INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers’ plan to prioritize legislation that would make child care more available and affordable is largely on track as they near a key deadline in this year’s legislative session, though Democrats warn that financial support in the state’s next budget would be essential to meeting those goals. The Legislature would need to pass bills through at …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of employees and teachers from a Kentucky middle school who bought a $1 million Powerball winning ticket tucked it in a math textbook for safekeeping before claiming the prize this week. The group of 30 educators, some retired, met at Rector A. Jones Middle School in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati and have been playing …

BERLIN (AP) — German beer sales dropped 4.5% last year, resuming a long-term downward trend, official figures showed Thursday. German-based breweries and distributors sold about 8.4 billion liters (2.2 billion gallons) of beer last year, the Federal Statistical Office said. That figure doesn’t include non-alcoholic beer and beer imported from outside the European Union. In 2022, beer sales increased 2.7% …

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. Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (11-10, 3-6 Big West) at CSU Fullerton Titans (11-10, 4-5 Big West) Fullerton, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Titans -1.5; over/under is …

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. California Golden Bears (8-12, 4-5 Pac-12) at Arizona Wildcats (15-5, 6-3 Pac-12) Tucson, Arizona; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -18.5; over/under is 158.5 BOTTOM LINE: …

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty are bringing their core group back and trying to add another piece with prized free agent Nneka Ogwumike, while Seattle signed Skylar Diggins-Smith as WNBA free agency tipped off Thursday. The Liberty, who made it to the WNBA Finals last season before losing to the Las Vegas Aces, met with Ogwumike, according …

NEW YORK (AP) — In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 1987, a French tourist was mugged while walking with his wife through Times Square. The man, 71-year-old Jean Casse, struck his head on the pavement. He was pronounced dead soon after. Within days, police hauled in a pair of young Brooklyn residents, 19-year-old Eric Smokes and 16-year-old …

KIEV (AP) — Ucrania aseguró el jueves que utilizó drones marítimos para hundir una corbeta rusa en el mar Negro, mientras que investigadores rusos dijeron que la caída de un avión militar de transporte el mes pasado fue provocada por misiles Patriot de fabricación estadounidense lanzados por las fuerzas ucranianas. La agencia de inteligencia naval de Ucrania, conocida por su …

PARÍS (AP) — Dos agrupaciones de agricultores en Francia anuncian que suspenderán protestas y levantarán bloqueos.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes remembers what Matt Nagy was like when he first arrived in Kansas City in 2017, just a fresh-faced rookie quarterback whose stardom was still very much in the future. Nagy was the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator at the time, and they spent countless hours together in meetings, practices and even on planes traveling to …

NUEVA DEHLI (AP) — La policía india absolvió a una presunta paloma espía china después de ocho meses de detención y la liberó el martes, informó la agencia de noticias Press Trust of India. La terrible experiencia de la paloma comenzó en mayo cuando fue capturada cerca de un puerto en Mumbai con dos anillos atados a sus patas y …

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid regained the Spanish league lead with a comfortable 2-0 win at Getafe on Thursday in a match rescheduled because of the Spanish Super Cup. Joselu Mato scored a goal in each half to move Madrid two points clear of Girona at the top of the standings. It was the sixth straight league victory for Madrid, …

TORONTO (AP) — Elias Lindholm was on his way back to Calgary from a trip to Mexico when he learned he had been traded to NHL-leading Vancouver. When he arrived at All-Star Weekend on Thursday, a new Canucks jersey with his name and No. 23 on the back was waiting for him. It was a welcome sight for the pending …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Después de coronarse en diciembre y con poco tiempo para preparar un nuevo torneo, el América básicamente utilizó las primeras fechas como la pretemporada que no tuvieron. Eso tendrá que cambiar si pretende seguir invicto. Las Águilas recibirán al líder Monterrey el sábado en el Estadio Azteca en un duelo entre dos de los tres …

Years of fighting losing battles have left the NCAA almost helpless to defend itself. The legal pile-on against the largest governing body for college sports in the United States continued Wednesday when attorneys general from Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit that seeks to throw out the few rules the NCAA has to regulate how athletes can be compensated …