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With the skyline of Kansas City behind them, the Kansas City Current and the Portland Thorns FC line up before the start of an NWSL soccer match at the new CPKC Stadium, March 16, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)

The growth of women’s sports is spurring a building boom

While it might not be the flashiest way to chart success, a building boom is showing that more investment is flowing into women’s sports. There’s already a dedicated soccer stadium in the National Women’s Soccer League and another one is planned.
 
Egyptian wrestler Ashraf Mahrous, better known as Kabonga, pulls a train for nearly 10 meters, 33 feet, at Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, as he is watched by Guinness World Record observers, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ID:

He can pull a train by the strength of his teeth. An Egyptian wrestler sets 3 world records

 
Shaquille Latimore, second from right, sits with two players on the youth football league he assistant coaches at a park in south St. Louis on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (Allie Schallert/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Father gets 13 years for shooting youth football coach over son’s playing time

 
In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victim rests on a mattress at a UNICEF office in Sudan, Dec. 2, 2024. According to UNICEF, the girl and her 19- year- old sister, were kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers for four months, before they escaped and later learned they were both pregnant.(Tess Ingram/UNICEF via AP)

UN: Sudan war is world’s worst humanitarian crisis: 30 million need aid, 16 million of them kids

 
President William McKinley High School campus is seen in Honolulu, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, File)

Utah judge orders release of suspect in 1977 Hawaii killing after prosecution stalls

 

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Ukrainian soldiers react to US lifting suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing

Soldiers of the 13th of National Guard Khartia Brigade reacted to U.S. President Trump’s announcement to lift a suspension of military aid for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion. “Motzart,” an artillery battery commander of the Khartia Brigade, said “America is a strategic partner of Ukraine and it is very important to support each other in such times.”
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South Korea, US militaries hold combined air assault drill as part of annual Freedom Shield exercise

Russian regions came under massive drone attack

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‘Young Guns 3: Dead or Alive’ to film in New Mexico

 
Flowers sit on the Senate desk of late North Dakota state Sen. Doug Larsen, on Oct. 6, 2023, in the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, file)

North Dakota lawmaker became disoriented by darkness before plane crash that killed 4

 
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen near sunset in Washington, Oct. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to partly allow birthright citizenship restrictions

 

Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow birthright citizenship restrictions to partly take effect

 
Kentucky state Rep. Jason Nemes listens during the opening session of the Kentucky state Legislature in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kentucky lawmakers add specific medical exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban

 

Peru passes law critics claim will hamper the ability of NGOs to defend human rights

 
Mariana dam disaster victims, from right, Pamela Fernandes, Gelvana Rodrigues, Monica dos Santos and former interim mayor of Mariana, Juliano Duarte, holding a banner outside the High Court, in London, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

London judge to rule on whether mining company is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster

 
FILE Alek Wek, left, poses in the press room with Demna Gvasalia, winner of the international award, at the CFDA Fashion Awards at the Hammerstein Ballroom, June 5, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Gucci names Demna new aristic director, as he moves from Kering sister brand Balenciaga

 
This image made from a May 24, 2016 video by KWTV-KOTV, shows a funnel cloud moving across the field near Dodge City in Ford County, Kan. (KWTV-KOTV via AP, File)

What causes tornadoes and how to decipher watches and warnings

 
From left to right Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Greece' Foreign minister Giorgos Gerapetritis and Cyprus' Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, shake hands during a trilateral meeting on energy cooperation in Athens, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece says ambitious Mediterranean power cable project is on track despite setbacks

 
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin and President Donald Trump speak during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

RFK Jr.’s first month as health secretary: Touting French fries and casting doubts on vaccines

 
FILE -Spirit Airlines planes parked at the closed George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Jan. 21, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy protection as travel demand slows

 
Jailed, former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, attends his trial on charges of rebellion at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru’s detained ex-President Castillo transferred to a hospital days after starting hunger strike

 
Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus, April 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

Some universities are freezing hiring as Trump threatens federal funding

 

UN judge from Uganda is convicted in the UK of forcing a woman into slavery

 
Demonstrators rally in support of federal workers outside of the Department of Health and Human Services, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Judge orders Trump to rehire probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies

 
Star, a pet reindeer, is shown in the backyard of his owner Albert Whitehead in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Iconic pet reindeer in Alaska falls mysteriously ill after someone tampers in his pen

 

Judge in mass firing case orders Trump administration to reinstate probationary federal workers across multiple agencies

 
The roof of the Tropicana Field is damaged the morning after Hurricane Milton hit the region, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File)

Tampa Bay Rays withdraw from planned $1.3 billion ballpark in St. Petersburg, citing storms, delays

 

Tampa Bay Rays withdraw from plans for new $1.3 billion ballpark in St. Petersburg, citing hurricanes and delays

 
New York Police officers arrest a demonstrator from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, who protested inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Jewish protesters flood Trump Tower’s lobby to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release

 
The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS swaps its chief counsel for a lawyer friendly with DOGE, AP sources say

 
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appears in U.S. District Court in Boston, Friday, April 14, 2023. (Margaret Small via AP)

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to obstructing justice, calls himself a ‘proud patriot’

 

Putin says he agrees in principle with US ceasefire proposal, stresses it should pave the way to lasting peace

 

Guardsman who leaked U.S. documents about the war in Ukraine pleads guilty at court-martial to obstruction of justice

 

5 children killed and 2 others are missing after a dam collapses in Zimbabwe

 

Kosovo’s war crime-charged ex-president briefly released to visit his ill father

 
Patrick Bahati is treated for Mpox at the Miti Murhesa hospital, some 25kms from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

US aid cuts are hurting Africa’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks, health chief says

 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown and keep federal agencies funded through September, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats refuse to go along with GOP spending plan, as shutdown deadline nears

 
This is a locator map for Egypt with its capital, Cairo. (AP Photo)

At least 8 people are killed when a passenger train slams into a minibus in Egypt

 
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