Madagascar’s military seized power from the civilian government Tuesday, a high-ranking commander announced after President Andry Rajoelina fled the sprawling Indian Ocean island country for his safety. The ouster of Rajoelina, who himself came to power as a transitional leader in a military-backed coup in 2009, capped weeks of pro...

NEW YORK (AP) — For months, bubbling trade tensions between China and the U.S. seemed to calm to a simmer, with words like “thaw” and “truce” swapped in for warnings of economic “war.” Now, hostilities appear to be returning to full boil. A series of tit-for-tat moves this week by the two superpowers has thrust trade hostilities ba...

BEIJING (AP) — China signaled on Sunday that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump and urged the United States to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats. Trump responded by taking a less confrontational approach without retreating from his demands, while his vice...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons on Sunday and rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine coast guard said. There were no injuries among Filipino crewmen of the BRP Datu Pagb...

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports to the United States fell 27% in September from the year before, even though growth in its global exports hit a six-month high. Customs figures released Monday showed that China’s worldwide exports were 8.3% higher than a year earlier, at $328.5 billion, surpassing economists’ estimates. That was ma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve. Trump to...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Carter Gordon has been rushed into Australia’s touring squad for tests in Japan and Europe within hours of returning to eligibility for the Wallabies by leaving the National Rugby League. The 24-year-old Gordon was added to the Wallabies squad in the absence of flyhalves Tom Lynagh, who started against th...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India needs just 58 more runs to beat the West Indies in the second test and wrap up a series whitewash in New Delhi. India was 63-1 in its second innings at stumps on day four Monday at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Lokesh Rahul was 25 not out and Sai Sudharsan on 30 from 47 balls, with five fours, at stumps. Yashasvi Jai...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government took effective control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in what it said was a “highly exceptional” move over worries that corporate governance shortcomings pose a potential risk to European economic security. In a statement late Sunday, the Dutch ministry of economic affairs sai...

VISAKHAPATNAM, India (AP) — Nadine de Klerk completed a thrilling chase by South Africa to beat Bangladesh in the final over at the Women’s Cricket World Cup on Monday. Needing eight runs off the last six balls, de Klerk smacked a four and a six to finish the chase with three deliveries remaining. She scored 37 not out off 29 balls...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and the U.S. are facilitating efforts to secure an expanded ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia that they hope will be signed during a Southeast Asian summit later this month, Malaysia Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said Tuesday. Thailand and Cambodia engaged in five days of comb...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at the Women’s Cricket World Cup was called off because of persistent rain Tuesday after Nilakshika de Silva had posted the fastest half-century of tournament to lead Sri Lanka to a strong 258-6. Heavy rain during the interval prevented the New Zealand innings fr...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected appeals by the Israel Gymnastics Federation to be allowed to compete at a world championships in Indonesia this weekend. The CAS also turned down Israel’s request to force the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG) to guarantee Israel’s participation, or...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A fire at a garment factory and a chemical warehouse in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday killed at least 16 people, the Fire Service and Civil Defense department said. Fire official Talha bin Jashim said Tuesday’s blaze happened in Dhaka ’s Mirpur area and is believed to have started on the third floor of th...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan beat Brazil for the first time on Tuesday, fighting from two goals down to win the friendly 3-2 in Ajinomoto Stadium. Ayase Ueda grabbed the winning goal with a header in the 71st minute, sending the sell-out crowd into celebration. It was Japan’s historic first win over the South American powerhouse at its 14th...

BATAM, Indonesia (AP) — A fire and explosion on a crude palm oil tanker at a shipyard on Indonesia’s Batam Island on Wednesday killed at least 10 people and injured 21, police said. The fire broke out in the ship’s gas tank while repair workers were still on board the tanker, which had been undergoing repairs at the shipyard in the...

Most U.S. stocks rose following another topsy-turvy day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 added 0.4% Wednesday, but only after jumping toward one of its biggest gains since the summer, erasing it all and then climbing back. The Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged the market after edging down by less...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day Wednesday, spewing towering columns of hot ash that later blanketed villages. No casualties were immediately reported. Indonesia’s Geology Agency said an eruption in the early morning sent lava and clouds...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A senior official at Cambodia’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday his ministry will cooperate with South Korea over the death of a South Korean student allegedly kidnapped and tortured by a criminal gang in Cambodia. The body of 22-year-old Park Min-ho was discovered in August in a pickup truck near Bokor...

