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APRIL 15-22, 2021 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press Photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photojournalist Rebecca Blackwell in Mexico City. Follow AP visual…

Anthony Davis is trying to shake off the rust with the Los Angeles Lakers as the eight-time All-Star ends the longest absence of his NBA career at Dallas. The Lakers star scored four points while making just two of 10 shots from the field in the first half. Davis wasn't supposed to play in the second half after missing the previous 30 games with right calf and heel issues. Davis played 17 minutes, about two more than planned. Fellow star LeBron James is supposed to be out at least two more weeks with an ankle injury.

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 27 points and Khris Middleton had 24 as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 124-117 in a matchup of two of the Eastern Conference’s top teams. Bobby Portis added a season-high 23 points as the Bucks ended a five-game home losing streak. Milwaukee never trailed and led by as many as 21 to defeat Philadelphia for the fourth consecutive time. Joel Embiid scored 24 points for the Sixers. Shake Milton had 20 off the bench. The Bucks improved to 36-22 and hold the third seed in the East. The Sixers fell to 39-20 and into a tie with idle Brooklyn for the top spot.

Kemba Walker matched his season high with 32 points and the Boston Celtics rolled to a 99-86 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night. Walker was 11 of 17 from the field, hitting five 3-pointers. The Celtics have won nine of their last 11. Coming off a victory in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, the Suns dropped two games behind idle Utah Jazz for the best record in the NBA. Phoenix has the NBA’s best road record at 19-8. Chris Paul had 22 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Devin Booker finished with 15 points before fouling out with 4:37 left.

Newly released video shows a white sheriff’s deputy in the San Francisco Bay Area shooting and killing a Black man in the middle of a busy intersection about a minute after trying to stop him on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars last month. Graphic body camera footage showing Deputy Andrew Hall shooting 33-year-old Tyrell Wilson within seconds of asking him to drop a knife was released Wednesday. It was the same day prosecutors charged Hall with manslaughter and assault in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Filipino man more than two years ago. The Contra Costa County sheriff says the videos show Wilson was threatening Hall and was possibly throwing rocks at drivers.

The Senate has passed legislation to combat the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The measure passed Thursday would expedite the review of hate crimes and provide support for local law enforcement in response to thousands of reported violent incidents in the past year. The House is expected to consider a similar bill in the coming weeks. Police have seen a noted uptick in such crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate's bipartisan denunciation of such violence is a modest step toward legislating in a chamber where most of President Joe Biden’s agenda has stalled.

Jacob deGrom of the Mets is 1-1 with a 0.45 ERA, 35 strikeouts and three walks in 20 innings going into a homestand opener against Washington and Erick Fedde. While deGrom has a 2.03 ERA in 79 starts since the start of the 2018 season, New York is 37-42 in those games. Meanwhile, Clayton Kershaw starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second game of the big series at Dodger Stadium against the San Diego Padres. Yu Darvish takes the mound for the Padres, who lost two of three last weekend in San Diego during the first series of the season between the NL West rivals.

An appellate court has ruled for music producer Dr. Luke on an important issue in his defamation suit against pop star Kesha. A New York appeals court concluded in a decision issued Thursday that the Grammy-nominated hitmaker isn’t a public figure in the eyes of the law. That matters because public figures have to meet a higher standard than everyday people do in order to prove they’ve been defamed. The decision is far from a final judgment in the long-running court clash between the multiplatinum-selling singer and the producer. She says Dr. Luke raped her. He denies it and says she smeared him with lies. The Associated Press does not generally name people who report being sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Kesha has done.

Two of the nation’s largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on University of California and California State University campuses this fall. Thursday’s joint announcement from the 10-campus UC system and the 23-campus CSU is the largest of its kind in U.S. higher education. It would affect more than 1 million students and employees across 33 university campuses. Several U.S. colleges and universities hoping to get back to normal campus life after months of online learning also have said they plan to make the vaccination mandatory.

