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New bill to build Athletics stadium on Las Vegas Strip caps Nevada’s cost at $380 million

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A bill introduced late Friday in the Nevada Legislature would give the Oakland Athletics up to $380 million for a potential 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion retractable roof stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. The bulk of the public funding would come from $180 million in transferable tax...
GOP-controlled Texas House votes to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ GOP-led House of Representatives impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday on articles including bribery and abuse of public trust, a sudden, historic rebuke of a fellow Republican who rose to be a star of the conservative legal movement despite years of scandal and alleged...
CBS is television’s most popular network for 15th straight year

NEW YORK — CBS claimed the distinction of most-watched television network for the 15th straight year, even as those bragging rights don’t mean what they used to. The network averaged just under 6 million viewers on a typical moment in prime time for the season that just concluded, the Nielsen...
Serbian border troops on high alert after ethnic clashes inside Kosovo

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo between police and ethnic Serbs that injured more than a dozen people. Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, who are a majority in that part of the country, had tried to...
Tour rookie Harry Hall up 3 despite Harris English ace at Colonial

FORT WORTH, Texas — Harris English quipped to his caddie that no one is beating him at Colonial’s par-3 eighth hole, which is true after he followed his birdie in the opening round with a hole-in-one Friday. There is only one player ahead of him on the leaderboard. PGA Tour...
U.N. regional group has endorsed Amazon city to host 2025 climate conference

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s government announced Friday that a U.N. Latin America regional group has endorsed a Brazilian city in the Amazon region to host the 2025 U.N. climate change conference, though the world body has not yet publicly confirmed the venue. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva initially said...
E.U. official says Twitter abandons bloc’s voluntary pact against disinformation

LONDON — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday. European Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted that Twitter had pulled out of the E.U.’s disinformation “code of practice” that other major social media platforms have pledged to support. But...
Yellen tells Congress U.S. could run out of money to pay all its bills by June 5

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress on Friday that the U.S. could default on its debt obligations by June 5 — four days later than previously estimated — if lawmakers do not act in time to raise the federal debt ceiling. Yellen’s letter comes as Congress breaks for...
‘X-date’ calculations aim to zero in on when the U.S. may run short of cash

WASHINGTON — For all the concern over just when the government might run short of money to pay its bills, it turns out that no one can be absolutely sure exactly when the country will default — what officials are calling the “X-date” — if there’s no deal to raise...
Golden Knights aim for closeout win vs. Stars in Western Conference finalVideo

LAS VEGAS — Alec Martinez was part of the 2014 Los Angeles Kings team that erased a 3-0 first-round series deficit and beat Joe Pavelski and the San Jose Sharks in Game 7. Pavelski and coach Pete DeBoer were the centerpiece of a Sharks comeback from 3-1 down in the...
Ganassi vs. McLaren headlines Indianapolis 500 title fight, some 300,000 fans expectedVideo

INDIANAPOLIS — Four custom McLaren GTs lined the curb in front of St. Elmo’s Steak House, the see-and-be-seen spot in downtown Indianapolis, in a massive flex by the race team trying to win the Indianapolis 500. The rebuilt, rebranded and rebounded Arrow McLaren organization has turned the buildup to the...
Pennsylvania college baseball player dies while dismantling unapproved dugout

HARRISBURG — A college baseball player died after he was struck in the face when a makeshift dugout he was helping to dismantle collapsed on him this week. Angel Mercado, 19, was a middle infielder who had just completed his freshman season at Division II Central Penn College. He was...
‘Block’ party over at Colonial for PGA Championship sensation club proVideo

FORT WORTH, Texas — Michael Block walked out after signing his scorecard Friday afternoon at Colonial with his cap turned backward, his shirt untucked and still with a smile after a grueling 36 holes and being at the bottom of the 120-player field. A week after the club pro from...
Column: Remembering Georgia Tech’s Clint Castleberry, who paid ultimate price of warVideo

ATLANTA — Clint Castleberry had one glorious season at Georgia Tech, a whirlwind of a player whose star burned bright. A newspaper scribe dubbed him “Jackrabbit” — a testimonial to his blinding speed on the gridiron. In an era when players lined up on both offense and defense, Castleberry seemed...
New York City mayor signs ban on weight and height discrimination

New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Friday that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion. “We all deserve the same access to employment, housing and public accommodation, regardless of our appearance,...
From the Civil War to today’s mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction

NORFOLK, Va. — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers. Auto club AAA said in a travel forecast that this holiday...

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