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Brittney Griner gets rousing welcome in Phoenix home game after release from Russian prison 05/22/2023 08:28am • PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner won the opening tip and ran to her familiar spot in the low post. There was nowhere else the ball was going on the Phoenix Mercury's opening possession of the season — not after what Griner had gone through to get here. Her back to the basket, Griner faked as thoug German prosecutors charge four over violating trade act to sell spyware to Turkey 05/22/2023 06:58am • BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have filed charges against four suspects from a Bavarian company accused of selling surveillance software to Turkey that could be used to spy on Turkish dissidents, prosecutors said Monday. The Munich prosecutors say the defendants intentionally violated licensing Italy's Meloni rejects criticism from Canada's Trudeau over LGBTQ+ rights at G7 Summit 05/20/2023 03:05pm • ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from her Canadian counterpart at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights. A reporter asked Meloni about the criticism at a news conference early Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, which is hosting t Navajo leaders seek tribal members caught up in sober-living Medicare scam in Arizona 05/19/2023 07:53pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Navajo leaders on Friday unveiled an operation to find and get needed services to hundreds of tribal members they predict will soon be on the streets of metro Phoenix amid a state crackdown on Medicaid fraud that affected as many as 7,000 Native Americans recruited to illegitimate s Will Virtual Staging Help Sell Your Home? 05/18/2023 08:00pm • When a real estate agent lists a home, staging is a big part of the prep work before the property is ready to be presented to the world. Some degree of staging has become commonplace, especially in the more competitive markets around the country. Typically, a Realtor will work with the furniture and US: 44 indicted in Puerto Rico in $1.2M scheme to obtain pandemic relief funds 05/18/2023 04:30pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicted 44 people accused in a $1.2 million scheme to illegally obtain pandemic relief funds, authorities said Thursday. The suspects are accused of submitting at least 52 loan applications to obtain federal recovery funds that U.S. US judge in Texas dismisses charges against Swiss banker allegedly tied to Venezuela bribery scheme 05/17/2023 06:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Houston has dismissed criminal charges against a Swiss banker accused of helping stash millions in bribes paid to senior Venezuelan oil officials over long delays in bringing the case to trial. Judge Kenneth Hoyt ruled Wednesday that unjustified trial delays viol Is a decades-old U.Md. tradition getting out of hand? 05/17/2023 04:31pm • For decades, students at the University of Maryland have made playful sacrifices to the Testudo statue in front of the library, hoping for a little extra luck on their final exams. Over the years, you may have seen anything from pens and notebooks to coffees and alcohol set up around the statue over Nuggets' Jokic, Murray know they need title to get recognition of other duos 05/17/2023 03:32pm • DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray continue to turn in jaw-dropping performances during these playoffs, raising expectations along the way. They took Round 1 of their Western Conference Finals showdown against LeBron James and Anthony Davis, a game in which Jockic was dazzled by the forti Brazil's Bolsonaro questioned in fake vaccine card investigation 05/16/2023 05:28pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was questioned Tuesday by Federal Police in an investigation into allegations that COVID-19 vaccine cards were falsified to get around U.S. vaccine requirements. Police haven’t publicly named the targets of their investigation, but Business Highlights: Bank execs blame panicked depositors for failures; IRS to pilot free e-filing 05/16/2023 04:53pm • ___ Bank execs blame panicked depositors for Silicon Valley, Signature failures, but senators blame them NEW YORK (AP) — Top executives at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank largely avoided taking responsibility for their banks’ dramatic failures at a Senate hearing Tuesday, instead using th Wells Fargo agrees to pay $1 billion to settle shareholders' class-action lawsuit 05/16/2023 04:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo has agreed to a pay $1 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by its shareholders who alleged the bank made misleading statements about its compliance with federal regulators after a fake account-opening scandal came to light in 2016. The class-action lawsuit was filed on 'Pregnant' woman has 1,500 grams of cocaine hidden in rubber belly 05/16/2023 09:12am • Anderson County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina confiscated more than 1,500 grams of cocaine during a traffic stop after finding a woman had hidden it behind a fake rubber pregnancy belly. (Anderson County Sheriff's Office/Facebook) Two people have been arrested in South Carolina after Ander Georgia prosecutor fights back against Trump attempt to remove her from election probe 05/15/2023 10:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state fought back Monday against the former president's attempt to remove her from the case and exclude certain evidence. Trump's 5 plead guilty in fake nursing diploma scheme in Florida 05/15/2023 07:49pm • MIAMI (AP) — Five people have pleaded guilty in South Florida to participating in a wire fraud scheme that created an illegal shortcut for aspiring nurses to get licensed and find employment. Krystal Lopez and Damian Lopez, both of Palm Beach County, Florida; Francois Legagneur, of Nassau County,