LONDON (AP) — Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met the artist Lucian Freud. The paintings he made of her in the 1990s are now among the most famous in modern art — and the most valuable. “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet,” regarded as one of Freud’s masterpieces, is going up […]

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Majda was destitute. Her husband and eldest son had been killed by Israeli airstrikes. Living in a ragged tent in Gaza with rats and the stench of sewage, she couldn’t support her children and feared her daughters would be harassed going to the communal latrine in a camp with […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization arrived in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, late Thursday to witness efforts against an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus, as medical personnel struggle with a lack of equipment, a distrustful population and armed groups in a volatile region. “To come here is to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seeks a second term, she isn’t sidestepping the obvious: her tenure at city hall has been difficult. “I haven’t always got it right,” she says plainly. But the first Black woman to hold the post insists she should keep leading the struggling city of nearly […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Veronica Burton had 25 points and six rebounds, Gabby Williams added 19 points, six rebounds and six assists, and the Golden State Valkyries beat Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever 90-88 on Thursday night. Clark’s 3-pointer with 3:55 to play pulled Indiana to 81-80 and Aliyah Boston put the Fever ahead […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people, Romanian authorities said Friday. The drone was tracked by radar in Romanian airspace and crashed onto the roof of a building in Galati, Romania’s Defense Ministry said in […]

BOSTON (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. hit his fourth career grand slam and Chris Sale struck out eight in five innings against his former team as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Boston Red Sox 10-2 on Thursday. Acuña cleared the Green Monster after pinch-hitter Mike Yastrzemski — grandson of Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski — […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jeremy Peña and Isaac Paredes homered in the first inning, and Spencer Arrighetti pitched the Houston Astros past the Texas Rangers 5-1 on Thursday night. The Astros took three of four games in the series from their in-state rivals, finishing a 7-3 trip with six wins in the last seven games. […]

Victor Wembanyama looked different in Game 6. In every way. There was the Shaolin robe that the San Antonio star wore to his home arena on Thursday night, an obvious nod to his two-week stay last summer at a Chinese temple he visited while seeking physical, mental and spiritual growth. There was the freshly cropped […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrey Parikh felt the pressure of arriving at the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a favorite, but his confidence showed every time he got a word he knew. And when the bee came down to a lightning-round tiebreaker against Ishaan Gupta, Shrey left no doubt. Shrey turned a tense, high-quality final into […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Azzi Fudd scored 22 points in her first WNBA start, Jessica Shepard had her second triple-double of the season and the Dallas Wings beat the Las Vegas Aces 95-87 on Thursday night. Shepard also scored 22 points to go with a career-high 20 rebounds and 10 assists. Her other triple-double this […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bosa is encouraged by the pace of his recovery from another major knee surgery and believes he’s on track to return to the field during training camp and start the season on time for the San Francisco 49ers. That wasn’t always the case for the star edge rusher in […]