FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo was described as a free safety by Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph before the teams met in the Sweet 16 of March Madness. That sure was a lot of takeaways in a victory that sent the Fighting Irish to the Elite Eight. Hidalgo broke the NCAA’s …
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A white Connecticut police officer who fatally shot a Black man in a mental health crisis was fired Friday as public outrage grew over videos showing he began shooting 30 seconds after arriving at the scene, where other officers had spent several minutes de-escalating the situation. The officer’s firing came a …
CAIRO, March 28 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis confirmed on Saturday that they had launched an attack on Israel for the first time during the current Israeli-U.S. war against Iran, marking their entry to the conflict and raising the prospects of a broader regional confrontation. Israel earlier said it was working to intercept a missile …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel early Saturday and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels later claimed responsibility for the attack, their first since the war in the Mideast started. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, claimed responsibility in a statement …
CAIRO (AP) — Iranians were already reeling from a shattered economy and the mass killing of protesters when the first U.S. and Israeli bombs slammed into Tehran a month ago. Now they are struggling to get by through a war with no end in sight, wrestling with lost livelihoods, damage to homes and the stress …
Mikayla Blakes ended up with two chances to answer for Vanderbilt in a matchup of two of the nation’s top three scorers in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The Fighting Irish’s sparkplug was the one leaping with joy at the buzzer. Hidalgo had 31 points, 11 rebounds, 10 steals and the assist on …
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom ban Friday, approving legislation that would make it a crime for transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, even inside privately owned businesses. If Republican Gov. Brad Little signs the bill, Idaho will have the strictest bathroom ban in the nation, …
In the latest ruling in the long-running legal case, which was reviewed by The Associated Press, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a 2023 judgment in which U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered Argentina to compensate investors — Petersen Energía and Petersen Energía Inversora — for the seizure of a majority …
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit school district has agreed to give First Amendment training to staff to settle a lawsuit by a teenager who said a teacher humiliated her for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza. The agreement with Danielle Khalaf and …
March 27 (Reuters) – Idaho’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill on Friday to ban people in the state from using bathrooms or changing rooms that do not match the gender they were assigned at birth, in the latest restriction targeting transgender people in the United States. The bill, expected to be signed into law by …