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Top pick Connor Bedard's 2 goals, 2 assists help Blackhawks snap an 8-game skid vs. Lightning 11/09/2023 11:06pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Top draft pick Connor Bedard had his first multi-point game with two goals and two assists as the Chicago Blackhawks beat Tampa Bay 5-3 on Thursday night to snap an eight-game losing streak against the Lightning. The 18-year-old Bedard powered Chicago to its first win over the L First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden's clean energy agenda 11/09/2023 06:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday, another blow to the Biden administration's clean energy agenda following cancellations last week of two major offshore wind projects. Oregon-based NuScale Power has the only Illinois lawmakers OK new nuclear technology but fail to extend private-school scholarships 11/09/2023 06:37pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Thursday approved development of new nuclear reactors, reversing a 1987 moratorium and sending to Gov. J.B. Pritzker a plan that addresses the Democrat's safety concerns over the proposal. The 98-8 vote to allow construction of so-called small modula Few community college students go on to earn 4-year degrees. Some states have found ways to help 11/09/2023 05:16pm • After delaying college for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaden Todd wasn’t sure a four-year school was the right place to start. “I was extremely concerned that I forgot how to learn,” he said. Community college appealed as a stepping stone, but he also had heard stories of stude Why 'buy now, pay later' plans have become 'big debt traps' for shoppers 11/09/2023 04:31pm • Are you gearing up for the holiday shopping season? Retailers sure are, and they're offering consumers all kinds of options of pay, besides credit cards. One of those payment options is buy now, pay later. "They've been around a long time. They started out as a way that retailers could make ex Powell reinforces Fed's cautious approach toward further interest rate hikes 11/09/2023 03:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested Thursday that the Fed is in no hurry to further raise its benchmark interest rate, given evidence that inflation pressures are continuing to ease at a gradual pace. At the same time, in a panel discussion at the International Monetar Langston Love scores 20 for No. 20 Baylor in 96-70 win over NAIA's John Brown University 11/09/2023 03:24pm • WACO, Texas (AP) — Langston Love matched his career high with 20 points, RayJ Dennis scored 16 points with eight assists and 20th-ranked Baylor won its home opener 96-70 over NAIA team John Brown on Thursday. Jayden Nunn added 15 points for the Bears (2-0), who played the midday game before mostly Albania's deal with Italy on migrants has been welcomed by many. But others are confused and angry 11/09/2023 01:36pm • SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — When the leaders of Albania and Italy announced a contentious agreement earlier this week to jointly process some asylum applications of migrants arriving by sea, some in the Western Balkans country saw it as reciprocation. Italy had welcomed thousands of Albanians fleeing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says DeSantis, not Trump, is the best Republican to win the 2024 election 11/09/2023 01:32pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After seven months of hosting Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds said it “feels good to get in the game” with her endorsement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But the popular Iowa governor declined to say whether other candidates should concede a Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/09/2023 01:27pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov People who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp and their stories 11/09/2023 10:29am • JEROME, Idaho (AP) — The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I am a visitor and can leave whenever I want. My grandfather couldn’t. The expanse of sagebrush and farmland is fading in the dying sunset, broken up by a looming, reconstructed guard tower. It’s an echo of a former Japanese A Trump appeals to South Florida's Cuban community during rally aimed at upstaging GOP debate 11/09/2023 10:10am • HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump appealed to South Florida’s Cuban community during a rally aimed at upstaging his 2024 Republican presidential rivals while they engaged in their third debate without him a half-hour’s drive away. Trump's Wednesday night event was part of a pr Presto's Picks: Big Ten, bigger TV, biggest bucks 11/09/2023 09:53am • College football in the 21st century is all about consolidation. Even though bigger is not always better, it's the way things are going to trend for the time being. As the Power Five becomes the Power Four (plus whatever is going on out west), there is a new arms race with three of the leagues regar Bam Adebayo scores 30 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. hits late 3-pointer as Heat beat Grizzlies 108-102 11/09/2023 08:09am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Bam Adebayo had 30 points and 11 rebounds and the Miami Heat held off the Memphis Grizzlies 108-102 on Wednesday night for their first road victory of the season. Adebayo had 16 points in the fourth as Miami weathered a pair of Memphis rallies. The Grizzlies cut it to 105-102 US plans to build a $553 million terminal at Sri Lanka's Colombo port in rivalry with China 11/09/2023 12:31am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.S. announced a $553 million project Wednesday to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka's Port of Colombo as it competes with China in international development financing. The project is billed as providing critical infrastructure for the South