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Ah, the Houston Astros. Good at stealing signs. Not so good at pretending they’re sorry about it. The team’s official mea culpa Thursday in Florida turned out to be as predictable as it gets. From owner to star players the message was the same, almost as if it had been rehearsed the night before. A

ORLANDO, Fla. — By 2060, almost a quarter of all U.S. residents will be over age 65, and life expectancy will reach an all-time high of 85 years, according to two new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday. The growth in life expectancy in the U.S. over the next four decades is expected

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Major League Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League by joining with the Major League Baseball Players Association to announce their second joint $1 million donation to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, “It commemorates baseball history, and it’s a tribute to African-American entrepreneurship in the

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It happens several times a game. Arizona Coyotes right wing Conor Garland appears to be hemmed in by two opponents, jolts to a stop and changes direction in one motion. The opposing skaters drift by, unable to match the startlingly sudden shift, and Garland motors ahead to find a teammate or the

The weight loss drug Belviq is being pulled from the market because of a slight increased risk of cancer. The drug’s maker, Japan’s Eisai Inc., said Thursday that it has agreed to voluntarily withdraw Belviq at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. However, the company said in a statement that it disagrees

Major stock indexes closed with modest losses Thursday after a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street that snapped a three-day streak of all-time highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Investors turned cautious following news of a surge in cases of the new virus in China. The latest figures dashed hopes that the spread

SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain — Real Sociedad beat second-division club Mirandés 2-1 at home Thursday in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal. Mikel Oyarzabal put Sociedad in front in the ninth minute from the penalty spot. But Mirandés outplayed the hosts for long stretches and equalized in the 41st through striker Matheus Aias.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas junior forward Jericho Sims has been struggling with a back injury that is still being evaluated as the Longhorns get ready to play at Iowa State, coach Shaka Smart said Thursday. Smart did not detail what the injury is, but said Sims has been bothered by it for several weeks. He

LOS ANGELES — Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity, tucked under the wing of its special carrier aircraft, headed east Thursday from Southern California on a long-awaited ferry flight to its new home in New Mexico, where it will be prepared for commercial operations carrying tourists on hops into space, the company said. The mothership, named

NEW YORK — A crowning jewel of the new exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology is a feathered white tutu. It may look, to the untrained eye, like any ballet costume. It is, however, anything but. Worn by the iconic Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in her most famous role, the Dying Swan, the tutu

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Survival is the most important skill in the Daytona 500. NASCAR’s season opener is a three-hour, white-knuckle thrill ride in cramped quarters at 200 mph that’s as much about finding holes and help than having speed and handling. The fastest car rarely wins and has as good a shot at ending

LOS ANGELES — Matt Kuchar had the game to match the ideal conditions Thursday at Riviera, opening with two straight birdies and never letting up until he had a 7-under 64 and a three-shot lead among early starters in the Genesis Invitational. Tiger Woods, the tournament host, played in afternoon as he tries to set

MILAN — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a late penalty Thursday to help Juventus salvage a 1-1 draw at 10-man AC Milan in the first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal. Ronaldo’s stoppage-time penalty canceled out Ante Rebic’s 62nd-minute opener for Milan, which will be without Zlatan Ibrahimović for the return fixture because of a suspension. Milan

CHARLESTON, S.C. — An 18-year-old girl is in custody, accused of vandalizing a mosque in South Carolina, police said. Charleston Police arrested Hailey Elizabeth Riddle on Thursday on a charge of malicious injury to a place of worship for alleged vandalism at the Islamic Center of Charleston on Jan. 30. It was unknown if she

NEW YORK — The debate over unrealistic body ideals for women is a long-standing one, but the same discussion over expectations for men hasn’t reached the same cultural pitch. That was the motivation behind Ryan’s Secret, a different kind of show at New York Fashion Week that featured plus size men proudly baring skin. “Especially

PHOENIX — A man described as a disgruntled former Waymo driver has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately crashing a passenger car into one of the company’s vans with self-driving capabilities near Phoenix, authorities said Thursday. Tempe police said Raymond Tang, 31, was booked into jail Wednesday night and is facing felony charges of aggravated

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Thursday that 75 of the country’s business leaders have committed tens of millions of dollars for a symbolic raffle of the luxurious presidential jet that he has tried unsuccessfully to sell for over a year. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the participation by many of Mexico’s wealthiest, including telecom

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Thursday: Applied Materials Inc., up $2 to $67.37 The chipmaking equipment company gave investors a surprisingly good profit and revenue forecast, along with solid earnings. Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., down $5.82 to $29.97 The seller of skin care and nutritional products through a direct-selling

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — A 911 dispatcher speaking to a desperate driver who had veered into a frozen northern Indiana pond should have focused on advising her how to get herself and her three young children to safety instead of spending the beginning of the call trying to determine the pond’s location, an investigation found. Research

PITTSBURGH — A lawyer with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office told a panel of judges Thursday to uphold a state law that bars some convicted felons from legally changing their names, in a case brought by three transgender women. Alexander Korn said during Commonwealth Court oral argument in Pittsburgh that overturning that provision of the