ROME (AP) — The United Nations’ food aid agency said Wednesday that severe funding cuts from its top donors are especially hurting its operations in six countries and warned that nearly 14 million people could be forced into emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Program, traditionally the U.N.'s most-funded agency, said in a n...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s defense minister warned in an interview that small countries in the South Pacific face growing pressure from great power competition for their rare minerals and fisheries wealth, and that more action was needed from regional neighbors to help in preserving island nations’ sovereignty. Ju...

England became the first country from Europe to qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday but Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal will have to wait after conceding a stoppage-time equalizer against Hungary. England won 5-0 at Latvia, with captain Harry Kane scoring twice in the first half, to assure first place in its group with two mat...

ATHENS (AP) — Riot police scuffled with medical staff at an Athens public hospital on Wednesday during a protest over the state of public health services held during a visit to the facility by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Police in riot gear fired volleys of pepper spray and used shields and batons to push away doctors at th...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday disqualified the court’s chief prosecutor from the case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is charged with involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called “war on drugs” when in office. The written decision cited a...

GENEVA (AP) — Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. The World Meteorological Organization sa...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union’s top official on Wednesday told Serbia’s populist leader to “get concrete” about its proclaimed goal of joining the 27-nation bloc, including implementing sanctions against traditional ally Russia. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also pressed President Aleksandar Vucic...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two jurors who voted in June to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said they regret the decision and only did so because others on the panel bullied them, the former movie mogul’s lawyers said in a newly public court filing. Weinstein’s lawyers are seeking to overturn his conviction for first-degree criminal...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marc Maron drops the 1,686th and final episode of his “WTF” podcast Monday. The show began with the comic and actor mainly interviewing stand-up comedians. Maron would go on to talk to legends of music and Hollywood, and a sitting president. Here’s a look at seven essential episodes from the 16-year history of th...

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79. A family member told The Associated Press that Keaton died in California with loved ones. People magazine first...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 19-25: Oct. 19: Artist Peter Max is 88. Actor John Lithgow is 80. Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 80. Singer Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers is 77. Actor Annie Golden (“Orange Is the New Black”) is 74. Talk show host Charlie Chase is 73. Singer Jennifer Holliday is 65. TV host Ty Penningto...

NEW YORK (AP) — That’s show business for you! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” has officially sold 4.002 million equivalent album units — which includes album sales and streaming activity — in its first week in the U.S. That is the biggest first week in modern music history; at least, according to Luminat...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tens of thousands of people from across the Balkans poured into the streets of Sarajevo on Monday to bid farewell to Halid Beslic, a Bosnian folk singer whose music and humanitarian work broke down barriers in a region riven by ethnic animosity. In his native Bosnia, he was highly respected for o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Toby Talbot, a great patron of art house cinema who with her husband, Dan, helped introduce movie lovers to celebrated works from Jean-Luc Godard,Pedro Almodóvar and hundreds of other international filmmakers and to American favorites old and new, has died at age 96. Talbot died Sept. 15 at her home in Manhattan, Th...

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Alec Baldwin and his younger brother Stephen escaped injury when their vehicle struck a tree in New York. In a video posted to Instagram late Monday, Alec Baldwin said he was driving his wife’s Range Rover in East Hampton on Monday when he was cut off by a garbage truck “the size of a whale.” The 67-year-o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donnie Wahlberg is finally getting his dream of shooting a TV series in his beloved hometown of Boston. There’s just one catch: He’s playing a New Yorker. The die-hard Red Sox fan is transplanting his Danny Reagan character from the Big Apple-based procedural “Blue Bloods” to a new CBS spinoff, “Boston Blue,” steppi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Few artists of his era blurred the lines between sacred and sensual quite like D’Angelo, who died Tuesday at 51. With his unmistakable voice, deep-rooted musicianship and devotion to craft over commerce, he helped define the sound of modern R&B. This playlist, a mix of his celebrated hits and lesser-known gems, s...

