By JOE REEDY, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dejounte Murray scored 21 elements, De’Andre Hunter added 20 and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Los Angeles Clippers 110-93 on Sunday night time time to snap a three-game dropping streak.

Jalen Johnson had 18 elements and 12 rebounds, and Clint Capela added 15 elements and 13 rebounds for the Hawks.

“We have now been all on the an identical internet web page. Everybody was hungry to do larger, and I really feel we did that from the first man all the best way by which down, was talking to 1 one other, was serving to 1 one other,” acknowledged Murray, who had 5 3-pointers, marking a career-high fifth straight recreation he has knocked down not lower than 4 from previous the arc. “We have now been vigorous your complete recreation, and I really feel that was important for this good workers win.”

Kawhi Leonard scored 28 elements to information the Clippers, and Paul George had 26. Los Angeles has misplaced 4 of its ultimate 5 and is in fourth place throughout the Western Conference.

“Once you don’t play onerous and compete and in addition you don’t take care of points you can take care of on a nightly basis, you can lose. And so tonight was a type of nights,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue acknowledged.

Atlanta — which sits in tenth place throughout the Jap Conference — had a 31-29 lead on the end of the first quarter, sooner than outscoring the Clippers 30-15 throughout the second quarter to take a 61-44 profit into halftime. Atlanta was 11 of 23 from the sphere throughout the quarter whereas the Los Angeles was 6 of 23, along with 1 of 10 on 3-pointers.

Capela led the best way by which for the Hawks throughout the first half with 10 elements and 10 rebounds.

Leonard had 17 elements throughout the first quarter, the second-most elements he has had throughout the opening 12 minutes of a regular-season recreation in his 12-year occupation. He had three 3-pointers and completed a four-point play with 40 seconds remaining that tied the score at 29-all.

Atlanta then scored the next 10 elements to take administration.

“I’ve acquired to current them credit score rating. They started shrinking the bottom and bringing in a single different man in path of me,” Leonard acknowledged.

Los Angeles acquired inside six midway by way of the quarter sooner than Atlanta countered with a 17-2 run. A turnaround hook shot by Capela put the Hawks up 61-40 with 2:15 remaining throughout the first half.

Hawks coach Quin Snyder lauded his workers’s safety. Atlanta compelled 16 turnovers, which led to 26 elements and likewise held Los Angeles to a 37.8% capturing cost from the bottom (28 of 74).

“Our avid gamers acknowledged some points to 1 one other that we now have to do on safety and trying to be really centered on doing these points. After which, offensively really attacking this group. They’re a superb workers, so I was happy with how we carried out,” Snyder acknowledged.

A 3-pointer by Hunter gave Atlanta its largest lead at 91-62 decrease than one minute into the fourth quarter. The Clippers went on a 24-9 run, nevertheless could not draw nearer.

James Harden, who missed the Clippers’ ultimate two video video games on account of a left shoulder stress, had 9 elements and 9 assists in 36 minutes.

LOS ANGELES — Since coming back from their longest and most worthwhile freeway journey of the season in early February, the LA Clippers have not been the equivalent workforce.

Having fun with Sunday in direction of an Atlanta Hawks squad that was with out the injured Trae Youthful, the Clippers fell behind by as many as 29 elements sooner than dropping 110-93 at Crypto.com Enviornment.

The Clippers (42-25) have misplaced 4 of their earlier 5 video video games and are merely 8-10 since they accomplished their seven-game Grammy freeway journey 6-1 and stood at 34-15 whole on Feb. 5.

“It’s between the ears with us,” franchise star Kawhi Leonard talked about. “We acquired to exit and do it.”

Paul George agreed when requested if the Clippers look like a veteran-laden workforce that thinks it’ll presumably flip points on when it must.

“I indicate that’s what we’re exhibiting to look like, which is not good,” George talked about. “We must be a workforce that’s fixed and we have to arrange an id. I’ve on a regular basis spoken about having an id and I really feel it’s terribly mandatory.

