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U.S. sets up gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics by cruising past Slovakia

MILAN (AP) — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead at a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics. After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the North American rivals could meet before the final, but there was work left to do. After routing Slovakia 6-2 in the semifinals on Friday night, the much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold is on. “It’s the matchup everyone wanted,” Werenski said after his three-assist performance against Slovakia. “Now that it’s finally here, we can kind of shift our ...

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Rarely do people stumble into their meaningful goals and values. Beautiful ideals are more commonly hard-won. Dreams demand their sacrifice, and that’s the theme of this conjunction of Saturn and Neptune. The hard work you put in only makes the outcome sweeter, giving form to what once lived only in longing. ARIES (March 21-April 19). It used to feel weird to witness the one who seemed to have it all and act like you weren’t inwardly comparing yourself. Now you’ll notice you’re over it. You actually enjoy the inspiration. It sparks ideas. You try things. TAURUS (April 20-May ...

Hints From Heloise

Don’t pick at the produce please Dear Heloise: I frequently see fellow shoppers in the grocery store produce section who snatch and eat bits of items there — grapes, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, little peppers, and even a small apple one day. While individual instances are miniscule, this “grazing” over time can have a significant impact on inventory costs, which jacks up the prices that we all pay. Oh, by the way, it is also shoplifting ... theft ... stealing. Don’t do it. — Jim R., in Houston Jim, it’s also unsanitary. You never know how many unwashed hands ...

Lukas prize finalists spotlight Baldwin biography and a searing look at Ukraine’s war

NEW YORK (AP) — A biography of James Baldwin, a deep and personal probe into the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a revelatory history of the American West inspired by a 19th century photograph are among this year’s finalists for prizes established in honor of the late investigative journalist J. Anthony Lukas. The finalists in three categories were announced Thursday by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, which oversee the Lukas Prize Project. Danielle Leavitt’s “By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the ...

Balancing independence with newfound curiosity

Dear Annie: I need advice about a situation I never expected. I’m 37, single and mostly happy with my life. Then my new neighbor moved in. He’s charming and easy to talk to, and I realized I’m suddenly aware of every interaction, overthinking every glance or comment. He’s friendly and sociable, nothing overt, but I catch myself reading too much into casual gestures. I find myself planning my errands around seeing him, replaying conversations in my head, and feeling a strange mix of excitement and anxiety I haven’t felt in a long time. I’ve always been independent and ...

We have a spending problem, not a tax issue

Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year’s extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the Congressional Budget Office’s latest 10-year outlook reads less like a fiscal forecast than a warning label. Between now and 2036, the CBO projects $94.6 trillion in federal spending against $70.2 trillion in revenue, a decadelong deficit of $24.4 trillion. Outlays reached 23.1% of GDP in 2025, ...