Honolulu police officers could soon be using artificial intelligence to help write reports, a move that the department says could free up cops to spend more time patrolling their beats, but critics say could damage the integrity of the state’s criminal justice system. The idea is still in its early stages, but the department could...

Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first female broadcaster to host a national news program, has died. She was 87. Stamberg died Thursday, NPR reported. It did not provide a cause of death. Stamberg joined NPR in the early 1970s when it was getting off the ground as a network of radio stations acro...

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Koreans allegedly involved in online scams in Cambodia arrived in South Korea on a chartered flight Saturday to face criminal investigations. The repatriation follows the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to work in a scam center in Cambodia. His death triggered publ...

Formula 1 announced a five-year deal Friday with Apple, which will be the global motorsports series’ U.S. broadcast partner beginning next season. ESPN had been the broadcast partner since 2018 and through the explosion of popularity of F1 in the United States, but notified the series at the start of this year it would not be exten...

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Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear fallout thriller “A House of Dynamite” and albums from Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Season 2 of...

It might start with a cassette deck that streams Spotify and charges your phone. It doesn’t have to stop there. These days, yesterday is big business. A retro revival is underway in the design world: mushroom-shaped lamps, walnut stereo consoles, daisy dishware, neon Polaroid cameras. It’s like our homes just hustled over from “One...

MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged voting technology firm Smartmatic with money laundering and other crimes arising from more than $1 million in bribes that several executives allegedly paid to election officials in the Philippines. The payments, between 2015 and 2018, were made to obtain a contract with the Philippines...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Energy said Thursday it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy. AEP Transmission will upgrade power...

Microsoft is encouraging people to talk to their laptops as it rolls out new artificial intelligence updates to Windows 11 and pushes users to phase out its predecessor, Windows 10. Microsoft ended free security support for Windows 10 this week, though millions of people still use personal computers running the older operating syst...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft. This July, the company identified more than 200 instances of foreign adversaries using AI to create fa...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — On a scorching hot Saturday in San Antonio, dozens of teachers traded a day off for a glimpse of the future. The topic of the day’s workshop: enhancing instruction with artificial intelligence. After marveling as AI graded classwork instantly and turned lesson plans into podcasts or online storybooks, one high sc...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has begun a public education campaign with tips on how to wean children off social media ahead of a world-first national 16-year age limit taking effect in December. Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Friday that information on her agency’s website, esafety.g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday joined Bluesky, the social media platform of choice of many in the left-leaning online world. In its inaugural post, the White House account offered a sizzle reel of the administration’s memes, trolls and messages from President Donald Trump’s nine months since returning to office. The po...

Meta is adding parental controls for kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether — beginning early next year. But parents won’t be able to turn off Meta’s AI assistant, which Meta says will “will remain available to offer helpful informa...

ChatGPT will be able to have kinkier conversations after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the artificial intelligence company will soon allow its chatbot to engage in “erotica for verified adults.” OpenAI won’t be the first to try to profit from sexualized AI. Sexual content was a top draw for AI tools almost as soon as the boom in...

Thanks to a new partnership between the Mississippi Department of Education and Mississippi Public Broadcasting, students across the state will be getting new teachers this year. But those teachers won’t be in classrooms, sitting behind desks. They’ll be on the screen. The REACH MS program, also called the Mississippi Virtual Synch...

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta man has been charged with murder in the death of his six-month-old son after initially telling police the baby was kidnapped during an armed robbery. Antonio Pearce told police on Sunday that his son, Nnakai Pratt, was snatched by robbers. Clayton County Police said Pearce told them two arme...

Researchers think they have debunked the origin of Chicago’s so-called “rat hole,” one of the Windy City’s weirdest local landmarks. Hold on. The rat hole wasn’t what you think. It wasn’t some back alley bar that served as a speakeasy for the city’s notorious gangster clientele or a tenement stuffed to the brim with junk. It was ac...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff said his deputies are methodically investigating a weekend mass shooting that killed four people and injured 16 more at a bar on a South Carolina island but haven’t gotten the kind of help they need from the hundreds of people partying before the shooting. No arrests have been made yet as investigato...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Los Angeles Angels official testified Wednesday that a team employee convicted of providing drugs that led to the death of one of the team’s star pitchers was good at his job but had some behavioral issues and had been taking prescription medication to deal with depression and bipolar disorder. Tim...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A University of Southern California graduate student who police say is a serial sexual predator has been charged with drugging and raping multiple women as investigators look for additional victims, Los Angeles authorities said. Sizhe Weng, a 30-year-old Chinese national also known as Steven Weng, was arrested Au...

ATLANTA (AP) — The superintendent of Georgia’s third-largest school district is resigning after being indicted on federal charges alleging he ran a kickback scheme and stole money from a smaller school district in suburban Chicago. The DeKalb County school board on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Devon Horton effective Nov. 1...

HAENAM, South Korea (AP) — Two decade-long veterans on the LPGA Tour — 32-year-old Sei Young Kim and 34-year-old American Lindy Duncan — were among the leaders after the first round of the BMW Ladies Championship on Thursday. Kim had eight birdies and an eagle for a 10-under 62 to top the leaderboard at the Pine Beach Golf Links. D...

