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LONDON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy industrialized nations on Wednesday accused China of human rights abuses and economic mischief, but offered little concrete action to deal with an increasingly forceful Beijing. The top G-7 diplomats…

Rory McIlroy is back at Quail Hollow, the course where he won his first PGA Tour event. And he says his legacy is worth a lot more than whatever Saudi-backed money is available from a proposed super league. The concept has resurfaced ahead of the Wells Fargo Championship. A British newspaper reports that the Super League Golf is prepared to offer fees of up to $50 million to key players to join. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan told players in a previously schedule meeting they can't play both. That's the same message he had for them last year. No one is known to have signed up for the super league.

The Yankees and Mets can increase capacity from 20% to 100% at their ballparks for home games starting May 19 — as along as fans are vaccinated against COVID-19. And both teams will be giving away free tickets along with vaccinations. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement at a news conference with Yankees president Randy Levine and Mets president Sandy Alderson. While full capacity will be allowed in vaccinated sections, attendance in unvaccinated sections will be capped at 33%. Masks will continue to be required. Cuomo also said Broadway theaters will reopen Sept. 14.

Gia Coppola was feeling out of touch with popular culture when she stumbled upon the ending of Elia Kazan’s 1957 satire “A Face in the Crowd” several years ago. The story of a folksy truth-teller who rises to dangerous levels…

State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. At least seven states already have enacted restrictions limiting government use of the technology and about 20 states are debating additional bills. States want to know how and why the technology is being used. Complaints about false identifications during protests over the killing of George Floyd prompted Amazon, Microsoft and IBM to pause sales of their face recognition software to police. The head of the National Sheriffs' Association calls it “fear-mongering politics at its worst.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of “Da Butt” at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she’s releasing an album with Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist-composer Ted Nash…

So much for Arsenal being one of the elite soccer clubs in Europe. The English team is facing the ignominy of being shut out of continental competition for the first time in 25 years only three weeks after being among the instigators of the controversially closed-off and ultimately ill-fated Super League. A failure to overturn a 2-1 deficit against Villarreal in the Europa League semifinals on Thursday would end Arsenal’s quarter-century run of participating in either the Champions League or UEFA’s secondary club competitions. Such a degrading of status would be ironic considering the planned Super League would have placed Arsenal as one of 12 elite teams in the European game.

BUCHAREST (AP) — Romanian police will investigate a possible poaching case involving an Austrian prince who is reported to have “wrongly” killed a massive male bear in a trophy hunt on a visit to the country’s Carpathian Mountains in March,…

LONDON (AP) — The United States, Japan and South Korea are plowing ahead with efforts to push North Korea back to nuclear negotiations despite the North's rejection of any such pressure. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Japanese…

The 2002 Washington D.C.-area sniper murders are being revisited in a powerful new documentary series. The eight-episode “I, Sniper” has dozens of interviews, from relatives of the snipers and their victims, law enforcement and everyday people who encountered the pair. But perhaps the most powerful voice is that of Lee Malvo, half of a two-man sniper team that killed 10 and terrorized the Washington D.C., region in 2002. The filmmakers coaxed Malvo to examine his life over 17 hours of calls that spanned years — all in 15-minute chunks, per prison rules. The series starts Monday on Vice TV.

PARIS (AP) — He’s well known in the U.K., and his photo was regularly splashed across the front pages of European newspapers. But as presidential elections approach in France, Michel Barnier – the EU’s Mr. Brexit and a potential contender…

The U.S. government is awarding a slew of big federal contracts to provide emergency shelters for more than 20,000 unaccompanied children who have recently crossed the border from Mexico. Child advocates worry that the companies receiving the contracts may not be properly equipped to care for the minors. An audit last year found that one of the companies had overcharged the government by more than $13 million. The Department of Health and Human Services says the shelters being provided are in line with the standards required during emergency situations. The agency says it also has taken “aggressive actions” to speed up the children’s release from the shelters.

Connor McDavid needs seven points in Edmonton's final five games to reach 100 in the NHL's 56-game season. It's a milestone that could go down in hockey history alongside Wayne Gretzky's 50 goals in 39 games. But the Oilers captain is far more worried about being in prime form when the playoffs begin. It'll be just the second true playoff appearance in six seasons for someone widely believed to be the best hockey player in the world. McDavid is the front-runner for the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP and hungry to chase the Stanley Cup.

A Native American tribe in northern Montana is giving unused COVID-19 vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others from neighboring communities in Canada. The effort by the Blackfeet Nation illustrates the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing the vaccine. More than 30% of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, while in Canada that figure is around 3%. Most eligible citizens of the Blackfeet Nation are vaccinated, and the tribe didn’t want to waste a surplus of vaccines. It created a distribution plan and last month gave out about 1,000 vaccines at the Piegan Port of Entry.

When Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Ukraine this week he’ll be carrying a tough anti-graft message and strong U.S. backing for the country’s response to Russian aggression. Blinken will also be taking along a familiar face in the Washington-Moscow tug-of-war over Ukraine: Victoria Nuland, now the No. 3 State Department official. The one-day stop comes at a time of heightened U.S. tensions with Russia. The mere presence in Kyiv of Nuland is likely to irritate Russia. Nuland is a Russia hawk who was a target of Moscow’s attacks on the U.S. during the Obama administration.

BANGKOK (AP) — Health officials rushed to vaccinate thousands of people in Bangkok's biggest slum on Wednesday as new COVID-19 cases spread through densely populated low-income areas in the capital's central business district. The government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha…