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McCreary scores 30, Mercer beats VMI 90-69

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. MACON, Ga. (AP) — Jalyn McCreary’s 30 points led Mercer past VMI 90-69 on Saturday. McCreary had seven rebounds for the Bears (10-13, 3-7 Southern Conference). Alex Holt …

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Baker’s 25 points power LSU to a 95-74 romp past Arkansas

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. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Will Baker scored 25 points and LSU recovered from a home court loss to No. 24 Alabama by cruising to a 95-74 win …

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Cleveland’s double-double helps balanced Miami defeat Virginia Tech 82-74

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. CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Cleveland had 15 points and 13 rebounds, five Miami players scored in double figures and the Hurricanes defeated Virginia Tech 82-74 on …

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Harvard wins 62-59 against Columbia

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. BOSTON (AP) — Malik Mack scored 18 points as Harvard beat Columbia 62-59 on Friday night. Mack also had six assists and three steals for the Crimson (11-7, …

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Mayorkas is driven by his own understanding of the immigrant experience. Many in GOP want him gone

WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the U.S.-Mexico border and is responsible for allowing hundreds of thousands …

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Evansville visits Valparaiso after Stafford’s 32-point performance

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. Evansville Purple Aces (13-9, 4-7 MVC) at Valparaiso Beacons (6-16, 2-9 MVC) Valparaiso, Indiana; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Beacons -1; over/under is 144.5 BOTTOM LINE: …

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Kenya’s president blames corruption and incompetence for huge fireball that hurt hundreds in Nairobi

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its explosion and fire killed three people and injured more than 280 others. President William Ruto said the officials who gave licenses to the plant must be dismissed and prosecuted. Police are also …

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Dozens detained as Russian soldiers’ wives call for their return from Ukraine

More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. They marked 500 …

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Hasty Pudding honors ‘Saltburn’ actor Barry Keoghan as its Man of the Year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals roasted Barry Keoghan, best known for his roles in “Dunkirk,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” “Eternals,” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” on Friday with its 2024 Man of the Year Award. Keoghan, who also starred in the comedy psychological thriller “Saltburn” and the World War II drama series “Masters of …

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Mercer hosts VMI following Watkins’ 21-point game

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. VMI Keydets (4-18, 1-8 SoCon) at Mercer Bears (9-13, 2-7 SoCon) Macon, Georgia; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bears -13; over/under is 149 BOTTOM LINE: VMI …

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