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British billionaire Joe Lewis gets no prison time at sentencing for insider trading 04/04/2024 05:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club, will not spend any time in prison after pleading guilty to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York, a federal judge said Thursday. Judge G.L. Clarke cited Lewis' decision to promptl Mac Allister stunner helps Liverpool retake Premier League lead with 3-1 over Sheffield United 04/04/2024 04:51pm • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) ��� Alexis Mac Allister scored a stunning goal to help Liverpool beat Sheffield United 3-1 and return to the top of the Premier League on Thursday. Darwin Nunez had given Jurgen Klopp's team a first-half lead at Anfield, but Sheffield United was gifted a way back into the gam Should you itemize or take a standard deduction on your tax return? Here's what to know 04/04/2024 09:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When tackling your taxes, it can sometimes be hard to figure out whether to opt for a standard deduction or itemize. According to tax pros, itemizing generally only makes sense if your itemized deductions, taken together, add up to more than the current standard deduction of $13,85 'The Good Wife'-verse expands with new series 'Elsbeth' starring Carrie Preston 04/04/2024 08:23am • It took about 14 years but Carrie Preston is finally playing her dream role full-time. Preston stars in the new CBS procedural ��� Elsbeth,��� as Elsbeth Tascioni, a gifted attorney with a sharp eye for detail who is easily distracted. She also possesses joie de vivre and does not put on airs. Make NBA MVP Joel Embiid admits to 'being depressed' following latest time off from 76ers with injuries 04/03/2024 12:03am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Joel Embiid spent two full seasons and chunks of so many others recovering, rehabbing, even resting ��� thanks, load management ��� during his NBA career that the Philadelphia 76ers star should by now almost be used to sitting on the sidelines. The consequences of the time off Mike Feinsilber fought the epic AP-UPI rivalry from both camps with wit and grace 04/02/2024 08:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Mike Feinsilber, whose masterful way with words and mischievous wit enlivened American journalism for five decades, the bulk of them at The Associated Press, has died. He was 89. Feinsilber died at home on Monday, said his wife of 55 years, Doris Feinsilber, a pioneering computer Life has returned to Ukraine's Bucha. But 2 years after the killings, some families can't move on 04/02/2024 12:59am • BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) ��� Days after Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv in the dramatic first weeks of their full-scale invasion two years ago, a photo revealed what had become of Nataliia Verbova's missing husband. Poring over the image of eight men executed and lying on cold concrete A Guide to Tax Deductions for Charitable Donations 04/01/2024 08:00pm • Every year, millions of Americans support causes that are important to them by donating to charities and nonprofits. A 2023 Giving USA Annual Report of Philanthropy found that individuals gave an estimated $319.04 billion in 2022, comprising 64% of total charitable giving. Such contributions not onl Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children 04/01/2024 07:40pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children. Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Volunteers uncover fate of thousands of Lost Alaskans sent to Oregon mental hospital a century ago 03/30/2024 01:04am • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Lucy Pitka McCormick���s relatives cooked salmon, moose, beaver and muskrat over an earthen firepit on the banks of the Chena River, just outside Fairbanks, as they honored her life. They whipped whitefish, blueberries and lard into a traditional Alaska Native dessert, and Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats��� VP pick in 2000, dead at 82 03/27/2024 10:37pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by h Movie Review: Alice Rohrwacher's tombaroli tale 'La Chimera' is pure magic 03/27/2024 04:04pm • When we talk about ���movie magic,��� the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in ���E.T.��� But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher���s wondrous ���La Chimera,��� a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the gr Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on the joys of foul language and friendship 03/27/2024 10:49am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play women brought together by letters in the new film ���Wicked Little Letters��� but their preferred means of communication is WhatsApp. With their husbands, they have a group chat with an unprintable name, inspired by the some of the foul languag Corruption case involving a former Singaporean transport minister expanded with more charges 03/25/2024 07:39pm • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� A corruption case involving a former high-ranking Singaporean official expanded Monday with new charges alleging that the ex-transport minister received bottles of whisky and wine, golf clubs and a luxury Brompton bike from a contractor who had dealings with the gover Editorial Roundup: United States 03/25/2024 05:01pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 23 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and abortion The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states ��� but as the justices hear a critical case this