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The marquee cross-country road trips have begun in the expanded Big Ten 09/17/2024 05:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Indiana fans converged on the restaurants and hotels of Pasadena's famed Colorado Boulevard last weekend. On Saturday night, they cheered their Hoosiers to a blowout victory at the Rose Bowl. A big contingent of Southern California fans will invade Ann Arbor, Michigan, this w Stock market today: Wall Street stays stuck in place as it counts down to a rate cut 09/17/2024 05:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes remained stuck in place on Tuesday as Wall Street made few big moves ahead of what’s expected to be the first cut to interest rates in more than four years. The S&P 500 edged up by 1.49, or less than 0.1%, to 5,634.58. It remains 0.6% below its all-time clo Trayon White skips in-person appearance as DC Council begins investigation 09/17/2024 04:40pm • On the first day the D.C. Council was back in session following the arrest and indictment of Council member Trayon White, the Ward 8 lawmaker chose to attend the day’s meetings over Zoom instead of in-person. One of the first things the council did Tuesday morning was announce the creation of a Michael Hill and April Brown given expanded MLB roles following the death of Billy Bean 09/17/2024 04:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former Miami Marlins general manager Michael Hill was promoted to Major League Baseball’s senior vice president of on-field operations and workforce development on Tuesday and April Brown to senior vice president of social responsibility and diversity. The promotions fill areas o Trump will soon be able to sell shares in Truth Social's parent company. What's at stake? 09/17/2024 04:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For all the debate about just how rich former President Donald Trump is, one thing is clear: His ownership stake in Trump Media & Technology Group makes him a billionaire. The company behind the Truth Social platform is worth more than $3 billion on Wall Street, and Trump owns Brackish water creeping up the Mississippi River may threaten Louisiana's drinking supply 09/17/2024 04:19pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a row, an underwater levee is being built to slow the brackish intrusion and prevent it from reachin The Chiefs are signing former star Kareem Hunt to their practice squad, an AP source says 09/17/2024 04:18pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs are signing Kareem Hunt to their practice squad, reuniting with a running back who first achieved stardom with them before video of him assaulting a woman led to his release, a person familiar with their decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the Speaker Johnson sets House vote on government funding bill after a one-week postponement 09/17/2024 03:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill from consideration last week. The bill includes a require Police shift focus from woods to road patrols in search for Kentucky interstate shooter 09/17/2024 03:36pm • Authorities shifted their strategy Tuesday while trying to track down an interstate highway shooter in Kentucky, pulling searchers from the woods to bolster patrols in communities near where the gunman opened fire, hitting a dozen vehicles and wounding five people. After searching 28,000 acres (11,3 Miami quarterback Cam Ward is approaching the 15,000-yard passing milestone 09/17/2024 03:33pm • Miami quarterback Cam Ward spent some time in offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson's office earlier this week, going over the Hurricanes' passing game and how things have worked through three games. They talked about plenty. They didn't talk about 15,000 yards — a milestone Ward is on the brink of A French man admits in court to drugging his wife so that he and dozens of men could rape her 09/17/2024 03:18pm • AVIGNON, France (AP) — A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed. His wife of 50 years, who has divorced him since his arrest, also got to speak, Fantasy plays: Players to start and sit for NFL Week 3 09/17/2024 02:55pm • It's been a roller coaster so far in the first two weeks of the NFL season. Especially for some of the most reliable and coveted fantasy football players. There are still plenty of solid plays to take advantage of in Week 3 though, and we’ve got them right here for you. Quarterbacks Start: Derek UN considers resolution demanding Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories 09/17/2024 02:50pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year and calling for sanctions and an arms embargo against the country. It will be put to a vote in the Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class 09/17/2024 01:35pm • Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers played audio of the books during class. Much of the reading material at Garden City Middle School in L Napheesa Collier's stellar play has led the Minnesota Lynx to the top of the WNBA 09/17/2024 01:22pm • Napheesa Collier and the Minnesota Lynx have been nearly unbeatable since the Olympic break. The Lynx star, who helped the United States win its eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal, has been averaging 20.7 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists and the team has won 12 of 13 since the Paris Games to