“Correct now, I don’t suppose we have now now an id.”

The Clippers carried out their most interesting basketball in December and January, going 26-5 all through a scorching stretch and looking out every bit like a title contender with new acquisition James Harden.

Nonetheless Ty Lue’s workforce has been banged up. The Clippers misplaced Russell Westbrook (broken left hand) indefinitely on Jan. 31. On Sunday, Harden returned from a two-game absence and carried out via a strained left shoulder, ending with 9 elements and 9 assists nonetheless taking footage 3-for-10.

Leonard and George have recently battled some accidents, and Norman Powell missed the loss in direction of Atlanta with a left lower leg contusion and was on crutches.

Having fun with for the sixth time in 9 days, the Clippers lacked vitality and regarded uninspired at situations in direction of Atlanta. Requested what he can do as considered one of many workforce’s leaders to get the Clippers out of their current malaise, Leonard talked about it’s about movement.

“Merely seeing what we have to do,” talked about Leonard, who scored 17 of his 28 elements inside the first quarter. “That’s it. What kind of workforce we must be. If everybody’s saying they must be considered one of many closing teams standing, then we acquired to exit and do it.”

Lue talked about the instructing employees has repeatedly suggested the workforce what to do and the habits to use. Nonetheless the workforce has carried out it in spurts. Lu cited caring for the basketball, transition safety, offensive rebounding and spacing as a result of the 4 areas the workforce must be continually good at every single night.

“After they do it, it actually works,” Lue talked about. “Whenever you’ve bought so much experience and you have got guys which will do it so merely, they don’t understand that your experience is good, nonetheless the experience’s acquired to be for the workforce as correctly.

“Maybe it’s me. Maybe I acquired to do one factor a little bit bit fully totally different to ensure that we’re doing what we’re presupposed to do. … [But] I’ll under no circumstances really overreact on account of I do know we’re an excellent workforce … If you happen to want to win, I do know what it looks like. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it.”

“In my ideas, we’re in New York,” Kacey Musgraves sings in “Too Good to be True,” a monitor from her newly launched album, Deeper Correctly. “You had on no account been sooner than / Nevertheless, youngster, now it’s our metropolis.” The lyrics might shortly sort out a model new meaning for the Tennessee resident: according to People, Musgraves has been casually making an attempt out New York Metropolis properties on-line.

“Girl, I’m on a regular basis trying Zillow late at night, showing like a fool—it’s my favorite,” the seven-time Grammy winner knowledgeable the outlet. “I wouldn’t rule it out, nonetheless I do have a gaggle in Nashville that I do know that I couldn’t uncover anyplace else.” In an interview with The Cut back earlier this month, Musgraves disclosed that she bought a “cottage” in a Tennessee forest throughout the time that she provided the Nashville pad that graced Architectural Digest’s May 2022 cowl. Per a present interview with Vogue, the singer’s new dwelling was the inspiration behind the album’s eighth monitor, “Coronary coronary heart of the Woods.”

Though it seems Musgraves isn’t leaving Nashville behind anytime shortly, perhaps a weekend pad inside the Massive Apple is in order? “I consider New York Metropolis is a very specific place, and I actually really feel truly impressed to create there for sure,” she knowledgeable People. The country-pop crooner recorded Deeper Correctly, her sixth studio album, at Electrical Woman Studios in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. She simply these days returned to the realm for a musical customer stint on SNL and to promote her new candle with Boy Smells, which is impressed by Deeper Correctly.

To Vogue, Musgraves waxed poetic regarding the metropolis’s inspiring energy: “I consider there’s one factor type of electrically charged about New York, with humanity being so stacked on excessive of each other. Emotions are literally magnified in an environment like that, the place there are 1000’s and 1000’s of people multi purposeful area, all attempting to find out life collectively.”

