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Speaker Johnson rejects Senate-passed bill to fund Homeland Security as a 'joke' and plans vote on alternative 03/27/2026 02:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Speaker Johnson rejects Senate-passed bill to fund Homeland Security as a 'joke' and plans vote on alternative. NBA shares some anti-tanking concepts with owners, AP sources say 03/27/2026 02:20pm • The NBA's process of finding new ways to deter teams from tanking is currently focused around three separate concepts to change the draft lottery, two people with knowledge of the discussions surrounding the issue told The Associated Press on Friday. The concepts ��� they are not yet finalized propo Novak Djokovic pulls out of the Monte Carlo Masters 03/27/2026 02:19pm • MONACO (AP) ��� Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Monte Carlo Masters after having skipped the Miami Open with a right shoulder injury. ���We send him our best wishes and hope to see him back on court very soon,��� the clay-court tournament wrote Friday in announcing Djokovic's withdrawal in an I Microsoft takes over a Texas AI data center expansion after OpenAI backs away 03/27/2026 02:16pm • Microsoft is taking over a data center construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it, in a move that will make the two companies neighbors at one of the nation's largest complexes for running artificial intelligence. Data center developer Crusoe said Friday it is working with Micr Alabama's Aden Holloway is approved to travel out of state ahead of Sweet 16 game vs. Michigan 03/27/2026 02:12pm • Alabama guard Aden Holloway, who was arrested on felony drug charges, was granted permission by a judge to leave the state on Friday as his team prepares to face Michigan in the Sweet 16 in Chicago. The Crimson Tide say ���nothing has changed with regard to Aden���s status with the team." Alabama li He suddenly couldn't speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery 03/27/2026 02:01pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� The astronaut who prompted NASA���s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don���t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station. Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on Jan. 7 after prepping Cross Timbers: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 03/27/2026 01:59pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� DALLAS (AP) ��� Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT) on Friday reported profit of $1.4 million in its fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had net income of 23 cents. The express trust posted revenue of $1.6 million in the period. For the year, the comp California and a voting rights group filed legal challenges to stop GOP sheriff's ballot seizure 03/27/2026 01:52pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California's Democratic attorney general and a voting rights group launched legal challenges this week to halt a seizure and recount of more than half a million 2025 election ballots by a Republican county sheriff who is running for governor. The dispute over the ballot s Russian man sentenced to 4 years in UK prison for assault witnessed on video by Barron Trump 03/27/2026 01:39pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A Russian man was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for assaulting a woman in London in an attack that was witnessed on a video call and reported to police by U.S. President Donald Trump���s youngest son, Barron. Matvei Rumiantsev, 23, was convicted by a jury on Jan. 28 of ass School stabbing in Chile leaves 1 dead and 4 injured 03/27/2026 01:27pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� A stabbing at a school in northern Chile killed at least one person and injured four others on Friday, police said. The attack occurred at about 10:40 a.m. local time at the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta, located in the city of Calama, in the northern Antofagasta region. A Foreign-born players in Major League Baseball drops to lowest percentage since 2014 03/27/2026 01:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The percentage of players born outside the 50 states in Major League Baseball dropped to its lowest level since 2014 while Japan���s 14 were its most since 2010. There were 249 players from 16 nations and territories outside of the 50 states among 948 players on opening day active Voting rights advocates hail Virginia���s return to multistate voter roll system 03/27/2026 01:10pm • Prominent voting rights advocates are applauding a new executive order returning Virginia to a multistate voter roll program and limiting when voters can be removed from the rolls before elections. An executive order signed earlier this week by Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) reverses Gov. Glenn Youn Yahoo turns to AI-powered answer engine Scout to lead it back to its roots in online search 03/27/2026 01:06pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Internet trailblazer Yahoo is exploring technology's next frontier with Scout, an answer engine powered by artificial intelligence. Scout seems insightful, based on its response to a question posed by The Associated Press about why one of Silicon Valley's brightest stars faded CalHOPE Courage Award winners Sielken, Jung-Ruivivar overcame challenges 03/27/2026 01:00pm • After redshirting his freshman baseball season at Hawaii, Xander Sielken made the decision to leave his home state for California to continue playing the sport he loves. What was out of Sielken���s control, though, was how his loved ones would react. In 2023, Sielken was unexpectedly cut off financi After Minnesota scandal, Texas reviewed its child care spending. It found little fraud. 03/27/2026 12:54pm • Less than half a percent of federal money spent on child care scholarships in Texas was considered ���improper,��� a new report ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott found. Abbott���s directive followed allegations of a $110 million child care fraud scheme in Minnesota. Experts say the Minnesota allegations i