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NEW YORK — Cardi B, Shawn Mendes and Calvin Harris are set to perform on the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour this holiday season. IHeartMedia announced Tuesday the 12-city tour kicks off Nov. 27 in Dallas. The lineup, which varies by city, also includes The Chainsmokers, Meghan Trainor, 5 Seconds of Summer, Bebe Rexha and Camila

U.S. stock indexes were mixed Tuesday, but there were some sharp divisions within them. Raw-material producers plunged on worries that inflation and weaker demand are eating into their profits. On the opposite end were technology stocks and other sectors, which recovered some of the sharp losses caused by last week’s rapid rise in interest rates.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa has let its defense carry the load nearly all season. The Hawkeyes might need some more help from their offense on Saturday at Indiana — like they got in last weekend’s 48-point explosion at Minnesota — to bolster a unit that sudden looks a lot thinner. Iowa (4-1, 1-1 Big

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The author of a book about the Humboldt Broncos and the deadly bus crash that rocked the junior hockey team says he had good intentions in choosing to publish the story. The crash in April killed 16 people and injured 13 more when the team bus collided with a semi-truck at a

AUBURN, Ala. — Darius Slayton was sprinting downfield without a Mississippi State defender in the vicinity. But on a trick play that otherwise worked to perfection, No. 21 Auburn’s quarterback Jarrett Stidham badly overthrew his streaking wide receiver. It’s been that kind of year for Stidham, who has struggled at times this season and knows

CLEVELAND — For the third year in a row, the unmistakable aroma of champagne wafted into the hallway outside the visitor’s clubhouse following the final game at Progressive Field. On the Cleveland side, the smell was sour. The Indians were built for one goal: to win their first World Series since 1948. Yet after cruising

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — George Taliaferro, the star Indiana running back who in 1949 became the first black player drafted in the NFL when George Halas and the Chicago Bears took him in the 13th round, has died. He was 91. The university spoke with Taliaferro’s family about his death in Mason, Ohio, senior associate athletic

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles antiques dealer has been sentenced to three years of probation after being convicted of selling ivory tusks in violation of state law. City Attorney Mike Feuer says Tuesday that Anthony James Buccola was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. Buccola’s company, Antonio’s Bella Casa, was also placed on

OMAHA, Neb. — Police say a male student stabbed a female student, then himself, at a high school in Omaha, Nebraska. The incident led to the lockdown Tuesday afternoon of Burke High School. The Omaha World-Herald reports the incident happened around 2:30 p.m. in the school’s Junior ROTC room. A school resource officer called in

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Denver Broncos linebacker Alexander Johnson has pleaded guilty to simple possession and failure to exercise due care while driving and had a DUI charge against him dismissed. Johnson agreed to a judicial diversion program enabling the charges to be dropped if he pays court costs and successfully completes 363 days of unsupervised

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Major motocross racing is headed back to Florida for the first time in 21 years. The 2019 schedule for the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship was announced Tuesday and will include a June 22 race at WW Ranch Motocross Park in Jacksonville. The series starts May 18 at the Hangtown Motocross Classic

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres have fired hitting coach Matt Stairs after one year on the job as the team continued to rank at the bottom of the majors in key offensive stats. General manager A.J. Preller confirmed the move Tuesday, saying in a text to The Associated Press: “We made the change.”

NEW YORK — James Gunn was fired from Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” but now he’s headed to DC Comics. Warner Bros. on Tuesday confirmed that Gunn will write the script to the studio’s next “Suicide Squad” installment. In July, Disney fired Gunn from the “Guardians” franchise he shepherded after jokes he wrote involving rape

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis is back in the hunt for a Major League Soccer expansion franchise after the family behind rental car company Enterprise Holdings announced a bid that calls for a new stadium built mostly with private funding. Members of the Taylor family said Tuesday that the franchise would be majority-owned by women,

Brooks Koepka had two sets of daily reminders for a season that PGA Tour players voted as the best. One was his annual list of goals that he writes every Jan. 1 during quiet time on the beach, some of them golf specific, some of them about life. He tacks the list in the middle

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The head of Russia’s giant state-controlled gas company says it plans to resume imports from Turkmenistan after a three-year break over a pricing dispute. Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said in televised remarks while visiting Turkmenistan that the company expects to start buying gas from the Central Asian country starting Jan. 1. Miller

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland interim coach Matt Canada has used both his quarterbacks in all five games this season, jockeying between Kasim Hill and Tyrrell Pigrome in an effort to get more production from an offense that has relied heavily on the run. Both quarterbacks run well, yet neither has distinguished himself as the

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend has added two more priests to the list of those who have been credibly accused of sexual abusing minors . The diocese on Tuesday placed Michael Paquet and Bruce A. Schutt on that list after further analysis by the Diocesan Review Board and Bishop

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed former Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles to help during Leonard Fournette’s absence. The 31-year-old Charles worked out for the team Tuesday morning and signed a one-year contract in the afternoon. The Jaguars (3-2) lost third-string running back Corey Grant (foot) for the season and don’t

Elvis Costello & The Imposters, “Look Now” (Concord Records) Like in “Anna Karenina,” the characters in “Look Now,” Elvis Costello’s sumptuous new album with The Imposters, are each unhappy in their own way. A woman who laments her deteriorated marriage while doing some renovations around the house (“Stripping Paper”); a dilapidated music-hall singer whose return

Drew Goddard, the screenwriter-turned-director whose feature debut was the meta-horror film “A Cabin in the Woods,” has laid another movie trap. This time, in the pulpy but artificial thriller “Bad Times at the El Royale,” it’s a motel. And as anyone who has ever watched a movie knows, bad things do indeed tend to happen

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota judge abruptly dismissed charges against three climate change activists during their trial on Tuesday, saying prosecutors failed to prove that the protesters’ attempt to shut down two Enbridge Energy oil pipelines caused any damage. Clearwater County District Judge Robert Tiffany threw the case out after prosecutors rested their case and before

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Authorities don’t know who dumped a four-foot-long reptile in Lake Michigan, but they now know what kind it is. After initially believing the animal spotted Monday swimming near Waukegan, Illinois, by a startled kayaker was a caiman, officials now say it is actually an alligator. Either way, it had no business paddling

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The International Olympic Committee has approved three candidate bids for the 2026 Winter Games and will pick a winner next June. IOC members have formally backed three bids recommended last week by their executive board: Calgary, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; and the combined Italian bid of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. A fourth

CINCINNATI — Ryan Tannehill tried to give his receiver a little more time to get open, but Geno Atkins was having none of it. The Bengals tackle closed quickly and smacked into the Dolphins quarterback as he released an incomplete pass to Kenny Stills. Just the start of a long day for Miami’s overmatched blockers.