This week, Kacey Musgraves gives up an impressive, folky ballad from her album Deeper Correctly, whereas ERNEST teams with the ever-present Jelly Roll for a model new observe, and Cyndi Thomson returns with “The Georgia in Me.” See all these and further Billboard picks for the week’s best new nation beneath.

Kacey Musgraves, “The Architect”

An elegant observe from her new album Deeper Correctly, “The Architect” marks one among many problem’s high-water marks. Softly hypnotic and well-written, this observe questions whether or not or not life’s zeniths, nadirs and turns alongside one of the simplest ways are orchestrated or happen randomly. “I don’t understand, are there blueprints or plans?
Can I talk to the architect?” she sings. Written by Musgraves with longtime collaborators Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, this deeply-felt observe marks one different musical triumph.

ERNEST feat. Jelly Roll, “I Went to College/ I Went to Jail”

Nation music has a storied customized of artists nodding to their very personal less-than-shining moments that develop into central elements of their legend and legacies, from Haggard’s “Mama Tried” to George Jones’ “No Current Jones.” ERNEST and Jelly Roll are every Nashville natives and on this collaboration, they component their unconventional journeys to stardom, from ERNEST dropping out after a yr of college and Jelly Roll’s evolution from jail cell to CMA Award-winning artist. Alongside one of the simplest ways, they every paid their music enterprise dues, too.

“Who bought right here out on prime/ Hell, it’s onerous to tell,” they sing triumphantly, bolstered by a flourishing of metallic guitars, fiddle and piano. Jelly even shouts out the scenario of the felony justice coronary heart that is central to lots of his story. ERNEST wrote the observe with Chandler Paul Walters, Luke Bryan and Rivers Rutherford., and “I Went to College/ I Went to Jail” will in all probability be found onERNEST’s upcoming April 12 album Nashville, Tennessee.

Cyndi Thomson, “The Georgia in Me”

Inside the 20 years after releasing her debut album My World, incomes the Nation Airplay-topping hit with “What I Truly Meant to Say” after which opting to go away her place as a recording artist behind, this Georgia native has launched music sporadically. Her soft-edged, dusky vocal drawl continues to be as potent as a Southern magnolia, and entrance and coronary heart on her first new music since 2016, with this observe she wrote with Paul Sikes (“Wildflowers and Wild Horses,” “Make Me Want To”). She reminisces about teenage summers spent on pink filth roads, filled with fun-loving Saturday nights and glory-giving Sunday mornings, with the observe moreover nodding to a special Georgia-born nation singer, Trisha Yearwood. This sweet-yet-sutry sounding observe is a robust addition to Thomson’s too-brief musical canon.

Matt Koziol, “I Was”

The age-weathered rasp in Koziol’s voice lends a veritable air to this blues-country observe, as he reminisces about his former days of flying too fast down an unhealthy freeway and all the situations he was “on the prime of the prayer file” and the “trigger for the ultimate title.” The understated piano and percussion lend an oak-wood warmth to Koziol’s crackling fireside of a voice. This observe, which Koziol wrote with Kenton Bryant, is from Koziol’s upcoming April 5 album Ultimate of the Earlier Canine, which follows his 2022 problem Wildhorse and 2023’s deluxe mannequin Wildhorse (Barrel Aged).

Ben Rector and Hailey Whitters, “Shade Up My World”

This quirky, feel-good love observe manages to nod to Pat Inexperienced, Bob Ross and turquoise nudie suits throughout the span of merely over two minutes. On this banjo-flecked observe, Rector’s vocal balances every quick-wit and charisma, whereas Whitters’ simple twang is the sweetener.

Madison Hughes, “Hate that You Love Me”

The Voice alum Hughes broke through closing yr with a cover of Morgan Wallen’s “I Deserve a Drink.” Her latest dips extra into the blues realm than straight-forward nation, and turns right into a towering testament to every Hughes’ adroit guitar experience and the purring vocal. Her voice is world-weary, her guitar tones threaded with angst, as she gives up a relatable story of falling headlong for a charismatic heart-breaker. The immensely gifted Hughes is on a star-making trajectory.

