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'A day of joy': Brittney Griner makes WNBA season debut after being jailed in Russia 05/20/2023 07:51am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brittney Griner stood for the national anthem before her first regular-season WNBA game since being jailed in Russia. Griner was outspoken for social justice in 2020 and didn’t take the court during the pregame anthem. But nearly a year behind bars in Russia changed her. “I Sparks beat Mercury 94-71 as Brittney Griner scores 18 in return to WNBA 05/20/2023 01:37am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike scored 17 points, rookie Zia Cooke added 14 and the Los Angeles Sparks defeated Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury 94-71 on Friday night in Griner’s first WNBA game since being jailed in Russia. Griner had 18 points, six rebounds and four blocked shots in 2 LA Sparks defeat Griner, Mercury 94-71 in WNBA season opener 05/20/2023 01:31am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike scored 17 points, rookie Zia Cooke added 14 and the Los Angeles Sparks defeated Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury 94-71 on Friday night in Griner's first WNBA game since being jailed in Russia. Griner had 18 points, six rebounds and four blocked shots in 25 Minnesota gets $60.5M in settlement with e-cigarette maker Juul, tobacco giant Altria 05/17/2023 05:37pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota settled its lawsuit against e-cigarette maker Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria for $60.5 million, Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday, saying the total is significantly higher per capita than any other state that sued Juul over youth vaping and mar Griner, Mercury set to tip off WNBA season after her return from detainment in Russia 05/17/2023 12:09pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner's life and career path have taken a sharp turn over the past 18 months following a nearly 10-month detainment in Russia on drug-related charges that ended with a prisoner swap in December. To say the Phoenix Mercury center's journey has been complicated would be an u Brittney Griner plays in first WNBA preseason game since detainment in Russia 05/13/2023 07:40am • PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner strolled down the sideline about 1 1/2 hours before the Phoenix Mercury played Friday night, giving hugs and high-fiving her teammates, coaches and opposing players. Then it was a little stretching, a little shooting and a little agility work to prepare for a basketb Officials say fire that killed 3 in New York City apparently caused by homemade vape pens 05/11/2023 04:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A fire that killed a mother and two daughters in New York City was apparently sparked by homemade vape dispensers that the father of the family was assembling to sell, officials said. The fire broke out shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday in an apartment in the East New York section of Br Griner using new platform for greater good in return to WNBA 05/04/2023 09:10am • PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner caught a flight to Washington, D.C., to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, landed back at Phoenix around 4 a.m. and was up five hours later for the start of training camp. After going through her first workout with the Phoenix Mercury, sh Met Gala 2023 live updates: Fashion highlights from carpet 05/02/2023 10:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion's biggest night is underway — after all, it is the first Monday in May. Follow along for real-time updates on the 2023 Met Gala from The Associated Press. We'll be bringing you news in all formats, all day and all night, from the carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a Australian government cracks down on smoking and vaping 05/02/2023 05:00am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s tobacco tax will be increased by billions of dollars over the next four years as the government cracks down on smoking and vaping. Recreational vaping will be banned as the government seeks to prevent the next generation from becoming addicted to nicotine, Several Fairfax Co. school safety projects ahead of schedule, superintendent says 04/28/2023 04:37pm • Several Fairfax County, Virginia, public school projects aimed at improving school safety are projected to be finished ahead of schedule, Superintendent Michelle Reid told the school board Thursday night. For one, more than 3,000 classroom door locks have been replaced, which is an ongoing initia Brittney Griner gets emotional discussing Russian detainment 04/27/2023 06:00pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Hope bounced around Brittney Griner like a buoy and an anchor. Hope of returning home, hope of a miracle, was all she had all those months in custody in Russia. On the days hopelessness crept in, days that grew as her detainment stretched into a second winter, optimism drowned in de CDC: consumo de cigarrillos cae a mínimo histórico en EEUU, pero sube el vapeo 04/27/2023 03:40pm • NUEVA YORK – El consumo de cigarrillos en Estados Unidos cayó a un nuevo mínimo histórico en 2022, con uno de cada nueve adultos que dijeron ser fumadores, según un sondeo del gobierno publicado el jueves. Por otro lado, el consumo de cigarrillos electrónicos subió a 1 de cada 17 adultos US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low 04/27/2023 10:03am • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults. The preliminary findings from the Centers Gender-neutral bathroom plans at Loudoun County schools face backlash 04/26/2023 10:38am • Loudoun County Public Schools is seeing push back from parents around a new pilot program that would renovate several school bathrooms in the Northern Virginia school system to make them gender-neutral. According to plans released by the school district in March, several staff bathrooms at Loudoun