Patrick Kluivert has left his role as Indonesia head coach just days after the country’s hopes of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup ended. The former Barcelona striker was appointed on a two-year contract in January as Indonesia pushed to reach the World Cup for the first time since gaining independence in 1945. Losses to Saudi Ara...

VISAKHAPATNAM, India (AP) — Nigar Sultana won the toss and decided Bangladesh will bat first against Australia in the Women’s Cricket World Cup on Thursday. Defending champion Australia is unbeaten in four games. Australia overhauled India on Sunday in a world record chase powered by 142 from skipper Alyssa Healy. The seven-time ch...

For a filmmaker once synonymous with slackerdom, Richard Linklater has proven to be one of the most prodigious and consistently excellent American filmmakers. A small but rich vein of the two dozen features he’s made have been portraits of artists, including “Me and Orson Welles” and, if you like, “School of Rock.” This fall brings...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brown University is rejecting a Trump administration proposal that would provide favorable access to funding in exchange for a wide range of commitments, saying the deal would curtail academic freedom and undermine the university’s independence. Brown is the latest university to turn down the proposal, which White...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani publicly apologized on Fox News for language he has used in the past to criticize the New York Police Department, saying Wednesday that he is “looking to work with these officers” if he is elected. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, also used the interview to send a direc...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been convicted of conducting an illegal straw donor scheme in 2019 during President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, prosecutors said Wednesday. A federal jury in Brooklyn found Xinyue “Daniel” Lou guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of making contr...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities said Wednesday that they have identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed last week in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant, where it’s possible still more dangerous materials need to be disarmed and weeks of work could be ahead to try to pinpoint what sparked the explosion. A...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Conservationists and the state of Oregon have asked a federal court to approve changes to dam operations on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers to help restore salmon populations, the latest move in recently revived litigation over federally operated dams’ impacts on the fish. Key requests, among others, inclu...

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offers an expanded account but few new revelations about her longstanding claims to have been sexually trafficked by the late financier to billionaires, politicians and Britain’s Prince Andrew. Titled “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stage is set Thursday for the first debate of the New York City mayoral election, with Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa looking to halt the momentum of Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, who already defeated the once-powerful New York governor in the primary this summer. For Cuomo, who’s now running as...

In this case, the benefit would be to Republicans seeking to maintain a majority in the House of Representatives, perhaps for many years to come. Such a change seemed more plausible Wednesday after the court’s conservative majority indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The l...

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions. The Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s political organization for Republicans between 18...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was telling a Rose Garden audience about his efforts to quell violence in the nation’s capital when, as if on cue, his words were drowned out by the wail of sirens from passing vehicles. “Listen to the beauty of that sound,” Trump said, grinning. “They’re not politically correct sirens.” Com...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are poised for the 10th time Thursday to reject a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring how in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will be promoting her upcoming book on fashion, “The Look,” through a special, six-part companion series to the podcast “IMO” that she hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson. Guests will include Jane Fonda, model-activist Bethann Hardison and designer-former J. Crew executive Jenna L...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, which had been a key lifeline in a city now 90% controlled by gangs. More than 60% of the capital’s health facilities, including Haiti’s gener...

POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) — The stench of decay spread for several miles around Poza Rica on Wednesday, one of the areas hardest hit by last week’s torrential rains that flooded central and eastern Mexico. In the center of this oil-producing city near the Gulf of Mexico, a lingering cloud of dust hovered over the main avenue where sol...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security officials Wednesday as the fallout from Sunday’s admission that 20 gang members had escaped from prison continued. The prisoners, all members of the Barrio 18 gang, had apparently escaped over a period of days, perhaps during...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, a study released Thursday found. But efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases that started 10 years ago wi...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves further restricted access to abortion Wednesday, limiting it to situations when the mother’s life is in danger. The country’s previous regulations also allowed abortions if a pregnancy posed a threat to the mother’s health. No legislative approval was required for th...

KALSOY ISLAND, Faroe Islands (AP) — The tiny Faroe Islands in the north Atlantic could be a poor choice for travelers with vertigo, seasickness or a fear of enclosed spaces. There are crumbling cliffs, sudden gale-force winds and hillsides so steep that even the sheep can tumble. Three tourists disappeared over two days in Septembe...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared in public Wednesday for the first time since being sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes, meeting other leaders in Kenya in an attempt to establish a political group in opposition to Congo’s current president. Joseph Kabila w...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal, and identified financial reparations and sanctions for abusers and their enablers as essential remedies. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors focused on the...

KALSOY ISLAND, Faroe Islands (AP) — While once the Faroe Islands might have slipped under the radar, more tourists than ever are arriving on the remote archipelago in the north Atlantic. According to Statistics Faroe Islands, a record 94,954 check-ins occurred last year at hotels, hostels and guesthouses. That’s relatively small fo...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on world leaders to show responsibility as he urged the international community to focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery. Addressing the World Food Day global ceremony that also marked the 80th anniversary of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization a...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway was convicted of espionage Wednesday after a court in Oslo found that he spied for Russia and Iran. The 28-year-old Norwegian man, whose name has not been made public, was sentenced to three years and seven months behind bars. He had acknowledged the indictme...

BERLIN (AP) — A German museum has been unexpectedly overrun by Taylor Swift fans because one of its paintings bears a striking resemblance to the opening scene of Swift’s current number one hit video, “The Fate of Ophelia.” Hundreds of additional visitors came to the Hessische Landesmuseum in central Germany over the weekend to adm...

GABES, Tunisia (AP) — Police rained tear gas on crowds and several demonstrators and riot police were injured in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes as thousands of people marched Wednesday to protest worsening air pollution from a phosphate-processing plant. The protest descended into clashes with police who attempted to disperse...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A bishop in the influential Armenian Apostolic Church has been charged with coercing citizens into taking part in public gatherings in the latest in a series of arrests against critics of the country’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan is also accused of using his office to commit large...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally assured him that his country would stop buying Russian oil. The change, which has not been confirmed by the Indian government, would boost Trump’s efforts to pressure Moscow to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. “There w...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of Kenyans turned out Thursday at the country’s main airport to receive the body of influential African politician and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a day after he died in India. Odinga’s body arrived in a chartered airplane and was given a water cannon salute at the airport ahead of a planned...

LONDON (AP) — China poses a daily threat to Britain’s security, the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency said Thursday, remarks that step up pressure on authorities to explain why the prosecution of two men charged with spying for Beijing collapsed just before they were due to stand trial. The government, opposition p...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan on Thursday appealed his extradition from Australia to the United States over allegations that he illegally trained Chinese military aviators more than a decade ago. Duggan is accused of training Chinese military pilots while working as an instructor for the T...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — The military has seized power in a coup in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and ousted President Andry Rajoelina, who has fled the country. Here’s a timeline of major events leading up to the takeover in the former French colony off Africa’s east coast: Sept. 25: Youth protests erupt Thousands o...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — The head of an elite Madagascar military unit ousted the African island country’s president in a coup, capping weeks of youth-led protests over water and power cuts, the high cost of living and endemic poverty, among other issues. Col. Michael Randrianirina, who led the rebellion that toppled Preside...

TEPETITAN, El Salvador (AP) — Parents, siblings, aunts, nephews and other relatives of a Salvadoran family of eight who died in the fiery crash of a semitrailer and a van in Georgia this week struggled to wrap their minds around the tragedy on Wednesday as they hoped that the bodies of their lost loved ones would soon be repatriate...

OUISTREHAM, France (AP) — The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II’s most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for “an extremely important task.” “Speculations abound,” one of the officers wrote in his diary that day — June 2, 194...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country. The acknowledgement of covert action in Venezuela by the U.S. spy agency comes after the U.S. military in recent weeks has ca...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A prosecutor in a special domestic tribunal in Bangladesh sought the death penalty Thursday for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case involving charges of crimes against humanity in a mass uprising last year that forced her to leave the country. During the protests in July and August 2024, hundreds...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Thursday that Pakistan carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the day before, even as the United Nations welcomed a critical ceasefire between the two neighbors after days of fighting killed dozens in both countries and injured hundreds more. The attacks on Wednesday came ju...

PARIS (AP) — The families of two French nationals detained in Iran for more than three years said their loved ones have reached “the limit of what they can endure” following a report that an Iranian court sentenced them to decades in prison on spying charges. Relatives of Cécile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, said during a Pari...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A bomb exploded Thursday on a Syrian Defense Ministry bus in the country’s east, killing four soldiers and wounding others, the country’s oil minister said. Oil Minister Mohammed al-Bashir said on the social platform X that the soldiers were killed and wounded while on their way to work as guards at an oil fa...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Thursday said their military’s chief of staff had been killed after repeated Israeli strikes targeting the group’s leaders. The Houthis did not specifically blame Israel for the killing of Maj. Gen. Muhammad Abdul Karim al-Ghamari. However, the Israelis have launched incre...

Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine on Thursday identified the remains of two more hostages returned from Gaza, as officials and families warned Hamas to hand over the bodies of those still held. Amid a fragile truce that paused the two-year war, Palestinians were awaiting a long-promised surge of aid into Gaza, and pl...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hamas hastened Tuesday to ease the pressure on a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel by returning the bodies of more dead hostages. The move came after an Israeli military agency said it would slash aid deliveries to Gaza by half over concerns that the militant group was handing remains over slower than...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal holding, President Donald Trump says he’s now turning his attention to bringing Russia’s war on Ukraine to an end and is weighing providing Kyiv long-range weaponry as he looks to prod Moscow to the negotiating table. Ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza was ce...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two hostages released by Hamas were reunited Wednesday in a Jerusalem cemetery for a final goodbye. Surrounded by hundreds of mourners, Matan Angrest, who had returned to Israel just two days earlier, stood before the freshly dug grave cradling his 22-year-old commander, Capt. Daniel Peretz, and paid his respects....

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more has dropped, an encouraging sign that America’s epidemic of excess weight might be improving. But cuts to federal staff and programs that address chronic disease could endanger that progress, according to a new report released Thursd...

