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I can’t blame Kiffin for the Hail Mary ask—this is a historically good Mississippi team, 11-1 and ranked No. 5 in the most recent AP poll, but I’m stunned by people rising to his defense here.

At the same time, scores on AP tests have become a less dependable marker of merit.

AP reporters Bianca Vazquez Toness and Gisela Salomon contributed to this report.

Members of the girl group “aespa” and several other South Korean performers quietly donated to emergency-response funds supporting survivors, according to AP reporting.

Putting the photo on the wire at all was a bold move by Faas: That Ms. Phúc was shown naked led others at the AP to doubt that the shot would be published anywhere, but Faas persisted.