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Jason Collins, NBA's first openly gay player, dies at 47 of brain cancer 05/12/2026 08:52pm • Jason Collins, the NBA���s first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family announced Tuesday. Collins spent 13 years as a player in the league for six d FBI Director Kash Patel denies drinking allegations in heated Senate exchange 05/12/2026 08:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� FBI Director Kash Patel angrily lashed out at a Democratic lawmaker at a budget hearing Tuesday, calling allegations that he drinks excessively on the job and has been unreachable to his staff at times ���unequivocally, categorically false.��� ���I will not be tarnished by basele 85-year-old French widow caught in Trump's immigration crackdown describes her detention 05/12/2026 08:42pm • ORVAULT, France (AP) ��� At night, silence fell over the Louisiana immigration detention facility where 85-year-old Marie-Th��r��se Ross was held. Then the wailing began. ������Children crying, and even babies,��� said Ross, the French widow of a U.S. military veteran, whose arrest last month as par Denver airport security missed trespasser who was killed by plane on runway 05/12/2026 08:30pm • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) ��� Workers at Denver airport missed a security breach by a man who scaled a perimeter fence and crossed a runway where he was hit and killed in a fiery collision by a plane with 231 people on board, authorities said Tuesday. The runway fatality underscores the longstanding Israel and favorite Finland advance to the Eurovision final as 5 countries are sent home 05/12/2026 08:29pm • VIENNA (AP) ��� Ten countries including favorite Finland and contentious competitor Israel won places Tuesday in the Eurovision Song Contest final, while five nations were sent home after the first day of competition in the pop music extravaganza. Host city Vienna has been bedecked in hearts and the Winning numbers drawn in Tuesday���s Maryland Cash Pop 05/12/2026 08:25pm • The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Maryland Cash Pop" game were: 3 (three) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets Philadelphia 76ers fire president Daryl Morey and keep coach Nick Nurse, AP source says 05/12/2026 08:25pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Philadelphia 76ers fire president Daryl Morey and keep coach Nick Nurse, AP source says. Men wrongly accused of grisly yogurt shop murders in Texas reach $35 million settlement with city 05/12/2026 08:16pm • The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tues Albrecht Weinberg, a Holocaust survivor who returned to Germany in his 80s, dies at 101 05/12/2026 08:12pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died at the age of 101, authorities in his home region said Tuesday. Weinberg died in Leer, in northwestern Germany, wee Carol Miller wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in West Virginia's 1st Congressional District 05/12/2026 08:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Carol Miller wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in West Virginia's 1st Congressional District. Dodgers acquire outfielder Alek Thomas in a trade with the Diamondbacks 05/12/2026 08:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Dodgers added to their outfield depth by acquiring Alek Thomas in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday. Thomas was batting just .181 with two homers and 10 RBIs when he was designated for assignment by Arizona last week. But the speedy Thomas is a sol As Trump heads to China, past US flubs on US policy toward Taiwan can be a warning 05/12/2026 08:02pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� It���s a verbal tightrope American presidents have had to walk for nearly 50 years, where even small slip-ups when stating official U.S. policy toward Taiwan and China can trigger geopolitical alarm bells. The way the U.S. views Taiwan under the ���One China��� policy recognizes the Kevin Warsh Set to Lead the Fed: Why a Trump-Backed Chair Doesn't Guarantee Lower Mortgage Rates 05/12/2026 08:00pm • The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve on a 54-45 vote on Wednesday. As he takes the reins, Warsh inherits a Federal Reserve that is cautiously balancing its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability amid a shaky economy and rising inflationary pressur As Trump Moves Student Loans to Treasury, What Does This Mean for You? 05/12/2026 08:00pm • Sweeping changes are coming to federal student loans this summer, impacting everything from how much you can borrow to how you'll repay it. In many cases, borrowers now have enough details to at least roughly estimate how the new rules may affect their finances and their education. But one transitio 7 Best Defense Stocks to Buy Now 05/12/2026 08:00pm • U.S. military spending under the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act hit $900.6 billion. Considering the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the war between Russia and Ukraine and heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, global military spending is unlikely to slow down any time