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By the numbers: Girls high school basketball participation down at least 21% since 2000 01/28/2026 10:47am • The number of girls high school basketball players in the United States has dropped at least 21% since 2000 based on National Federation of State High School Associations' annual participation surveys. The federation, which relies on individual schools to self-report numbers for each sport, said gir Even in Caitlin Clark's home state, girls high school basketball in decline. It thrives in this town 01/28/2026 10:47am • NEWELL, Iowa (AP) ��� The streets of Newell and Fonda are quiet. Rural decline has taken a toll on these northwest Iowa towns with main street storefronts shuttered and vacant houses scattered here and there. Yet the heart of these communities separated by 9 miles isn't hard to find. It still beats Movie Review: Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in 'Shelter' 01/28/2026 10:45am • Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in ���Shelter��� and that's a pretty good analogy for Statham's usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating. Statham may appear to be just a grim-faced lighthouse keeper, but he's real Maxim Naumov heads to Olympics, hoping to honor his parents and the others killed in airline crash 01/28/2026 10:43am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Maxim Naumov sat silently on a chair deep inside the Enterprise Center, away from the packed crowd in the arena, the prying eyes of the TV cameras, the friends, family and strangers who had been showering him well-wishes for the better part of a year. Naumov stared at a photogr France's finance minister demands tech firm Capgemini explain ICE contract 01/28/2026 10:43am • PARIS (AP) ��� France's finance minister is urging French tech company Capgemini to be fully transparent over a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as calls grow for scrutiny of the agency's role in enforcing the Trump administration���s immigration crackdown. The company, which Dutch government is ordered to protect residents on Caribbean island of Bonaire from climate change 01/28/2026 10:32am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change ��� a sweeping victory for the islanders. The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch author Disaster on the Potomac, 1 Year Later: First responders to the crash recall 'devastating' recovery efforts 01/28/2026 10:27am • Nearly one year ago, on Jan. 29, 2025, the capital region and the nation watched with shock and confusion as an American Airlines regional jet collided midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was on a training exercise. While most watched the tragedy in the aftermath from phone screens and Swedish amusement park fined over fatal roller coaster derailment 01/28/2026 10:26am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� A Swedish amusement park was fined nearly $590,000 on Wednesday in connection with a roller coaster derailment that left one passenger dead and nine others injured, including several children. Witnesses at the Gr��na Lund park described how the front of the Jetliner ride appeared Los Angeles homeless services CEO charged with defrauding taxpayers to pay for luxury lifestyle 01/28/2026 10:19am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for with $23 million in public money meant to keep people off the streets. Alexand Tyson Fury coming out of retirement in April to fight Arslanbek Makhmudov 01/28/2026 10:15am • LONDON (AP) ��� Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is to come out of retirement to face Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11. The highly-anticipated fight was confirmed on Wednesday by Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority and president of the Saudi Boxing Feder Sports on TV for Thursday, Jan. 29 01/28/2026 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Jan. 29 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) 5 p.m. CBSSN ��� Samford at Furman 7 p.m. CBSSN ��� Liberty at MTSU FS1 ��� Colorado at Iowa St. 8 p.m. ESPN2 ��� FAU at Memphis PEACOCK ��� Penn St. at Northwestern 9 p.m. CBSSN ��� UNC-Wi Today in Sports - Karl Malone becomes the third player in NBA history to score 30,000 points 01/28/2026 10:10am • Jan. 29 1950 ��� In an Associated Press poll of sports writers and broadcasters, Jack Dempsey is voted the greatest fighter of the past 50 years. Dempsey received 251 votes to 104 for Joe Louis. 1958 ��� The St. Louis Cardinals give Stan Musial a contract for $100,000, making him the highest paid pl SPHL Glance 01/28/2026 10:09am • All Times EST GP W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Al Habtoor Group exits Lebanon and lays off employees after dispute with authorities 01/28/2026 10:08am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� A conglomerate based in the United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it is closing its operations in Lebanon and laying off all employees following a dispute with authorities in the crisis-hit country. The announcement by the Dubai-based Al Habtoor Group came two days after it said it wil AP Top 25 Schedule 01/28/2026 10:05am • All Times EST Monday, Jan. 19 College Football Championship at Miami Gardens, Fla.: No. 1 Indiana (16-0) vs. No. 10 Miami (13-3), 7:30 p.m.