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Trail Blazers in the second year of their rebuilding project amid a 3-year NBA playoff drought 10/14/2024 10:00am • Trail Blazers Last season: 21-61, missed the playoffs for the third straight year. COACH: Chauncey Billups (Fourth season with Portland, 81-165). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 at home against the Golden State Warriors. DEPARTURES: G Malcolm Brogdan. ADDITIONS: C Donovan Clingan, F Deni Avdija. BetMGM cha Rookie Zaccharie Risacher is key to Hawks' hopes for a playoff return with Trae Young still the star 10/14/2024 10:00am • Atlanta Hawks Last season: 36-46, 10th in Eastern Conference. COACH: Quin Snyder (3rd season with Hawks, 11th overall, 418-321). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 vs. Brooklyn. DEPARTURES: G Dejounte Murray, G AJ Griffin, F Saddiq Bey, F Fernando Bruno, G Wesley Matthews ADDITIONS: G-F Zaccharie Risacher, G Dy The Kings look to get back to the playoffs after falling short in play-in last season 10/14/2024 10:00am • Sacramento Kings Last season: 46-36, lost to New Orleans in play-in tournament. COACH: Mike Brown (3rd season with Kings, 11th season overall, 441-286-527). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 24 vs. Minnesota. DEPARTURES: F Harrison Barnes, G Chris Duarte, G Davion Mitchell, F Kessler Edwards, F Sasha Vezenkov. AD T-wolves seek quick pivot from Towns trade to maintain last season's NBA conference finals momentum 10/14/2024 10:00am • Minnesota Timberwolves Last season: 56-26, lost to Dallas 4-1 in the Western Conference finals. COACH: Chris Finch (fifth season, 160-127). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Los Angeles Lakers. DEPARTURES: F Karl-Anthony Towns, F Kyle Anderson, G Jordan McLaughlin, F T.J. Warren. ADDITIONS: F Julius Randle, The NBA's parity era is here, with 6 champions in 6 years. Now Boston will try to buck that trend 10/14/2024 09:54am • It was a few minutes after Denver’s reign as NBA champion had come to an end last spring. The Minnesota Timberwolves were celebrating, their music and screams loud enough to be heard inside the room where Nuggets coach Michael Malone was somberly going through his final postgame news conference of Things to know about AP's report on the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump 10/14/2024 09:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A year that began with the prospect of a federal court reckoning for Donald Trump will conclude without any chance at trial, leaving voters without the finality of an up-or-down jury verdict in the two most consequential cases against the Republican presidential nominee. Yet both UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon are in the crosshairs of Israel’s war on Hezbollah 10/14/2024 06:58am • BEIRUT (AP) — As the war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah group escalates, a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon is increasingly in the crosshairs, with Israeli troops firing at the peacekeepers' headquarters and positions several times in the past week. The peacekeepers belong to Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside 10/14/2024 06:38am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave Commanders' 4-win streak ends and the lessons are just beginning 10/14/2024 06:35am • BALTIMORE (AP) — The Washington Commanders and rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels figured they'd find out just how good they are in a matchup against the Baltimore Ravens, a perennial contender with a variety of weapons. After getting knocked around the field in a 30-23 loss Sunday, the upstart China’s exports slow sharply in September, adding to worries over the economy 10/14/2024 05:56am • HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports slowed sharply in September as global demand weakened, adding to worries over how to recharge growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Exports rose 2.4% in dollar terms from a year earlier last month, down from 8.7% year-on-year growth in August, the Chin Analysis: Offenses have their way in Week 6 with highest scoring output of the season 10/14/2024 05:55am • On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. For more On Football analysis, head here. ___ Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers moved the ball at will against the Saints. Jared Goff and the Lions were unstoppable in Dallas. The Texans, Falcons, Packers and Ravens also put up bi Car Review: The BMW X2 xDrive28i is a sporty, coupe-styled SUV — sized and priced right 10/14/2024 04:39am • Many SUVs and crossovers blend into each other with a taller and boxier design. However, the SUV coupé with a swoopy carlike design tends to get noticed in the crowd. BMW has been making its larger SUVs with the coupé styling for nearly 10 years now. The X2, the smallest of the coupelike SU Mets' Kodai Senga struggles with control, knocked out in 2nd inning by Dodgers in NLCS opener 10/14/2024 01:33am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kodai Senga knew something was off just before he took the mound in the National League Championship Series opener. The New York Mets starter lasted just 10 batters and got only four outs, struggling with control as the Los Angeles Dodgers took a 3-0, second-inning lead on Sunda Pennsylvania voters to decide key statewide races in fall election 10/14/2024 12:01am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — One job going before voters across Pennsylvania this fall keeps a watch over government agencies. A second handles the state's money. And the third oversees hundreds of prosecutors. Republican incumbents Treasurer Stacy Garrity and Auditor General Tim DeFoor are running to k Derrick Henry runs for two TDs and Lamar Jackson throws for 323 yards as Ravens beat Commanders 10/13/2024 11:50pm • Lamar Jackson threw for 323 yards and a touchdown to outshine rookie Jayden Daniels in a showdown between two of the NFL’s best quarterbacks this season, Derrick Henry ran for two TDs and the Baltimore Ravens beat the Washington Commanders 30-23 on Sunday for their fourth consecutive victory. Jack