Riley Inexperienced, “Means Out Proper right here”

Sooner than Keith Metropolis supplied a nod to three “Johns” in “John Cougar, John Deere and John 3:16,” singer-songwriter Josh Thompson paid homage to his private trio of icons named John — Johnny Cash, John Wayne and John Deere — in his prime 20 Scorching Nation Songs hit from 2010. Now, Riley Inexperienced gives up his private rendering of Thompson’s hit. “We don’t take a dime if we ain’t earned it/ In relation to weight, brother we pull our private,” Riley sings. His take is further subdued, with barely moodier manufacturing, on this 15-year-old observe about defending rural residing, nonetheless he delivers this observe with a great deal of coronary coronary heart.

ATLANTA — Authorized professionals for former President Donald Trump and seven of his co-defendants throughout the Georgia election interference case are in quest of a overview of a Georgia resolve’s option to not disqualify Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis.

The request was filed Monday after Fulton County Superior Courtroom docket Resolve Scott McAfee talked about Friday morning that Willis may be allowed to stay on the racketeering case she launched in opposition to Trump if Nathan Wade, the actual prosecutor she appointed to the case, resigned. Wade resigned that afternoon.

Attorneys for Trump and the co-defendants had accused every Willis and Wade of misconduct and alleged Willis was financially benefiting from a romantic relationship she’d had with Wade after the two took holidays collectively whereas engaged on the case. McAfee found no battle of curiosity nonetheless talked about each Willis and her office or Wade wanted to step aside because of the “look of impropriety.”

In Monday’s submitting, Trump and his co-defendants argued that Wade’s resignation “is insufficient to remedy the seems of impropriety the Courtroom docket has determined exists” and talked about the matter should be decided by the state Courtroom docket of Appeals.

Trump authorized skilled Steve Sadow talked about in an announcement Monday that McAfee’s ruling is “ripe for pretrial appellate overview,” noting that McAfee “found that Willis’ actions created an look of impropriety and an ‘odor of mendacity’ that lingers on this case” nonetheless had “nonetheless refused to dismiss the case or disqualify her.”

The defendants do not have the facility to straight enchantment McAfee’s alternative at this stage, so that they’ve requested him to approve a “certificates of speedy overview” that may put the matter sooner than an appeals court docket docket.

If the appeals court docket docket critiques the matter, it might end in a pause of the overall proceedings throughout the election interference case.

McAfee has however to set a trial date. Willis’ office had requested to begin out the case in early August.

Trump and his co-defendants have pleaded not accountable to the charges, which allege that they conspired to illegally overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.

Blayne Alexander and Charlie Gile reported from Atlanta and Dareh Gregorian from New York.

Spring has nearly sprung; The vernal equinox, the official start date for the season inside the Northern Hemisphere, arrives on Tuesday, March 19.

The 2024 spring equinox will occur at exactly 11:06 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. Nonetheless why does the day mark the start of spring and why solely inside the Northern Hemisphere? 

What’s an equinox?

There are solely two equinoxes a 12 months: vernal and autumnal. They happen when the photo voltaic is immediately overhead at noon, creating nearly equal elements of day and night in a 24-hour interval. The phrase equinox itself is derived from the Latin phrases aequus and nox, or equal night.

It usually falls on March 19, 20, or 21. A spring equinox on March 21 is rare, in response to the Farmer’s Almanac. There hasn’t been one inside the mainland U.S. for the whole thing of the twenty first century and there is not going to be one until 2101.

The date varies, partially, because of Earth travels throughout the photo voltaic in 365.24 days, whereas a calendar 12 months is twelve months, in response to the Nationwide Services for Environmental Knowledge.

What’s the distinction between the spring equinox and meteorological spring?