HA LEJONE, Lesotho (AP) — In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the small country of Lesotho, in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents. Lesotho long had the world’s second-highest HIV infection rate. Over years, with nearly $1 billion in U.S. aid, Lesotho patched together a heal...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. It makes Uruguay the first country in predominantly Catholic Latin America to allow euthanasi...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers. An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed nearly 130 deep-pocketed donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their pledged contributions to a massive new ballroom. The ballroom, whose price tag is now estimated at $250 million, is the most significa...

TARASIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has displaced millions, scattering families across the country and abroad. For many, heavy fighting in the east means crowded shelters, borrowed beds and fading hope. About 400 miles west of the front line, however, a privately built settlement near Kyiv offers a rare reprie...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia battered Ukraine’s energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in its latest heavy bombardment of the country’s power grid, authorities said Thursday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to ask President Donald Trump at a White House meeting for more American-made air...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight, a new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans see it as a significant problem — and all of the major players are being blamed. Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of responsibi...

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two votes of no-confidence Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos. The National Assembly votes clear the way for the embattled Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 bu...

Nestlé is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as the Swiss food giant cuts costs as part of its efforts to revive its financial performance. Nestlé, which makes Nescafé, KitKats, pet foods and many other well-known consumer brands, said Thursday that the job cuts will take place over the next two years. The Swiss company also said that it...

NEW DELHI (AP) — From the Andes to the Himalayas, a new wave of protests is unfolding across the world, driven by generational discontent against governments and anger among young people. This week, Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina was forced out of power and out of the country after a military mutiny, the culmination of week...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian and South Korean officials agreed Thursday to cooperate in combating online scams, after the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to work in a scam center in Cambodia triggered public outrage in South Korea. A South Korean delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jina vi...

HONG KONG (AP) — Taiwan’s leading computer chip maker, TSMC, said Thursday that its net profit surged nearly 40% in the last quarter, boosted by the surge in use of artificial intelligence. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. is the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer. It reported a net profit of a record 452.3 billion...

Wall Street was on track to open with gains on Thursday as markets continue focus on corporate earnings amid the void of economic data due to the U.S. government shutdown. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.4% before the opening bell, while futures for the Dow Jones industrials ticked up 0.3%. Futures for the Nasdaq, where most big tec...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it is looking to step up purchases of crude oil and natural gas from the U.S. as it diversifies its energy supplies and confronts criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump over its imports of discounted Russian oil. Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had personally assured him h...

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province called for economic retaliation on the U.S. after auto company Stellantis said it was moving planned production of its Jeep Compass from Canada to the U.S. Ontario Premier Doug Ford blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the company’s decision this week to shift productio...

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Celia Monreal worries every day about the cartilage loss in her husband’s knees. Not just because it’s hard for her to see him in pain but also because she knows soon their health care costs could skyrocket. Monreal, 47, and her husband, Jorge, 57, rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplace for health coverage....

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent years amid high tuition...

Things to watch this week in the Big Ten Conference: No. 20 Southern California (5-1) at No. 13 Notre Dame (4-2), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC) The Trojans are coming off a 31-13 victory over then-No. 15 Michigan, while Notre Dame has won four straight. USC’s lone loss came on a field goal as time expired, while Notre Dame’s two def...

Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference: No. 23 Utah (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) at No. 15 BYU (6-0, 3-0), Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (Fox) The Holy War between the instate rivals about 50 miles apart is a Big 12 game for just the second time. Will Ferrin’s 44-yard field goal with 3 seconds left gave BYU a 22-21 win last year, when Utah’...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died at age 92 at his home in Kapan in the Kathmandu district of Nepal, confirmed Phur Gelje Sherpa, the associat...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Rick Barnes saw a chance to bring Duke to campus for the first time in nearly 50 years and jumped at it. His No. 18 Volunteers host sixth-ranked Duke on Sunday in an exhibition that sold out minutes after tickets went on sale despite the result not counting. It’s much more important to the co...

Last season: 68-14, won NBA championship. COACH: Mark Daigneault (6th season, 211-189). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 21 vs. Houston. ADDITIONS: G Nikola Topic, G Brooks Barnhizer. BetMGM championship odds: 2.4-1 The Thunder are one of the league’s youngest teams and their best days might be ahead of them. All the main pieces from the champi...

Last season: 49-33, lost to Oklahoma City 4-1 in Western Conference finals. COACH: Chris Finch (6th season, 209-160). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Portland. DEPARTURES: G Nickeil Alexander-Walker, C Luka Garza, F Josh Minott. ADDITIONS: F Joan Beringer, G Johnny Juzang, C Rocco Zikarsky. BetMGM championship odds: 13-1. Having furthere...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ricky Hatton, the former boxing world champion, was found hanged at his home, a coroner’s court heard on Thursday. Hatton was discovered by his manager and long-time friend Paul Speak at his home in Hyde, Greater Manchester, on Sept. 14. Speak drove there to take the 46-year-old former two-weight world ch...

Last season: 44-38, lost to New York in first round of playoffs. COACH: J.B. Bickerstaff (2nd season with Pistons, 10th season overall, 299-328) SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Chicago. DEPARTURES: Tim Hardaway Jr., Malik Beasley, Dennis Schroder, Simone Fontecchio. ADDITIONS: Duncan Robinson, Caris LeVert, Javonte Green, Chaz Lanier. Be...

