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McCreary and Mercer host Citadel

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. Citadel Bulldogs (10-17, 2-12 SoCon) at Mercer Bears (12-15, 5-9 SoCon) Macon, Georgia; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Mercer takes on the Citadel Bulldogs after Jalyn McCreary …

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La presidenta Boluarte reafirma en medio de críticas que es la \”mamá\” de todo Perú

LIMA (AP) — La presidenta peruana, Dina Boluarte, reafirmó el lunes que es “la mamá” de los peruanos, unas declaraciones que levantaron críticas y comentarios de burla, ante una gestión gubernamental que arrastra bajos índices de popularidad. Boluarte, abogada de 61 años que asumió como presidenta de Perú hace poco más de un año, dijo el viernes pasado que era …

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El Salvador’s Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday. The announcement comes after a painstaking vote counting process, which has raised the hackles of electoral watchdogs and the country’s weak opposition, who cite irregularities. Bukele …

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Unions oppose plan to move NBA, NHL teams to northern Virginia, another blow to Youngkin-backed deal

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Influential labor groups announced Tuesday they are opposing efforts to move two professional sports franchises from the nation’s capital to northern Virginia, citing in part an apparent inability to reach a satisfactory deal for union workers on the construction projects. The opposition of the Northern Virginia AFL-CIO and member unions including UNITE HERE Local 25, which …

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Andreas Brehme, scorer of West Germany’s winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, dies at 63

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s 1990 World Cup hero Andreas Brehme has died. Brehme endeared himself to the nation in the final when he scored a late penalty after team captain Lothar Matthäus’ boots broke to give West Germany a 1-0 win over Diego Maradona’s Argentina. Brehme’s partner Susanne Schaefer told Germany’s dpa news agency on Tuesday that he died “suddenly …

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Biden tells California supporters to stay focused on what’s at stake in reelection battle

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden kicked off a three-day fundraising sprint in California, making the case to supporters to stay focused on what’s at stake in his reelection battle where he will likely again face Donald Trump in November. In remarks at a campaign reception on the grounds of billionaire Haim Saban’s Los Angeles home, Biden told supporters …

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Man on trial in killing of 5-year-old daughter said he hated her ‘right to his core,’ friend says

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter said he hated the girl “right to his core” because she reminded him of her mother, a friend of his testified Tuesday. Rebecca Maines, who is in prison for a parole violation, testified that Adam Montgomery told her in the summer of 2021 that he had …

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EEUU veta resolución en la ONU que pedía cese de fuego inmediato en Gaza

NACIONES UNIDAS (AP) — Estados Unidos el martes vetó una resolución presentada por los países árabes y con amplio apoyo mundial que reclamaba un inmediato cese de fuego humanitario en la guerra entre Israel y Hamás en la Franja de Gaza, señalando que interferiría con las negociaciones sobre un acuerdo para liberar a los rehenes tomados en Israel. La votación …

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