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Michigan’s Juwan Howard is The Associated Press men’s college basketball coach of the year. Howard received 35 of 63 votes from a national media panel. Gonzaga’s Mark Few was second with 16 votes. Baylor’s Scott Drew and Alabama’s Nate Oats tied at five each. Howard has put a quick imprint on his alma mater, continuing the winning tradition John Beilein started. He has also made big inroads in recruiting. Michigan reached No. 2 in The Associated Press poll and finished the regular season No. 4. The Wolverines lost to UCLA in the NCAA regional finals earlier this week.

Prosecutors say a Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should face life in prison. They said in court papers filed Thursday that the attempted suicide bombing by Akayed Ullah in 2017 was a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of Islamic State group. The government’s request comes a week after lawyers for Ullah argued in their own papers that he only deserves a mandatory 35-year prison term. Sentencing is set for April 8. 

NEW YORK (AP) — Once again, mayhem and mass destruction is back at the box office. It’s almost like old times. “Godzilla vs. Kong,” one of the few tentpoles to dare release during COVID times, is poised this weekend to…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police brought in a well-known Serbian doctor and other vocal anti-vaccination activists for questioning Thursday, saying they are jeopardizing the Balkan country’s successful coronavirus inoculation drive. Serbian state TV said psychiatrist Jovana Stojkovic, a leading…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted talks Thursday with populist politicians from Italy and Poland in a bid to create a new right-wing nationalist political force on the European stage. The trilateral meeting brought Polish Prime…

Italy’s spy thriller has taken a more mundane turn with indications that the Italian Navy captain accused of passing classified documents to Russia was desperate for extra money. His wife told Corriere della Sera newspaper he was struggling to pay his mortgage and support his four children. Walter Biot, an Italian Navy frigate captain working at the Defense Ministry, was being held at a Rome prison after his arrest Tuesday. During a preliminary interrogation Thursday, he exercised his right to not answer prosecutors’ questions or make a statement. Biot was arrested on espionage charges after he was allegedly caught passing a pen drive of classified documents, including on NATO operations, to a Russian Embassy official for 5,000 euros ($5,900). 

Miguel Cabrera has hit the first home run of the new Major League Baseball season, a drive through the snow in Detroit’s chilly opener against Cleveland. The temperature at game time was 32 degrees, and the snow at Comerica Park was becoming a bit more intense when Cabrera hit a first-inning shot to right field off Cleveland’s Shane Bieber. It wasn’t easy to see through the ball through the snow, but the two-run drive carried just beyond the wall. Cabrera’s 488th career homer was upheld after a review. The 37-year-old Cabrera is five homers shy of tying Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff for 28th on the career list.

A new study finds that American farmers are using smaller amounts of pesticides, but those chemicals are more toxic and much more harmful to pollinators, aquatic bugs and some plants. Thursday's study shows that the newer generation of pesticides is not harming birds and mammals nearly as much as in the past because they are aimed more at insects. That means insects near pests farmers want to eradicate are getting hurt more. The study used federal data to show toxicity levels in pollinators and other bugs and plants have more than doubled since 2005.

The Biden administration is unveiling a coalition of community, religious and celebrity partners to promote COVID-19 shots as it seeks to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The Department of Health and Human Services’ new “We Can Do This” campaign features television and social media ads. But it also relies on a community corps of public health, athletic, faith and other groups to spread the word about the safety and efficacy of the three approved coronavirus vaccines. Vice President Kamala Harris and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy met Thursday with more than 275 inaugural members of the community corps to kick off the effort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Views of the nation’s economy are the rosiest they’ve been since the pandemic began more than a year ago, buoyed by Democrats feeling increasingly optimistic as President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package is distributed across the…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked citizens Thursday to consider the strain that nurses and doctors are under as they care for a rising number of COVID-19 patients and help them by respecting social distancing and other rules…

The organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have started 10 days of testing for the hockey and other indoor venues. A curling mixed doubles competition was held at the refashioned “Water Cube.” That was where the swimming events were held at the 2008 Olympics. Men’s hockey players drilled at the nearby National Indoor Stadium. Figure skating and speedskating venues will also be given a run-through during the April 1-10 test events. Only Chinese athletes are participating in the events because of the coronavirus pandemic.