PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins spent the first two rounds of the playoffs engaging in high-stakes games of rope-a-dope with Columbus and Washington, absorbing some hits, avoiding others and counterpunching brilliantly to get halfway to a second straight Stanley Cup.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin played through hamstring and knee injuries that hampered him in the playoffs.
LONDON — Britain’s health service was hit today by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country — an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms and brought medical treatments to a screeching halt.
NEW YORK — Stocks are ending mostly lower as declines in banks and industrial stocks outweigh gains in other sectors.
DAYTON, Ohio — The University of Dayton is planning $72 million in updates to its arena, which is used for the pair of March Madness play-in games known as the First Four.
TANGIPAHOA, La. — An early morning accident has claimed the lives of two people, including former NFL player Michael Jackson who, after retiring from football, also served as mayor of a Louisiana village.
TRENTON, N.J. — A man who held officers at bay for 35 hours in a standoff in New Jersey’s capital city has been charged with killing a bystander.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A mother who says she wasn’t allowed to breastfeed in public at a Rhode Island YMCA is suing.
Toledo police are investigating a dead baby found inside a vehicle Thursday in southwest Toledo.
DETROIT — Yale Lary, a Hall of Fame safety who helped the Detroit Lions win three NFL titles during the 1950s, has died. He was 86.
BEREA — DeShone Kizer did not report to his first day of work today to make headlines. The new Browns quarterback came to work.
WASHINGTON — Beijing will open its borders to U.S. beef, while cooked Chinese poultry is closer to landing on American supermarket shelves under a U.S.-China trade agreement.
NEW YORK — Melissa McCarthy has gone into the streets of Manhattan to lampoon White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
LONDON — A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England today, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away.
JACKSON, Miss. — In Jackson, Mississippi, a hospital stands on Asylum Hill, where the state’s first mental institution operated in the mid-1800s. Thousands of patients lived and died there, and this presents a challenge to expansion plans at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Radar has discovered as many as 7,000 unidentified bodies buried underground.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The National Labor Relations Board has filed another unfair labor practices complaint against Volkswagen for hiking health insurance premiums and changing working hours of employees who voted for union representation at the German automaker’s only U.S. plant.
BRUSSELS — The U.S. is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the European Union, a move that would create logistical chaos on the world’s busiest corridor of air travel.
KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio — The police chief of an Ohio village and two nursing home employees were killed today by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility, a sheriff said.
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump said today that a review of his last 10 years of tax returns did not reflect “any income of any type from Russian sources,” but the letter included exceptions related to previously cited income generated from a beauty pageant and sale of a Florida estate.
WASHINGTON — Contradicting previous White House explanations, President Trump has declared he had planned to fire FBI Director James Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department officials recommended the stunning step. His assertions came as Comey’s temporary replacement joined in, contradicting other administration statements on the snowballing controversy.
WASHINGTON — In ways both overt and subtle, the acting director of the FBI undermined White House explanations for the firing of former Director James Comey.
DARDANELLE, Ark. — Authorities say an Arkansas man faces three counts of capital murder in the killing of three people, including a sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot during a traffic stop.
ISTANBUL — An editor at a leading opposition newspaper in Turkey has been detained for questioning.
LONDON — A handwritten Harry Potter prequel penned on a piece of card by J.K. Rowling has been stolen during a burglary in England.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Fiat Chrysler is recalling approximately 1 million trucks in North America due to a software glitch that could prevent side air bags and seatbelts from deploying during a rollover.