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. Mississippi State Bulldogs (14-7, 3-5 SEC) at Alabama Crimson Tide (15-6, 7-1 SEC) Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 24 Alabama takes on the Mississippi …

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 (9-13, 1-8 SoCon) at East Tennessee State Buccaneers (11-11, 3-6 SoCon) Johnson City, Tennessee; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Citadel plays the East Tennessee State …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s job gain — roughly twice what economists had predicted — topped the December gain …