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2:32 AM on Sunday, April 19

Iran has doubled down on its pledge to restrict ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in place

12:18 AM on Sunday, April 19

Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population

11:47 PM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and has warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect

11:11 PM on Saturday, April 18

In the wide-open race for California governor, billionaire Tom Steyer is on a spending binge

11:00 PM on Saturday, April 18

A humanoid robot has won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing, running faster than the human record

10:26 PM on Saturday, April 18

Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on Kevin Durant’s injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series

7:59 PM on Saturday, April 18

Jalen Brunson scored 28 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 of his 25 in the second half and the New York Knicks beat the Atlanta Hawks 113-102 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference playoff series

7:56 PM on Saturday, April 18

Jamal Murray shot and made 16 free throws

7:54 PM on Saturday, April 18

Two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press that the Cincinnati Bengals acquired three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence from the New York Giants for the 10th overall pick in next week’s NFL draft

7:39 PM on Saturday, April 18

Matt Boldy had two goals with an assist, Joel Ericksson Ek scored two power-play goals and rookie goalie Jesper Wallstedt stopped 27 shots in his postseason debut to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars 6-1 in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff series

6:07 PM on Saturday, April 18

Lionel Messi had two goals, Germán Berterame scored a goal for the second consecutive game, and Inter Miami beat the Colorado Rapids 3-2 to extend their unbeaten streak to seven games

5:29 PM on Saturday, April 18

Jamal Murray scored 30 points, going 16 of 16 from the free-throw line and Nikola Jokic had a triple-double as the Denver Nuggets shook off a sluggish start to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 116-105 in the opener of their first-round playoff series

4:58 PM on Saturday, April 18

Real Sociedad has beaten Atletico Madrid on penalties to win the Copa del Rey title

4:15 PM on Saturday, April 18

About 1,000 animal welfare protesters who tried to gain entry to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin have been turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader

3:48 PM on Saturday, April 18

A skydiver has crashed into the Lane Stadium scoreboard before Virginia Tech’s spring football game

8:20 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran is not ready for new face-to-face talks with the U.S., according to a senior Iranian official

4:24 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries

11:56 PM on Friday, April 17

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

11:05 PM on Friday, April 17

The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked

1:00 PM on Friday, April 17

Fernando Mendoza will get a chance to learn from Kirk Cousins before the Las Vegas Raiders give him an opportunity to start