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Retail sales up 1.7% in March from February driven by a spike in gas prices due to the Iran war 04/21/2026 10:29am • NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers accelerated their spending in March from February, but they spent a good chunk of their money at the gas pump. A spike in gas prices due to the Iran war, now in its eighth week, resulted in a hefty 1.7% gain in retail sales in March after a revised 0.7% increase in Februar Meet Coco Cabana, a playful kitty with plenty of purr-sonality 04/21/2026 10:29am • Coco Cabana is ready to cha-cha-cha straight into your heart and home. She is a stunning kitty with a wispy, fluffy coat and bright, sparkling eyes. This beauty has a sweet 'purr-sonality', making her an absolute delight. She is more than ready to bring joy, warmth and a little flair to her Israel pauses for Memorial Day, a public day for mourning in the shadow of war 04/21/2026 10:25am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis marked the country’s annual Memorial Day on Tuesday, a somber day of reflection filled with ceremonies at cemeteries and sirens when the whole country stops for two minutes of silence to remember the fallen. In downtown Tel Aviv, many people visited an informal m Israeli military sentences 2 soldiers to 30 days in jail for the destruction of a statue of Jesus in Lebanon 04/21/2026 10:12am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military sentences 2 soldiers to 30 days in jail for the destruction of a statue of Jesus in Lebanon. Sports on TV for Wednesday, April 22 04/21/2026 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, April 22 COLLEGE BASEBALL 6 p.m. BTN — Notre Dame at Michigan St. COLLEGE LACROSSE (WOMEN’S) 11 a.m. ACCN — Atlantic Coast Tournament: Duke vs. North Carolina, Quarterfinal, Charlotte, N.C. 2 p.m. ACCN — Atlantic Coas Today in Sports - Patrick Roy plays his final career NHL game 04/21/2026 10:10am • April 22 1876 — The first official National League baseball game is played with Boston beating Philadelphia 6-5. 1914 — Babe Ruth’s 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win. 1945 — The Toronto Maple Leafs edge the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to win the Stanley Cup in seven games. 19 ECHL Glance 04/21/2026 10:09am • All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE North Division GP W L OL SOL Pts GF UFL Glance 04/21/2026 10:05am • All Times EDT UFL CONFERENCE W L T Pct PF PA Brooks Koepka appears to have left LIV Golf at just the right time 04/21/2026 09:59am • HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Brooks Koepka never spent more time doing so little at a golf course. Considering where he could have been — Mexico City, still part of LIV Golf — it was a small price to pay. Koepka was the first alternate for the RBC Heritage so he had to be there before the f As the planet warms, scientists burn homes to figure out how to best protect them in wildfires 04/21/2026 09:50am • RICHBURG, S.C. (AP) — It took less than three minutes for wind-whipped flames to go from licking the side of the house to shattering a window and working under the eaves to burn everything inside. Weeks later, another house in the exact same spot was burning — again in the name of science. That Consumers are lost at sea as seafood sustainability grows more complex 04/21/2026 09:47am • BOSTON (AP) — Don’t overfish. Don’t trawl the seabed. Keep aquaculture healthy for the fish as well as the ocean. Some aspects of sustainable seafood are obvious and well-trod, even if the how-to intricacies likely are lost on most consumers. But sustainability today is complicated terrain, a Iran's leadership survived US-Israeli bombardment. But talks to end the war present a new challenge 04/21/2026 09:47am • CAIRO (AP) — After U.S.-Israeli bombardment eliminated Iran's supreme leader and much of its top echelons, the Islamic Republic’s leadership didn’t fall apart — but negotiations to end the war offer a new test. For decades, the supreme leader successfully managed several powerful factions, b Grains mostly lower, livestock mixed 04/21/2026 09:45am • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly lower in early trading Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. May. corn was unchanged at $4.52 a bushel. May. wheat gained 1 cents at $5.98 a bushel. May. oats was down 0.5 cent at $3.22 a bushel. May. soybeans lost 0.25 cent at $11.65 a bushel. Beef was mixe Free beer and ice cream for fans as Bosnian soccer player heads to World Cup 04/21/2026 09:44am • STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — It's free beer and ice cream all round for German soccer fans as a forward on the Bosnian team heads to the World Cup. Stuttgart forward Ermedin Demirović promised drinks for the whole city if he made it to the World Cup with Bosnia-Herzegovina. After Demirović and his The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones' Infowars and turn it into a parody platform 04/21/2026 09:37am • The satirical news outlet The Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his company faces liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Under a prop