NEW YORK (AP) - The Indiana Fever are keeping their core together.
Natalie Achonwa, Shenise Johnson and Erica Wheeler re-signed with the Fever on Friday, the first day that WNBA teams could announce free agent signings.
"We are thrilled to have three key veterans returning to the roster," said third-year ...
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Beirut, "Gallipoli" (4AD)
Front-man Zach Condon of indie folk rock band Beirut has a penchant for world music, pulling various cultural influences into every record he's made. "Gallipoli" feels especially inspired. Some of the zest lacking in the band's 2015 album "No No No" is fully realized in this new ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - An executive with Atlanta's Super Bowl Host committee says she's been told limousine companies are 300 to 400 vehicles short of what's needed to transport NFL owners, corporate clients and Very Important People this weekend.
In a letter to Georgia's public safety commissioner, Amy Patterson said she ...
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MADRID (AP) - Barcelona and Real Madrid will meet in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.
The teams were drawn to face each other in the first leg next week in Barcelona.
Real Betis and Valencia will play in the other semifinal.
The final will be on May 25 ...
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"Golden Child" (SJP for Hogarth), by Claire Adam
A new novel set in Trinidad spins the tale of an absorbing family drama that ultimately explores the tension between individualism and utilitarianism.
Claire Adam's debut novel, "Golden Child," is a page-turner not by dint of cliffhangers but because a reader becomes ...
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HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's High Court has refused to allow three transgender men to be recognized as males on their official identity cards because they have not undergone full sex-change operations.
Friday's ruling was seen as a blow to the fledgling LGBT movement in the semiautonomous Chinese city ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Best-selling historical novelist Ruta Sepetys is setting her next work in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced Friday that "The Fountains of Silence" will come out Oct. 22. The story tells of an American teen who ...
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