NEW YORK (AP) — Megha Majumdar’s “ A Guardian and a Thief,” already a finalist for the National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, is now Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick. Set in the near future, “A Guardian and a Thief” depicts a world of drought, flooding, crime and food shortages as it contrasts a woman whose family is about to emigrate...

Diane Keaton never really played the part of glamorous movie star. She was in iconic films and she dated some of the biggest stars of her generation, and yet she somehow remained other and defiantly herself despite so many years working in the Hollywood system. Eccentric and approachable, with a sort of effervescent charm, it’s no...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Carlos Costa would never forget the summer day his grandmother took him to the movies. He was 6 years old when he first walked into a dark theater to watch “O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão,” a 1977 Brazilian comedy that remains one of the country’s biggest box office hits. “When I saw that giant screen, wow, I...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Tron: Ares” powered up the box office grid in the top spot this weekend, but Disney’s third entry in the sci-fi franchise fell short of expectations. Despite some favorable reviews — including a three-out-of-four-star one from The Associated Press — the new “Tron” film starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Jeff Bri...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Tamara Deverell, the production designer on Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” first strode across the nearly finished set of Victor Frankenstein’s lab, she couldn’t help herself. Deverell had by then spent countless hours toiling over the film’s central set, a massive laboratory perched atop an old Scottish...

Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his creations are things of strange beauty, haunting, poetic and unforgettable. It’s no wonder his earliest love was “Frankenstein,” first the Boris Karloff film, then the novel, which set hi...

The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” The sputtering car comes to a stop outside a business. The driver comes out and asks those inside for help. He’s just trying to get his pregnant wife and precocious young daughter...

Notable reaction to the death of R&B and neo-soul icon D’Angelo , who died Tuesday at 51. “I remember hearing your music for the first time… I said to myself damn whoever this is they are anointed… Then when I finally got a chance to see you… Like everyone when they saw the most incredible music video of our time… I was blown away…...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama helped Marc Maron lock the gates on his podcast Monday, returning to the show for the final episode after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The former president gave new status to “WTF With Marc Maron” and to podcasts in general when he visited Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio while still in of...

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognized by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” music video, has died. He was 51. The singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died Tuesday after a long bout with cancer, his family said in a statement...

News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon. Those outlets say the policy threatens...

Not far into Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” a very different kind of art heist film starring Josh O’Connor, the title’s irony becomes painfully clear. Because whatever one can say about J.B. Mooney, the mediocre art thief played by O’Connor with a brooding, hangdog sort of anti-energy, it’s obvious what one can’t. This onetime...

Richard Linklater likes to joke that if he and Ethan Hawke didn’t know each other so well, Hawke probably would have punched him during the making of “Blue Moon.” The two Texans have been friends and collaborators for over 30 years. They had made eight films together when they started “Blue Moon,” about the lyricist Lorenz Hart set...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time the filmmaker Rebecca Miller met Martin Scorsese was on the set of 2002’s “Gangs of New York.” Miller’s husband, Daniel Day-Lewis, was starring in it. There, Miller found an anxious Scorsese on the precipice of the film’s enormous fight scene, shot on a sprawling set. “He seemed like a young man, hopi...

Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people, including 25 young girls and two teenage counselors at Camp Mystic. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows introduced on Monday the Senate and H...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Airports big and small around the country are refusing to play a video with a message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on Transportation Security Administration operations. Airports in New York, Atlanta, Chicag...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce. As the shutdown enters its...

Maui County is preparing to buy more than 160 acres of mostly vacant land in Lahaina to use for long-planned improvements and projects that are central to the town’s post-wildfire recovery. The Maui County Council Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee advanced legislation last week that would authorize a $20 million pu...

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon. Fox signed on to a statement with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN saying they would not agree to Hegseth’s new rules, saying “the policy is without precedent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded America’s highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation’s politics further to the right. Receiving the award on Kirk’s behalf was his widow, Erika. Her voice cracki...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials failed to disclose that they had applied for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” leading to a false impression before an appellate court panel that put on hold a judge’s order to wind down operations at the facility,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee requested Tuesday that Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel, appear for an interview, part of an escalating effort among the GOP to pursue the perceived enemies of President Donald Trump. Rep. Jim Jordan, the committee chair, charged in a letter to...

