The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday disbursed $1.4 billion to Ukraine to help mitigate the effects of the ongoing war. Photo by Ukrainian State Emergency Service/ UPI | License Photo March 9 (UPI) — The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved the disbursement of $1.4 billion in emergency financing support to Ukraine to…Continue Reading

Arizona Cardinals inside linebacker Jordan Hicks (58), shown Jan. 2, 2022, signed with the team in 2019 and recorded 100-plus tackles in all three of his seasons in Arizona. File Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI | License Photo March 9 (UPI) — The Arizona Cardinals released starting inside linebacker and defensive captain Jordan Hicks on Wednesday,…Continue Reading

1/5 The unnamed project will feature full access to Lewis Hamilton (pictured) and his team, along with multiple guest interviews. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo March 9 (UPI) — Apple TV+ announced Wednesday it has landed the rights to a feature documentary film about the life and career of seven-time Formula One…Continue Reading

1/5 The Florida House on Wednesday sent a bill to make the state the first to establish an election crimes and voter fraud office to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. File Photo by Gary I Rothstein/UPI | License Photo March 9 (UPI) — Florida’s House on Wednesday approved a measure that would make the state the first…Continue Reading

1/8 Residents cross the destroyed bridge as they flee from the frontline town of Irpin in the Kyiv region of Ukraine on Wednesday. Photo by Mikhail Palinchak/EPA-EFE March 9 (UPI) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of genocide late Wednesday after Kyiv officials said Kremlin forces bombed a children’s hospital and a maternity ward,…Continue Reading

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Pelicans scoring leader Brandon Ingram, who sat out games games on Tuesday and Wednesday because of a sore right hamstring, will be sidelined at least another week, the club announced Wednesday night.An MRI revealed a mild strain of the injured hamstring, the team announced, adding that Ingram would be…Continue Reading

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Sustained, palpable anger in China over the case of a mother of eight found chained inside a shed has prompted an unusually strong government response to human trafficking at the annual session of China’s rubber-stamp legislature. The issue even merited a brief mention by China’s premier Li Keqiang in his annual…Continue Reading

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s cabinet secretary who oversaw an investigation into the state’s attorney general for a 2020 fatal car crash on Wednesday urged House lawmakers to bring impeachment charges against him, alleging in a letter that the attorney general was distracted, was untruthful during the investigation and previously traded…Continue Reading

DALLAS (AP) — A 25-year-old woman who grew up in North Texas is suing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, alleging he’s her biological father.Alexandra Davis says in a lawsuit filed last week in Dallas County that she was conceived from a relationship Jones had with her mother, Cynthia Davis, in the mid-1990s, The Dallas Morning…Continue Reading