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Cortina's curling darling Stefania Constantini is the focus of Italian fans in bid to advance 02/07/2026 12:19pm • CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (AP) ��� There are four matches happening at once in Cortina's curling stadium, yet you���d hardly know it. All attention in the venue seems trained on young, high-ponytailed Stefania Constantini, the defending gold medalist who hails from Cortina and is battling for a spot in the Shooting Stars returning to NBA's All-Star Saturday Night lineup 02/07/2026 12:13pm • INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) ��� For the first time since 2015, the NBA's Shooting Stars event is returning to All-Star weekend. The league made that announcement Saturday, revealing the lineups for two of the three events that'll take place at next weekend's All-Star Saturday Night at the Los Angeles Cli One Extraordinary Photo: Capturing the moment the Olympic cauldron was lit in Milan 02/07/2026 12:10pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Bernat Armangue is based in Madrid and has worked for The Associated Press for 20 years, covering news and sports across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Here���s what he had to say about this extraordinary photo. Why this photo? When the Olympic flame lights up the cauldron, the G Chalkboard Promo Code WTOP: Get $100 Bonus for Super Bowl Player picks 02/07/2026 12:07pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Get a daily fantasy bonus for the Super Bowl by signing up with the Chalkboard promo code WTOP. New customers can create an account her Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed 02/07/2026 12:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Group's $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal. ���We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks,��� Trump wrote on social Italian biathlete suspended in a doping case asks court to let her race at the Olympics 02/07/2026 12:06pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Suspended Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to let her race at the Milan Cortina Olympics, arguing her positive doping test was because of contamination and she is not to blame. The court said Saturday it expects to hear Passler���s appeal Gunmen in northern Nigeria kill 3 villagers and kidnap 11, including a Catholic priest 02/07/2026 11:52am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Gunmen killed three villagers and abducted 11 people, including a Catholic priest, during a predawn attack in northwest Nigeria on Saturday, church officials said. The gunmen attacked the priest���s residence in the Kauru local government area of Kaduna state at about 3 a.m., She filmed Iran's violent crackdown on protesters. Now she is afraid to go outside 02/07/2026 11:40am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� As tear gas canisters landed among protesters filling the wide boulevard, the 37-year-old beautician and her friends ran for cover. They sheltered among trees, concealed in darkness pierced only by the glow of streetlights and small fires behind them in the western Iranian city of Ka Patrick Reed closes in on 2nd win of the year. He builds 2-shot lead in Qatar 02/07/2026 11:37am • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� Patrick Reed kept a clean card Saturday for a 2-under 70 in the Qatar Masters, a round that slightly expanded his lead and greatly expanded his confidence as he goes for his second European tour title in three weeks. Reed's only birdies were a 20-foot putt on the second hole and Sweden 6, Italy 1 02/07/2026 11:30am • Sweden 6, Italy 1 First Period_1. Sweden, Jessica Adolfsson (Hanna Thuvik, Sara Hjalmarsson). Penalties_Nadia Mattivi, Italy (illegal hit), 18:26. Second Period_2. Sweden, Sofie Lundin (Jenna Raunio, Anna Kjellbin), 29:36. 3. Sweden, Sara Hjalmarsson (Ida Karlsson), 31:47. 4. Italy, Franziska Stocke Syria and Saudi Arabia sign multibillion-dollar investment deals to boost economy 02/07/2026 11:26am • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ��� Syria and Saudi Arabia signed multibillion-dollar investment agreements on Saturday, including a major telecommunications project, a low-cost joint airline and an international airport in northern Syria. Syria is trying to improve its economy after a long war that killed ne Eileen Gu overcomes an early fall in slopestyle to keep her Olympic dreams intact 02/07/2026 11:25am • LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) ��� Eileen Gu skied backwards out of the slopestyle starting gate, jumped onto the first rail, did a 270-degree spin and landed on the snow. Then, she fell. For the next hour, as she prepared for her second, final and now excruciatingly pressure-packed chance to keep all her Oly Czechia loses Boston center Pavel Zacha for Milan Cortina Games due to injury 02/07/2026 11:22am • MILAN (AP) ��� Czechia has to do without Pavel Zacha at the Milan Cortina Games as the Boston Bruins center will not recover in time from injury for the Olympic hockey tournament in a blow for the Czechs. The Czech team said Saturday that Zacha will be replaced by Filip Chlap��k from Sparta Prague i Speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida wins host Italy���s first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics 02/07/2026 11:21am • MILAN (AP) ��� Speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida wins host Italy���s first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics. theScore Bet Promo Code: Get $1,000 Bonus for NBA, CBB, Super LX This Weekend 02/07/2026 11:16am • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services By activating theScore Bet promo code WTOP, eligible users in most live states can secure a $1,000 Bet Reset, which refunds a losin