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Maryland reflects on Driesell's impact on elevating Terrapins to national elite 02/17/2024 07:45pm • COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) ��� Before Gary Williams led Maryland to the 2002 NCAA championship, Lefty Driesell made the Terrapins relevant. Driesell, who died Saturday at 92, was remembered during Maryland���s game against Illinois as the coach who elevated the program from one with a single NCAA Tourna Clarke's first career goal lifts Kings over Bruins 5-4 in OT 02/17/2024 05:32pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Brandt Clarke scored on a breakaway with 27 seconds left in overtime for his first career goal and the Los Angeles Kings rallied to beat the slumping Boston Bruins 5-4 on Saturday. Clarke had just been sprung from the penalty box for taking down David Pastrnak and was all alone when A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery 02/17/2024 09:45am • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishma Christian-nation idea fuels US conservative causes, but historians say it misreads founders' intent 02/17/2024 08:00am • The U.S. Constitution doesn���t mention Christianity or any specific religion. The Declaration of Independence famously proclaims that people���s rights come from a ���Creator��� and ���Nature���s God��� ��� but doesn���t specify who that is. Yet large numbers of Americans believe the founders inten Fani Willis case ensnared in legal arguments during testimony about romantic relationship timeline 02/16/2024 07:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A man expected to be a key witness for lawyers trying to get Fani Willis disqualified from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump instead refused to answer most of their questions on Friday, citing attorney-client privilege during the second day of a hearing tha Abortion rights opponents and supporters seize on report that Trump privately pushes 16-week ban 02/16/2024 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy, though his campaign denied the report and said the former president plans to ���negotiate a deal��� on abortion Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/16/2024 02:36pm • Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt ���reasonable precautions��� to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Consumer sentiment edges higher as economic growth accelerates and inflation fades 02/16/2024 01:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A measure of consumer sentiment ticked higher this month, after soaring in December and January, underscoring that Americans are starting to feel better about the economy after several years of gloom. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index, released Friday, ticked Brian Wilson needs to be put in conservatorship after death of wife, court petition says 02/16/2024 11:37am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The management team of Brian Wilson has petitioned to place him in a conservatorship because of his mental decline and the recent death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, who managed his daily life. The 81-year-old Beach Boys co-founder and mastermind has a ���major neurocog US wholesale inflation accelerated in January in latest sign that prices picked up last month 02/16/2024 09:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Wholesale prices in the United States picked up in January, the latest sign that some inflation pressures in the economy remain elevated. The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index ��� which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers ��� rose 0.3% from Beniers leads Kraken to 4-1 victory over sputtering Bruins 02/15/2024 10:46pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Matty Beniers had a goal and two assists as the Seattle Kraken concluded a five-game road trip with a 4-1 win over the Eastern Conference-leading Boston Bruins on Thursday night. Jordan Eberle, Eeli Tolvanen and Jared McCann also scored for Seattle. Joey Daccord stopped 36 shots to In fiery testimony, Fani Willis hits back at misconduct claims that threaten future of Trump case 02/15/2024 09:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday and forcefully pushed back against what she described as ���lies��� about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor during an extraordinary hearing over misconduct allegations that threaten to upen Madison Hayes scores 16, tight defense helps No. 6 NC State beat No. 16 Notre Dame 59-43 02/15/2024 09:15pm • SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ��� Madison Hayes scored 16 points and a relentless defensive effort by No. 6 North Carolina State powered the Wolfpack to a 59-43 victory over No. 16 Notre Dame on Thursday night. The Wolfpack held Notre Dame to a season-low point total, and also held the No. 3 scorer in the n US eases restrictions on Wells Fargo after years of strict oversight following scandal 02/15/2024 08:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Biden administration eased some of the restrictions on banking giant Wells Fargo, saying the bank has sufficiently fixed its toxic culture after years of scandals. The news sent Wells Fargo's stock up sharply Thursday as investors speculated that the bank, which has been kept Ex-Illinois lawmaker abruptly pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering, halting federal trial 02/15/2024 07:47pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Former Illinois lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate William ���Sam��� McCann abruptly pleaded guilty on Thursday to nine felony counts of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, halting his federal corruption trial over misusing up to $550,000 in campaign contributi