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. COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Josiah Davis and Rodney Johnson Jr. each scored 19 points to lead Tennessee Tech over Tennessee State 70-50 on Tuesday night. Davis also added …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An avalanche on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula killed one backcountry skier and injured two others, prompting warnings for people to stay away from steep slopes as warm weather and high winds raise the risk of more snowslides around the state. The avalanche occurred Tuesday afternoon between the communities of Cooper Landing and Moose Pass in the Chugach …

DATE OF ELECTION July 28 TYPE OF ELECTION Presidential WHO’S RUNNING Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will seek to add six more years to his decade-long, crisis-ridden presidency. His challenger is anyone’s guess. Longtime government foe María Corina Machado won the primary election held in October by the faction of the opposition backed by the U.S. government. But the government has …

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Andre Russell and Sherfane Rutherford smashed half centuries in a record-breaking sixth-wicket stand to propel the West Indies to 37-run consolation win over Australia in the third and final Twenty20 match on Tuesday. Russell destroyed the pace and spin of Adam Zampa late in the innings to score 71 off just 29 balls while Rutherford contributed …

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s prime minister has been put on a wanted list in Russia because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the Baltic nation, officials said Tuesday as tensions between Russia and the West soar amid the war in Ukraine. The name of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas appeared on the Russian Interior Ministry’s …

AMSTERDAM (AP) — In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter’s canvas. Frans Hals changed that. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, co-curator of a major exhibition of the Dutch master’s paintings that opens this week at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. “The people, they often laugh, and that’s very remarkable in the 17th century …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been freed and is “safe and sound,” Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday. The woman had been volunteering at the Saint-Michel Hospital in the Central African nation’s Tandjile region, where kidnappings for ransom are common. Attackers pretending to be patients abducted her and a Mexican doctor, private Polish broadcaster Polsat …

HOUSTON (AP) — Aaron Holiday terminó con 18 puntos, coronados por un par de tiros libres con menos de un segundo por jugar después de una falta de Jalen Brunson detrás de la línea de tres puntos, para impulsar a los Rockets a una victoria por 105-103 sobre los Knicks de Nueva York el lunes por la noche. Houston tenía …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An LGBTQ rights activist in Poland said Tuesday that he believes it’s a “new beginning” in Poland after a host on state television apologized on air for the homophobic propaganda aired by state media in recent years. “It took me by surprise,” said Bart Staszewski, one of two activists invited on air Sunday evening when the …

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. Pittsburgh Panthers (15-8, 6-6 ACC) at Virginia Cavaliers (19-5, 10-3 ACC) Charlottesville, Virginia; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cavaliers -6; over/under is 122.5 BOTTOM LINE: Pittsburgh …

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. Utah State Aggies (20-4, 8-3 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (12-11, 5-5 MWC) Laramie, Wyoming; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Utah State visits the Wyoming Cowboys after Mason …

The Associated Press’ Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee’s three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through February 13, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote: Division …

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s 2024 primary election may lack drama in the high-stakes races for president and U.S. Senate, but the fields for lower-ballot contests filled up for the state’s attorney general’s office and a handful of its 17 seats in the U.S. House. The deadline was Tuesday at 5 p.m. for Republicans and Democrats to submit voter signatures …

LONDON (AP) — The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Tuesday by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which also highlighted …

BEIJING (AP) — Don’t feed the pandas. That’s the rule seemingly broken by a man who was banned for life from one of China’s main panda centers after throwing unspecified “objects” into an enclosure on Monday. A notice from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding didn’t identify the objects, but said that feeding pandas may cause them harm, …