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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cale Makar scored the tiebreaking goal, Scott Wedgewood made 24 saves and the top-seeded Colorado Avalanche moved to the brink of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night. Gabriel Landeskog and Artturi Lehkonen scored on fortunate deflections for …
DENVER (AP) — A former funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies faces sentencing Friday for corpse abuse in a case that forced Colorado officials to clamp down on an industry plagued by repeated scandal and notoriously lax oversight. A plea agreement calls for Carie Hallford to receive from 25 …
BEIJING (AP) — Atlanta will have giant pandas again. The China Wildlife Conservation Association said in a statement that male panda Ping Ping and female panda Fu Shuang, from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, will kick off a decade-long conservation cooperation under an agreement it signed with the zoo last year. The …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jaden McDaniels and the Minnesota Timberwolves flexed even more of their defensive muscle against the flagging Denver Nuggets, seizing a 2-1 lead in the first-round NBA playoff series with a dominant 113-96 victory in Game 3 on Thursday night. McDaniels had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Ayo Dosunmu added 25 points and …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin collecting rock and soil samples. The mission would mark the end of an era for the American space program, but Schmitt already was looking to the future. His voice crackling …
Often considered more a problem for Western North America, wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as this week’s blaze that destroyed more than 50 homes in Georgia, fire scientists said. Researchers blame a number of factors including climate change causing fuel to dry out and be more flammable, a …
April 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post on Thursday called on Congress to update the law to ensure that Americans can access “full-spectrum” cannabidiol (CBD) products. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
By Parisa Hafezi and Simon Lewis DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – Israel and Lebanon extended their ceasefire for three weeks at a meeting at the White House brokered by President Donald Trump, who said he was prepared to wait for “the best deal” to end his conflict with Iran. Fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah …
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired after conflicts with senior Pentagon leadership over shipbuilding, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Here are some details: • Phelan’s dismissal, first reported by Reuters, was the latest wartime shakeup at the Pentagon. • “He’s a hard charger, and he had some conflicts …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president’s chief science and technology adviser, accused foreign …