records and plans on abortion, immigration, taxes, wars abroad — you name it — leave no doubt that the man voters choose in November will seek to shape the landscap Jordan Travis has pondered someday replacing Aaron Rodgers. Health is focus now for Jets rookie QB 05/04/2024 05:04pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Jordan Travis still needs some time to recover from the horrific leg injury that once put his football career on hold. Patience is something Travis has perfected, especially in the past few months. 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