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DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon is known for his speed and his scoring. He can deliver some big hits, too. The Colorado Avalanche forward crunched Minnesota’s Quinn Hughes and Matt Boldy in the third period as part of a big game where he scored a goal and notched two assists. Just Nate being playoff Nate. He downplayed the hits after a 5-2 win in Game 2 on Tuesday night gave […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Carlos Correa has a torn tendon in his left ankle that will require season-ending surgery, the star infielder said Wednesday. Correa was injured Tuesday while taking swings in the batting cage before a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. “I was hitting in the cage, normal day, feeling great,” he said. “I went through my whole routine, took a swing and just felt a pop. It […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption in the month following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to spend more at the pump, worsening the economy’s economic disparities, new research released Wednesday showed. Higher-income households, meanwhile, ratcheted up their spending on gas while barely reducing their consumption, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Middle-income households fell in-between. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Rutgers University has canceled a planned graduation speech by business leader Rami Elghandour after some students raised concerns about his criticism of Israel on social media. Elghandour, the CEO of biotech company Arcellx and an alumnus of the New Jersey university, had been set to give the May 15 convocation address at the Rutgers School of Engineering. That invitation was rescinded after the university learned that […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A shipment of Ukrainian cash and gold worth around $82 million that Hungary seized earlier this year has been returned to Ukraine’s state Oschadbank, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. The seizure of the valuables, which were being transported through Hungary by two armored cars when Hungarian counter-terrorism authorities detained them on March 5, caused outrage in Ukraine, where officials accused Hungary’s pro-Russian government of acting illegally, […]

PARIS (AP) — France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the Strait of Hormuz, the French armed forces said Wednesday. The deployment puts Europe’s most powerful warship within reach of a strait whose closure has come to epitomize the war in Iran — choking a fifth of the world’s oil and triggering […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday. The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the top U.S. focus. Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to reshape the region with the […]

The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate president’s office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said. The search at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state’s recent redistricting. The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search warrant in Portsmouth. The person who confirmed the FBI’s search was not authorized […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of taxpayers who were penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for failing to pay their taxes or filing late may qualify for a refund or termination of the penalties they incurred during that period. However, the relief is not automatic or guaranteed, and most taxpayers need to file a claim for a refund or abatement of their tax liability by July 10 […]