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Gonzales, Jones, lead No. 1 seed Texas past Drexel 82-42 03/22/2024 06:09pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Shaylee Gonzales scored 21 points, Taylor Jones added 18 and No. 1 seed Texas beat No. 16 Drexel 82-42 on Friday in the first round of the women's NCAA Tournament. Gonzales converted 5 of 6 3-point attempts while matching her season-high in scoring, and she made three steals. Colombian striker collapses and dies while training with his Bolivian club 03/22/2024 05:49pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A player collapsed and died while training with his Bolivian top-flight club Real Santa Cruz on Friday. Real Santa Cruz said Colombian striker Guillermo Denis Beltrán died of respiratory arrest. He was 24. Beltrán's teammates said he felt nauseous and fell to the ground sh Wyoming governor vetoes abortion restrictions, signs transgender medical care ban for minors 03/22/2024 05:49pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's governor on Friday vetoed a bill that would have erected significant barriers to abortion, should it remain legal in the state, and signed legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors. The abortion bill rejected by Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, would have Texas medical panel won't provide list of exceptions to abortion ban 03/22/2024 04:03pm • DALLAS (AP) — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The head of the Texas Medica Former footballer Robinho jailed in rural penitentiary for infamous inmates 03/22/2024 04:02pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Former footballer Robinho arrived early Friday at the rural Tremembe penitentiary where he is expected to serve at least 40% of his nine-year sentence for rape. The 40-year-old Robinho will spend the next 10 days alone in his cell, a common measure for the safety of rapists newly Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty to health care fraud 03/22/2024 03:36pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud. John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year-old had been indicted in May 20 Republican lawmaker says Kentucky's newly passed shield bill protects IVF services 03/22/2024 02:54pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky legislation shielding doctors and other health providers from criminal liability was written broadly enough to apply to in vitro fertilization services, a Republican lawmaker said Friday as the bill won final passage. The measure, which now goes to Democratic Gov. An Pelicans' Ingram expected to be sidelined at least 2 weeks with knee injury 03/22/2024 11:16am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Pelicans high-scoring forward Brandon Ingram has a bone bruise in his left knee that is expected to sideline him at least two weeks, the team announced Friday. Ingram hyper-extended his knee during Thursday night's loss at Orlando and was helped off the court. He und British man who poisoned couple with fentanyl and monitored their death via app sentenced to life 03/22/2024 11:03am • LONDON (AP) — A British IT worker who befriended and worked for an older couple, poisoned them with fentanyl and monitored their death with his cellphone was sentenced Friday to a minimum 37 years in prison. The sentencing of Luke D’Wit, 34, came two days after he was found guilty of murder in t Refugee camps in Chad are overcrowded and running out of aid, and Sudanese refugees keep coming 03/22/2024 07:46am • METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from a deadly conflict in Sudan, the United Nations said. More than a million people in Chad, including refugees, face losing access Hundreds of Kenyan doctors protest in the streets as national strike enters second week 03/22/2024 07:20am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Kenyan doctors protested in the streets Friday demanding better pay and working conditions in an ongoing nationwide strike that has entered its second week. The doctors carried placards and chanted against the Kenyan government, saying it had failed to implement a A firework is lit, a boy is shot. Israel’s use of deadly force against Palestinians is scrutinized 03/22/2024 06:53am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air. Then, just before it explodes and illuminates the night sky with a burst of red, he is shot in the chest by Israeli police and falls to the ground. A clip of Rami Halhouli's final mom Former Filipino congressman accused of masterminding a governor's murder is arrested in East Timor 03/22/2024 05:12am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Filipino congressman accused of masterminding the killings of a provincial governor and several others has been arrested in East Timor and will be deported to the Philippines, Philippine justice officials said Friday. Police arrested Arnolfo Teves Jr. while he w Why are striking doctors in South Korea facing license suspensions and what’s next? 03/21/2024 10:40pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is poised to start suspending the licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors as a punitive measure against their weekslong walkouts that have shaken hospital operations. Starting next week, the government said it will inform the striking medical interns Marquette is a No. 2 seed again in March Madness, hopes to seize opportunity in South Region 03/21/2024 10:10pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Marquette is determined to do more with a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament than it did last year. The Golden Eagles squandered their high seed a year ago, losing in the second round to 10th-seeded Michigan State. Their first task: Play like a big favorite against No. 15 seed W