From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations.

Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns, Malik Davis sprinted 43 yards for a score and the Dallas Cowboys overcame two fourth down TD throws from Patrick Mahomes in a 31-28 Thanksgiving victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Black Friday may no longer be the retail bacchanalia of years past, but the event still has enough enthusiasts to make it the biggest single shopping day in the U.S.

Best Buy is raising its profit and sales expectations ahead of the holiday shopping season after a strong third quarter.

The Dallas Wings won the WNBA draft lottery for the second consecutive season on Sunday night.

The NHL has issued an automatic one-game suspension to Mikko Rantanen after the Dallas Stars forward’s second major penalty and ejection for boarding in a span of three games.

Eight of the top 10 teams in the AP Top 25 poll either had the day off or faced easy opponents on Saturday.

New York Knicks All-Star Jalen Brunson scored a game-high 28 points in a 113-111 win over the Dallas Mavericks after sitting out two games with a grade 1 ankle sprain.

Tennessee Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed has been indicted in Texas on a misdemeanor charge for failing to report an aggravated assault.

Travelers can expect to see fewer flights to many major U.S. cities starting Friday morning.

The Dallas Cowboys have traded for star defensive tackle Quinnen Williams of the Jets in a major move to try to improve one of the NFL’s worst defenses.

No. 10 Miami doesn't have any more margin for error after the second loss in three weeks for the Hurricanes.

Dak Prescott threw for three touchdowns, including a 74-yarder to CeeDee Lamb, DaRon Bland returned an interception 68 yards for a score after Jayden Daniels left with a hamstring injury and the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Commanders 44-22. Lamb had 110 yards on five catches after a high ankle sprain kept him out of the previous three games. Daniels was injured early in the second half when he lost a fumble on a sack. He has already missed two games this season with an ankle injury.

Warren McVea, the speedy running back who was the first Black player to receive a football scholarship to a major Texas school and later helped Kansas City win its first Super Bowl title, died Sunday after a long illness.

Stars coach Glen Gulutzan has repeatedly said he wants the team to compete more in every aspect.

Newly released records reveal details about the gunman who attacked a Dallas immigration facility in September.

Ryan Niblett returned a punt 75 yards for a decisive touchdown in the fourth quarter and Texas got a much-needed 23-6 win over sixth-ranked Oklahoma.

Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer threw for 202 yards and three interceptions in his return for sixth-ranked Oklahoma.

Glen Gulutzan has returned to a much different situation in Dallas.

The Dallas Wings have fired coach Chris Koclanes after going 10-34 in his only season.

A Mexican man who was among three people shot at a Dallas immigration field office last week has died, becoming the second person killed in the attack.

The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have varying security levels, with some heavily secured and others more exposed.

Authorities say a shooter with a rifle opened fire from a roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas.

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others before taking his own life.

Baylor quarterback Sawyer Robertson is The Associated Press national college football player of the week.

SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings has two 75-yard touchdowns while completing all 10 of his passes in the first half of the 17th-ranked Mustangs’ first game against former Southwest Conference rival Baylor since 2016.

The playoff picture in the WNBA is unclear with nine days remaining in the regular season.

Distracted driving endangers lives on the road every day, and a researcher at Virginia Tech is sharing tips on how to stay safe when your phone tempts you while you’re behind the wheel.

The Indiana Fever have overcome a barrage of critical injuries to stay in the WNBA playoff hunt.

Even with many of its top stars sidelined, the WNBA has still had strong ratings and attendance numbers this season.

The Indiana Fever will face the rival Chicago Sky on Saturday without Caitlin Clark and two other key players who suffered season-ending injuries in Thursday’s loss at Phoenix.

A sex toy landed near Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham after it was thrown from the stands in Los Angeles while the Fever played the Sparks on Tuesday night.

The WNBA-leading Minnesota Lynx have acquired DiJonai Carrington in a trade from Dallas.

Waymo has announced plans to expand its robotaxi service to Dallas next year.

The Los Angeles Chargers and Detroit Lions already have kicked off training camp.

A’ja Wilson scored a season-high 37 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for her eighth double-double of the season and the Las Vegas Aces held off a late rally to beat the Dallas Wings 90-86.

LIV Golf is trying again to get world ranking points.

Opening night at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas has turned into an annual spectacle.

Caitlin Clark expects to play Wednesday when the Indiana Fever host the Golden State Valkyries after missing the past five games with a left groin injury.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has sparked reactions from Cleveland and Detroit after questioning the WNBA's decision to expand to those cities.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has raised concerns about the WNBA's choice of markets for its three latest expansion teams.

Caitlin Clark was ruled out of the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final with a strained groin in her third straight absence for the Indiana Fever.

Paige Bueckers will play in her first WNBA All-Star Game while Nneka Ogwumike has earned her 10th selection.

The Houston Rockets continued their offseason improvements by adding veteran forward Dorian Finney-Smith on a four-year, $53 million deal shortly after the NBA’s free agency window officially opened.

Caitlin Clark and Napheesa Collier will captain the WNBA All-Star Game next month the league announced Sunday.

Dallas Wings standout rookie Paige Bueckers has been ruled out of Saturday night’s home game against Washington because of a right knee issue.

