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10:10 PM on Friday, February 20

Air Force has ended its run with basketball coach Joe Scott

9:55 PM on Friday, February 20

A showdown for first place in the Atlantic 10 concluded with the benches clearing and multiple ejections in an 88-75 win by No. 18 Saint Louis against VCU

8:49 PM on Friday, February 20

Kellen Thames scored 16 points and No. 18 Saint Louis rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half for an 88-75 win over VCU on Friday night in a game in which both benches emptied in the final seconds

8:19 PM on Friday, February 20

Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgeman are playing Riviera for the first time and like what they see

8:06 PM on Friday, February 20

Floyd Mayweather says he is ending his nine-year retirement and returning to competitive boxing this summer

7:42 PM on Friday, February 20

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history

7:26 PM on Friday, February 20

The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

7:03 PM on Friday, February 20

Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most trafficked mammal in the world

6:54 PM on Friday, February 20

Munetaka Murakami had two hits and two RBIs in his Cactus League debut with the Chicago White Sox

6:51 PM on Friday, February 20

A lawyer picked by judges to serve as the top federal prosecutor for a Virginia office that pursued cases against foes of President Donald Trump has been swiftly fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash over the appointments of powerful U.S. attorneys

6:49 PM on Friday, February 20

Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games as Major League Baseball prepared for the first regular-season use of the automated ball-strike system — the so-called robot umpires

6:48 PM on Friday, February 20

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect

6:40 PM on Friday, February 20

Bad Bunny’s huge global rise is finally breaking through in Brazil, a market that overwhelmingly favors national artists

5:30 PM on Friday, February 20

The Trump administration says it supports a strict Biden-era rule that forces cities to replace most lead water pipes within 10 years

5:01 PM on Friday, February 20

Cuban officials say a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing Cuba’s health system toward collapse and putting lives at risk

3:37 PM on Friday, February 20

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem

12:31 PM on Friday, February 20

Venezuela has passed a new amnesty law, but some families of political detainees and prisoners' rights groups are reacting with mixed feelings

9:39 AM on Friday, February 20

A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all clinics and cancel elective procedures for a second day

7:30 AM on Friday, February 20

Five big European military powers have launched a joint effort to build cheap drone defenses and autonomous drones, using Ukraine’s battlefield expertise

6:01 AM on Friday, February 20

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered under heavy Israeli restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including some who were allowed to enter from the occupied West Bank