McAdoo's three biggest baskets came after Pitt cut the Tar Heels’ lead to 63-61 with just under five minutes left. Heading to the other end, McAdoo showed no indecision in launching a 16-foot jumper from the left wing that hit nothing but net. Field of 68: SN projects the NCAA Tournament field Then, after the Panthers’ Lamar Patterson hit 1 of 2 free throws, UNC’s next possession featured McAdoo driving right into the lane and hitting a seven-foot jumper to give the Tar Heels a 67-62 advantage....

The meeting was announced last week, shortly after a second New York police officer died as the result of a fatal shooting after responding to a 911 call in Harlem. Gun crime in the Big Apple has been on the rise since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2022 has gotten off to a worryingly similar start. In January, The New York Daily News reported there had been a total of 1,562 recorded shootings in 2021, 30 more than in 2020....

Those surveillance tools were once viewed as a necessity by people in the U.S. in the prevention of more terror attacks, the AP reported. The decline in support for government surveillance comes as the end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan causes global threats to receive more attention. The poll found that 46 percent of Americans do not support the U.S. government reading emails between people outside the U.S. without a warrant, even though law allows the measure for foreign intelligence collection, compared to 30 percent who said they supported it....

The performer, real name Rakim Mayers, was detained on Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport after returning from a vacation in Barbados with his pregnant girlfriend, Rihanna, according to NBC News. The Los Angeles Police Department told the news outlet that the arrest stems from a 2021 shooting that Mayers was allegedly involved in when he was living in Los Angeles. According to law enforcement, Mayers is a suspect in a shooting near Vista Del Mar and Selma Avenue in the city on November 6 of that year....

It wasn’t a pretty end for the chicken, to be sure. And if a proposed lifting of a Chinese ban on the sale of tiger parts goes through, the fate of Tiger No. 31, currently a resident of this tiger park and breeding farm, may not be much better. After he dies, his bones will be crushed up into potions for treating rheumatism. His skin will be turned into a jacket....

The ticks are native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, eastern regions of Russia and China. They are a major livestock pest in Australia and New Zealand, where they were introduced more than 120 years ago. They were spotted for the first time in the United States in 2017 on a farm in New Jersey. Since then, they have spread to more than a dozen states across the country—primarily along the Eastern Seaboard—including Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia....

“Why [do I think it’s a hate crime]? Because I have my wallet with me. I still have my cell phone with me. The stuff I bought is still with me. Why would you attack someone you don’t know just to attack them?” Danny Yu Chang told Newsweek. Anti-Asian sentiments rose amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a recent report from Stop AAPI Hate identified nearly 4,000 hate incidents in the past year....

MORE: Cowboys’ Randle arrested for shoplifting | McClain’s career resurrected in Dallas | Eli Manning’s wild career against Cowboys Jana Weckerly had accused Jones of grabbing her genitals and forcibly kissing her in 2009. Weckerly also alleged an attorney for Jones took a memory card with photos and destroyed it, and that she was paid hush money for several years after the incident. Jones denied the allegations. State District Judge Dale Tillery ruled that the allegations, even if true, fell outside the five-year statute of limitations for civil sexual assault cases....

Not yet. It was a measure of the NRA’s lobbying power that so modest a bill, aimed at such obvious targets as assault weapons, barely cleared the Senate on a 50-49 vote. The guns have little legitimate use except in combat and have become the weapons of choice of terrorists, drug dealers and organized crime. Police across the country have broken with the NRA to call for the ban. In poll after poll, by margins of 70 percent or more, the public agrees, especially since the massacre of five children in a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif....

The researchers behind the discovery believe that what they have found is a binary star system with an orbiting body that emits clouds of dust that block light from its stellar hosts. The team, including Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Karen Collins, used the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to make the discovery. The primary mission of TESS is to spot exoplanets as they pass in front of their apparent stars, causing a usually minute dip in brightness....

