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Paul Casey is going for his third straight victory at the Valspar Championship. It's such a difficult feat that only eight times in the last 40 years has a player won the same tournament at least three times in a row. Six of those occasions belong to Tiger Woods. Casey feels like he's a little under the radar because the field at Innisbrook includes Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas. Those are the top two players in the world ranking. Johnson played in the final group with Casey at Innisbrook two years ago but didn’t make a birdie in the final round.

A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing ground for commercial delivery drones operated by Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet. The company said it began talking to Girl Scout troops because they’ve been having a harder time selling Thin Mints and other iconic cookies because fewer people are out and about during the pandemic. It’s the latest attempt to build public enthusiasm for futuristic drone delivery as Wing competes against Amazon, Walmart, UPS and others to overcome its many technical and regulatory hurdles.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish government again rejected the accusation that it snubbed the head of the European Union's executive arm because she is a woman, insisting Wednesday that internal EU squabbling was to blame for a protocol gaffe…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rampant corruption has seriously damaged South Africa's economy and people's trust in the government, President Cyril Ramaphosa testified Wednesday at a judicial inquiry into graft in the county. Ramaphosa was speaking at the commission investigating “state capture,”…

A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that receiver Antonio Brown has agreed to return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a one-year contract that could be worth up to $6.5 million, including incentives. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agreement, which includes a $2 million signing bonus and a little more than $3 million guaranteed, has not been announced by the Super Bowl champions. The Bucs were already assured of returning all 22 starters from their victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL title game. Bringing back Brown ensures Tom Brady will pursue an eighth Super Bowl ring with the entire “band” of offensive playmakers assembled around the 43-year-old quarterback last season.

It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. On March 20, the Selma chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported to police that the carved limestone monument honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis was gone. Someone sent an email signed “White Lies Matter” to news outlets claiming responsibility for the theft and threatening to turn it into a toilet. Then, miles away in New Orleans, the chair was found and three people arrested. The UDC has the chair back, but are unsure what to do with it. In Selma, some people are curious about the theft or annoyed about the attention it brought.

A law enforcement official tells the Associated Press that federal investigators have executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan residence. The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine. Details of the reasons for the search were not immediately available. The official who confirmed the execution of the search warrant did not have approval to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. A message left for Giuliani’s lawyer wasn’t immediately returned.

In the new Tom Clancy adaptation, “Without Remorse,” Michael B. Jordan is a Navy SEAL about to trade military life for private security when his pregnant wife (Lauren London) is executed in their Washington D.C. home. It’s part of a…

The Tokyo Olympics open in under three months and there are still more questions than answers despite the rollout of new rule books to explain how the games will take place in the middle of a surging pandemic in Japan. The second version of the “Playbooks” for athletes was released by the International Olympic Committee and the the local organizers. Versions for other non-athlete groups are to be released later. And a third version will come out in June. The Olympics open on July 23. More testing for everyone was the key highlight.

A bit of Richard Wagner's “Ring” cycle is being performed in an underground parking garage in Chicago. Instead of walking into the opera house and taking their seats, the audience drives down into the garage and watches from their cars. The production is called “Twilight: Gods.” It comes a year after Lyric Opera's production of the complete Ring cycle was scuttled by the pandemic. Yuval Sharon premiered it last November in Detroit, where he is artistic director of the Michigan Opera Theater. “Twilight: Gods” is a reimagining of the final installment in Wagner’s four-part saga of gold, greed and the downfall of the gods. Sharon has distilled the four-hour-plus opera down to six episodes lasting just over an hour.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister sternly warned Ukrainian officials Wednesday that Moscow would not accept their push to revise a peace deal for eastern Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's comments followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling Tuesday for a…

HELSINKI (AP) — A fire in a building housing a hostel that authorities said was operating illegally killed eight people in the center of Latvia's capital early Wednesday, officials said. The Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service said it was…

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved President Joe Biden’s three nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service. The nominees — Ron Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, who leads the nonprofit National Vote at Home…

Months after President Joe Biden snubbed Canadian officials by canceling Keystone XL, a showdown over a second crude oil pipeline threatens to further strain ties between the two neighbors. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has set a May 12 deadline for Canadian energy company Enbridge to shut down its Line 5, which delivers oil from Alberta to refineries in the U.S. Midwest and eastern Canada. Whitmer agrees with environmentalists who consider the pipeline an environmental hazard, mostly because one 68-year-old section crosses a channel linking two Great Lakes. Canadian officials say closing the pipeline would hurt the economy and cost jobs in both countries.