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Tony Finau is among the PGA Tour players pros primed to take unusual risks and big swings this week. The tour is back in New Orleans with the Zurich Classic's two-player team format for the first time since 2019. While the second and final rounds call for players on each team to alternate shots, it’s a best-ball format in the first round on Thursday and third round on Saturday. That’s when Finau says he can see himself “letting it rip” if teammate Cameron Champ's tee shot is safely in the fairway. Ryan Palmer and Jon Rahm are back to defend their title.

NEW YORK (AP) — Greta Thunberg turned 18 in January, but she’s already made peace with her future: While most college students will change their concentrations multiple times, the Swedish high school student says climate change activism will be her…

The NBA has suspended Indiana Pacers forward JaKarr Sampson for one game for headbutting San Antonio guard Patty Mills during Monday's loss to the Spurs. The fourth-quarter incident began with a shoving match as Sampson and Mills fought for a rebound. Sampson then confronted Mills, drawing a flagrant two foul and automatic ejection. Mills and Spurs forward Rudy Gay also drew technical fouls. The league fined Mills $25,000 while Gay was fined $20,000. Sampson will sit out Wednesday night's game against Oklahoma City, leaving the already short-handed Pacers with one fewer player.

Lakers big man Anthony Davis intends to play Thursday night when Los Angeles opens a four-game road trip at Dallas. He hasn’t suited up since Feb. 14, missing Los Angeles’ last 30 games in the longest injury absence of his career. The Lakers have managed to stay in the No. 5 spot in the Western Conference standings despite playing without Davis for nine weeks and without LeBron James since March 20. The Lakers went 14-16 without Davis, and they’re 7-9 since both Davis and James went down.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever worsening global warming in a two-day climate summit livestreamed for binge viewing. While there will be many faces on…

President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a two-day summit aimed at rallying the world’s worst polluters to do more to slow climate change. Biden’s first task when his virtual summit opens Thursday is to convince the world that the United States is both willing and able to meet an ambitious new emissions-cutting pledge. Success for Biden in the summit of 40 world leaders will be making his expected promise to halve U.S. coal and petroleum emissions believable enough to persuade other powers to make big changes of their own.   

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic demanded on Wednesday that Russia should allow its expelled diplomats to return to Moscow, threatening that otherwise more Russian diplomats would be asked to leave Prague. The Czech request looks set to further escalate…

The Indianapolis 500 plans to host 135,000 spectators next month, which would make it the largest sporting event in the world since the pandemic. The attendance figure is roughly 40% of what the grandstands hold at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The number was determined after Indianapolis held the NCAA men's tournament without a significant spike in COVID-19 cases in the city. The race ran without fans last year for the first time in history. Most of the seating will be in socially-distanced grandstands. The viewing mounds in the infield will not be offered. 

Democratic lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would invest $25 billion to convert the nation’s fleet of gasoline- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles. It's a component of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan geared toward improving children’s health. The legislation unveiled Wednesday would authorize federal money over 10 years to cover the expense of purchasing electric school buses, building charging stations and providing workforce training. School buses make up 90% of the nation’s bus fleet and typically carry 25 million children each day. Emissions from diesel engines may contribute to respiratory illnesses in children and have been linked to poor academic performance.

After the aborted attempt to form a European Super League, Liverpool owner John Henry is attempting to regain the trust of fans with an apology video. Manchester United co-owner Joel Glazer also expressed regret for failing to show enough respect for soccer's deep-rooted traditions. They withdrew from the 12-team project along with the other four English rebel clubs, imploding the planned split from the existing Champions League to join a largely closed breakaway European competition. 

The guilty verdict in the trial over George Floyd's death was not just celebrated in America. It signaled hope for those seeking racial justice and fighting police brutality on the other side of the Atlantic and beyond, where Black Lives Matter has also become a rallying cry. The fight is far from over, activists in Britain, France and South Africa, said Wednesday. A Minneapolis jury found ex-police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts of murder and manslaughter in the May death of Floyd. “The name of George Floyd today brings this hope," said Assa Traore, a leading voice among those fighting alleged police brutality in France.

President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Justice Department’s criminal division is facing scrutiny over a plea deal he brokered with a Louisiana district attorney who was accused of coercing sexual favors from as many as two dozen women. Kenneth Polite was New Orleans' top federal prosecutor in 2016 when he struck the deal that allowed longtime St. Charles Parish District Attorney Harry Morel to escape sexual misconduct charges and serve less than two years for obstructing a federal investigation. Morel's accusers and a former FBI agent say Polite lacked the courage to seek justice in the case.

Is there a more woebegone movie genre than the video game adaptation? In the 27 years since the first video game movie, “Super Mario Bros.,” these adaptations have been so regularly mocked that you might think the genre was -- like a teetering fighter in “Mortal Kombat” — on its last legs. And yet, Hollywood is increasingly viewing video games as one of the ripest, richest veins of intellectual property outside of comic books. The video game movie isn’t finished. It might even be just pressing “Start.” A new “Mortal Kombat” movie opening this Friday signals a new cycle for video game movies. 

The Man in Black is about to get his own day in Arkansas. The Arkansas House on Tuesday gave unanimous final approval to a bill that would make Feb. 26 “Johnny Cash Day,” sending it to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who plans to sign it. The day won’t be a legal holiday but instead will be a memorial day marked by an annual proclamation from the governor. It is the state’s latest effort to honor Cash, who was born in tiny Kingsland, about 60 miles south of Little Rock. The Legislature in 2019 voted to replace its two statues at the U.S. Capitol with ones of Cash and civil rights leader Daisy Bates.

Caleb Farley was the first top prospect to make the decision that has added a whole new layer of uncertainty to the annual crapshoot that is the NFL draft. The talented Virginia Tech cornerback decided back in July to skip the 2020 season because of the coronavirus. Farley had plenty of players follow his lead, including several others set to be high draft picks next week such as LSU receiver Ja’Marr Chase, Oregon tackle Penei Sewell, Northwestern tackle Rashawn Slater and Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons. Now it’s up to NFL teams to figure out how much to weigh those decisions in their draft evaluations.

NEW YORK (AP) — When a killer whale slowly circled back toward wildlife photographer Brian Skerry in the middle of the ocean after discarding the giant sting ray it was devouring, panic is not what came to mind: “Part of…

European Union officials have unveiled proposals for reining in high-risk uses of artificial intelligence such as live facial scanning that could threaten people’s safety or rights. The draft regulations from the EU’s executive commission made public on Wednesday include rules on the use of the expanding technology in activities such as choosing school, job or loan applicants. They also would ban artificial intelligence in a few situations, such as government “social scoring" systems. The proposals are the 27-nation bloc’s latest move to maintain its role as the standard-bearer for technology regulation. EU officials say they want to balance the need to protect data privacy against the need to encourage innovation.