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Heavy rains trigger landslides and floods in Sri Lanka, leaving more than 40 dead 11/27/2025 09:42am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 40 deaths, officials said Thursday. The government’s disaster management center said 25 of the reported deaths occ A shark kills a woman and seriously wounds another swimmer at an Australian beach 11/27/2025 09:26am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A shark killed a woman and seriously wounded a man taking an early morning swim with her at a national park beach on Australia's east coast Thursday, police said. Experts say a shark rarely attacks more than one person. The attack occurred at Crowdy Bay National Park, w What's open on Thanksgiving? Not much, as many stores rest -- or prepare -- ahead of Black Friday 11/27/2025 09:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season this week, Americans will again gather for Turkey Day meals before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists. Most big U.S. retailers are closed on Thanksgiving Day. However, many will open early the f Wisconsin seeks to block Morgan Geyser's conditional release after escape from group home 11/27/2025 07:54am • WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin authorities have asked a state court to revoke the conditional release of Morgan Geyser, the woman who in 2014 almost killed her sixth grade classmate in the name of horror villain Slender Man and escaped from a group home earlier this week. A Waukesha County Circui Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea 11/27/2025 06:00am • A court in Russia on Thursday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine. The court sentenced all of the defendants to life in prison. The October 2022 attack on VCU takes on No. 24 Vanderbilt 11/27/2025 04:42am • Vanderbilt Commodores (6-0) vs. VCU Rams (4-2) Nassau, Bahamas; Thursday, 12 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Commodores -6; over/under is 162 BOTTOM LINE: VCU faces No. 24 Vanderbilt at Imperial Arena in Nassau, Bahamas. The Rams have a 4-2 record in non-conference play. VCU is fifth in the A-10 sc Dominican Republic grants US access to restricted areas for its deadly fight against drugs 11/27/2025 02:53am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader announced Wednesday that he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking. For a limited time, the U.S. can refuel aircraft and tra No. 7 Michigan routs No. 12 Gonzaga 101-61 11/27/2025 02:35am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Yaxel Lendeborg had 20 points and 11 rebounds as No. 7 Michigan routed No. 12 Gonzaga 101-61 on Wednesday night to win the Players Era Championship. Trey McKenney added 17 points for the impressive Wolverines (7-0), who dominated every one of their opponents in the event. They won Bulls visit Hornets Friday in NBA Cup group stage 11/27/2025 02:02am • Chicago Bulls (9-8, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (4-14, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte, North Carolina; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulls -3.5; over/under is 246.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets face the Chicago Bulls in an NBA Cup in-season Short-handed Baylor beats San Diego State 91-81 in Players Era consolation 11/27/2025 01:04am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tounde Yessoufou scored 18 points to lead short-handed Baylor to a 91-81 victory over San Diego State on Wednesday night in a Players Era tournament consolation game. All seven players who saw action for Baylor (5-1) scored at least seven points, with five in double figures. Bay 2 National Guard members shot in an ambush attack just blocks from the White House 11/26/2025 11:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday afternoon just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack. FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser sai South Korea's largest satellite launched on Nuri rocket in ambitious space mission 11/26/2025 10:31pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea launched its largest satellite yet on its nationally developed space rocket early Thursday in the fourth of six launches planned through 2027. The three-stage Nuri rocket lifted off from a spaceport on an island off the southwestern coastal county of Goheung. Nylander sets OT goals record as Maple Leafs beat Blue Jackets 2-1 11/26/2025 10:29pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — William Nylander became Toronto's career overtime goals leader with 15, scoring on a wrist shot with 20 seconds remaining in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 2-1 comeback victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday night. Nylander got the pass from defenseman Oliver Ekman-Lar Utah death row inmate with dementia dies 3 months after court blocked his execution 11/26/2025 09:24pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to die by firing squad in September, but th Thompson's 23 lead Columbia past Fairfield 106-77 11/26/2025 09:22pm • FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Blair Thompson scored 23 points as Columbia beat Fairfield 106-77 on Wednesday. Thompson added six rebounds for the Lions (6-1). Kenny Noland added 20 points while going 6 of 11 from the floor, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and 6 for 6 from the line and also had sev