Search

Richard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in 'Mary Poppins' and 'It's a Small World,' dies at 95 05/26/2024 12:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" — as well as the most-played tune on Earth, "It's a Sma At North Carolina's GOP convention, governor candidate Robinson energizes Republicans for election 05/26/2024 08:21am • Before Mark Robinson, North Carolina's GOP candidate for governor, even stepped on stage at the state party's convention Saturday, several state candidates took time in their own speeches to energize the crowd by vouching for Robinson's gubernatorial bid. When the state's lieutenant governor did tak Here's what every key witness said at Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Closing arguments are coming 05/26/2024 08:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — After 22 witnesses, including a porn actor, tabloid publisher and White House insiders, testimony is over at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Prosecutors called 20 witnesses. The defense called just two. Trump decided not to testify on his own behalf. The trial now shif Brave Lupus score late to beat Wild Knights in Japan Rugby League One final 05/26/2024 05:02am • TOKYO (AP) — Fiji-born winger Jone Naikabula scored two tries in a Player of the Match performance for Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo who beat Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights 24-20 Sunday in an extraordinary Japan Rugby League One final. Replacement center Yuto Mori scored the winning try in the 74th mi Steer and Benson homer and the Reds get another solid start from Greene in a 3-1 win over Dodgers 05/25/2024 11:02pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Spencer Steer and Will Benson homered, Hunter Greene pitched six innings of one-run ball and the Cincinnati Reds dealt the Los Angeles Dodgers a season-high fourth straight loss, securing the weekend series with a 3-1 victory Saturday night. After outlasting the Dodgers 9-6 on F Bobrovsky, Shesterkin matching each other save-for-save in Panthers-Rangers series for East title 05/25/2024 08:50pm • SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Eastern Conference Finals have been a goaltender duel, and nobody should have expected otherwise. Seems fitting that the Florida Panthers and New York Rangers are knotted at one game apiece heading into Game 3 on Sunday afternoon, given that a pair of Russian netminders an Switzerland knocks out Canada in SO to set up hockey worlds final against the Czechs 05/25/2024 04:06pm • PRAGUE (AP) — Switzerland prevailed in a penalty shootout to stun Canada 3-2 and set up the final against the Czech Republic at the ice hockey world championship on Saturday. Sven Andrighetto scored the decisive shootout goal after the game finished 2-2 in regulation with no team scoring in the 10 South Africa's 4 big political parties begin final weekend of campaigning ahead of election 05/25/2024 03:58pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's four main political parties began the final weekend of campaigning Saturday before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country's most important change in three decades. Supporters of the African National Congress, which has been in the government eve Walmart ends credit card partnership with Capital One, but shoppers can still use their cards 05/25/2024 12:43pm • Walmart has ended a partnership with Capital One that made the banking company the exclusive issuer of Walmart’s consumer credit cards. The companies announced the change in a joint statement Friday. The companies said card-holders can still use their Capital One Walmart Rewards cards, which will Drivers who try the Indy 500-NASCAR 600 double have had mixed results. Kyle Larson is next 05/25/2024 08:44am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Only four drivers have attempted one of the most grueling days in motorsports: the 1,100-mile Memorial Day weekend double. Kyle Larson is trying to become the fifth to race in both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 on the same day and the 31-year-old Californian William Contreras hits 2-run homer and Brewers beat Red Sox 7-2 05/24/2024 10:46pm • BOSTON (AP) — William Contreras hit a two-run home run, Christian Yelich had three hits and Bryse Wilson tossed 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 on Friday night. Blake Perkins had two hits and two stolen bases for the NL Central-leading Brewers. Wi Kennedy blasts Biden, Trump over pandemic measures in pitch at Libertarian convention 05/24/2024 10:08pm • Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump Friday of trampling on personal liberties in response to the pandemic that spanned their presidencies. Kennedy, who has long claimed to be a victim of government and media censorship of his unorthodox views, The Beach Boys, going into the sunset, look back on years of harmony and heartache in documentary 05/24/2024 05:13pm • Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices. The three Wilson brothers — Brian, Carl and Dennis — along with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, brought a harmonic revolution to group vocals wit Rapper Sean Kingston and his mother stole more than $1 million through fraud, authorities say 05/24/2024 04:27pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother committed more than a million dollars in fraud in recent months, stealing money, jewelry, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture, documents released Friday allege. Kingston, 34, and his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, have China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology 05/24/2024 12:17pm • HONG KONG (AP) — China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine, in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by. China’s cyberspace academy earlier this week announced the chatbot trained on Xi Jinping Th