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Indonesian handprints are the oldest cave art found yet 01/21/2026 01:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by Indonesian and Australian researchers on the island of Sulawesi were made by blowing pigment ov Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges 01/21/2026 11:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation's schools and colleges. The Education Department, in a court filing Wednesday, moved to dismiss its Everything you need to know about the 2026 Sundance Film Festival 01/21/2026 11:29am • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The 42nd Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week in Park City, Utah. It will be the last edition in its longtime home and the first without its founder Robert Redford, who died in September at age 89. But even in this time of transition and change, the festival’s main f IOC president says no contact yet with Trump's White House, will meet Vance at Winter Olympics 01/21/2026 11:12am • GENEVA (AP) — Olympic leader Kirsty Coventry said Wednesday she is yet to have formal contact with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration but is looking forward to meeting Vice President JD Vance in Milan next month at the Winter Games opening ceremony. The International Olympic Committee� This just in from The New York Times: Its first 2-player game, and an evolving business model 01/21/2026 11:11am • For subscribers to The New York Times who are as interested in solving Wordle or filling in the crossword puzzle as in reading the latest political or business news, Wednesday is a big day. The Times' popular Games unit is debuting Crossplay, a Scrabble-like electronic feature that represents its fi Literary agent Georges Borchardt, who championed Nobel laureates, dies at 97 01/21/2026 10:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — Georges Borchardt, a literary agent of cosmopolitan taste and style who found U.S. publishers for future Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Samuel Beckett and represented dozens of other prize-winning authors, from Ian McEwan to Tracy Kidder, has died at age 97. Georges Borchardt Inc. Bangladesh loses bid to move its T20 World Cup cricket games from India to Sri Lanka 01/21/2026 09:12am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bangladesh's request to move its T20 World Cup games from India to Sri Lanka has been turned down by the International Cricket Council. The ICC's board of directors met Wednesday and world cricket's governing body said afterward that its security assessments indi Marine Le Pen admits 'mistake' in EU embezzlement trial as she fights to save political career 01/21/2026 09:08am • PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen acknowledged “a mistake” on Wednesday at an appeals trial hearing in Paris that could derail her presidential ambitions, but firmly denied accusations she was at the center of a fraudulent system to siphon off European Union funds. Le Pen, 57, Record crowds witness Sabalenka, Alcaraz, Gauff and Zverev advance at Australian Open 01/21/2026 08:37am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Another day, another record crowd. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz advanced in straight sets Wednesday and the No. 3 seeds — Coco Gauff and Alexander Zverev — also progressed to the third round of the Australian Open. The combined numbers for day and n Rory McIlroy says LIV and PGA Tour 'too far apart' to strike a deal 01/21/2026 07:01am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have grown “too far apart” to form an alliance and bring a splintered sport back together. “I just don’t see a world where it can happen at this point,” McIlroy said Wednesday at the Dubai Desert Classic o Moore’s redistricting commission recommends ‘congressional map concept’ 01/21/2026 06:03am • A five-member panel voted behind closed doors Tuesday to advance a “congressional map concept” that will be used as a guide for legislation that will attempt to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts. The Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Commission voted 3-2 to recommend the ma What’s a ‘Good Enough’ Financial Plan? 01/21/2026 06:00am • I’m a classic satisficer: I’m usually quick about making decisions and often fall back on the tried-and-true. Some people are optimizers, carefully analyzing almost every choice, whether it’s a new sofa or a cup of coffee. If you want to make decent, “good enough” choices about your finan 200 FBS quarterbacks went into portal, and the best ones came out with promises of big paychecks 01/21/2026 06:00am • About 200 Football Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks entered the transfer portal by last week's deadline. That doesn't mean it's a buyer's market. The top programs in the power conferences are paying a premium for players at the most important position on the field. Experienced starters commanded financ Buster Posey takes center stage among the newcomers for next year's Hall of Fame ballot 01/21/2026 06:00am • These days, Buster Posey's focus is on trying to build a winner as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants. Eleven months from now, however, writers will be evaluating an earlier part of his career. Posey is expected to be the top newcomer on the 2027 Hall of Fame ballot. There Fukushima nuclear plant operator restarts reactor at another plant, reviving safety concerns 01/21/2026 05:47am • TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to meet soaring electricity needs. The first steps in energy production at the No. 6