The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. VCU Rams (17-8, 9-3 A-10) at UMass Minutemen (16-9, 7-6 A-10) Amherst, Massachusetts; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Minutemen -3; over/under is 144.5 BOTTOM LINE: UMass …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Charlotte 49ers (17-8, 11-2 AAC) at Memphis Tigers (18-8, 7-6 AAC) Memphis, Tennessee; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Memphis faces the Charlotte 49ers after David Jones scored …

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (AP) — Una tarde de mediados de diciembre, el papa Francisco tuvo una reunión que no estaba en su agenda oficial ni registrada en ningún otro sitio y que subrayó la absoluta disfunción de la respuesta de la Iglesia católica al escándalo global de abuso sexual del clero. En el salón principal del hotel del Vaticano donde …

NEW YORK (AP) — A United Airlines cross-country flight was cut short and the jetliner landed in Denver after one of its wings was damaged. A passenger on the San Francisco-to-Boston flight Monday said he had just put in earbuds and started to doze off when he felt the plane shaking. “All of a sudden I heard this violent vibration …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney “tweaked” his right wrist during a 23-car crash in the Daytona 500 on Monday night. Blaney got his hand and wrist caught in a spinning steering wheel while his car bounced between others at Daytona International Speedway. It was the latest hard crash for Blaney — he said …

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool forward Diogo Jota will be missing for months because of injury, manager Jurgen Klopp said on Tuesday. The Portugal international hurt his right knee in the first half of Liverpool’s 4-1 win at Brentford in the English Premier League on Saturday. “We have Diogo with a knee issue ruled out — it will obviously take …

Real Salt Lake vs. Inter Miami CF Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Inter Miami CF -170, Real Salt Lake +395, Draw +324; over/under is 2.5 goals BOTTOM LINE: Real Salt Lake visits Inter Miami in the season opener. Miami went 9-18-7 overall and 6-6-5 at home a season ago. Miami scored 41 goals last …

Dolly Parton hosting a two-hour puppy-filled variety special on CBS and the seventh and final season of the hospital drama, “The Good Doctor” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira …

MADISON, Wisconsin, EE.UU. (AP) — El gobernador de Wisconsin, Tony Evers, promulgó el lunes nuevos mapas de los distritos legislativos que propuso y que los republicanos que controlan la Legislatura aprobaron para evitar que la Corte Suprema estatal, controlada por los liberales, trazaran las líneas. Los demócratas celebraron la promulgación como una importante victoria política en el estado políticamente oscilante …

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi began a hunger strike in prison on Monday, joining other government critics striking to protest what they see as unjust incarceration. Imed Khemiri, the spokesperson for his political party, told The Associated Press on Monday that Ghannouchi’s strike intended to draw attention to the plight of Tunisia’s political prisoners and the …