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The sun is hot, but the tunes are hotter. We’re only halfway through 2024, and some of the biggest names in music have already released albums. That’s as good a reason as any to take stock of this year’s releases. Here are The Associated…

Matthew Tkachuk decided to go for a little swim as his offseason was beginning on Tuesday morning. The Florida Panthers forward took a few steps off the sand and into the water of Fort Lauderdale Beach, then dove in while hanging onto his…

The combination of Noah Lyles, Snoop Dogg and 16-year-old Quincy Wilson running for a spot in the Olympics lifted NBC to its largest audience for the U.S. track trials since 2012, according to Nielsen. Viewership for the Sunday night…

A judge has modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment about witnesses and jurors in his New York hush money criminal trial but keeping court and prosecution staff off limits. Judge Juan M. Merchan issued his…

Two Montana inmates have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly using makeshift weapons to attack corrections officers in a county jail. One of the officers was sent to the hospital with stab wounds to the head from the attack…

Meteorologists have for the first time issued a heat advisory for the entire island of Puerto Rico as it struggles with chronic power outages. All 78 of the U.S. territory’s municipalities were placed under a heat advisory or warning on…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Tuesday: Carnival, Enovix rise; Pool, SolarEdge fall.

Boston University forward Macklin Celebrini is the presumptive No. 1 pick entering the NHL draft following a season in which he became just the fourth freshman to win the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s MVP. The San Jose Sharks hold…

Matt Strome scored 1:06 into overtime as the Hershey Bears beat the Coachella Valley Firebirds 5-4 in Game 6 on Monday night and claimed their record-extending 13th Calder Cup title. Strome grabbed a loose puck in the high slot and beat…

A dispute between California’s largest state employee union and a nonprofit organization that hires disabled workers could lead to dozens of job losses. SEIU Local 1000 wants the state’s correctional health care system to terminate its…

J.D. Davis will cost the New York Yankees just $389,892 for the rest of this season, a prorated share of the $740,000 major league minimum. New York acquired the infielder from Oakland on Sunday for minor league infielder Jordan Groshans as…

Nonfiction 1. On Call by Anthony Fauci, M.D., narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, narrated by Sean Pratt and the author…

The 2022 world champion steeplechase runner Norah Jeruto is on course to race at the Paris Olympics after track and field’s world governing body failed in an attempt to have her banned in a doping case. Jeruto was born in Kenya and won the…

Jordan Spieth became a footnote in history as the only player on the PGA Tour to twice play alongside someone who shot 59. And it was almost three times. He was there when Bryson DeChambeau missed a 6-foot putt for a shot at 59 in the 2021…

Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza has won a crucial vote of confidence toward becoming the next head of Interpol and its first non-Western chief after the organization's executive committee selected him as its preferred candidate.…