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The future has arrived for Canadiens

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson was no different than any Montreal hockey fan, increasingly impatient over talk of the team's promising potential. Turns out, the future has arrived perhaps a little ahead of schedule, and propelled by forward Alex Newhook's knack ...

Inside Wemby’s night

OKLAHOMA CITY — The numbers deserve a deeper look: 41 points, 24 rebounds, three blocked shots. Take a bow, Victor Wembanyama. That's a conference finals debut like none other in the NBA's 80-year history. The San Antonio star did everything — and a whole lot of it — in the Spurs' ...

PGA Championship lives up to major reputation

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The PGA Championship once used a slogan that only illustrated an identity crisis of a major often looked upon as the fourth of four. "This is major," it said, as if anyone should need a reminder. The 108th edition was every bit of a major, right down to Aaron ...

Too many politicians don’t understand economics I

am not an economist, but I do have some personal experience with the principles of economics and the rules that allow especially Americans to prosper while becoming more self-reliant and less dependent on government. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), aka AOC, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, graduated from Boston University cum laude, and then returned to the Bronx and worked as a bartender and waitress to help her mother fight foreclosure of their home. Nothing wrong with that, but her life experience apparently has taught her little. In some recent comments she ...

Democrats face midterm disappointment

As they look to the midterm elections, Republicans have reason to worry -- but not despair. They're going to be fighting uphill all the way to hold onto their majority in the House, which they currently control by the razor-thin margin of just six seats. That includes one member, California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who officially left the GOP but still caucuses with the party. "Fragile" hardly does justice to the state of the GOP's House majority. Democrats look at President Donald Trump's approval ratings and exult: As of early May, exactly six months before the midterms, Trump's ...