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TURIN, Italy (AP) — Empoli reached the Italian Cup semifinals for the first time in its history as it surprisingly knocked out holder Juventus on penalties on Wednesday.Khéphren Thuram had scored a stunning equalizer for Juventus following Youssef Maleh’s opener and the match finished 1-1.

Empoli beats Juventus on penalties to reach Cup semifinals for 1st time despite Thuram stunner

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Benjamin Šeško’s penalty was enough for Leipzig to book the last semifinal spot in the German Cup with a 1-0 win over Wolfsburg in their quarterfinal on Wednesday.Leipzig, which won the competition in 2023, joined third-tier Arminia Bielefeld, Stuttgart and defending champion Bayer Leverkusen in the last four.

Šeško fires Leipzig into German Cup semifinals with 1-0 win over Wolfsburg

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed the state's parole board to investigate whether Erik and Lyle Menendez pose an unreasonable public safety risk if released from prison, where the siblings have spent decades for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, the governor said in a teaser Wednesday for his new podcast.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tells parole board to assess Menendez brothers' public safety risk

FILE - Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's choice for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, appears before the Senate Budget Committee during a hearing to examine his nomination, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jacquelyn MartinATLANTA (AP) — The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move. In President Donald

A Project 2025 author carries out his vision for mass federal layoffs

Justices on the nation's highest court seemed generally aligned with the plaintiff, while the defense struggled to make its case.WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared nearly unanimously aligned during oral arguments Wednesday that lower courts applied an unfair burden of proof to an Ohio woman who filed a reverse discrimination claim against a state employer.

Supreme Court seems likely to rule for straight woman in reverse discrimination case

Jennings regularly spars with liberal pundits on the networkScott Jennings sparks CNN meltdown by saying federal bureaucracy only resists Trump, GOP administrationsCNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings disturbed a CNN panel after insisting federal bureaucrats only like cooperating with Democratic presidential administrations.FIRST ON FOX: Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings is being privately and publicly encouraged to run for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open Senate seat in 2026, sources, including a Republican operative familiar with the race, told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

CNN pundit Scott Jennings encouraged to run for McConnell's open Senate seat

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- An Ontario couple collected a nearly $70,000 lottery prize 12 years after they won the same amount from a different lottery game.The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said Burlington residents Nancy and Robert Whitten scored a prize of $69,712.16 when they matched the last six of the seven Encore numbers in the Dec. 21, 2024, Lotto 6-49 drawing.

Ontario couple collect big lottery prize for the second time

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Supernatural actors Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles are reuniting for the fifth and final season of The Boys.Padalecki and Collins will join Ackles, who plays Ben, aka Soldier Boy, in Season 5 of the Prime Video series.

Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins join 'The Boys' Season 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, its time for the hard work of turning ideas for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $2 trillion of slashed spending into a bill that lawmakers warn could bring intense changes to Americans back home.

What’s next for Trump agenda after House GOP approves tax breaks and slashed spending in budget

(AP) - Georgia’s state Senate wants to boost spending on Hurricane Helene relief even more, including creating a grant program that could provide aid to individuals.The state Senate voted 55-1 Wednesday to pass House Bill 67, which amends Georgia’s current state budget running through June 30.

Georgia Senate wants further boost to spending on Hurricane Helene relief

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Eli Lilly announced plans for four new pharmaceutical manufacturing sites to produce domestic medicine production in the United States and make the nation the world's leader in pharmaceutical production.The pharmaceutical firm would invest $27 billion to build the four new manufacturing plants in locations that are yet to be determined.

Ely Lilly to spend billions on new pharmaceutical manufacturing sites

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was “systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe human rights violations,” a panel of United Nations experts warned Wednesday.The report by human rights experts is the latest and strongest rebuke of the government of President Daniel Ortega and first lady and now co-president Rosario Murillo, which has for years cracked down on dissent and civil society.

Nicaraguan government is cementing total control of the state and violating rights, UN experts warn

An unusual coalition of Hawaiʻi airline executives, farmers and ranchers, and fuel refineries is eyeing a new crop they hope will be almost as big to the islands as sugar was in its heyday.The Hawaiʻi Renewable Fuels Coalition sees the camelina plant, a brassica and close relative of canola, as a multi-win crop. Farmers could plant it between food crops to improve soil and its seeds can be harvested and pressed for oil, while a byproduct of that processing can feed poultry and cattle. The oil, in turn, can

This Plant Can Power Grids, Planes, Poultry And Cattle. Hawaiʻi Isn’t Sold

Call it a miracle, or a marketing ploy: Duo the owl is back from the dead.Two weeks after announcing the murder of its sassy green mascot, the language-learning platform Duolingo now says he's fine — and that he orchestrated the entire thing."Faking my death was the test and you all passed," it captioned a video posted to social media on Monday, with a montage suggesting that users brought him back by completing their daily language lessons.

Duolingo's owl mascot is alive after all. What did it gain from faking his death?

Thousands of people attended Tuesday a funeral in Rishon LeZion, Israel, for hostages whose bodies were returned last week. Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty ImagesJERUSALEM — Hamas will release the bodies of four more Israeli hostages Wednesday night, a spokesperson for the militant group said Wednesday.

