COLLEGE BASKETBALL Friday FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at CORNELL 8½ Harvard at QUEENS 1½ Jacksonville at PRINCETON 12½ Brown at FAIRFIELD 6½ Niagara at IONA 12½ Manhattan Villanova 9½ at GEORGETOWN at KENNESAW STATE 2½ North Florida at MARIST 4½ Canisius Mount St. Mary’s 1½ at RIDER at COLUMBIA 9½ Dartmouth at SAINT PETER’S 9½ Siena VCU 4½ at SAINT LOUIS …

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. TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Jamiya Neal scored 21 points, Arizona State scored 46 points in the second half and the Sun Devils defeated Oregon State 79-61 on Wednesday …

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s gods and goddess are returning home. An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past. Now dozens are being repatriated to the Himalayan nation, part of a growing global effort to return such items to countries in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. School children look at a statue …

NACIONES UNIDAS (AP) — Rusia y China acusaron el miércoles a Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña de atacar ilegalmente emplazamientos militares utilizados por los rebeldes hutíes de Yemen para lanzar misiles contra buques comerciales en el Mar Rojo, lo que ha alterado la navegación mundial. El embajador adjunto de Estados Unidos ante Naciones Unidas, Robert Wood, y la embajadora británica, …

New York City, its schools and public hospital system announced a lawsuit Wednesday against the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, blaming their “addictive and dangerous” social media platforms for fueling a childhood mental health crisis that is disrupting learning and draining resources. Children and adolescents are especially susceptible to harm because their brains are not …

BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Ryan O’Hearn on a one-year contract. Acquired OF Peyton Burdick from Miami in exchange for cash considerations. Placed RHP Felix Bautista on the 60-day IL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Mike Moustakas on minor-league deal. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with …

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sales slipped during the fourth quarter for Kraft Heinz as some customers, pinched by a bout of inflation, traded down to cheaper brands or did not buy as much. A number of food makers, citing inflation, have raised product prices and that has helped preserve profits. But that can come at a cost to sales as some …

Un tribunal de Moscú puso el miércoles a un alemán en prisión preventiva tras haber sido arrestado por posesión de unas gomitas de cannabis y acusaciones de tráfico de drogas, informó la agencia estatal rusa Tass. Patrick Schobel, de 38 años, fue detenido en el Aeropuerto de Pulkovo en San Petersburgo a finales del mes pasado y permanecerá en custodia …

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. UMass Minutemen (15-8, 6-5 A-10) at Richmond Spiders (17-6, 9-1 A-10) Richmond, Virginia; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Spiders -4; over/under is 144 BOTTOM LINE: Richmond …

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For more than four decades, the people of Portland, Maine, awoke on Valentine’s Day to find large and small red hearts festooning storefronts, statues, parking garages and some of the city’s biggest landmarks. That tradition was imperiled by the death of the so-called Valentine’s Day Bandit last spring. But the bandit’s admirers responded with plenty of …