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Rangers look to regroup as they return home with 3-1 series lead against Hurricanes 05/12/2024 04:08pm • The New York Rangers aren't dwelling on their first loss of the postseason. They still have plenty of confidence. The Presidents' Trophy-winning Rangers now head home with a 3-1 series lead as they face the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series on Monday night (7 p.m., E Election deniers: West Virginia voters must pick from GOP candidates who still dispute 2020 outcome 05/12/2024 01:28pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia Republicans vote in Tuesday's primary, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Embracing or skirting the line on election denialism Tunisian lawyers call for strike over arrest of their colleague amid crackdown on dissent 05/12/2024 01:11pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organizations and Black migrants. Sonia Dahmani, a prominent critic of the govern Jerry Rice's son, Chargers rookie Brenden Rice, feels as if he has plenty to prove 05/12/2024 12:49pm • COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Brenden Rice already had plenty to prove as the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice. Not being selected until the 225th pick in the NFL draft two weeks ago added more fuel to the fire. Many thought Rice would be a middle-round pick. Instead, he didn’t go until Caitlin Clark, much like Larry Bird, the focus of talks about race and double standards in sports 05/12/2024 09:58am • For much of the past two years, Caitlin Clark has been the centerpiece of the college basketball world. Now Clark, like NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird was 45 years ago, is involuntarily the focus of discussions about race and her transition to professional basketball. Though Clark hasn't said anything More US parents than ever have paid leave this Mother's Day - but most still don't 05/12/2024 09:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — More working U.S. parents than ever are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with hard-fought access to paid time off to care for newborns. But the majority still must forego pay to care for new babies or other loved ones, even as efforts to expand paid parental and family leave US aims to stay ahead of China in using AI to fly fighter jets, navigate without GPS and more 05/12/2024 06:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t. That second jet was piloted by artificial intelligence, with the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian riding along in the front seat. It was the ultimate d Wildfire in Canada's British Columbia forces thousands to evacuate. Winds push smoke into Alberta 05/12/2024 06:44am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in a town in British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, after many were already evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire. The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in Miles de canadienses se han visto obligados a evacuar debido a los devastadores incendios forestales. Ahora el humo hace que la calidad del aire sea peligrosa 05/12/2024 05:21am • (CNN) -- Este sábado se instó a miles de personas en todo Canadá a evacuar los incendios forestales, y el humo que emanan de ellos podría ser otro peligro que perdurará durante los próximos dos días, lo que resultaría en una mala calidad del aire y una visibilidad reducida.Aproximadamente 3. Wary of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, old foes Turkey and Greece test a friendship initiative 05/12/2024 12:15am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative Monday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. The two NATO members, which share decades of mutual animosity, a tense border and disputed waters, agreed to sideline disputes last Skenes strikes out 7 in debut, Pirates hit 5 homers in 10-9 victory over the Cubs 05/11/2024 11:16pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes struck out seven over four-plus innings in his major league debut and Yasmani Grandal hit a go-ahead three-run homer as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Chicago Cubs 10-9 on Saturday. Skenes, the top overall pick in the 2023 draft, showed flashes of why he is consider Duchess of Sussex, called ‘Ifeoma’ in Nigeria, speaks with women about her Nigerian roots 05/11/2024 11:11pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says it’s been “humbling” to find out through a genealogy test that she is partly Nigerian as she met with women in the West African nation Saturday. On her second day in Nigeria, where she is visiting for the first time with Prince Harry First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later 05/11/2024 09:17pm • BOSTON (AP) — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday. Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Ma Ex-GOP Gov. Hogan is popular with some Maryland Democrats who still don't want him in the Senate 05/11/2024 08:10pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Some Maryland Democrats have a soft spot for Larry Hogan, their former two-term Republican governor in a heavily blue state. But they don’t want to turn an open Senate seat – and possibly control of the chamber – over to the GOP this year. Party voters in Tuesday’s pr PWHL New York changing coaches with mutual agreement with Draper to step down and return to Alberta 05/11/2024 07:00pm • PWHL New York is changing coaches after reaching a mutual agreement with Howie Draper, who decided to step down and return to his former job coaching the University of Alberta women’s hockey program, the league announced on Saturday. The move comes a week after the Professional Women’s Hockey Le