Hinch takes over for Bo Porter, who was fired on Sept. 1 in his second year. Tom Lawless ran the team for the rest of the season on an interim basis. The Astros finished 70-92 and fourth in the AL West. Hinch managed the Diamondbacks from May 2009 until July 2010, when he was fired after 31-48 start. He was the vice president of professional scouting for the Padres from 2010 until last August....

Astros mascot Orbit, he of the species Homerunus Spectacularus, entertained the fans at Minute Maid Park on Sunday by crushing the “Single Ladies” choreography and even throwing on a black leotard. MORE: The good, bad and ridiculous of sports mascots | Astros’ Mike Fiers dismisses pine tar talk A masterpiece. If you want to see Orbit’s full performance, check it out here. A video posted by Houston Astros (@astrosbaseball) on Aug 23, 2015 at 12:19pm PDT

The Sudanese Mineral Resources Limited Company, a state-run mining company, said rescue workers and villagers are continuing their search of the mine in the West Kordofan province’s Fuja village, looking for more bodies or even possibly survivors. Al-Jazeera reported that the mine had been condemned due to safety concerns and that it had security patrolling the area to make sure miners did not try to enter. A mining official told Deutsche Welle, a German broadcaster, that authorities shut the mine down after four miners were killed there in January....

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, declared a one-month state of emergency on Saturday as some towns were almost completely razed by the damage. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the earthquake took place 7.5 miles northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud. The quake was so strong—it could be felt in neighboring countries—that the U.S. Tsunami Warning System temporarily issued a tsunami warning on Saturday morning. “The most important thing is to recover as many survivors as possible under the rubble,” Henry said Saturday....

Krueger’s 1997 death still haunts his family–and the MIT campus. Last week the university agreed to pay $4.75 million to Scott’s parents and $1.25 million to a scholarship fund in his memory. That’s believed to be a record settlement for such a death–and more than a jury might have awarded if the family had taken MIT to court. “At a very personal level, I feel that we at MIT failed you and Scott,” MIT’s president, Charles Vest, wrote to Bob and Darlene Krueger....

When AT&T reached out and touched the credit markets for $8 billion last week, it meant more than just a single corporation borrowing enough money to bail out Russia. It was an important step in AT&T’s corporate makeover from a dowdy long-distance company to a risk-taking outfit willing to roll the financial dice. Consider this. AT&T began the year with $5.6 billion of long-term debt–and expects to be about $30 billion in hock at year-end....

As you doubtless know, AT&T unveiled a complex plan last week to turn itself into three separate companies with four parts sporting a total of six different stocks. What you may not know is that a major motivation was AT&T’s worry that its falling stock price made it vulnerable to a hostile takeover. AT&T insists the breakup is a brilliant plan designed to liberate AT&T’s businesses and reward its shareholders, but even chairman C....

More than a week had gone by, amid rising violence, since a hawkish Israeli politician, Ariel Sharon, made a provocative visit to what Jews call the Temple Mount. Now rioting engulfed the knob of ground that is equally holy to Muslims, who call it the Noble Sanctuary. Standing at the edge of the mount, Arabs pelted a few Jews praying down below at the sacred Western Wall. Israeli police had pulled back from the mount in an attempt to cool passions....

The 28-year-old outfielder is resting comfortably at home, the team reported. He will be evaluated daily, and is expected to rejoin the team within the next week. Piscotty recently visited a dermatologist for a suspicious mole, and a biopsy came back positive for melanoma. Wednesday’s surgery, performed at California Pacific Medical Campus, was deemed successful. Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, has a 98 percent 10-year survival rate. Piscotty, who had career highs in 2018 in home runs (27) and RBIs (88) in his first year in Oakland, is slashing ....

Pitching for the Nashville Sounds Friday night against the Rangers’ Triple-A affiliate, the right-hander released a wild pitch, then immediately hit the ground and began writhing in pain. MORE: Strasburg dealing with tight back | Nelson Cruz dumps trash on Logan Morrison after homer SFGate.com reported that scouts and medical professionals who had seen the disturbing video mentioned the possibility of the injury being a fracture. The 26-year-old Parker burst on the scene for the A’s in 2012 with a 13-8 mark and 3....