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US women to face China, Italy and the Czech Republic in September FIBA World Cup group play 04/21/2026 01:23pm • The U.S. women's basketball team will face China, Italy and the Czech Republic in the women's FIBA World Cup in September, looking to win its fifth consecutive title. The World Cup will be held Sept. 4-13 in Berlin, with the WNBA taking a nearly three-week break in its season to accommodate the even Flyers winger Porter Martone stands out as youth is served early in the NHL playoffs 04/21/2026 01:20pm • Porter Martone was playing college hockey last month. Now he's making a difference in the NHL playoffs. Youth is being served early in the first round, along with some relative newcomers contributing. Anaheim's Troy Terry scored in his postseason debut nearly a decade into his professional career, M A well site explosion triggers a large fire and evacuations in Texas, but no injuries 04/21/2026 01:12pm • NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a Texas natural gas or oil well site set off a large fire that was seen for miles and led to some evacuations, but caused no injuries, authorities said Tuesday. The Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office received numerous calls late Monday of a loud explosion Federal appeals court upholds life term for Times Square suicide bomber but overturns top count 04/21/2026 01:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Bangladeshi immigrant is rightly serving a life prison sentence for a fizzled 2017 subway bombing attack beneath New York City’s Times Square, a federal appeals panel said Tuesday while reversing his conviction for providing material support to the Islamic State extremist group Takeaways from former top UK official's testimony on the Mandelson appointment scandal 04/21/2026 01:05pm • LONDON (AP) — A former top British official on Tuesday revealed behind-the-scenes details about how scandal-tainted politician Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, came to be approved as Britain's ambassador to Washington despite failing security checks. Olly Robbins, the former head of t Earth Day started as a US 'teach-in' 56 years ago. Now it's a global event 04/21/2026 12:47pm • Millions of people around the world will pause Wednesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms. Here are answer Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says "no final decision" on whether to attend ceasefire talks 04/21/2026 12:46pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says "no final decision" on whether to attend ceasefire talks. French ambassador calls for South Africa to be at G20 after Trump bars country 04/21/2026 12:37pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The French ambassador to South Africa said Tuesday that the country should be allowed to attend the Group of 20 summit this year in the United States despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to bar the it from the meeting. 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The lawmakers also were charged Monday with AI startup Anthropic commits $100 billion to Amazon's AWS over next 10 years 04/21/2026 12:29pm • Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to commit more than $100 billion to Amazon's AWS cloud platform over the next 10 years to train and run its Claude chatbot. Amazon will invest $5 billion immediately as part of the new agreement announced this week by the companies, and up to anot Starbucks to open new corporate office in Nashville 04/21/2026 12:29pm • Starbucks said Tuesday it’s opening a corporate office in Nashville, Tennessee, to support its planned U.S. expansion. Seattle, where Starbucks was founded in 1971, will remain the company’s global headquarters. 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