Tears welling in her eyes, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan paused mid-sentence to calm herself on the Assembly floor. Almost a century ago, the Nazis forced her grandmother to flee Austria, leaving behind her great-great-grandmother who died in the Holocaust, the Jewish Democrat from San Ramon told her fellow lawmakers. Last yea...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior adviser at the State Department and expert on Indian and South Asian affairs is accused by the Justice Department of printing out classified documents and storing more than 1,000 pages of highly sensitive government records in filing cabinets and trash bags at home. Ashley Tellis, who has also worked as a...

SAND LAKE, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a Michigan school district in a dispute over free speech and “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts, clothing that took a jab at then-President Joe Biden. The mother of two boys, who got the shirts as Christmas gifts, said her sons’ First Amendment rights were violated...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online...

DALLAS (RNS) — “Welcome to the fight,” said commentator Allie Beth Stuckey as she greeted the 6,700 conservative Christian women assembled in the Dallas, Texas, arena on Saturday morning (Oct. 11): “The fight for truth, the fight for our Christian faith, the fight for our children, the fight for the nation.” Among Stuckey’s hundred...

A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library. The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted the sizable plo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of aggressive immigration enforcement measures from the Trump administration, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults are more likely to hold a negative view of President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration, a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds. About 7 in 10 AAPI adults nationwid...

When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in decades. More than 140,000 gallons (3,300 barrels) of oil gushed out, blackening beaches for 150 miles (240 kilometers) from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, polluting a biologically rich habitat for...

Texas Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa entered the race for governor Wednesday, criticizing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott as beholden to big donors in an uphill bid to become the first Democrat to hold the office since 1995. Hinojosa, who represents Austin, joins a race that has been without big-name challengers and overshadowed i...

LAKE CITY, Florida (AP) — A Florida judge has granted a protective order against Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills at the request of a former girlfriend who claimed that he threatened to release nude images of her and physically harm her future boyfriends after she broke up with him. Under the order issued Tuesday by Circuit Judge Fr...

A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas’ new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System’s enforcement of a ban on overnight expression and limits on speakers, amplified sounds and drums during the last two weeks of the semester. U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra on Oct....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. The activists said the orders would worsen global warming, threatening their lives and violating their constitution...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an unsavory phrase. Grunt work is more like it — efforts that may not produce headlines but keep the momentum of an historic movement going...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Decade-long political quarrels over legislative and executive powers in North Carolina advanced Wednesday as a state appeals court permitted the Republican-controlled General Assembly to chip away at the Democratic governor’s appointment authority for several key commissions. The judges also said lawmakers went...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Election Commission is trying to figure out how a contract for new machines for voting for $28 million ended up costing the agency $4 million more. The investigation into buying the 3,200 ballot scanners in 2024 has led to the firing of the head of the election agency and the second in comma...

The deportation of a U.S. Marine’s father in California is bringing new attention to President Donald Trump’s apparent changes to a longstanding policy seeking to protect military families from deportation. Trump’s new immigration tactics follow years of the military recruiting from immigrant communities to fill out its ranks and t...

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a moderate Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday that he will challenge U.S. Sen. Edward Markey for the Democratic nomination in next year’s Senate race, arguing it’s time for the party to embrace a new generation of leadership. The announcement makes the race one of the most anticipated prima...

▶ Follow the latest updates as the Supreme Court hears arguments over the Voting Rights Act WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights activists were relieved in 2023 when, in a surprise to some, the Supreme Court upheld the most important remaining element of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling forced Alabama and later Louisiana to redraw thei...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Entering the third week of a government shutdown, Democrats say they are not intimidated or cowed by President Donald Trump’s efforts to fire thousands of federal workers or by his threats of more firings to come. Instead, Democrats appear emboldened, showing no signs of caving as they returned to Washington from...

