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All Times EDT (Home teams listed first) SECOND ROUND First leg Thursday, Feb. 20 APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus) 0, Basel (Switzerland) 3 AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands) 1, LASK (Austria) 1 Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) 2, Porto (Portugal) 1…

Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez says Juan Soto will start in left field and bat fourth in his season debut

Mike Hoffman and Brian Boyle scored 2:07 apart in the opening minutes of the third period, and the Florida Panthers avoided elimination with a 3-2 win over the New York Islanders in Game 3 of their preliminary round playoff series

Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Shirley Ann Grau has died at the age of 91

The suspected driver of a car from which a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed as she watched television in her grandmother’s Chicago home has been charged with first-degree murder

A former student at an elite private school in Utah says in a lawsuit that administrators mishandled her 2017 sexual assault allegation as she endured bullying from classmates

Samsung aims to lift sinking smartphone sales with two new models that will test consumers’ willingness to buy high-priced gadgets during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression

UConn has canceled its 2020-2021 football season, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic

Facebook’s Instagram is launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says comments he made that fathers would risk dying to send their children back to school are being misconstrued

All Times Eastern EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST QUALIFYING ROUND (Best-of-5) Toronto N.Y. Rangers 0, Carolina 3 Saturday, Aug. 1: Carolina 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Monday, Aug. 3: Carolina 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 Tuesday, Aug. 4: Carolina…

The New York Times Co.’s digital transformation continued during the second quarter, with its online subscription and ad revenue now exceeding its print revenue, even as the economic aftershocks of the coronavirus pandemic slammed its ad sales