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Mark Cuban says the changing NBA landscape led to his sale of the Mavs to casino families 12/27/2023 08:03pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Mark Cuban sees a future of NBA ownership where the advantages will be in real estate. The high-profile billionaire says that's why he sold his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to a pair of families with strong ties to the hotel and casino industry. The NBA on Wednesday approve Live updates | Palestinians flee to overcrowded refuges as Israel expands offensive in Gaza 12/27/2023 06:55pm • A Palestinian town with a typical population around 75,000 has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge as Israel expands its ground offensive across Gaza. Some of the new arrivals Wednesday at Deir al-Balah traveled by foot or rode donkey carts loaded with belongings. Whil In its 75th year, the AP Top 25 men's basketball poll is still driving discussion across the sport 12/27/2023 11:08am • When the first AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll was published in January 1949, Saint Louis was installed at No. 1 ahead of mighty Kentucky, thanks to a head-to-head win a few weeks earlier in New Orleans. The poll did exactly what was intended, and what it has continued to do for 75 years: It Israeli military says Gaza ground offensive has expanded into urban refugee camps 12/26/2023 09:03pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli forces on Tuesday expanded their ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central Gaza after bombarding the crowded Palestinian communities and ordering residents to evacuate. Gaza's main telecom provider announced another ���complete interruption��� of service 9 Short Squeeze Stocks That Could Take Off 12/26/2023 07:00pm • Short squeezes have been among the most popular and controversial topics on Wall Street in the past couple of years. In 2021, groups of online stock traders on Reddit made headlines by orchestrating targeted buying campaigns to trigger short squeezes in some of the market's most heavily shorted stoc Apple seeks a path to getting 2 of its best watches back on shelves during a bitter patent dispute 12/26/2023 01:59pm • Apple filed an emergency motion seeking court permission to begin selling two of its most popular watches again until a final decision on its broader appeal in a bitter patent dispute is decided. The company cut off sales right before the Christmas holiday and in a motion filed Tuesday, Apple said i For a new generation of indie rock acts, country music is king 12/26/2023 11:30am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Singer-songwriter Mitski���s ���My Love Mine All Mine,��� plays out like a whispered dirge. The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken ��� a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, Egypt floats plan to end Israel-Hamas war. The proposal gets a cool reception 12/25/2023 10:04pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether, raising the possibility of a new round of diplomacy to halt a devastating Israeli offensive in the Gaza Prince George's Co.'s 'Hard Hat Librarian' to retire at the end of this year 12/25/2023 04:49pm • A 15-year employee of the Prince George���s County Memorial Library System, credited with overseeing 10 major renovations of existing library branches and the construction of five new ones, will retire from his role at the end of the year. Michael Gannon, the library system's chief operating offi Anger in remote parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir after 3 are killed while in army custody 12/23/2023 09:08am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Anger has spread in some remote parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir after three civilians were killed while in army custody, officials and residents said Saturday. Locals said the Indian army detained at least eight civilians on Friday for questioning, the day after rebels fightin At a church rectory in Boston, Haitian migrants place their hopes on hard work and helping hands 12/22/2023 06:11pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� When Ernseau Admettre decided to leave Haiti and head north with his young family in tow, very little was guaranteed. But the situation in his homeland, beset by poverty and gang violence, had grown so dire that a risky passage to and then across the United States' southern border of The top prize in Spain's 'El Gordo' Christmas lottery goes to tickets with the number 88008 12/22/2023 07:32am • MADRID (AP) ��� Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 will be celebrating Friday. They have each won 400,000 euros ($440,000), or some 325,000 euros after tax, in the top prize of Spain���s huge Christmas lottery. People across the country tuned into the television, radio and intern The UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war 12/21/2023 11:47pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� More than half a million people in Gaza ��� a quarter of the population ��� are starving, according to a report Thursday by the United Nations and other agencies, highlighting the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Live updates | Israeli strikes hit Gaza. The UN says half a million people there are starving 12/21/2023 11:44pm • Israel kept up its blistering campaign of airstrikes and ground operations across the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says more than half a million people are starving because not enough food has entered the besieged territory. That's roughly one in four people in Gaza. Tens of thousands of dis Pornhub owner agrees to pay $1.8M and independent monitor to resolve sex trafficking-related charge 12/21/2023 11:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The owner of Pornhub, one of the world���s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Thursday. Aylo Holdings, the webs