▶ Follow the latest updates as the Supreme Court hears arguments over the Voting Rights Act WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral...

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court. Cook County includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months. Detaining residents outside courthouses has been a common tactic for federal agents, who have been stationed outside county courthouses for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom because a windshield cracked on a flight back to the U.S. from a NATO meeting and all aboard are safe, the Pentagon said. The plane landed “based on standard procedures,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X. Af...

Michael Guidotti will have his driver’s license on him when he runs the Chicago Marathon, just as he did during every training run since summer. After the Trump administration escalated its immigration crackdown in the city, runners like Guidotti, 31, are worried they could become a target during Sunday’s race. “Just knowing that I...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A food aid program that supports millions of low-income mothers and their young children received a $300 million infusion from the Trump administration this week, alleviating some anxiety that it would run out of money during the government shutdown. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants an...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Among the whimpering of rescued dogs, a soft whistle cuts through. It’s Feven Melese, a young woman hoping to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The 29-year-old music degree graduate has put up a rare shelter on the outskirts of the city, where she...

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that gained international attention as the filming location for the 1960s television series “Flipper” and thrilled generations of tourists with trained dolphin and orca shows, has closed its doors. Sunday’s closure of the park that opened in 1955 was celebra...

DALLAS (AP) — In the decades since June West Brandt’s older brother was killed in World War II, her kind and artistic sibling who loved to play boogie-woogie on the piano has never been far from her mind. So she was delighted to discover he’s also being remembered by a Dutch couple who regularly visit a marker for him at a Netherla...

Deciding where to live later in life isn’t an easy task. Many seniors prefer to stay in their own homes but may need help managing medical issues or day-to-day tasks. Others might move in with their adult children or family members. One potential solution is a continuing care retirement community, or life plan community. A CCRC is...

My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a sad sack of leafless roots. “Wait! I’ll take those, please,” I blurted, catching him just before they hit the trash bin, and explainin...

NEW YORK (AP) — She’s won a Grammy, collaborated with Barbra Streisand and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Now Laufey is taking on a new challenge: creating a children’s story inspired by her mascot-alias, Mei Mei The Bunny. Penguin Workshop announced Tuesday that Laufey’s picture book, “Mei Mei The Bunny,” will be pub...

NEW YORK (AP) — Angel Reese is taking her game from the court to the catwalk and making history along the way. The Chicago Sky forward is expected to become the first professional athlete to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday, joining the brand’s high-profile “Wings Reveal” lineup in New York. Reese, 23, will d...

SHAMVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They held hands and their chants of “it’s so nice to be here” echoed through the tent before they set about discussing sexuality, child ma...

NEW YORK (AP) — Reese Witherspoon’s first novel for adults began with the kind of inspiration veteran fiction writers know well — a character who wouldn’t leave her alone. A military doctor who ends up performing plastic surgery for mysterious clients. “I had never had an idea for a character in my whole life. She was sort of livin...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the ground earlier than usual. Soaking in the fall foliage is an annual tradition in the New England states as well as areas such as the Rocky Mountains of Colo...

Athletes confront failure as often as success during competition. For professional and Olympic athletes, those shortcomings can play out in singular and devastating fashion in front of worldwide audiences. From seven-time Olympic gymnast Simone Biles’ bout with “the twisties” during the 2020 Tokyo Games, to former Boston Red Sox fi...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A person living in New York has tested positive for the chikungunya virus in what state health officials say is the first reported transmission of the mosquito-borne illness within the United States in six years The state Department of Health said Tuesday that the virus, which has been spreading in China and el...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers went on strike Tuesday to demand better wages and staffing from the California-based health care giant. Organizers say the five-day strike across 500 medical centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Oregon is t...

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall. The number of available, stand-alone drug plans has fallen for a few years, and that trend will continue for 2026. Most markets will still have several choices, but some options are becoming particularly sparse for shoppers with lo...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the weekend, current and laid-off workers said Monday, as the administration aimed to pressure Democratic lawmakers to give in and end the...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state in the nation requiring restaurants to list major food allergens on their menus starting in 2026 under a new law. The law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Monday applies to businesses with at least 20 locations. They will have to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, she...

