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Ben Stokes shines with five-wicket haul as England gains first-innings advantage in Ashes opener 11/21/2025 05:27am • PERTH, Australia (AP) — In a chaotic opening day of the Ashes, Ben Stokes won the toss and watched his team skittled for 172 before taking a five-wicket haul to give England a first-innings advantage Friday in the first cricket test. Day 1 lived up to the pre-series hype, with pace bowlers dominat Iran rejects UN atomic agency's resolution and threatens more reprisal actions 11/21/2025 05:01am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign ministry called a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors “anti-Iranian” and threatened unspecified retaliatory actions, state media reported on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday demanded that Iran fully cooper Rural Greece struggles to cope with predator comeback 11/21/2025 04:43am • LEVEA, Greece (AP) — It was a shocking sight for the farmer — three of his sheep lying dead on the ground, signs of their mauling unmistakable. The large paw prints in the earth left no doubt they had been killed by a bear, a once rare but now increasingly frequent visitor in this part of northw Presto's Picks: SEC standing for 'Schedule Every Cupcake' 11/21/2025 04:20am • College football's November is a magical month where dreams can come true but also be shattered, as the playoff pack of contenders thins a little each week and every game means something … except in some corners this Saturday. You see, Southeastern Conference has multiple schools involved in th Japan OKs $135 billion stimulus package to help revive its sluggish economy 11/21/2025 04:05am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Cabinet approved a 21.3 trillion yen ($135.4 billion) stimulus package Friday to help spur the economy through expansionary government spending and to relieve the impact of higher prices. After taking office last month, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi promised to boost governme Panthers beat Devils 1-0 behind Bobrovsky's 30 saves 11/21/2025 03:06am • SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots, Sam Reinhart scored in the opening period and the Florida Panthers beat the New Jersey Devils 1-0 on Thursday night. It was Florida’s first 1-0 regulation win in the regular season since Dec. 23, 2017, against Ottawa. The Panthers had a 1-0 Texans get 8 sacks and Bullock forces 3 turnovers in Houston's 23-19 win over Bills 11/21/2025 01:03am • HOUSTON (AP) — Buffalo's Josh Allen was harassed by Houston's defense all night Thursday and it was no different on his last play of the game. “Our d-line was getting to him and made him make that bad decision at the end and he threw the ball right to me,” Houston safety Calen Bullock said. Las Vegas Grand Prix practice halted twice due to loose maintenance cover 11/21/2025 12:59am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A street maintenance cover has again disrupted on-track action at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, where Thursday night practice was stopped twice so the track could be inspected. The inaugural race in 2023 was upended just nine minutes into the first practice session when a loose cover Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive' 11/21/2025 12:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive" — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and adv 76ers' hard-working Tyrese Maxey joins exclusive fraternity with 54-point, nine-assist performance 11/21/2025 12:42am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey arguably is the NBA’s hardest-working player this season. His heavy workload sure isn’t hindering his production so far. Maxey already was averaging an NBA-leading 40.3 minutes per game this season before he had a career-high 54 points and Ovechkin has 33rd hat trick and an assist in Montreal romp to move to No. 10 on points list 11/21/2025 12:34am • MONTREAL (AP) — Alex Ovechkin padded his NHL goals record and moved up a couple other big lists in the Washington Capitals' 8-4 romp over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night. Ovechkin had his 33rd career hat trick to tie Brett Hull for fourth in NHL history and added an assist as he moved Ovechkin has 3 goals and an assist in Capitals' win to move into 10th place on NHL points list 11/21/2025 12:05am • MONTREAL (AP) — Alex Ovechkin had his 33rd career hat trick and added an assist to move into 10th place on the NHL points list, helping the Washington Capitals beat Montreal 8-4 on Thursday night to hand the Canadiens their fifth straight loss. Ovechkin has 10 goals this season to push his NHL-rec MacKinnon, Makar lead surging Avalanche to 6-3 win over Rangers 11/20/2025 11:55pm • DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist to move into second place on the franchise scoring list, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the New York Rangers 6-3 on Thursday night. MacKinnon’s three points broke a tie with Peter Stastny. He now has 1,051 career points and trails only FAA gives $10K bonuses only to controllers and technicians with perfect attendance during shutdown 11/20/2025 10:54pm • Only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses while nearly 20,000 other workers will be left out, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday. A number of controllers started calling out of work as t Guentzel scores in OT to give Lightning 2-1 win over Oilers 11/20/2025 10:45pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jake Guentzel scored 1:43 into overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Nick Paul, who made his season debut after recovering from offseason wrist surgery, scored for Tampa Bay with less than three minutes left in regulat