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Iowa’s Clark wants more focus on team in final stretch now that NCAA record is broken

IOWA CITY, Iowa — More scoring records are in sight for Caitlin Clark, but right now the Iowa superstar is looking forward to a break from the chase. She passed Kelsey Plum as the NCAA women’s career scoring leader Thursday night, putting up a school-record 49 points in a 106-89 victory over Michigan and running her career total to 3,569. Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said it was a relief to have Clark’s pursuit of the NCAA record end. “It’s been a little bit of a distraction, but a good distraction, right?” Bluder said. “You want these kinds of distractions for your team. ...

A world order, if you can keep it

With the exception of Pearl Harbor, the Western Hemisphere escaped World War II mostly unscathed. It also led, to paraphrase Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto’s alleged quote, a sleeping giant to wake up in the form of the United States. With Europe and Asia in rubble, the threat of the Soviets replacing the Nazis, and China falling to the communists, men like Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and George Marshall forged a new world order, placing the West in the hands of the United States. On June 4, 1940, standing in the House of Commons as the Nazis turned toward a possible invasion of ...

Fani Willis to return to witness stand as she fights effort to derail Trump’s election case

The Associated Press ATLANTA—Allegations of misconduct have taken center stage in Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election case, thrusting top prosecutors’ private lives into the spotlight and forcing them to answer deeply personal questions in court as they try to defend against efforts to derail the high-stakes case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is set to return to the witness stand Friday, as the case that was supposed to be about efforts to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results has become embroiled in controversy over the love lives of the ...

Israeli forces storm main hospital in southern Gaza

The Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip—Israeli forces stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza on Thursday, hours after Israeli fire killed a patient and wounded six others inside the complex. The Israeli army said it was seeking the remains of hostages taken by Hamas. The raid on Nasser Hospital came after troops had besieged the facility for nearly a week, with hundreds of staff, patients and others inside struggling under heavy fire and dwindling supplies, including food and water. A day earlier, the army ordered thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter there to leave ...

Clark of Iowa breaks NCAA women’s career scoring record with 35-foot 3-pointer

The Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark wasted no time becoming the NCAA women’s career scoring leader Thursday night, taking less than three minutes to score the eight points she needed to break Kelsey Plum’s record. The Iowa star who has brought unprecedented attention to women’s basketball surpassed the record with her signature shot — a 35-foot 3-pointer that hit nothing but the bottom of the net. And Clark didn’t let up from there. She finished with a career-high 49 points, tied her career best with nine 3-pointers and had 13 assists in No. 4 Iowa’s ...

Trey Smith, Chiefs lineman, shares WWE title belt with boy after parade shooting

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Trey Smith shared the WWE title belt to help calm a young boy in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the team’s Super Bowl celebration. Smith, who sported the belt during the celebration, noticed the frightened boy, who was with his father. “I was thinking, what can I do to help him out?” Smith said in an interview Thursday on Good Morning America. “I just handed him the belt: ‘Hey buddy, you’re the champion. No one’s going to hurt you, man. We’ve got your back.’ ” The shooting left 22 people ...