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Gregg Winik refers to the last time the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was in Salt Lake City as a simpler time. In 1993, festivities occurred over only two days while the fan festival known as Jam Session made its debut. For this year’s event, there are three nights of on-court action and other events throughout town. This weekend’s events — including Saturday’s slam dunk contest and Sunday’s game — also show […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s largest university said Friday it has been blocked by a court order from discussing the case of a Supreme Court justice accused of plagiarism. The public National Autonomous University of Mexico said it regretted the injunction handed down earlier this week. “The UNAM regrets and cannot agree with a judicial order that seeks to silence it and limit freedom and the right of the university […]

The former interim CEO of the U.S. Center for SafeSport has been temporarily suspended by the center he used to run for failure to report a case. The center posted the suspension for Regis Becker earlier this week. It also included a charge of abuse of process. Becker served as a member of the center’s board of directors when it opened in 2017, then took over as interim CEO and […]

The North Dakota House passed gender-related bills Friday that would omit transgender identity from state data collection and criminalize health care providers who give gender-affirming care to minors. The bills still need to go through the Senate and governor to become law. The first measure would require “male” and “female” — as assigned at birth — to be the only options in state data collection of vital statistics. Supporters of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects over the U.S. and Canada this month have put a spotlight on amateur balloonists who insist their creations pose no threat. Over the last three weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered fighter jets to shoot down three objects detected in U.S. air space — a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast as well as smaller […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army said Friday it seized almost 1,400 liters of liquid methamphetamines and nearly a half-ton of solid crystal meth. The army called it the biggest seizure of meth this year. Troops found the drugs Thursday at a half-finished house in the town of Angostura, in the northern state of Sinaloa. The state is home to the drug cartel of the same name. Three suspects […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A mentally ill man froze to death at an Alabama jail, according to a lawsuit filed by the man’s family who say he was kept naked in a concrete cell and believe he was also placed in a freezer or other frigid environment. Anthony Don Mitchell, 33, arrived at a hospital emergency room with a body temperature of 72 degrees (22 degrees Celsius), and was pronounced […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A building at the U.S. Naval Academy that had been named after a leader in the Confederate Navy was renamed Friday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who graduated from the academy in 1946. The decision to rename the engineering building in Annapolis was made after a commission mandated by Congress determined several military assets across all branches of the service had to be renamed […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut environmental officials were monitoring reports Friday of sooty matter being found on parked cars throughout the state. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said it was unclear what exactly was falling from the sky or why, but it had not led to unhealthy air quality. In a statement, the department said monitors “have not been able to determine any singular source, such as […]