Whereas the 2024 vernal equinox falls on March 19, meteorological spring began at first of the month. Consistent with NASA, there are two kinds of seasons: meteorological and astronomical. 

Meteorological seasons are tied to the calendar and are based totally on the annual temperature cycle. Meteorological seasons are broken up into groupings of three months. Yearly, meteorological spring lasts from March 1 until May 31. 

Astronomical seasons are based totally on the lean of Earth’s axis and Earth’s place all through its orbit throughout the photo voltaic.

When does spring start inside the Southern Hemisphere?

Inside the Southern Hemisphere, spring begins in September, when fall begins inside the Northern Hemisphere. 

The March equinox will carry later sunrises, earlier sunsets, chillier winds and dry, falling leaves inside the Southern Hemisphere. The reverse is true inside the Northern Hempisphere, the place Tuesday’s equinox will carry earlier sunrises, later sunsets, softer winds, and budding crops. 

Rituals, traditions and myths 

Whereas Easter is just not until the highest of March, there’s an egg customized tied to the equinox. Consistent with a local weather.gov publish, Chinese language language customized consists of the concept an egg is perhaps made to face on end on the exact second when winter ends and spring stars. Nonetheless, it’s technically doable to face an egg on end on any day of the 12 months, as long as you’ve got a substantial quantity of persistence. 

Nowruz, the Iranian or Persian New Yr, is tied to the spring equinox. It has been celebrated for better than 3,000 years inside the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and completely different areas, in response to the United Nations.

When is the next solstice and equinox?

These impatient for the start of summer season need to attend for the summer season solstice on Thursday, June 20. The autumnal equinox, signaling the start of fall, is perhaps on Sunday, Sept. 22. The winter solstice this 12 months falls on Saturday, Dec. 21.

By: Jason Pugh, Assistant AD for Media Relations

NATCHITOCHES – Blaine McCorkle was a contented soccer coach Monday afternoon – one surrounded by players who shared the equivalent emotion.
 
For the first time since arriving as Northwestern State’s head soccer coach in November, McCorkle was able to put his workers by a comply with, working the Demons by a two-hour train at Turpin Stadium to kick off spring comply with.
 
“An important issue is I’m joyful for our players,” McCorkle acknowledged. “I’m joyful for the blokes, significantly the returners who haven’t put a helmet on and really carried out soccer since mid-October. That may be a very very long time to go. They’ve been itching. The vitality was good. The difficulty was good. They competed. As far as these points go, I’m truly, truly pleased.”
 
As with most first practices, significantly with a first-year instructing staff, execution was not as extreme on McCorkle’s document as was starting to put a foundation for not solely the 2024 season however as well as for the best way ahead for this technique.
 
“There are going to be first-day errors you have to clear up with the execution,” he acknowledged. “I’m constructive as soon as we activate the film, it should look pretty powerful, nevertheless the sensation coming off the sphere was good. Shifting forward with the therapeutic course of, part of that is having fun with soccer. I was joyful for our players at the moment to get to do that.”
 
The players reciprocated these feelings.
 
McCorkle’s first NSU instructing staff features a pair of returning coaches along with new offensive, defensive and explicit teams coordinators. The message McCorkle and his staff have preached since arriving has been successfully acquired.
 
“One issue bringing us all once more collectively was the enjoyment for change,” acknowledged quarterback Chance Newman, who started his third spring comply with in Natchitoches. “One in every of many workers tips is embrace change. One issue we’re doing as a workers – all of the blokes who’ve been proper right here – is accepting change. The blokes who aren’t doing successfully with it are leaving. The blokes who’ve accepted it are staying, and we’re getting greater.”
 
Together with the returners, the Demons began the on-field strategy of folding in double-digit mid-year transfers – along with four-year and junior school transfers.
 
These new additions have been within the equivalent place as a result of the returners – bodily and mentally – Monday afternoon.
 