Last season: 17-65, missed playoffs. COACH: Will Hardy (4th season, 85-161). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 vs LA Clippers. DEPARTURES: C John Collins, G Collin Sexton, G Jordan Clarkson, F Johnny Juzang. ADDITIONS: G Ace Bailey, G Walter Clayton, Jr., F Georges Niang, C Kevin Love, F Kyle Anderson, C Jusif Nurkic. BetMGM championship odds...

COACH: Nick Nurse (third season with the 76ers, eighth season overall, 298-256) SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Boston. DEPARTURES: F Guerschon Yabusele BetMGM championship odds: 40-1 Injuries. Forget scouting reports. The thing that matters are the injury reports. Joel Embiid, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey all missed significant games la...

Last season: 36-46, missed playoffs. COACH: Jordan Ott (first season) SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 vs. Sacramento. DEPARTURES: F Kevin Durant, G Bradley Beal, G Tyus Jones, C Mason Plumlee ADDITIONS: G Jalen Green, G Dillon Brooks, C Mark Williams, C Khaman Maluach, F Nigel Hayes-Davis, F Rasheer Fleming BetMGM championship odds: 500-1....

LAST SEASON: 50-32, lost to Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals. COACH: Rick Carlisle (ninth season with Pacers, 338-318; 24th season overall, 993-860). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 vs. Oklahoma City. DEPARTURES: C Myles Turner, C Thomas Bryant. ADDITIONS: C Jay Huff, G Kam Jones, G Cam Payne. BetMGM championship odds: 100-1. The defending E...

Last season: 50-32, won Pacific Division, lost to Minnesota in the first round. COACH: JJ Redick (2nd season, 50-32). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 21 vs. Golden State DEPARTURES: F Dorian Finney-Smith. ADDITIONS: C Deandre Ayton, G Marcus Smart, F Jake LaRavia. BetMGM championship odds: 16-1. Luka Doncic appears to be a man on a mission aft...

Last season: 18-64, missed playoffs. COACH: Brian Keefe (third season, 26-95). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Milwaukee. DEPARTURES: G Jordan Poole, G Malcolm Brogdon, F Richaun Holmes, G Marcus Smart, G Colby Jones. ADDITIONS: G CJ McCollum, G/F Cam Whitmore, F Malaki Branham, G Tre Johnson, F Will Riley. BetMGM championship odds: 1000...

Last season: 52-30, lost to Golden State in first round of playoffs. COACH: Ime Udoka (third season with Rockets, fourth season overall, 144-102). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 21 at Oklahoma City. DEPARTURES: G Jalen Green, F Dillon Brooks, F Cam Whitmore. ADDITIONS: F Kevin Durant, F Dorian Finney-Smith, C Clint Capela, F Josh Okogie. BetM...

TORONTO (AP) — Last season: 30-52, missed playoffs. COACH: Darko Rajakovic (3rd season, 55-109). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Atlanta. DEPARTURES: F Chris Boucher, president Masai Ujiri. ADDITIONS: F Sandro Mamukelashvili, F Collin Murray-Boyles. BetMGM championship odds: 100-1. With the Raptors happy to prioritize draft positioning o...

Last season: 51-31, lost to Indiana in the Eastern Conference finals. COACH: Mike Brown (1st season with Knicks, 12th season overall, 454-304). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 vs. Cleveland. DEPARTURES: F Precious Achiuwa, G Cam Payne, G Delon Wright. ADDITIONS: G Jordan Clarkson, F Guerschon Yabusele. BetMGM championship odds: 9-1. A team...

Last season: 41-41, lost to Boston in first round of playoffs. COACH: Jamahl Mosley (5th season, 144-184). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 vs. Miami. DEPARTURES: G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, G Cole Anthony, G Gary Harris. ADDITIONS: G Desmond Bane, G Tyus Jones, G Jase Richardson and F Noah Penda. BetMGM championship odds: 18-1. The Magic we...

Last season: 40-42, lost to Dallas in play-in round. COACH: Doug Christie (2nd season, 27-24). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Phoenix. DEPARTURES: F Jake LaRavia, C Jonas Valanciunas, F Trey Lyles, G Markelle Fultz. ADDITIONS: G Dennis Schroder, F Drew Eubanks, F Doug McDermott, F Dario Saric, G Nique Clifford, F Maxime Raynaud. BetMGM...

Last season: 48-34, lost to Oklahoma City in first round of playoffs. COACH: Tuomas Iisalo (first-time head coach May 2, 4-5 as interim coach). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 vs. New Orleans. DEPARTURES: G Desmond Bane, C/PF Marvin Bagley, C Jay Huff, G Luke Kennard. ADDITIONS: G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, G Cedric Coward, G Javon Small, F...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jack Quinn gave Buffalo the lead for the first time this season with a shot that missed the net and still went in, and the Sabres had two more power-play scores and a short-handed goal to beat the Ottawa Senators 8-4 on Wednesday night for their first victory. Quinn got it started midway through the first perio...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Mammoth unveiled their mascot, Tusky, on Wednesday night at their second home opener since beginning play in Salt Lake City. Tusky joined Gritty of the the Philadelphia Flyers, Buoy of the Seattle Kraken and Chance of the Vegas Golden Knights as some of the NHL’s newest mascots. The organization opted...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — JJ Peterka and Barrett Hayton scored second-period goals, Karel Vejmelka made 19 saves, and the Utah Mammoth beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Wednesday night. Utah became the sixth NHL franchise to win each of its first two home openers. The Mammoth also earned their fourth straight win over Calgary after going...

