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BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Blockbuster video rental store in Bend, Oregon, soared to international fame when it became the last such franchise on Earth two years ago. Now, a new Netflix documentary called “The Last Blockbuster” brought even more…

The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces have jointly resigned following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister. That's causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests. The Defense Ministry reported  the resignations on Tuesday without giving reasons. Replacements were not named. But analysts expressed fears the president, increasingly under pressure, was moving to assert greater control over the military. Bolsonaro is a conservative former army captain who has often praised Brazil’s former period of military dictatorship and has relied heavily on current and former soldiers to staff key Cabinet positions since taking office in January 2019.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday formally scrapped a blueprint championed by his predecessor to limit U.S. promotion of human rights abroad to causes favored by conservatives like religious…

U.S. stock indexes closed lower Tuesday as another swell higher for Treasury yields added pressure on big technology stocks. The S&P 500 lost 0.3%. Banks and small-company stocks rose. The spotlight was again on the bond market, where the yield…

Here's another tradition unlike any other at the Masters. Within hours of the tournament ending, the winner gets a frame filled with pictures of the player and his family reacting to the moment of victory. Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth say the photos were given to them right after they finished with their interviews. In other developments involving Augusta National, Brooks Koepka says in a text that he's busy rehabbing his knee and is making progress from March 16 surgery for a dislocated knee cap. He hasn't decided whether he will be able to play. Koepka has missed three majors because of injuries.

Trade groups representing big tech companies and repair shops have faced off against each other over a Nevada proposal in the state Legislature that would require hardware manufacturers to give repair shops the ability to fix devices like computers, phones, tablets and printers. Lawmakers in a committee hearing heard testimony on a bill that would require the big consumer electronics companies to make parts, tools and schematics available to non-authorized repair businesses. The cost and accessibility of repairs has been made more urgent by the pandemic. It has increased reliance on devices for students and remote workers.

The Miami Marlins’ season starts Thursday, and general manager Kim Ng says failure is not an option for her. Ng joined the Marlins in October as the first female GM in the four major North American professional sports leagues. Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King applauds Ng but says the job comes with pressure. King says the toughest part for pioneering women is that if they don’t do a great job, it hurts those coming after them. One thing working for Ng is the Marlins might have their best team in more than a decade.

A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars. If the former college athletes who brought the case win, colleges could end up competing for talented student athletes by offering over-the-top education benefits worth tens of thousands of dollars. And that could change the nature of college sports. At least that’s the fear of the NCAA. But the former athletes who sued say most college athletes will never play professional sports and that the NCAA’s rules capping education benefits deprive them of the ability to be rewarded for their athletic talents and hard work.  

A defense attorney says FBI agents recruited a Proud Boys leader to provide them with information about anti-fascist activists several months before he was charged with joining other members of the far-right extremist group in storming the U.S. Capitol. In a court filing late Monday, the lawyer for Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs says the Florida man agreed to provide the FBI with information about “antifa networks” after an agent contacted him in late July 2020 and arranged to meet at a restaurant, The claim buttresses a widely held view among left-leaning ideological opponents of the Proud Boys that law enforcement has coddled them and condoned their violence.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is re-introducing weekend lockdowns in most of its provinces and will also impose restrictions over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. Infections in Turkey have soared less than…

Former President Donald Trump could face questioning under oath about a former “Apprentice” contestant’s sexual assault allegations against him after a ruling from New York’s highest court Tuesday in her defamation case. Evidence-gathering has been on hold in Summer Zervos’ lawsuit since Trump asked the high court last year to declare the that the presidency protected him from being sued in state courts. The Court of Appeals tossed Trump’s appeal as moot now that he’s out of the White House. The case is set to return to a trial court so both sides can continue pretrial evidence-seeking. 

Chase Elliott will honor the late Alan Kulwicki by driving the Hooters paint scheme Kulwicki used in the 1992 season finale. Kulwicki beat Bill Elliott for the championship in final race. Chase Elliott appreciates the chance to honor Kulwicki's contribution to NASCAR even though Kulwicki beat his father. Kulwicki was killed in a plane crash five races into the 1993 season. Chase Elliott will run the Hooters scheme at Darlington Raceway in May during NASCAR's industry-wide celebration of past eras.

Fearing a wave of evictions, states last year announced plans to get tens of millions of dollars into the hands of cash-strapped tenants. But nearly a year later, the efforts have had mixed results. Many tenants were helped with more than $3 billion in federal coronavirus relief. But housing advocates said many programs fell far short of their goals. Some were overwhelmed by demand, and others were undermined by burdensome criteria that denied needy renters. Still others faced resistance from landlords who refused to accept the money or tenants who only learned about the programs after they were evicted.

PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia's Prime Minister Igor Matovic and his government resigned on Tuesday to ease a political crisis triggered by a secret deal to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. It is the first European government to collapse due…

Over the last century, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History has stored the remains of hundreds of Native Americans who once inhabited the state. Most of the remains were found in the Mississippi Delta and range from 750 to 1,800 years old. For decades, they sat on shelves in the state’s collections. Now, 403 Chickasaw ancestors have been returned to their people. This initiative is the largest of its kind conducted by the state of Mississippi since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, three decades ago.