37+ min ago (623+ words) DEAR ABBY: My son is 27. He has had some problems recently that were so serious I reached out to his father. His father and I were teenagers when we had him, so the last time we spoke was 18 years ago... Sparks fly when ex returns DEAR ABBY: My son is 27. He has had some problems recently that were so serious I reached out to his father. His father and I were teenagers when we had him, so the last time we spoke was 18 years ago. Our relationship was really toxic, which is why we split when we were young. (We both had other children.) Since we've begun talking again, we have shared that the relationships we're in now aren't good. Mine is verbally and emotionally abusive. (He used to be physically abusive until two years ago.) Abby, all my feelings…...

11+ hour, 37+ min ago (170+ words) Cal Baptist Lancers (7-0) at Colorado Buffaloes (7-0) Boulder, Colorado; Monday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Colorado is looking to keep its seven-game win streak going when the Buffaloes take on Cal Baptist. The Buffaloes have gone 5-0 in home games. Colorado is fourth in the Big 12 with 18.6 assists per game led by Barrington Hargress averaging 5.6. The Lancers are 2-0 on the road. Cal Baptist has a 5-0 record in games decided by 10 points or more. Colorado scores 90.3 points, 27.3 more per game than the 63.0 Cal Baptist gives up. Cal Baptist averages 75.4 points per game, 2.5 fewer than the 77.9 Colorado gives up. TOP PERFORMERS: Isaiah Johnson is shooting 57.1% from beyond the arc with 1.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Buffaloes, while averaging 14.9 points. Sebastian Rancik is shooting 36.1% and averaging 13.1 points. Dominique Daniels Jr. is averaging 17.8 points and 4.2 assists for the Lancers. Martel Williams is averaging 16.0 points....

11+ hour, 37+ min ago (178+ words) The victims included both children and adults, said Heather Brent, a spokesperson for the San Joaquin County sheriff's office. Early indications "suggest this may have been a targeted incident," Brent said during a news conference at the scene. Local officials said the suspected shooter has not been caught and pleaded with the public for help. Detectives were still working to identify a possible motive. "If you have any information as to this individual, reach out immediately. If you are this individual, turn yourself in immediately," San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas said during a news conference. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. inside the banquet hall, which shares a parking lot with other businesses. Stockton is a city of 320,000 about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Sacramento. "Families should be together instead of at the hospital, standing next to their loved one,…...

11+ hour, 37+ min ago (297+ words) Dallas Mavericks (6-15, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (14-5, fourth in the Western Conference) Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Denver is looking to stop its three-game home skid with a win against Dallas. The Nuggets are 12-4 against conference opponents. Denver ranks third in the Western Conference with 34.1 defensive rebounds per game led by Nikola Jokic averaging 9.2. The Mavericks are 3-10 in conference play. Dallas ranks second in the Western Conference with 34.4 defensive rebounds per game led by P.J. Washington averaging 6.4. The 124.8 points per game the Nuggets score are 8.9 more points than the Mavericks allow (115.9). The Mavericks are shooting 44.4% from the field, 1.2% lower than the 45.6% the Nuggets' opponents have shot this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Jokic is averaging 28.9 points, 12.4 rebounds, 10.9 assists and 1.5 steals for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 7.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games. Cooper Flagg is averaging 16.7 points, 6.6 rebounds and…...

23+ hour, 5+ min ago (286+ words) Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists for Colorado to extend his NHL goals lead to 20 and his points lead to 44. Colorado, which had its 10-game winning streak snapped with a shootout loss at Minnesota on Friday, has a 16-game point streak (13-0-3). The Avalanche have won eight in a row at home and have just one regulation loss in 25 games (18-1-6). Brent Burns and Devon Toews also had goals for Colorado. Ivan Demidov and Lane Hutson scored for Montreal, which had a three-game winning streak snapped. Nelson got his milestone point when he beat Jakub Dobes with a wrister 7:32 into the game. He assisted on Landeskog's first goal and Burns' goal 50 seconds into the second before making it 4-0 at 3:55 of the second period. Mackenzie Blackwood made 21 saves but fell short of his bid for a third consecutive shutout when Demidov…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1074+ words) LONDON " British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998s "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said the Czech-born Stoppard " often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation " died "peacefully" at his home in Dorset in southwest England, surrounded by his family. "He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language," they said. "It was an honor to work with Tom and to know him." Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was among those paying tribute, calling Stoppard "a giant of the English theater, both highly intellectual and very funny in all his plays and scripts. "He had a dazzling wit and loved…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago (922+ words) Leo took his shoes off and, in his white socks, toured the 17th-century mosque, looking up at its soaring tiled domes and the Arabic inscriptions on its columns as an imam pointed them out to him. The Vatican had said Leo would observe a "brief moment of silent prayer" in the mosque, but he didn't. An imam of the mosque, Asgin Tunca, said he had invited Leo to pray, since the mosque was "Allah's house," but the pope declined. Later, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said: "The pope experienced his visit to the mosque in silence, in a spirit of contemplation and listening, with deep respect for the place and the faith of those who gather there in prayer." The Vatican then sent out a corrected version of its bulletin about the trip, removing reference to the planned "brief moment of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago (617+ words) Investigators continued Saturday to seek a motive in the shooting, in which the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, now faces charges including first-degree murder. Lakanwal is a 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War. He applied for asylum during the Biden administration and was granted it this year under Trump, according to a group that assists with resettlement of Afghans who helped U.S. forces in their country. The Trump administration has seized on the shooting to vow to intensify efforts to rein in legal immigration, promising to pause entry from some poor countries and review Afghans and other legal migrants already in the country. That is in addition to other measures, some of which were previously set in motion. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office said the charges against Lakanwal also include two counts of assault with intent to kill…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago (640+ words) Tankers Kairos and Virat were struck in quick succession late Friday afternoon, prompting rescue operations. Crew members on board both vessels were reported to be safe. Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said rescue services first received reports that the Kairos may have hit a mine before being told of an explosion on the Virat. "Our crews indicate that there were explosions on the other ship and that these were also caused by external interference," Uraloglu told broadcaster NTV early Saturday. "The first things that come to mind for external interference could be a mine, a missile, a marine vessel or a drone. We don't have definitive information on this." He later told reporters that the captain of the Virat tanker had issued a distress call over "a drone attack." The incidents took place within Turkey's exclusive economic zone,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago (506+ words) West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, were critically wounded in what officials described as an ambush attack on Wednesday afternoon, and Beckstrom died from her injuries the next day. Investigators are still working to establish a motive for the attack. Lakanwal, 29, has been charged with first-degree murder. In Afghanistan, Lakanwal worked in a special Afghan Army unit known as a Zero Unit. The units were backed by the CIA. He entered the U.S. in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a program that evacuated and resettled tens of thousands of Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal from the country, many of whom had worked alongside U.S. troops and diplomats. He resettled with his wife and their five sons, all under the age of 12, in Bellingham, Washington " but struggled, according to the community member, who shared emails that had been sent…...