PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Christian Bale broke ground Wednesday on a project he’s been pursuing for 16 years — the building of a dozen homes and a community center in Los Angeles County intended to keep siblings in foster care together. The Oscar winner stood with a grin and a shovel full of dirt alongside local politicians and donors in …

Nick Saban is joining ESPN’s “College GameDay,” the long-running Saturday pregame road show he appeared on as a guest so frequently during his 17 seasons as Alabama coach. The network announced Wednesday that Saban will be an on-set analyst for “GameDay,” joining host Rece Davis and regulars Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee. Saban, 72, retired last …

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. Green Bay Phoenix (15-9, 10-3 Horizon League) at Robert Morris Colonials (9-14, 5-7 Horizon League) Moon Township, Pennsylvania; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Robert Morris hosts the …

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Chilean prosecutors on Wednesday released more details about the death of former President Sebastian Piñera, saying he drowned after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake. Piñera, 74, died on Tuesday after a flight over Lake Ranco, more than 560 miles (900 kilometers) south of Santiago. The crash remains under investigation, but …

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. Army Black Knights (6-17, 2-8 Patriot League) at Lehigh Mountain Hawks (7-14, 4-6 Patriot League) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mountain Hawks -7.5; over/under …

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins acquired infielder Jonah Bride from Oakland for cash on Tuesday after the Athletics designated him for assignment last week. Bride, 28, has two years of experience in the majors, with a career batting average of .192 in 98 big league games. He hit .305 with 13 home runs and five stolen bases in the …

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos de Naciones Unidas anunció que incrementaría su ayuda a 3 millones de etíopes afectados por el cambio climático y el conflicto en las próximas semanas, la mitad de las personas a las que asistía en el país oriental africano antes de que la agencia suspendiera de forma prolongada su labor el año pasado. El PMA …

AP – How a state panel of sports writers rates Washington high school basketball teams in the weekly Associated Press poll of 2023-2024, by WIAA Class, with won-lost record, total points, and previous ranking (first-place votes in parentheses): Division 4A School Record Points Last Week 1. Mount Si (8) 20-2 80 1 2. Davis 18-1 72 2 3. Glacier Peak …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending senior aides to Michigan on Thursday to meet with Arab American and Muslim leaders, according to three people familiar with the matter, as his administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war frustrates members of a key constituency in a 2024 battleground state. Some community leaders invited to the meeting said they welcome the …

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. Denver Pioneers (13-11, 4-5 Summit League) at South Dakota Coyotes (9-15, 2-7 Summit League) Vermillion, South Dakota; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: South Dakota hosts the Denver …

It will come as no surprise that the new movie “Lisa Frankenstein” is a real monster — stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb. This is a baffling display of filmmaking, what appears to be a sort of feminist take on the reanimated creature trope that has been shoehorned into a late-1980s setting, complete with New …

NEW YORK (AP) — When the pandemic hit, Brittany Howard found herself hunkering down in Nashville with two dogs, two cats and one album on repeat — “Songs in the Key of Life” by Stevie Wonder. “Every day. Every single day,” she says, laughing. Making her own music naturally followed, and the result is the Alabama Shakes frontwoman’s second solo …

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Incumbent President Ilham Aliyev appeared to be headed to an expected landslide victory in Azerbaijan’s presidential election Wednesday in an early vote he called following his government’s swift reclaiming of a region formerly controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists. With just over 93% of the ballots counted, Aliyev had 92.05% of the votes, the head of the …

For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer welcome on tribal lands, and its leaders referred to her rhetoric linking immigration and crime as opportunistic and dangerous. “Our people are being used for her political …

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. UTSA Roadrunners (8-14, 2-7 AAC) at Wichita State Shockers (9-13, 1-8 AAC) Wichita, Kansas; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Shockers -9; over/under is 157 BOTTOM LINE: …