A person with knowledge of the deal says the Dallas Mavericks and Kyrie Irving have agreed on a $119 million, three-year contract with the All-Star guard still recovering from a torn ACL that will sideline him into the 2025-26 season.

NBA star Kevin Durant has purchased a minority stake in Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain.

Varsity Spirit is starting a professional cheerleading league promising to pay athletes.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed banning same-sex marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.

Former NFL player Kelvin Joseph is facing charges for his involvement in a crash that killed a female motorcyclist on a Dallas-area freeway, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a chance to make a whole slew of history in these NBA Finals.

The Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder have two of the NBA’s best offenses.

This playoff run has felt different for Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers.

Dallas Stars starting goalie Jake Oettinger was pulled after giving up two goals on the only two shots he faced in the first 7:09 of a must-win Game 5 in the Western Conference final against Edmonton.

Global Citizen is unveiling the lineup for its summer conference on urban revitalization in Detroit.

It's really not as bad as it sounds for the Dallas Stars that Mikko Rantanen has gone four playoff games in a row without scoring a goal.

The Dallas Stars aren’t getting shut out on the power play in the Western Conference final against Edmonton this time.

The fastest-growing city in the U.S. last year was a Dallas suburb that saw its population jump by nearly a third.

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Winnipeg Jets fans have showered Jake Oettinger with chants referring to his role as the USA Hockey backup goalie to Connor Hellebuyck during the 4 Nations Face-Off earlier this year.

Another playoff hat trick for a Finnish forward the Dallas Stars acquired in a trade during the regular season.

Mikael Granlund had his first career playoff hat trick, Jake Oettinger stopped 31 shots and the Dallas Stars beat Winnipeg 3-1 to take a 3-1 series series lead over the top seed in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.

Government data shows U.S. retail egg prices have declined for the first time since October.

The ping-pong balls have spoken: Cooper Flagg might be headed to Dallas to start his NBA career.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas.

Paige Bueckers raised the expectations and excitement level for the Dallas Wings and their fans many months before she was even drafted by the WNBA team.

Wyatt Johnston scored 9 seconds in for the quickest goal ever to start a playoff game for the Dallas Stars.

The Dallas Stars got off a fast start in Game 5 of their Western Conference series against Colorado.

Paige Bueckers is doing her best to live in the present during what has been an insanely busy stretch.

New Colorado goalie Mackenzie Blackwood is already having a big impact on the Avalanche in their eighth consecutive postseason.

Ja Morant shrugged off a sprained right ankle to score 22 points and add nine assists and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Dallas Mavericks 120-106 on Friday night to advance to the NBA playoffs.

The Lakers often attract large betting interest anyway.

The chief of police for the Dallas Independent School District says the student who shot four students when he opened fire at a Dallas high school this week was in and out of the building in less than two minutes and is believed to have been targeting a specific student.

Klay Thompson scored 16 of his 23 points in Dallas’ dominant second quarter to get redemption for his dud in Sacramento a year ago, helping the Mavericks beat the Kings 120-106 on Wednesday night to advance in the Play-In Tournament.

The student accused of injuring four in a shooting at a Dallas high school was let into the building through an unsecured door and then walked down a hallway toward a group of students, opening fire on them before appearing to take a point-blank shot at one.

School district officials say a suspect in a shooting at a Dallas high school that wounded four students and drew a heavy police response to the campus has been taken into custody.

Paige Bueckers will be heading to Dallas, the latest transcendent college star to go No. 1 in the WNBA draft.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

Former Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond, who is projected as a likely second-day pick in this month’s NFL draft, surrendered on a sexual assault warrant Thursday and was released after posting bail, according to published reports.

Luka Doncic scored 45 points in his first game in Dallas since being traded to the Los Angeles, helping the Lakers wrap up a playoff spot with a 112-97 victory over the Mavericks on Wednesday night.

Kiefer Sherwood set an NHL record three weeks ago by accumulating the most hits in a season.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is set to testify to Congress about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny, newly discovered flower in West Texas are hoping it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally fell in the area.

A county clerk in New York has refused to file a more than $100,000 judgment from Texas against a New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas.

History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Court records show that Dallas rapper Yella Beezy has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of fellow rapper Mo3 on a busy interstate in 2020.

Oklahomans are assessing the devastation after wildfires damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes around the state during a severe weather outbreak.

Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban says he wouldn’t have traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers without receiving much more in return.

Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving has a torn ACL in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

Extinction is still forever.

KKyrie Irving suffered a left knee sprain and shot free throws for the Mavericks before leaving the floor in obvious pain late in the first quarter of Dallas' 122-98 loss to the Sacramento Kings.

The opportunity to acquire a defenseman like Seth Jones might seem like a simple decision.

Two of the biggest lottery jackpots in Texas history are under investigation over claims that the winners may have benefitted from more than good luck.

Conference commissioners who are part of the College Football Playoff have put off any decisions on potential changes to the format, including how the 12-team field is seeded.

Anthony Davis will be sidelined at least two more weeks with the groin injury sustained in his Dallas debut, while the Mavericks say their star forward is making good progress in his recovery.

The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files.

PepsiCo says high prices and changing consumer tastes have weakened U.S. demand for its snacks and drinks.