A group of Democratic state governors has launched a new alliance aimed at coordinating their public health efforts. They’re framing it as a way to share data, messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy — and as a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s administration, which they say isn’t doing its job in p...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in a decade. Health officials said the virus, which often causes fever and joint pain, was identified in a patient on Long Island who s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for tens of millions of beneficiaries. Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the 2024 Social Security COLA announcement will now be Oct. 24. It’s timed to the September Consumer Price Index, which als...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia detected traces of radioactive cesium 137 at a clove plantation as it searches for the source of radioactive contamination that forced recalls of shrimp and spices exported to the U.S., a task force investigating the issue said Wednesday. U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials blocked the im...

MILAN (AP) — The European Commission has fined luxury fashion houses Gucci, Chloé and Loewe a total of over 157 million euros (nearly $183 million) for anti-competitive practices restricting independent retailers’ ability to set prices for their goods. The commission said the companies’ fixing of resale prices, discovered in a 2023...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report, leaving policymakers at the Federal Reserve with a cloudier picture even as the economy enters a challenging phase of stubbornly persistent inflation and a sharp slowdown in hiring. The Labor Department’s monthly inflation data was scheduled for re...

If you’re considering buying a new small SUV, there’s a good chance you’ll consider the Honda CR-V. The CR-V is among the most popular-selling models in the United States, and there are good reasons why. It’s practical, comfortable and quite good at getting you where you need to go with minimal fuss. But it’s not the only small SUV...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confronting new uncertainty with the Trump administration’s promised layoffs. Little progress has been made to end the shutdown as it ente...

CVS has finished buying customer prescription files from hundreds of closed Rite Aid drugstores and is now running 63 of the defunct chain’s locations. The company said Wednesday that it is operating former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs stores in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. It also has transferred customer prescription files from 62...

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway is a tense place these days after two major labor unions authorized strike action amid ongoing contract negotiations with producers. Actors’ Equity Association — which represents over 51,000 members, including singers, actors, dancers and stage managers — and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 — whi...

Authors, readers and publishing industry experts lament the underrepresentation of Hispanic stories in the mainstream world of books, but have found new ways to elevate the literature and resolve misunderstandings. “The stories now are more diverse than they were ten years ago,” said Carmen Alvarez, a book influencer on Instagram a...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco repeatedly pressed...

The J.M. Smucker Co. is suing Trader Joe’s, alleging the grocery chain’s new frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are too similar to Smucker’s Uncrustables in their design and packaging. In the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in federal court in Ohio, Smucker said the round, crustless sandwiches Trader Joe’s sells have the sam...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust. Their work was credited with helping economists better understand...

PARIS (AP) — France’s Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion reflected Monday on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth. Aghion paid homage to his family lineage, particularly his mother, Gaby Aghion, who founded the fashion house Chloé, after he was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in...

NEW YORK (AP) — And back up goes Wall Street. U.S. stocks rallied Monday after President Donald Trump said ” it will all be fine,” just days after he sent the market reeling by threatening much higher tariffs on China. The S&P 500 jumped 1.6% in its best day since May and recovered just over half its drop from Friday. The Dow Jones...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street had one of its most profitable quarters ever, if the earnings from four of nation’s biggest banks that reported Tuesday are to be believed; as the companies were helped by a flurry of deal making, soaring stock prices and a global economy that remains resilient despite tariffs and geopolitical upheaval....

NEW YORK (AP) — Armed with hundreds of thousands of dollars from Newman’s Own Foundation and Ozempic creator Novo Nordisk, young Native Americans are leading the fight against persistently high rates of food insecurity in tribal communities. In a rare example of agency for a beneficiary community, 21 emerging Indigenous leaders rec...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton, in what would have been the biggest U.S. government coal sale in more than a decade. The failed sale underscores a continued low appetite for coal among utilities that are t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, a sign that the Fed will likely cut its key interest rate twice more this year. Powell said in a speech in Philadelphia that despite the federal government shutdown cutting off official economic d...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Steven Pearl took the podium on Wednesday at SEC Basketball Media Days, his first as head coach of the Auburn men’s basketball team. It’s new but familiar territory for the man who roughly three weeks ago succeeded his father, Auburn’s all-time winningest coach Bruce Pearl. The younger Pearl has been on the...

