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Makar scores to reach rare milestone and Avalanche beat Blue Jackets 7-3 to secure playoff spot 04/03/2025 10:30pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cale Makar scored to become just the ninth NHL defenseman with 30 goals in a season and the Colorado Avalanche clinched a playoff berth with a 7-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night. Makar also had two assists while Charlie Coyle, Nathan MacKinnon and Devon Crew of New Zealand navy ship that sank off Samoa lacked training and experience, inquiry finds 04/03/2025 10:13pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A lack of training, qualifications and experience among the crew on board a New Zealand navy ship that ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa have been identified by a military Court of Inquiry in a final report released Friday as contributing to th Storms kill 7 in the South and Midwest as forecasters warn of catastrophic rains, floods this week 04/03/2025 10:13pm • LAKE CITY, Ark. (AP) — Standing alongside the twisted steel tractors on his family farm in northeast Arkansas on Thursday, Danny Qualls looked on while friends and relatives helped him begin cleaning up. The home where he spent his childhood but no longer lives was flattened by one of many tornado The US is negotiating a minerals deal with conflict-hit Congo, a Trump official says 04/03/2025 08:29pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Trump administration official said Thursday the United States is in talks with conflict-plagued Congo on developing its mineral resources under a deal the Congolese president has said could help make his country safer. U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Afric The Latest: Trump’s new tariffs lead to the biggest Dow wipeout since 2020 04/03/2025 07:35pm • Financial markets around the world were reeling Thursday following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it. Little was spared as fear flared globally about the potentially higher inflation and weakening economic gro Nominee for South Carolina's top doctor toppled by lingering COVID anger 04/03/2025 07:20pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina Senate committee rejected the Republican governor's nominee to be the state's top doctor after hours of hearings dominated by the state's response to the COVID pandemic. Just one of 13 Republicans on the Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted for Dr. Edward S Trump's tariffs aren't strictly reciprocal. Here's how he calculated them 04/03/2025 06:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised tariffs that would raise U.S. import taxes high enough to mirror what others assess as trade penalties on American goods. What he's actually imposing is based on far more complicated math. Here's a look at how the White House got its numbers: Why After losing wife to cancer, Md. man finds running 300 miles can prove a lot more than you might think 04/03/2025 03:26pm • Everyone knows the saying "when the going gets tough, the tough get going." That's true for an Ellicott City, Maryland, man who found the going get really tough in 2016, when he lost his wife to cancer, leaving him to raise two children on his own. He knew he couldn't stop, since life itself w Large South Carolina wildfires contained as teens charged with starting blaze with cigarettes 04/03/2025 03:20pm • PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Two wildfires that started lose to each other in the South Carolina mountains and burned an area over half the size of Hilton Head Island are nearly contained, authorities said. Four teens who did not fully extinguish their cigarettes while hiking have been charged with causin ACC is moving its women's basketball tournament from Greensboro to the Atlanta area in 2026 04/03/2025 02:00pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball tournament will move from its longtime home in North Carolina to the Atlanta area in 2026, the league announced Thursday. The tournament will be held at the 13,000-seat Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia, which is about 30 mil Serbian student protesters head to Strasbourg on bicycles to seek EU support 04/03/2025 12:04pm • NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Serbian university students who say their fight for justice and the rule of law is being overlooked are cycling 1,300 kilometers (780 miles) toward the heart of the European Union to seek support. Around 80 students set off on bicycles Thursday on a days-long journey to Str Polar bear-inhabited islands affected by Trump tariffs 04/03/2025 10:51am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted. T Virginia will be 1st state to order reckless drivers to install speed-limiting devices 04/03/2025 09:48am • Judges in Virginia will soon be able to order reckless drivers convicted of going over 100 miles an hour to install speed-limiting technology in their vehicles. Under HB2096, the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program, introduced by Arlington Del. Patrick Hope, a Democrat, a judge can require a dri A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark 04/03/2025 09:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to American presidents and civil rights icons. It made history again this year: Thanks to a lawsuit, Lithuanians bid farewell to 4 US soldiers who died during training exercise 04/03/2025 07:32am • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania's political and religious leaders joined thousands of people on Thursday to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the Baltic nation. President Gitanas NausÄ—da and other dignitaries were among those who stood in respect as