Hamas says it will release the bodies of four more Israeli hostages late Wednesday

T between the world’s two largest exchange-traded funds has reached a pivotal moment. On February 18th , an tracking the & 500 that is managed by Vanguard, a giant passive-investing firm, took the crown as the world’s largest. Days later , an managed by State Street Global Advisors, another giant, reclaimed it.

How cheap can investing get?

David Royce has hired many people over the course of his two-decade career. The serial entrepreneur has founded or co-founded three companies in the pest control industry, including his most recent, Aptive Environmental, which he co-founded in 2015 and now has locations in more than 5,000 cities, according to LinkedIn.

2-time CEO shares the two red flags he sees in job interviews: They can reveal 'problem' candidates

Our podcast on science and technology. The Chinese biophysicist tells us why he is back in the lab and still trying to bring about CRISPR babiesThe world was shocked in 2018 when He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, announced that he had helped to produce two girls whose genetic code he had edited when they had been embryos. His aim had been to tweak a gene that sometimes confers protection against HIV infections. No one had ever used the CRISPR gene-editing tool in reproduction before and it was completely

The controversial scientist He Jiankui hasn’t given up on gene-edited babies

The "Real Housewives" star said they were "very close" after their divorce.Jennifer Tilly is opening up about how her late ex-husband became her "best friend" after their divorce.In a clip from the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show" published on Feb. 25, Tilly gave insight into her relationship with "The Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon, to whom she was married to from 1984 to 1991.

Jennifer Tilly shares how her ex-husband became her 'best friend'

A woman suspected to be involved in an attempted arson and repeated vandalization of a Northern Colorado Tesla dealership was arrested on Monday—the fourth such incident reported at the location in recent weeks.Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, was taken into custody after Nelson was allegedly found returning to the Tesla dealership on Monday in possession of "additional incendiary devices and materials attributed to vandalism," according to a news release from Loveland Police Department on Wednesday.

Woman arrested following fourth vandalism incident at Colorado Tesla dealership

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CNN —The United States and Ukraine are trying to hammer out a natural resources agreement that would give Washington access to Kyiv’s untapped mineral riches in exchange for investments and what Ukraine hopes would be concrete security guarantees.Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deal could be a “big success” but that it would depend on talks with US President Donald Trump.

What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘very big deal’ on Ukraine’s mineral resources

President Donald Trump posted a bizarre AI-generated video to social media Monday evening depicting an imagined future version of Gaza with bearded belly dancers on the beach, a giant golden statue of Trump, money raining from the sky, Elon Musk eating pita and a “Trump Gaza” hotel.

‘Trump Gaza’ video shared by president originated from pro-Israel accounts that have embraced AI

President Donald Trump began dismantling his predecessor’s climate change and renewable energy policies on his first day in office, declaring a national energy emergency to speed up fossil fuel development – a policy he has summed up as “drill, baby, drill.”The declaration calls on the federal government to make it easier for companies to build oil and gas projects, in part by weakening environmental reviews, with the goal of lowering prices and selling to international markets.

After a month of Trump's pro-oil and gas moves, Dems target his energy emergency

WASHINGTON – Elon Musk took center stage at President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting Wednesday, flashing a black t-shirt that said "tech support" and touting his efforts to cut the federal workforce, in an extraordinary display of the power the world's richest man's power holds in the Trump administration.

Elon Musk talks death threats, DOGE directives at Trump's first Cabinet meeting

Today, we received the heartbreaking news about the passing of actor Michelle Trachtenberg, who was just 39 years old. Millennials like me grew up with her face on the TV, whether as the titular Harriet in Harriet The Spy or as Dawn, Buffy’s little sister, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Star Michelle Trachtenberg Passes Away at 39

The patient was not identified, but a news release specified they are an adult and that all of their direct contacts have been notified for observation.The first case of measles has been reported in Rockwall County, county officials confirmed Wednesday.The Rockwall County Commissioners Court said in a news release that the case was reported to them Tuesday by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

First measles case confirmed in Rockwall County, officials say

‘White truck theory will definitely work.’ A Dallas-based man tested out his “white truck theory” by parking his white truck in a parking spot designated for contractors. “I drive a white truck, so I look like a contractor,” watch dealer Jye (@jyeciesiel) says in his viral TikTok. “There’s no parking where I was going, but there was available contractor parking. So, does my white truck fit in with the other contractors?” he questions before detailing what the “white truck theory” is.

‘White truck theory’: Driver shares why you’re lucky if you own a white truck

(CNN) — If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet.Most of the Senate-confirmed, top-ranking agency heads sat around the table mostly silent during the more than an hourlong meeting, even though some of them had come prepared to make brief remarks.

Trump’s Cabinet meeting serves as a backdrop to Musk’s power

LEWISTON —Davinci’s Eatery is closed this week as crews replace the kitchen floor in the restaurant.Co-owner Craig Tribuno said the old flooring was 15 years into a 10-year lifespan and that all the kitchen equipment had to be removed in order to get the work done.

DaVinci’s Eatery closes while replacing kitchen floor

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 shocked the world and left many unanswered questions.In March 2014, Flight MH370 vanished from radar shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport en route to Beijing. More than 10 years later, the 239 people — 12 crew members and 227 passengers — on board have still not been located or recovered.