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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Reports: Lions, veteran CB D.J. Reed agree on $48M, 3-year deal with $32M guaranteed 
The Detroit Lions and veteran cornerback D.J. Reed agreed on a $48 million, three-year contract with $32 million guaranteed Monday, according to multiple reports. Detroit general manager Brad Holmes made the move shortly after not retaining cornerback Carlton Davis, who agreed to a $60 million, three-year deal with the New...
Reports: Bucs agree to deals with WR Chris Godwin, edge rusher Haason Reddick 
TAMPA, Fla. — Chris Godwin is staying in Tampa Bay and two-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Haason Reddick is joining the Buccaneers, according to multiple reports. Godwin, who is returning from a gruesome ankle injury, is getting a three-year $66 million deal, including $44 million guaranteed, according to one person....
Reports: Panthers make Jaycee Horn highest-paid CB in NFL with $100M deal 
CHARLOTTE N.C. — Jaycee Horn agreed to a four-year contract extension with the Carolina Panthers worth $100 million, including $70 million in guaranteed money, making him the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL, according to multiple reports Monday. The Panthers announced on their website that Horn has agreed to terms but...
Homeland Security overhauls asylum phone app — now it’s for ‘self-deportation’
The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily. The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is...
UCLA and South Carolina are 1-2 in women’s AP Top 25; No. 6 TCU has highest ranking in its history
UCLA vaulted back up to No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 on Monday after beating USC for the Big Ten title over the weekend. The Bruins, who spent 12 weeks atop the poll before losing to the rival Trojans in early February, received 16 first-place votes...
Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejected
A columnist who has worked at The Washington Post for four decades resigned Monday after the newspaper’s management decided not to run her commentary critical of owner Jeff Bezos’ new editorial policy. Ruth Marcus, who has worked at the newspaper since 1984, wrote that “it breaks my heart to conclude...
3 victims of Pennsylvania plane crash were taken to a burn unit for treatment, hospital says 
LITITZ — Three of the five people injured in a single-engine plane crash in central Pennsylvania over the weekend were sent from a Lancaster hospital to a burn center for treatment, authorities said Monday. Two patients were flown to the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s burn center and a third was...
Elon Musk claims X being targeted in ‘massive cyberattack’ as service goes down
Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk claimed in a post. “Either...
Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
NEW YORK — To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. But to some of her colleagues, she is giving a voice to those who feel they can’t speak out. Ortiz is an administrative...
Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children. The conservative-led court is taking up the case amid actions by President Donald Trump targeting transgender people, including a ban on military...
Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many
WASHINGTON — In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat. It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural...
Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
WARREN, Mich. — Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn. He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd...
Canada’s next prime minister has managed the financial crisis, Brexit and now Trump’s trade war
TORONTO — Canada’s next prime minister has already helped run two Group of Seven economies in crisis and now will try to steer Canada through a looming trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a threat of annexation and an expected federal election. Former central banker Mark Carney will...
Cargo ship hits a tanker and they catch fire off England, with 1 crew member missing 
LONDON — A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military on Monday off eastern England, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. One crew member was missing hours later, and search efforts continued, the cargo ship’s owner, Ernst Russ, said...
Elon Musk eyes Social Security, benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk pushed debunked theories about Social Security on Monday while describing federal benefit programs as rife with fraud, suggesting they will be a primary target in his crusade to reduce government spending. The billionaire entrepreneur, who is advising President Donald Trump, suggested that $500 billion to $700...
Vikings re-sign RB Aaron Jones to 2-year, $20M contract after solid 1st year with team 
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings agreed to terms on a two-year, $20 million contract with running back Aaron Jones on Sunday that prevents the popular veteran from reaching free agency after a solid debut with his former rival. Jones will get $13 million guaranteed, his agent Drew Rosenhaus said. The...
Bills reward QB Josh Allen with new contract following his 1st NFL MVP season
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — NFL MVP Josh Allen was rewarded Sunday with a contract extension that is reportedly worth $330 million, which would make him among the league’s highest-paid players. The Buffalo Bills announced the agreement, which adds two years to Allen’s contract and locks the 28-year-old in through the...
Christopher Bell edges Denny Hamlin at Phoenix to win 3rd straight NASCAR Cup Series race 
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Christopher Bell was just ahead of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin after a late restart, in good position to win his third straight NASCAR Cup Series race. Another restart led to some tense moments — enough to make his team owner feel a bit queasy. Bell...
Davante Adams agrees to a 2-year, $46 million contract with the Los Angeles Rams 
LOS ANGELES — Receiver Davante Adams agreed to terms on a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, bringing the three-time All-Pro back to his native California. Adams’ deal could be worth up to $46 million with the Rams, who will move on from Super Bowl 56 MVP...
Russell Henley with a late charge and a big eagle wins Bay Hill for biggest career win 
ORLANDO, Fla. — Russell Henley delivered a late charge that would have made Arnold Palmer proud, capped by chipping in for eagle on the 16th hole to rally with a 2-under-par 70 at Bay Hill on Sunday for the biggest victory of his career. Henley trailed Collin Morikawa by three...
Reports: Chiefs agree with LB Nick Bolton on 3-year, $45M contract 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs and linebacker Nick Bolton agreed to a three-year, $45 million contract Sunday that keeps the quarterback of their defense out of free agency, according to multiple reports. The Chiefs selected the 24-year-old Bolton in the second round of the 2021 draft out...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
NEW YORK — Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last spring’s anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned residence Saturday night near Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the...
Small plane with 5 people aboard crashes near airport in southern Pennsylvania 
A single-engine airplane with five people on board crashed Sunday in a parking lot near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, officials said. The fiery crash happened around 3 p.m. just south of Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township, according to police, who could not immediately provide information on fatalities or...
Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants
HARRISBURG — Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from rising electric bills, power outages and other consequences of falling behind Big Tech in a race for electricity. Some...
Kristi Noem taps new ICE leaders, moves to identify leakers 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced new leadership at the agency tasked with immigration enforcement as she also pledged to step up lie detector tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about operations to the media. “The authorities that I have under the Department...


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