LONDON (AP) — Jet lag researchers might want to keep an eye on Sunday’s game in London between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Los Angeles Rams at Wembley Stadium. The Rams aren’t scheduled to arrive in England until Saturday morning, a day later than their arrivals to London under coach Sean McVay in 2017 and 2019. The Jags changed u...

Whether it’s a sleeper tight end stepping into a prime matchup, a running back bouncing back in a good matchup or a wide receiver who is stepping into an opportunity — here is a guide to the must-starts and must-stops for Week 7 of the fantasy football season. Start: Jared Goff, Lions vs Buccaneers Goff has had three multiple-TD ga...

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have opened the practice window for rookie defensive tackle Walter Nolen III as he works to return from a calf injury, giving him 21 days to be reinstated to the active roster. The first-round pick started the season on the physically unable to perform list after getting hurt just before tr...

Pittsburgh (4-1) at Cincinnati (2-4) Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EDT, Prime Video. BetMGM line: Steelers by 5 1/2. Against the spread: Steelers 3-2; Bengals 2-4 Series record: Steelers lead 71-40. Last meeting: Bengals won 19-17 in Pittsburgh on Jan. 4. Last week: Steelers beat Browns 23-9; Bengals lost at Packers 27-18 Steelers offense: o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Liberty assistant coach Olaf Lange has landed a new job as the head of the German women’s national team. Lange, a Berlin native, will coach the team in the World Cup that Germany is hosting next year. He also held that role from 2001-03. The 53-year-old will reunite with Liberty players Leonie Fiebic...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first thing Denny Hamlin said when he climbed from his car after advancing into the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs was he wish he’d known not to pass Ross Chastain on the final lap. In racing Chastain for that position, it knocked Chastain out of the playoffs and gave the final spot in the round of eight to J...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — With tears in his eyes and needing a moment to compose himself, Denny Hamlin collected his sixth checkered flag and reflected on everything it meant. The victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was the 60th of his career — a lifetime goal he dedicated to his ailing father — and it gave him the first of the four...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Denny Hamlin has been NASCAR’s main character this season, from his lawsuit against NASCAR and his weekly, opinion-laden podcasts to the defining role he played in setting the final eight drivers in the playoff field. He could be the busiest driver in the Cup Series; he also welcomed the birth of his third child in...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mick Schumacher enjoyed getting a first-hand view of the Indianapolis 500 in May. Whether he’ll make Indy his next racing stop is yet to be determined. The 26-year-old son of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher spent Monday taking laps on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — William Carrier and Eric Robinson scored 4 1/2 minutes apart late in the second period, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the San Jose Sharks 5-1 on Tuesday night. Sean Walker Shayne Gostisbehere and Jackson Blake also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won three straight to open the season. Logan Stankoven...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Chris Kreider scored his second power-play goal in his Ducks home debut with 1:27 to play, and Anaheim beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Tuesday night for its 10th consecutive victory in home openers. Cutter Gauthier and Drew Helleson also scored and Lukas Dostal made 23 saves for the Ducks, who matched Bos...

CHICAGO (AP) — Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno is taking a leave of absence because his 12-year-old daughter is having follow-up surgery related to her congenital heart disease. The team made the announcement on Wednesday. It said it had no further comment. Foligno, who turns 38 on Oct. 31, is in his third season with Chicago. The...

ROME (AP) — Forget about thin ice. For now, there’s no ice. With NHL players preparing to return to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade, construction on the main hockey arena for the Milan-Cortina Games is going down to the wire. Local organizers confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that the main test ev...

Luka Doncic is doing his best to bring the Los Angeles Lakers closer, planning a recent visit to the Porsche Driving Experience for some team bonding. Golden State star Jimmy Butler is finding ways to build camaraderie, too, holding a recent retreat at his home in San Diego ahead of training camp. The success of Doncic and Butler i...

