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. Longwood Lancers (14-8, 2-5 Big South) at High Point Panthers (18-4, 7-0 Big South) High Point, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Panthers -6; over/under …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — What was billed as a potential final meeting between longtime rivals Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t materialize, but there was no doubt which of the superstars enjoyed Al-Nassr’s 6-0 rout of Inter Miami more on Thursday. Messi spent all but the final seven minutes on the Miami bench looking increasingly glum as Al-Nassr, cheered …

Phoenix Suns (28-20, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (20-27, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Atlanta; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: The Phoenix Suns visit the Atlanta Hawks in a non-conference matchup. The Hawks have gone 10-13 in home games. Atlanta ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference in rebounding averaging 44.8 rebounds. Clint Capela paces the Hawks …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan Hunter-Reay and Conor Daly will be competing in this year’s Indianapolis 500 for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, the team announced Thursday. Hunter-Reay will drive the No. 23 Chevrolet as he attempts to qualify for his 16th start in the race. The 2014 Indy winner and 2012 series champion finished 11th on the Brickyard’s 2.5-mile oval after …

NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday after his convictions for what the government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos. The bulk of the sentence imposed on Joshua Schulte, 35, in Manhattan federal court …

When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years later, the tribe wants the boys’ remains back home. So far, the Army has refused to return to the Winnebago Tribe the remains of Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley. …

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. Robert Morris Colonials (8-13, 4-6 Horizon League) at Oakland Golden Grizzlies (13-9, 8-3 Horizon League) Auburn Hills, Michigan; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Golden Grizzlies -9.5; …

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dueling legislative proposals in Virginia backed by different gambling companies would open the door for an expansion of slot-like betting machines in businesses such as truck stops, restaurants and convenience stores. At the center of the debate are “gray machines,” arcade-style games that look similar to slot machines but involve an element of skill, manufacturers say. …

MIAMI (AP) — It was a plan the United States knew from the start would arguably violate international law. The Associated Press obtained a secret 2018 memo detailing a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership. The sting was part of a …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Desde el temor a que las vacunas contengan microchips hasta el fraude electoral en Estados Unidos, las teorías de conspiración surgen por doquier. Pero la creencia en teorías conspirativas no es nueva y es bastante común, según décadas de encuestas. Los psicólogos dicen que las teorías de conspiración sobreviven porque los seres humanos tienen una necesidad básica …