Major League Baseball has removed references to “diversity” from its MLB Careers home page following an executive order by President Donald Trump that could lead to possible federal action against organizations using DEI programs in contravention of his administration’s interpretation of civil rights law.

Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Thousands of eggs have been handed out across New York City as part of a free giveaway.

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

A 48-year-old Ukrainian man was denied entry to Canada and arrested on a warrant out of Orange County for attempted murder, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

U.S. stocks shook off a weak start and ended slightly higher, enough to break a four-week losing streak.

The largely private relationship between Quinta Brunson and her husband of three years is over.

A real estate businessman who aided a Chinese effort to pressure an expatriate to return home has been sentenced to over a year in a U.S. prison.

The Trump administration has pushed back a Friday deadline for New York to end its new $9 toll on most drivers entering Manhattan.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction.

More workers have reported feeling disconnected from their organization’s purpose and unclear on how to meet expectations since the coronavirus pandemic changed the way we work.

U.S. stock indexes edged lower following another reminder that big, unsettling policy changes are underway because of President Donald Trump, along with more signals suggesting the U.S. economy remains solid for now.

An FBI agent who has criticized the bureau was arrested this week on charges of illegally disclosing classified information.

Sia has filed for divorce from second husband Daniel Bernard after two years of marriage.

U.S. stocks climbed after the Federal Reserve said the economy still looks healthy enough to keep interest rates where they are.

U.S. stock indexes are rising as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say about where interest rates may be heading.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

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A Hollywood writer-director has been arrested on charges that he swindled $11 million from Netflix for a sci-fi show that never aired, instead steering the cash toward cryptocurrency investments and a series of lavish purchases that included a fleet of Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari.

A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace has been convicted along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art valued at more than $6 million.

U.S. births rose slightly last year, but experts don’t see it as evidence of reversing a long-term decline.

If Ellen Pompeo was going to find a new role after 20 years as a series regular on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” it had to be good.

Tracy Morgan says he is doing OK and that food poisoning was to blame for his taking ill during Monday's Knicks-Heat game.

Bookstores worldwide hosted midnight parties for “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth installment in Suzanne Collins' “Hunger Games” series.

The U.S. still has a major case of French bulldog fever.

Wall Street swung back down, and its former superstars once again led the way.

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan got sick in the second half of the Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden.

The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee.

Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond, step aside.

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji.

PepsiCo said Monday it’s acquiring the prebiotic soda brand Poppi for $1.95 billion.

U.S. stocks climbed again as Wall Street's wild roller-coaster ride veers back upward.

RJ Luis Jr. scored all but two of his 29 points after halftime and No. 6 St. John’s made 14 straight shots from the field in the second half to beat Creighton 82-66 for its first Big East Tournament title in 25 years.

Zuby Ejiofor scored a career-high 33 points, a St. John’s record in the Big East Tournament, and the sixth-ranked Red Storm pulled away from No. 25 Marquette 79-63 to reach the conference championship game for the first time in 25 years.

Amid widespread economic turmoil, the price of gold has soared to another record high.

A top U.S. Justice Department official says the department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus.

If the Xavier Musketeers get left out of the NCAA Tournament, they’ll look back at their latest game as a missed opportunity.

LeBron James flew back to California for treatment on his left groin strain and will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers’ four-game trip.

Kam Jones scored 28 points to surpass 2,000 for his career and No. 25 Marquette rallied past Xavier 89-87 in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals.

RJ Luis Jr. scored 20 points and No. 6 St. John’s romped to a 78-57 blowout of Butler in their Big East Tournament quarterfinal.

Discount carrier Spirit Airlines has emerged from bankruptcy protection.

Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes due to the risk of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

The IOC has signed a $3 billion deal with its long-time United States broadcast partner NBC for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2036 Summer Games.

Model and entrepreneur Ashley Graham will make her Broadway debut this spring in the musical “Chicago,” adding her celebrity to a show that skewers celebrity culture.

Earlier this week during a Winter Haven news conference, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made several jabs at states like California and New York.

Aaron Rodgers is officially no longer a member of the New York Jets.

Wall Street’s sell-off hit a new low following President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war.

The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers.

Egg prices again reached a record high in February, as the bird flu continues to run rampant and Easter and Passover approach.

A Louisiana woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy.

A person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press that the New York Jets and former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields have agreed to a two-year contract worth $40 million.

Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, will host a new weekly podcast series starting this month featuring a special guest pulled from the world of entertainment, sports, health and business.

Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million American homes and businesses in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.

The top five cities on the list were home to more than one-third of all people in the nation last year who experienced homelessness.

The U.S. stock market’s sell-off accelerated as worries built about pain for the economy because of tariffs and other policies by President Donald Trump.

Lauryn Hill made a surprise appearance and Stevie Wonder performed at a memorial ceremony for Grammy-winning singer and pianist Roberta Flack in New York.

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

Brush fires on New York's Long Island fanned by high winds have picked up quickly.

Former major league outfielder Tyler Naquin says his attempted comeback as a right-handed pitcher was over a year in the making.

Emily Sweeney is certain of having a home Olympics next winter.

Dolly Parton has released a breathtaking new ballad in tribute to her late husband Carl Dean.

U.S. stocks rose, but only after careening through another wild day.

A lawyer for actor Blake Lively wants a federal judge to prevent defendants including “It Ends With Us” costar Justin Baldoni from getting personal or intimate information about her or other celebrities as her sexual harassment lawsuit advances toward trial.

Much like all the upheaval shaking the world, the huge swings rocking Wall Street may feel far from normal.

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will fight for a third time, returning to Madison Square Garden after staging the first women’s boxing match to headline the arena in the opener of their trilogy.

As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for an annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays.

Macy’s swung to a profit in the fourth quarter, though sales dipped with shoppers still cautious about spending.

President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 885th career goal midway through the third period of the Washington Capitals’ game against New York Rangers on Wednesday night, moving nine away from tying Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record.

The megahit Broadway musical “Hamilton” is pulling out of plans to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.

Tom Llamas will succeed Lester Holt as NBC “Nightly News” anchor this summer, but he'll be working double duty.

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power.

Prosecutors in upstate New York say seven people were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was subjected to weeks of torture.

Some retailers are beginning to take a more cautious approach with their financial forecasts as they keep a closer eye on signs of a pullback in consumer spending.

An insider account being billed as an “explosive” memoir about “seven critical years” at Facebook/Meta will be published next week.

Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts.

Big boxing in New York for long meant Madison Square Garden, in recent years Barclays Center as well.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has joined billionaire Frank McCourt’s bid to acquire TikTok as a strategic adviser.

The final race of the headfirst-sliding sport known as skeleton awaits Ukrainian athletes Vladyslav Heraskevych and Yaroslav Lavreniuk.

Sir Anthony Hopkins will have a memoir out this fall, its title inspired by a childhood picture.

The New York State Athletic Commission said a “technical issue” prevented officials from seeing replay of Gervonta Davis going to a knee in the ninth round of his fight against Lamont Roach.

The head of the FBI’s New York field office, who was reported to have resisted Justice Department efforts to scrutinize agents who participated in politically sensitive investigations, has told coworkers that he has retired from the bureau after being directed to do so.

Yankees right-hander Luis Gil will start the season on the injured list because of a high-grade lat strain in his pitching shoulder that will prevent him from throwing for at least six weeks.

Auburn and Duke remain atop the AP Top 25.

“Captain America: Brave New World” kept falling but still hovered above all others at a weak weekend box office.

RJ Luis Jr. scored 21 points and No. 7 St. John’s beat Seton Hall 71-61 to clinch its first outright regular-season Big East title since 1985 on Saturday.

Times Square will stage a boxing tripleheader featuring the returns of Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, along with a title defense for Teofimo Lopez, on May 2.

New York’s governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure “antisemitic theories” would not be taught.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, and activists and advocacy groups are alarmed by what that will mean for non-English speakers when it comes to immigration, voter access and other issues.

Wall Street closed its dreary February on a brighter note, as U.S. stock indexes rallied.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has dropped several enforcement actions against companies like Capital One and Rocket Homes, just weeks under new leadership and turmoil at the agency caused by orders from Trump administration.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has serious concerns about the British government’s reported demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any data stored in the cloud.

At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor.

The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm.

U.S. stock indexes fell sharply as Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology faltered some more.

President Donald Trump's administration has given New York until March 21 to comply with its order to halt Manhattan’s new congestion pricing system.

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A horse that fell through the ice of an upstate New York pond was saved by rescuers who pulled together fiercely on ropes to free the animal from the frigid water.

Paul McCartney’s next book, coming out this fall, is a reminder that the Beatles were not his only band.