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Aces heavy favorites to win 3rd straight championship; Caitlin Clark a boon to WNBA 05/14/2024 06:00am • A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces will begin the WNBA season Tuesday night as a heavy favorite to win a third straight title. The Aces, who were a unanimous choice at No. 1 in the preseason AP WNBA power poll, are plus-100 favorites to win the title again, according to BetMGM. New York, at plus-230 Austrian court says convicted rapist Josef Fritzl can be moved to prison from psychiatric detention 05/14/2024 05:24am • BERLIN (AP) — Austrian judges have ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court said Tuesday. The decision on Monday was the latest in a legal ba Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza 05/14/2024 03:58am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways, that experience pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Palestinians refer to it as the Ex-Ukrainian president says US delay in war aid was 'colossal' waste, let Putin inflict more damage 05/14/2024 12:19am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said the long delay by the U.S. Congress in approving military aid for his country was “a colossal waste of time,” allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to inflict more suffering in the 2-year-old invasion and prolonging the LeBron James attends Game 4 between Celtics and Cavaliers in Cleveland, his old stomping grounds 05/13/2024 11:53pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James sat courtside like a fan in an arena he made famous. His postseason over for weeks, James was back home in Ohio and watched Monday night's playoff game between the Cavaliers and Boston Celtics, an appearance certain to drive conversation about the superstar's future. Arizona's high court is allowing the attorney general 90 more days on her abortion ban strategy 05/13/2024 11:52pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's highest court on Monday gave the state's attorney general another 90 days to decide further legal action in the case over a 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion that lawmakers recently voted to repeal. The Arizona Supreme Court's order leaves in place for now a more re Bryan Reynolds' bat, Mitch Keller's arm help Pirates to 8-6 victory over Brewers 05/13/2024 11:49pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bryan Reynolds went 5 for 5 with a homer and two doubles, Mitch Keller threw six shutout innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 8-6 on Monday night. Pittsburgh's Jack Suwinski and Yasmani Grandal hit two-run homers. Jake Bauers delivered his first caree The Nebraska GOP is rejecting all Republican congressional incumbents in Tuesday's primary election 05/13/2024 11:35pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In one of the most closely watched congressional races this year, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is looking to defeat a fellow Republican in Tuesday's primary election in his quest for reelection. He'll have to do it without the support of the state Republican Party, which has Alex Bregman homers twice, drives in 4 runs as Astros pound Athletics 9-2 05/13/2024 11:34pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman homered twice and had a season-high four RBIs to lead the Houston Astros to a 9-2 win over the Oakland Athletics on Monday night. Bregman homered off Oakland starter Ross Stripling (1-7) in the fourth inning, reminiscent of the homer he hit off Stripling in the 2018 All Stock market today: Asian shares mixed in muted trading after Wall Street barely budges 05/13/2024 11:28pm • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed in muted trading Tuesday after U.S. stock indexes were little changed ahead of the release of inflation data. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost early gains and was trading less than 0.1% higher at 38,194.38. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.2% to 7,731.4 Daulton Varsho's glove and bat lift Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over Orioles in 10 innings 05/13/2024 10:42pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Daulton Varsho robbed a homer with his glove, hit one with his bat and then drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a groundball to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night. The Blue Jays overcame two home runs by Adley Rutschman Jimmy Dunne resigns from PGA Tour board. He feels his input is no longer needed 05/13/2024 10:37pm • Jimmy Dunne, one of the architects behind the PGA Tour's stunning reversal to strike a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, abruptly resigned Monday from the PGA Tour board with a letter that expressed frustration at the lack of progress that no longer included his input. Dunne, a power broker o Depleted Blue Jays overcome illness to beat Baltimore: 'This was a huge (expletive) win' 05/13/2024 10:31pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays are having a hard enough time this year when their lineup is healthy. So this win over the American League's top team — with several Toronto players battling illness — was a potential turning point. “You don't want to say May 13 is a huge game, bu New Mexico judge halts state mandate for school districts to adopt calendars with more school days 05/13/2024 10:24pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new mandate that requires school districts across New Mexico to adopt calendars that consist of at least 180 days was put on hold by a judge on Monday while he considers the change's legality. Dozens of school districts and superintendents have been challenging the state Palestinian band escapes horrors of war but members' futures remain uncertain 05/13/2024 10:14pm • DOHA, Qatar (AP) — They stroll Doha's waterfront promenade and sing softly about children who are now “birds in heaven,” flying free of the pain of the war in Gaza. For the Palestinian group Sol Band, it seems surreal that weeks ago they were hiding from Israeli shelling. “I just want the w