HOLDEN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials are planning a new viewing tower and visitor’s center to highlight the state’s elk-restoration program and give the public a better view of the animals. The Division of Natural Resources is reviewing bids for construction of the facility at Tomblin Wildlife Management Area in Logan County, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. The goal is …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. SMU Mustangs (15-7, 6-3 AAC) at Rice Owls (9-13, 3-6 AAC) Houston; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Rice hosts the SMU Mustangs after Mekhi Mason scored 30 …

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Every member of Congress from Georgia signed a letter calling for a study to determine whether the busy shipping channel to the Port of Savannah needs to be deepened again after a $937 million harbor expansion that was just completed in 2022. The offices of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Rep. Buddy Carter on Tuesday …

ATENAS (AP) — Los residentes de la isla griega de Egina llevan varios días sin agua potable en sus hogares luego que un presunto acto de sabotaje inutilizara una tubería submarina desde el continente, informaron las autoridades de Atenas el martes. Las autoridades indicaron que una carga explosiva probablemente cortó el suministro de agua potable que es transportada a lo …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Bryce Harris had 23 points, Marcus Dockery scored 21 and Howard beat Delaware State 75-71 on Monday night. Harris made 10 of 14 shots for the Bison (10-14, …

Eli Lilly rode soaring demand for diabetes and weight-loss treatments to a better-than-expected finish in 2023, and the drugmaker expects momentum to carry into the new year. Lilly said on Tuesday that revenue could climb as much as 22% this year, as star sellers like the diabetes drug Mounjaro and its new weight-loss counterpart, Zepbound, gain market share. But the …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cedric Coward and Casey Jones posted double-doubles and Eastern Washington breezed to a 90-77 victory over Portland State on Monday night. Coward finished with …

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After being escorted in handcuffs into the Barcelona courtroom, Dani Alves sat in silence and listened to a stream of witnesses give testimony during the second day of his sexual assault trial on Tuesday. Alves is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the bathroom of an upscale Barcelona nightclub early in the morning of Dec. …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground, but a string of competitive U.S. House contests is again poised to play a crucial role in determining control of the chamber as Republicans look to maintain their fragile majority in a deeply divided nation. The state that was once home for Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and …

BUDAPEST (AP) — Los legisladores del partido del primer ministro húngaro Viktor Orbán boicotearon una sesión urgente del Parlamento el lunes en que se realizaría una votación para colocar en su agenda el intento de Suecia de integrarse a la OTAN, una medida que se suma a los 18 meses de demoras que han enojado a los aliados de Hungría. …

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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil project in a federal petroleum reserve on Alaska’s North Slope. Environmentalists and a grassroots group called Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic are seeking to have last March’s approval overturned. Arguments before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court …

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NEW YORK (AP) — An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta’s policies regarding manipulated media as “incoherent” and insufficient to address the flood of online disinformation that already has begun to target elections across the globe this year. The quasi-independent board on Monday said its review of an altered video of President Joe Biden that spread on Facebook exposed …