Michael Andretti has emerged from the pandemic confident Andretti Autosport has weathered the worst of its difficulties. The team has four full-time cars entered in Sunday's race in St. Petersburg, Florida. Michael Andretti is running 15 cars across seven different series. Andretti Autosport will have six cars in the Indianapolis 500, a race Michael Andretti has won five times as a team owner. He’s got legitimate title contenders in Alexander Rossi and Colton Herta. 

A prosecutor says the man accused of killing 10 people at a crowded Colorado supermarket last month had armed himself with 10 high-capacity ammunition magazines. The devices have been banned in the state since 2013 after previous mass shootings in the state. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty told reporters Thursday that 22-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa possessed the magazines unlawfully but that investigators don’t believe Alissa purchased the magazines illegally. Magazines that hold more than 15 rounds were banned in Colorado after the 2012 mass shootings at a suburban Denver movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. 

Hundreds of theater workers marched down Broadway on Thursday, rallying to demand more inclusion in the industry, protesting producer Scott Rudin and to call for greater transparency from their union, Actors’ Equity Association. Organizers had several demands, including finding how 2020 Equity dues were spent and what percentage is being spent to help conversations around diversity, achieve greater inclusion for transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming artists and urge efforts to improve diversity within the labor union’s council. Protesters called for the removal of Rudin, who is accused of abusive behavior toward his workers, from the Broadway League.

At least 23.2 million Americans watched on television this week when former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was declared guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd. The Nielsen company's estimate came from viewership figure on 11 different networks that carried Tuesday's verdict live. The actual audience was surely bigger, however, since Nielsen's count did not include ESPN, which also covered the news. CNN had just over 4 million viewers, more than any other network. But Nielsen found that ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NBC and CBS all had at least 3 million people watching, too.

As the U.S. debates the future of policing, the policies that govern the release of body camera footage still vary widely across the nation. In Columbus, Ohio, the release of a recent police shooting video took just five hours. In North Carolina, it requires a court order. In New York City, police can wait up to 30 days — sometimes longer. Pressure is building on law enforcement agencies to act swiftly, even if it means releasing videos before investigations have barely begun. Geoffrey Alpert is a criminal justice professor at the University of South Carolina. He says the disparities have to do with state laws and previous litigation.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A controversial disciplinary body within Poland's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a prosecutor's request to arrest a judge who has become a symbol of resistance for those who believe judicial independence is threatened in the country.…

David Peralta hit a three-run triple in a six-run 10th inning to finish with five hits and a career-best seven RBIs, and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame six Cincinnati home runs to beat the Reds 14-11. Carson Kelly followed Peralta with a two-run homer as the Diamondbacks opened a 14-8 lead. Arizona  hung on in the bottom half to complete a three-game sweep that extended its winning streak to four. The Reds lost their fourth straight, finishing a 2-4 homestand. Cincinnati’s Jesse Winker had his third career two-homer game, and Nick Castellanos hit his sixth home run of the season.

Phillip Evans kept Akil Baddoo’s drive to left field in the park in the seventh inning to help Pittsburgh escape a jam, and the Pirates scored twice in the eighth to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2. Colin Moran and Erik González hit RBI singles with two outs in the eighth. With the score tied at 2, Baddoo nearly put the Tigers ahead, but Evans reached above the fence in left, and the ball bounced off his glove and back into the field of play. Baddoo wound up with a double, and he didn’t end up scoring.

It may be hard to believe that there are still many “firsts” left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there are a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers. In the past, Asian actors have been recognized for playing stereotypes and foreigners and sometimes not at all. Best picture winner “Parasite” had no acting nominations. The historic gains spotlight where the organization has made progress and where there is still work to do, especially after a year in which Asian Americans were increasingly targeted in racist attacks. But the big unknown is whether this will be a sea change going forward.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghanistan’s military “will certainly collapse” without some continued American support once all U.S. troops are withdrawn, the top U.S. general for the Middle East told Congress Thursday. Gen. Frank McKenzie also said he was very concerned about…