“We’ve got been all excited,” acknowledged freshman offensive lineman Isaiah Ybarra, a change from Stetson Faculty. “All people’s been talking about it for the last few weeks. Ever since conditioning starting, the model new guys have been talking about putting some pads on and getting in the marketplace.”
 
Whatever the first-day errors, Newman acknowledged he observed flashes of potential contained in the Demons, complimenting every the offense and safety for his or her performances.
 
McCorkle agreed whereas moreover issuing an issue to his workers.
 
“We purchased the mortar down – the concrete’s moist and it’s down,” he acknowledged. “I’m undecided we purchased a brick down, nevertheless we’re going piece by piece. Everytime you assemble that brick wall, there rather more that goes into it than merely throwing bricks up there.
 
“I’m enthusiastic in regards to the place we’re. You’ll always have lulls, nevertheless the issue at the moment coming off the sphere was just about pretty much as good as a result of the vitality and power was at the moment – the soccer was sloppy – nevertheless the vitality and power was good. That should be the least vitality and power now now we have in spring comply with. We’ve got to assemble on it every day barely additional. After we get to comply with 13, 14 and 15, the noise and vitality should be breaking residence home windows on campus. That’s what you want to assemble to. It was start, nonetheless it should be the worst day now now we have all spring.”
 
The Demons proceed spring comply with Tuesday sooner than taking an off day Wednesday. Northwestern State’s first full-pads train of spring arrives Thursday.
 
 

The next batch of Apple iPhones would possibly attribute a man-made intelligence enhance that comes from search engine huge Google. 

Apple is exploring a handle Google that can allow Google to assemble its Gemini AI engine into Apple’s iPhones, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Apple and Google have not confirmed a deal. Neither agency immediately responded to a request for comment Monday. 

Wall Avenue analysts talked about the potential deal would help every firms in quite a few strategies. 

“What points proper right here is that Apple might acquire or retain some price from Google for the privilege, significantly if it helps Google keep additional search revenue,” analysts at Melius Evaluation talked about in an merchants’ observe. “For Google, it might be a reputational win versus Microsoft and OpenAI, after a sequence of missteps in launching reliable AI merchandise.”

Nevertheless talks between Apple and Google don’t basically suggest a deal is coming. Bloomberg reported that Apple has moreover spoken to Microsoft’s OpenAI about using its service. 

Google and Microsoft have been in a race in opposition to each completely different for dominance over generative AI — which took the world by storm in 2023 with the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The experience has since captured the consideration of firms and clients alike, and has already begun to reshape work and leisure, elevating issues from lawmakers and tech firms alike over AI’s shortly evolving have an effect on on society itself. 

For now, tech giants Google and Microsoft attempt to get the upper hand accessible available on the market, one factor which a partnership with Apple might presumably be key to attaining. 

Analysts talked about Apple’s talks with Google are an attempt by the Cupertino, California-based agency to beef up its upcoming iOS 18, ahead of its new merchandise event scheduled for June. If finalized, an Apple-Google deal would give Apple entry to Google’s Gemini AI app, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. 

“We contemplate the company is attempting to enhance Siri, enhance the App Retailer for AI builders and foster edge processing on its models for faster, protected experiences,” Melius Evaluation analysts talked about. 

Nevertheless Google’s Gemini has hit a troublesome patch since it was rebranded last month. The search huge in February suspended its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from producing footage after it was discovered the bot was creating historic depictions that features “inaccuracies.” Examples included depictions of Nazi troopers as Black and Asian and popes as female, for which the company apologized.

Dan Ives, senior equity evaluation analyst at Wedbush Securities, talked about the impetus for the potential deal boils proper all the way down to Apple hoping to bolster iPhone product sales.

“For Apple, this will likely give them the muse and experience blueprint to double down on AI choices for the time being being developed inside Apple Park to make certain that iPhone 16 will in all probability be a potential recreation changer iPhone launch spherical AI efficiency,” Ives talked about.