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Some robotaxis approved to operate without steering wheels and losing the brake pedal could be next LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or eventually even brake pedals as the rules start to catch up ...

Ohio State knows road will be tough

CHICAGO (AP) — Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith downplays his chances of winning a Heisman Trophy even though he's generally regarded as college football's top returning player regardless of position. "I always felt that was a quarterback award unless you have a crazy season like ...

Browns bank on secondary investments

BEREA — Even though the quarterback competition between Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders will generate most of the focus during the Cleveland Browns training camp, it was two veteran defensive backs who got the headlines Wednesday. Cornerback Denzel Ward signed his two-year extension making him the NFL's highest-paid defensive back at $31.1 million per year and $52.3 million guaranteed. As the Browns began their afternoon practice, safety Grant Delpit agreed to a three-year extension worth $48 million, including $35 million guaranteed. A person familiar with Delpit's deal shared ...

Steelers seek No. 2 option

LATROBE, Pa. — Mason Rudolph knows the drill. At this point, maybe a little too well. The Pittsburgh Steelers begin training camp each summer and Rudolph sits down in a quarterback room that always seems to include a new face or two (or sometimes three) and gamely try to tune out the questions about his seemingly tenuous grasp on a roster spot. "There's always competition," Rudolph said Wednesday at the start of his ninth NFL season, eight of them in Pittsburgh. "That's no different this year." Rudolph has outlasted a pair of first-round draft picks ( Mitch Trubisky and Kenny ...

Women’s baseball league ready to launch

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's first women's professional baseball league in nearly 30 years is about to embark on its inaugural season in what marks a major milestone in the scattered history of the sport in the United States. The Women's Pro Baseball League is also part of a timeline that goes back to the very beginning of the sport. "Women have always been part of this game," said Kat Williams, the chief executive officer of the International Women's Baseball Center. "We've always played, we've always umpired, we've always coached. And in some of the earliest references in the 17th ...

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Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling ...