Joe Fleming

2 months ago | stripes.com | Doug Feinberg |Joe Fleming

UConn guard Azzi Fudd shoots against South Carolina forward Sania Feagin during the first half of the national championship game, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (Chris O'Meara/AP) TAMPA, Fla. — UConn is back on top of women’s basketball, winning its 12th national championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59 on Sunday behind Azzi Fudd’s 24 points.

2 months ago | stripes.com | Kareem Chehayeb |Joe Fleming

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president on Monday ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after more deadly fighting erupted overnight along the tense frontier. The fighting occurred after Syria’s interim government accused militants from Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group of crossing into Syria on Saturday, abducting three soldiers and killing them on Lebanese soil.

2 months ago | stripes.com | Alexander Soule |Joe Fleming

The South Yard assembly building at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Conn. — dubbed Building 600 — has been assigned an appraised value of nearly $640 million. (General Dymanics Electric Boat) (Tribune News Service) — The USS District of Columbia will be among the most expensive ships in U.S. history, when the nuclear submarine launches years from now into the Thames River at a projected cost of $16 billion, at last report.

2 months ago | stripes.com | Jon Gambrell |Joe Fleming

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, as armed forces commander slisten, at rear, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 8, 2025.

Mar 6, 2025 | stripes.com | Michael Casey |Joe Fleming

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Ben Curtis/AP) BOSTON — A second federal judge on Thursday extended a block barring the Trump administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.