Last season: 37-45, lost to Cleveland in first round of playoffs. COACH: Erik Spoelstra (18th season, 787-572). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 26 at Orlando. DEPARTURES: F Duncan Robinson, F Kevin Love, F Kyle Anderson, F Haywood Highsmith, G Alec Burks. ADDITIONS: G Norman Powell, G Kasparas Jakucionis, F Simone Fontecchio, F Precious Achiuw...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lukas Reichel had two goals and an assist, and the Chicago Blackhawks pounded the St. Louis Blues 8-3 on Wednesday night for their second straight win. Connor Bedard had three assists for Chicago, which beat Utah 3-1 on Monday for its first victory of the season. Ilya Mikheyev had a goal and an assist. The Blackhaw...

Last season: 50-32, lost to Oklahoma City in the Western Conference semifinals. COACH: David Adelman (1st full season, 3-0 in regular season in 2024-25 and 7-7 in the playoffs). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 at Golden State. DEPARTURES: F Michael Porter Jr., C-F Dario Saric, SF Vlatko Cancar. ADDITIONS: F Cam Johnson, G Bruce Brown, G Tim...

Last season: 26-56, missed playoffs. COACH: Jordi Fernandez (2nd season, 26-56). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Charlotte. DEPARTURES: F Cam Johnson, G D’Angelo Russell, G Keon Johnson, G Trendon Watford. ADDITIONS: F Michael Porter Jr., G Terance Mann, F Haywood Highsmith, G Kobe Bufkin, Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, Drake Powell, Ben Sara...

Last season: 21-61, last in the Southwest Division. COACH: Willie Green (5th season, 148-180). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 22 at Memphis. DEPARTURES: G CJ McCollum, F-C Kelly Olynyk, G Bruce Brown. ADDITIONS: F-C Kevon Looney, G Jordan Poole, F Saddiq Bey, G Jeremiah Fears, F Derik Queen BetMGM championship odds: 300-1. Much will hinge on...

PARIS (AP) — Ligue 1 leader Paris Saint-Germain hosts third-placed Strasbourg on Friday with just one point separating them. While PSG’s position at the top is no surprise, Strasbourg — owned by Chelsea’s parent company BlueCo since 2023 — is exceeding expectations. The team features homegrown talents and has been flourishing since...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The first doubts are beginning to emerge about Liverpool’s Premier League title defense on the back of three straight losses. Manchester United seems to be never more than one loss away from another crisis. That is the backdrop to the latest clash of English soccer’s fiercest rivals. At Anfield on Sunday,...

BERLIN (AP) — With more hope than expectation. The Bundesliga is waiting to see if Borussia Dortmund can mount a challenge to Bayern Munich in “der Klassiker” on Saturday. Both teams are unbeaten after six rounds but Bayern has made a perfect start to the season with 11 wins from 11 games across all competitions including the Germa...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona lost more players to injuries including striker Robert Lewandowski and playmaker Dani Olmo during the international break ahead of visiting Girona in La Liga on Saturday. Kylian Mbappé is also doubtful for Real Madrid’s game against Getafe on Sunday after he missed a World Cup qualifier for France...

CHICAGO (AP) — Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer was sure of one thing. The team was at its best when Kyle Tucker was at his best. Whether they’ll be together next season remains to be seen. Tucker, after all, is set to become a free agent, and he will be arguably the top player on the market. “Everyone can use a guy...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays are expecting Max Scherzer to be himself when he starts Game 4 of the AL Championship Series against Seattle on Thursday night. “I love it. This is what you play for,” Scherzer said. “You want to have the ball in this situation, you want to be pitching in the postseason.” The 41-year-old Scherze...

SEATTLE (AP) — George Kirby was in the strike zone — perhaps too much. The Toronto Blue Jays had 18 hits, including five home runs, all within the first three pitches of an at-bat in a 13-4 rout of the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night that pulled them to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series. Eight of those hits came off Kirby, who...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — J.J. McCarthy hasn’t fully healed from the high ankle sprain that has kept him out of the past three games, still navigating the final stage of stress-testing the injury and ramping back up to speed with the Minnesota Vikings and their offense. The question of whether McCarthy returns as the starting quarterback...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Statistically, the Denver Broncos have the best defense in the NFL, and it could be getting even better this weekend. Linebacker Dre Greenlaw is eligible to come off IR against the New York Giants (2-4) on Sunday after recovering from a quadriceps injury that has sidelined him since summertime. Greenlaw prac...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The injury-riddled San Francisco 49ers welcomed two key players back to practice when quarterback Brock Purdy and tight end George Kittle participated on Wednesday on a limited basis. Purdy has missed the past two games and four of the last five with a toe injury. But he was able to join practice for the...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Raiders went after Titans quarterback Cam Ward in just about every way on Sunday, pressuring him on more than a third of drop-backs in the 20-10 victory. Getting to Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes is a whole different conversation. “He’s as good as you can get,” Raiders coach Pete Carroll said. “He really i...

Things to watch this week in the Southeastern Conference: No. 5 Ole Miss (6-0, 3-0 SEC) at No. 9 Georgia (5-1, 3-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC) Georgia bounced back from a Week 5 loss to Alabama with a 20-10 win against Auburn but the Bulldogs have looked sluggish at times. A win against Ole Miss would help in the SEC title race...

Things to watch this weekend in the Atlantic Coast Conference: No. 12 Georgia Tech (6-0, 3-0) at Duke (4-2, 3-0 ACC), Saturday, noon ET (ESPN) Two conference unbeatens clash in a game that could have a significant impact on who plays in the ACC championship game in Charlotte. The Yellow Jackets, who come in as a 1 1/2-point underdo...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Playing for his third school in four years, Alabama receiver Germie Bernard needed just a few words to sum up the rivalry known as the “Third Saturday in October.” “This is what you come to Alabama for,” Bernard said. The sixth-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 11 Tennessee meet for the 108th time in one of the So...

Seems like a classic something’s-got-to-give game awaits Friday night. No. 2 Miami (5-0, 1-0) plays host to Louisville (4-1, 1-1) in a matchup of two teams that have proven they can score but have relied on their defenses for much of the first half of the year. Louisville comes into the game ranked No. 1 in the ACC in total defense...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Roberts has found a way around the Los Angeles Dodgers’ struggling relievers. Barely use ‘em. The defending World Series champions have relied on their starting pitching to take a commanding 2-0 lead against the Milwaukee Brewers in their best-of-seven NL Championship Series. Two-time Cy Young Award winner B...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Max Muncy was inches away from hitting a grand slam for the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the scoring in the National League Championship Series. Little did he know his 404-foot drive instead would end the top of the fourth inning Monday night in one of the most incredible plays of this or any postseason. “It’s defin...

Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. 2 an...

For many college basketball experts, selecting the greatest players of the women’s poll era sounds easy — until they try it. Of course, USC’s Cheryl Miller and Diana Taurasi of UConn are relatively easy choices. But narrowing the list from there gets tricky, inevitably leaving out talented players, including those who sharpened the...

NEW YORK (AP) — The one-game suspension of Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch was upheld Wednesday by a hearing officer appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players’ Association. Jordy Nelson, the hearing officer, denied the appeal by Branch, who was suspended for a game without pay by the league Monday for unsportsmanlike conduct follo...

SEATTLE (AP) — Tired in Toronto, the Blue Jays slugged in Seattle. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer woke up Toronto as the Blue Jays hit five home runs to rebound from an early deficit, routing the Mariners 13-4 Wednesday night and closing to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series. Toronto had 18 hits — all within the first thr...

SEATTLE (AP) — It was a productive night for George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Two of Toronto’s biggest stars led the way for the Blue Jays in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series on Wednesday. Springer and Guerrero each hit a solo shot as Toronto finished with five homers overall. Springer had three hits, and Guerrero went...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 14 people died in a mine collapse in El Callao, Venezuela after torrential rains hit the southeast region, authorities said on Monday. A command post was set up to “coordinate operations to recover the 14 deceased,” led by Brig. Gen. Gregory González Acevedo, head of the Operational Zones for Dama...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The island of cats has a cat problem. Officials in Cyprus, the small island nation in the eastern corner of the Mediterranean, estimate there is roughly one feral cat for every one of its 1 million inhabitants — though activists contend the actual population is hundreds of thousands higher. In late September,...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Lorenzo has weakened as it churns in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean and does not threaten land, forecasters said. The storm was located about 1,430 miles (2,300 kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands on Tuesday afternoon and had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), the U.S. National Hurri...

For more than three decades, Great Lakes fisherman Richard Boda has kept a handwritten logbook of his time on the water — a legacy to the son and daughter who would one day inherit the family business. Jotted in a waterproof notepad each day and transferred to a spiral binder at night, the notes detail weather, net locations, fish...

TIANGUISTENGO, México (AP) — When a river that winds through the mountains of central Mexico suddenly turned into a crushing wall of water over this past week, it practically wiped the 400-person village of Chapula off the map. Residents only had time to shout, warning neighbors living along the riverbanks, and desperately seek she...

The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions. If the deal is adopted, this will be the first time a global fee is imposed on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Most ships today run on heavy fu...

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree. After decades of making cabinets for a living, Kristinsson,...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they fed the line from the rocky shore down to the seafloor — home to the region’s orcas. The bet is that t...

For the first time in California history, a county sheriff has been removed from office. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office Tuesday, nearly a year after a damning report from a retired county judge found that she likely violated the county’s policy on nepotism...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s 2020 law abolishing deadlines for lawsuits alleging sexual assault cannot be applied retroactively, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The ruling came in the case of Randy Ball, who sued the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester in 2023 alleging he was raped by a priest at a summer camp in t...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the trial of three former New York state corrections officers charged in the fatal beating of an inmate that was captured on bodycam video. Lawyers spent most of the day delivering closing arguments in a Utica court in the trial of Mathew Galliher, Nicholas Kieffer and David...

