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Be aware: Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon join forces to play for Canada at the ice hockey world championship after 10 years. As all eyes are on the NHL playoffs, the two major stars are in Europe for the worlds opening on Friday across the Swedish capital of Stockholm and Denmark’s city of Herning. It is the final men’s international test before the 2026 Winter Games in Italy, where NHL players return to the Olympics after 12 years. The two friends and neighbours in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were on the team that Crosby captained to gold at the 2015 worlds.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday. Buoyed by Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the Defense Department will begin going through medical records to identify others who haven’t come forward. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo, made his views clear after the court’s decision. “No More Trans @ DoD,” Hegseth wrote in a post…

Two dozen people rallied outside the detention facility in Aurora to call for the release of Carla Medina, a Honduran mother of two who has been detained for more than six months after delivering a DoorDash order to Buckley Space Force Base. Although she won her asylum case Thursday, Medina remains in federal custody for now. Still, she and her supporters considered the judge’s decision to be a victory. “I’m still in shock,” Medina said to the crowd over a video call from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. “I’m going to be able to reunite with my family…

Their lives were spent in wide-open Colorado countryside, the Ekeler family home a bumpy drive from a town too small to grasp the weight of NFL dreams. Austin and Wyett Ekeler grew up seven years apart, but accustomed to the same lifestyle in Eaton. They played catch outdoors, indoors. They fished for bass. They rode horses and watched others ride bulls. They wrestled. Austin usually won. Football, more so, was an afterthought. There were no high expectations, as Austin put it, that he’d ever make the NFL. He was 5-foot-5 as a freshman at Eaton High and a zero-star recruit…

For the third time in four seasons, the NHL has come calling for David Carle. He’s evolved from an intriguing young coaching candidate to one of the hottest names in the market, one that should be on every NHL club’s list when it has an opening. Two teams with some of the best young talent in the league and a potentially exciting future chased him in recent weeks. For the third time in four seasons, the DU hockey coach politely said, “Thanks, but no thanks.” “I’ve stated this before, but there’s no issue in being patient,” Carle said Thursday, three…

Two cars belonging to state legislators were vandalized Wednesday in the parking lot of the Colorado Capitol, police said. Colorado State Patrol’s Executive Security Branch, which is responsible for security at the state capitol and the governor’s residence, was first notified of the damage done to the vehicles at about 7:35 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from the agency. Cameras in the area captured a man throwing a rock through the window of Democrat Rep. Sean Camacho’s 2022 Rivian SUV at about 9:36 a.m. Wednesday, state officials said in the release. He then carved an expletive into the…

OKLAHOMA CITY — In case it wasn’t clear before, the Nuggets are dealing with the best team in the NBA. Measuring by point differential this season, it was the best team in league history, in fact. But point differential doesn’t matter in a playoff series — fortunately for Denver. If it did, the Thunder would be up by 41 after a 149-106 Game 2 rout on Wednesday. Instead, the count is simply 1-1 as the Nuggets return home needing to regroup for Game 3 on Friday. Denver trailed 87-56 at halftime after allowing the most points ever scored in a…

Today is Thursday, May 8, the 128th day of 2025. There are 237 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 8, 1978, David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom to murder, attempted murder and assault in connection with the “Son of Sam” shootings that claimed six lives and terrified New Yorkers. (Berkowitz was sentenced to six consecutive life prison terms.) Also on this date: In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River, the first recorded European to do so. In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican forces near…

Instant reaction from the Nuggets’ 149-106 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of their second-round NBA Playoffs series: 1. Scott Foster strikes again!: You know a game’s taking a truly weird turn when Patrick Beverley is crying foul. Literally. The quotable ex-NBA guard raised a flag during the first half of an ugly Nuggets-Thunder Game 2, posting to X that, “They calling this game a lil diff.” Darn straight. With 8:10 left in the contest, the Nuggets had been whistled for 27 fouls to OKC’s 19. But the gap felt a heck of a lot wider than…

This one’s going to leave a mark. And that’s saying something considering that the Rockies now own a 6-29 record. The Tigers beat them 8-6 in 10 innings on Wednesday night at Coors Field. Spencer Torkelson drove a double off closer Zach Agnos into the right-center gap to score ghost runner Riley Greene. Agnos got the next two hitters, but then came Colorado’s Keystone Cops moment. Trey Sweeny hit a flyball to shallow left, where left fielder Jordan Beck and shortstop Alan Trejo converged. There was confusion and a near collision, and the ball glanced off Beck’s glove for an…