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Early-round picks generate excitement, get bigger contracts Dramatic video shows Oklahoma high school principal tackle, disarm gunman as students flee 04/15/2026 03:15pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Newly released video shows a high school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student who entered the lobby of the school and began firing a pistol. Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore was shot in the leg during the April 7 attack, but managed to wre Mount Holyoke’s corpse flower blooms again, drawing crowds to its ‘rotting flesh’ stench 04/15/2026 03:03pm • SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (AP) — One person entered the lush, green Victorian-era greenhouse and smelled rotting eggs. Another said the odor evoked the memory of dissecting a dead bird. A third compared it to a stinky diaper baking in the sun. “I was expecting it to smell bad, but it smelled genuinely Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues 04/15/2026 03:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues. DC area hits record highs Wednesday as heat wave moves through East Coast 04/15/2026 02:57pm • The D.C. region is getting an early blast of summer, as the heat wave has broken records across the area. Temps reached 90 degrees at Reagan National Airport, topping the record of 89 set in 1941. Dulles saw a high of 91, breaking the record of 87 from 1967. BWI hit 91, surpassing the high of 88 Prosecutors sought access to Federal Reserve building as Trump threatens to fire Powell 04/15/2026 02:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit. Two prosecutors and an investigator from U Senate again rejects effort to halt Trump's war in Iran as Republicans hold firm behind president 04/15/2026 02:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate again rejects effort to halt Trump's war in Iran as Republicans hold firm behind president. With Jaylen Brown leading and Jayson Tatum back, Celtics are whole again and NBA title contenders 04/15/2026 02:52pm • BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics heard loud and clear what everyone what was saying about them before this season. They heard all the predictions about how they would take a step back from the NBA’s top tier with Jayson Tatum rehabbing from the ruptured Achilles tendon he suffered in the playoff Police identify 2 boys killed in shooting in DC's Mayfair neighborhood 04/15/2026 02:26pm • Two young boys have died after they were shot near a convenience store in Northeast D.C. on Tuesday afternoon, according to D.C. police. One boy, 14-year-old Tyale Coates, was pronounced dead at the scene and a second boy, 12-year-old Mhilo Young, later died at the hospital, police told WTOP on W From play-in purgatory to Knicks playoff series, Hawks forge new identity in wake of Young's exit 04/15/2026 02:24pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young rose from the bench, shook the hands of his teammates and bid farewell to the 15,993 fans in State Farm Arena midway through the fourth quarter of the Hawks’ Jan. 7 win over the Pelicans. 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