This photo provided by Ventura County Fire Department, members of VCFD and Oxnard Fire Department pose with a dog after they rescued it from a flood channel in the Oxnard plains in Ventura County, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (Ventura County Fire Department via AP) This photo provided by Ventura County Fire Department, member...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new public schools superintendent announced Wednesday he is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to place Bibles in classrooms and incorporate the book into lesson plans for students. Superintendent Lindel Fields said in a statement he has “no plans to distribute Bibles or a...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the Trump Administration over its response to a parasitic pest that continues to make its way north in Mexico, and could potentially threaten the state’s $15 billion cattle industry if it crosses the border. This week, in an interview with a Nashville television networ...

Rescue aircraft were sent to the tiny Alaskan villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, where there were reports of up to 20 people possibly unaccounted for, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesperson for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. “We have received reports that people’s homes have floated away and that peopl...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare October storm pummeled Southern California with several inches of rain on Tuesday, swelling rivers, causing freeway accidents and prompting evacuations in wildfire-scarred neighborhoods where the threat of mudslides was high. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings in several counties wher...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Officials in Alaska rushed Tuesday to evacuate and find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. But the remote location and severe damage are limiting their options as they race against other impending storms and the onset of winter. High winds and surging wa...

CHICAGO (AP) — A high-speed chase involving Border Patrol agents led to the pursued person’s arrest Tuesday afternoon in a residential street on Chicago ’s South Side, authorities said, and footage from the scene shows protesters gathering before agents deployed a tear gas to disperse them. While federal agents conducted an immigra...

The full-body restraint device known as the WRAP has become a harrowing part of deportations for some immigrants. The Associated Press identified multiple examples of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers using the black-and-yellow full-body restraint device on deportation flights. Here are takeaways from the AP’s inves...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One person was dead and two were missing in western Alaska on Monday after the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges and floodwaters that swept some homes away, authorities said. More than 50 people had been rescued — some plucked from rooftops. Off...

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to their attorney,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride. Crowds that have gathered daily and nig...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion of the Titan submer...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal. Israel has also rejected freeing other high-profile prisoners whose release Hamas has long sought, t...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza ceasefire held in its second day as tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to their neighborhoods Saturday and Israelis cheered Monday’s expected release of remaining hostages. “Gaza is completely destroyed. I have no idea where we should live or where to go,” said Mahmoud al-Shandoghli in...

CAIRO (AP) — As the Middle East broadly welcomes a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Iran finds itself at one of its weakest moments since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Tehran has operated its self-described “Axis of Resistance” over several decades, supporting militant groups and nations allied with it against Israel and t...

CAIRO (AP) — A ceasefire was holding in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on Saturday after two years of war. But will the agreement lead, as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed, to “a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace”? The deal took pressure on Israel and Hamas from the United States, Arab countries and Turkey. The war has de...

Follow AP’s live updates on the Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump set off for Israel and Egypt on Sunday to celebrate the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas and urge Middle East allies to seize the opportunity...

Follow AP’s live updates on the Gaza ceasefire deal and the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners. In a critical day for the Middle East, Hamas released the 20 living Israeli hostages it still held and Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a breakthrough Gaza ceasefire deal. U.S. President Donald Trump, w...

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza’s future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hamas. “We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds a...

LAVON, Israel (AP) — It was a day of joy and tears across Israel. Families, loved ones and friends watched as Hamas released the last living hostages held captive for over two years in the Gaza Strip. On day 738 since Alon Ohel was taken hostage, family and friends of the young music lover jumped to their feet, cheered, blew into s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is declaring Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip over and has already barreled ahead toward far larger goals — arguing that the fragile ceasefire his administration helped broker is a chance to bring a lasting peace to the greater Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in northern South Africa, killing at least 42 people and leaving another 49 passengers injured, authorities said Monday. The crash happened around 6 p.m. Sunday on the N1 highway near the town of Louis Trichardt, around 400 kilometer...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya have been granted 14 days to hold a man accused of stabbing a guard to death on Monday outside the presidential office in the capital, Nairobi, an attack widely seen as a major security lapse. The investigating officer on Tuesday asked a court for more time as the suspect, who claimed to have b...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s health minister on Tuesday called lenacapavir, the first twice-yearly HIV prevention jab in the world, a “groundbreaking” tool to fight the disease, but warned initial donated supply would be limited to nearly half a million people in the African country with the highest prevalence rate. This come...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The family of a Kenyan woman who was killed after a night out with British soldiers 13 years ago requested Tuesday that the U.K. government ensure the suspect is arrested and extradited, one month after a court ruling in Kenya. British Defense Secretary John Healey met with a spokesperson for the family of Agn...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 people have become the latest West Africans deported from the U.S. to Ghana under an accord between the countries, said a lawyer whose group filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the arrangement. Oliver Barker-Vormawor, who represents migrants, said the latest group of 14 West African nationals...