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Nation's largest retail group forecasts 4.4% gain in retail sales for this year despite volatility 03/18/2026 03:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, is forecasting annual retail sales will grow at a faster clip this year than last year, citing consumers' resilience despite lots of economic volatility. But the group said Wednesday that the repercussions of Michigan can ease doctor shortage by raising pay for primary care, group says 03/18/2026 03:50pm • Michigan should invest in primary care doctors to ease a severe shortage of physicians that has led to long wait times, higher costs and missed care, a new report says. A 14-point plan released Tuesday by the Michigan State Medical Society, calls for vastly expanding pay and reimbursements. Overall, Shaq O'Neal offering to pay for the funeral of Georgia girl, 12, who died after a fight 03/18/2026 03:50pm • VILLA RICA, Ga. (AP) ��� Shaquille O'Neal is offering to pay for the funeral of a 12-year-old Georgia girl who died a few days after she collapsed following a fight after school. The former NBA superstar said he doesn't want the family of Jada West to deal with the financial burden of a funeral whil Maryland family reunites with missing cat after 5 years: "I was in disbelief" 03/18/2026 03:49pm • Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD COUNTY, Maryland (WJZ) -- A Harford County family was reunited with their cat, who went missing five years ago. Melissa and Brooke Garci thought they were never going to see their cat, Artemis, again, until the most unlikely scenario played out. What to know about the resurgent war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon 03/18/2026 03:45pm • BEIRUT (AP) ��� The latest war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has escalated quickly. Israeli strikes hit multiple neighborhoods in central Beirut, bringing down a multistory apartment building on Wednesday on a main thoroughfare and blasting out walls in others. The bombar The WBC is thriving. Rob Manfred says MLB might consider moving it to midseason 03/18/2026 03:45pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Having set attendance and broadcast viewer records, the World Baseball Classic will return in 2029 or 2030 and at some future point could be moved to midseason, when clubs would be less likely to restrict players. Since the WBC's inception in 2006, it has been played during spring tra Senegal slams 'illegal and deeply unjust' decision to strip Africa Cup title and pledges to appeal 03/18/2026 03:36pm • Senegal isn't giving up its Africa Cup of Nations title without a legal fight, with the country's soccer federation saying it will appeal the ���unfair, unprecedented, and unacceptable decision��� to strip the team of its victory in a chaotic final against host Morocco. The country���s government we Corpus Christi water emergency may be just two months away, city leaders say 03/18/2026 03:30pm • Corpus Christi leaders on Tuesday unveiled new projections suggesting that the city could be just two months away from triggering emergency water measures. At a marathon city council meeting that stretched for 10 hours, Nick Winkelmann, interim chief operating officer of Corpus Christi Water, outlin Gerrit Cole pitches scoreless inning in first spring training appearance since Tommy John surgery 03/18/2026 03:30pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� Gerrit Cole returned to a mound to pitch in a game after a 377-day absence and threw a scoreless first inning Wednesday for the New York Yankees in an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox. Cole threw 10 pitches, seven for strikes, including six four-seam fastballs that ave Idaho lawmakers order investigation of sexual assault in women���s prisons 03/18/2026 03:30pm • As a result of InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse of women by Idaho prison staff, lawmakers ordered an independent probe into the state���s handling of those allegations. During a meeting Friday, March 13, bipartisan members of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee directed Idah Pennsylvania regulators seek $2.6 million in penalties for deadly 2023 chocolate factory explosion 03/18/2026 03:29pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Pennsylvania regulators asked an administrative law judge on Wednesday to make a gas utility pay $2.6 million in civil penalties for a chocolate factory explosion three years ago that killed seven workers and sent flames shooting into the air. The Public Utility Commission f America 250: How our time zones came to be 03/18/2026 03:28pm • In 1883, railroad leaders and others gathered in Chicago, the railroad capital of the U.S., to fix a problem: There were no standardized time schedule to run trains. It had been 14 years since the east and west had been united by rail, with the laying of the famous golden spike in Utah. But even A man at the center of Michigan's 2022 election petition scandal gets 4 years in prison 03/18/2026 03:27pm • MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) ��� A man was sentenced to at least four years in prison Wednesday for an election petition scandal that spoiled the candidacies of five Republicans who were running for Michigan governor in 2022. But a suburban Detroit judge agreed to allow Shawn Wilmoth to stay out of pri Newcastle midfielder Tonali injured in Champions League ahead of Italy's World Cup playoffs 03/18/2026 03:27pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali went off injured against Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, eight days before Italy starts its World Cup qualifying playoffs bracket. Tonali appeared to hurt his left thigh chasing back to defend Ferm��n L��pez and put the bal African soccer's showpiece games are never far from controversy. Here are some of the biggest 03/18/2026 03:22pm • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ��� Two months after the chaotic end to the Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and Morocco, the outcome of the game remains in dispute. Senegal was stripped of its title on Tuesday when African soccer's governing body ruled it had forfeited the final in January by walkin