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The ‘Star Wars’ timeline is confusing. Here’s when ‘The Acolyte,’ ‘Ahsoka’ and more take place 05/04/2024 01:15pm • (CNN) — The “Star Wars” galaxy is ever-expanding. In the last year, we’ve gotten new tales of a beloved former Jedi, an animated look at the aftermath of Order 66 and a teased return of Rey Skywalker. The problem? All the stories take place at different points of time in the galaxy far, f Texas police officer dies after being injured when a tornado struck his home 05/04/2024 12:49pm • CONROE, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer has died of injuries he suffered when a tornado struck his home, according to the Conroe Police Department. The department announced Friday on social media that Lt. James Waller, a 22-year veteran of the Conroe Police Department, died at a hospital where Hudson-Odoi nets twice as Nottingham Forest boosts survival hopes with 3-1 win over Sheffield United 05/04/2024 12:08pm • SHEFFIELD, England (AP) — Callum Hudson-Odoi scored twice and Nottingham Forest took a big step toward Premier League survival with a 3-1 win over Sheffield United coupled with Burnley’s 4-1 loss to Newcastle on Saturday. The victory at Bramall Lane kept Forest one spot above the drop zone and m The Canucks ready for all-Canadian second-round after eliminating Nashville 05/04/2024 08:56am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet won't deny being one of the NHL's final eight teams still alive means a lot. An all-Canadian showdown against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round? Even better. “We know the next series will be tough," Tocchet said Friday night after his The Kentucky Derby is turning 150 years old. It's survived world wars and controversies of all kinds 05/04/2024 12:24am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky D Lewiston bowling alley reopens 6 months after Maine's deadliest mass shooting 05/03/2024 09:32pm • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — It's a dilemma no business owner should have to face: whether to reopen after a mass shooting. The answer didn't come easily to Justin and Samantha Juray. But when they did decide to reopen their Maine bowling alley, they didn't hold back. When patrons returned Friday, six m Luton gains valuable point from home draw with Everton 05/03/2024 06:18pm • LUTON, England (AP) — Luton got a valuable point in its fight to avoid relegation after a hard-fought 1-1 draw with visiting Everton in the English Premier League on Friday. Will it be too little, too late? Luton remained third to last, below 17th-placed Nottingham Forest only on goal difference. Former New York Giants player Aaron Thomas, who caught 35 touchdown passes, dies at 86 05/03/2024 02:39pm • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Thomas, one of the most prolific receiving tight ends in the history of the New York Giants, died last week at his home in Corvallis, Oregon, following a lengthy illness. He was 86. The Giants announced Thomas' death Friday. The team said he died on April 26. Tho How endometrial cancer is being treated using molecular profiling 05/03/2024 01:13pm • This content is provided by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, accounts for seven percent of all cancers in women, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S., and the NCI Arizona governor's signing of abortion law repeal follows political fight by women lawmakers 05/03/2024 01:05pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure that the 19th century law remains in the past. Current and former state lawmakers, and reproductive rights advocates crowded into th UFL at midseason: League took best of USFL and XFL, but has a familiar team at top of standings 05/03/2024 08:58am • The Birmingham Stallions are playing in a new spring football league, and they're continuing their winning ways. The Stallions are unbeaten as the United Football League reached its midway point last week. The UFL came about after the mergers of the USFL and XFL last September. Birmingham, the two-t A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn't stopping the presses 05/03/2024 12:21am • SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — When Oklahoma and national officials held a press conference Monday to discuss the scale of devastation following tornadoes two days earlier, Kathy John did what she always does: She showed up to report on it for the town’s weekly newspaper, the Sulphur Times-Democrat. But For decades, Moscow has sought to silence its critics abroad 05/03/2024 12:17am • From its earliest days, the Soviet Union's intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or by the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by pursuing its opponents no matter where they lived. Intelligence experts say that policy is still followed Arizona's Democratic governor signs a bill to repeal 1864 ban on most abortions 05/02/2024 10:46pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a bill Thursday to repeal it. Hobbs says the move is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona. The repeal of the 1864 law that the stat Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature 05/02/2024 09:19pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate. This was the first year that expansion has received serious legislative discussion in Mississippi, whi