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic considers the Denver Nuggets a dark horse in the race for an NBA title. Technically speaking, of course, they’re not. Far from it, even. The Nuggets are only slightly behind the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder as a favorite to lift the Larry O’Brien trophy at the end of the season. One thing’s for...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two of the Achilles tendon injuries that shook up the 2024-25 postseason also reshaped the NBA Central Division landscape for the upcoming regular season. Not only did Indiana lose two-time All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton for the season after he tore his Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the Pacers saw...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former college coach Tom Crean will serve as a pregame and postgame analyst on Minnesota Timberwolves broadcasts this season. FanDuel Sports Network announced Wednesday that Crean will split those duties with Rebekkah Brunson, a current assistant coach and former star player in the WNBA for the Minnesota Lynx. Th...

Angel City forward Christen Press has announced her retirement from professional soccer following the National Women’s Soccer League season. The 36-year-old Press won Women’s World Cup titles with the United States in 2015 and 2019 and a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Over a decade with the national team, she appeared...

Forward Trinity Rodman has returned to the U.S. women’s national soccer team for her first matches since April after being sidelined because of a back issue. U.S. coach Emma Hayes on Wednesday announced her 26-player roster for a trio of upcoming games this month against Portugal and New Zealand. Among those included were the team’...

GENEVA (AP) — South American champion Botafogo, owned by American businessman John Textor, went to sport’s highest court Wednesday in a dispute over an unpaid $21 million transfer fee to Major League Soccer club Atlanta United. The Brazilian club is challenging FIFA’s order that it must pay the full amount for signing Argentina att...

LYON, France (AP) — U.S. international Lily Yohannes capped the scoring in OL Lyonnes’ 3-0 victory over St. Pölten with a spectacular long-range lob in the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday. Jule Brand and captain Ada Hegerberg — the competition’s all-time leading scorer — also found the net for the record eight-time champions....

A’ja Wilson’s numbers in 2025 were like none other. Nobody in the history of the WNBA — or the NBA, for that matter — has put together a season like the one Wilson did for the Las Vegas Aces this year. She won the WNBA’s MVP award. Won the scoring title. Helped her team win a championship. Was the WNBA Finals MVP. All that has been...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Aces are preparing for a championship parade Friday that few outside the organization saw coming just a couple of months ago. At the forefront will be the coach who made it happen — again. In leading Las Vegas to its third championship in four years, Becky Hammon put herself on the select list of all-time...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Relying on an old-school pitching strategy has the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers two wins from returning to the Fall Classic. As long as their star-studded rotation can continue working deep into games, they don’t need to worry about their inconsistent bullpen. Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw a three...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers are making the types of mistakes at the plate that they avoided while producing the best regular-season record in the major leagues. No wonder they’re leaving home facing a 2-0 deficit against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series. “We’ve just got to...

TORONTO (AP) — It was a tough start to the American League Championship Series for the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada’s team headed west for Game 3 in Seattle facing a daunting 2-0 deficit in the best-of-seven playoff. Part of the reason for Toronto’s big hole? A big Game 2 performance by a Canadian slugger, Mariners first baseman Josh...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Catcher Austin Hedges re-signed with the Cleveland Guardians, agreeing Wednesday to a one-year contract worth $4 million. Hedges, who had been eligible for free agency, gets the same base salary he had this season. He can earn $500,000 in performance bonuses for starts as a catcher: $125,000 each for 70, 75, 80 and...

Joe Flacco was asked during the preseason about continuing to play at 40 years old. However, Flacco is a youngster compared to his counterpart, 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers. Thursday night’s matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals will mark only the third regular-season game between 40-year-old starting quarterb...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs will finally get to see what their offense looks like when Rashee Rice joins fellow wide receivers Xavier Worthy and Marquise Brown on the field for Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Rice returned to practice Wednesday after his six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s pe...

The Jacksonville Jaguars have a plan that could reduce Brian Thomas Jr.’s drops: throw more to two-way rookie Travis Hunter. Coach Liam Coen said Wednesday the Jaguars (4-2) would like to get Hunter more involved beginning Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams (4-2) at Wembley Stadium in London. “Our job as an offensive staff is to m...

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland Browns acquired Jerry Jeudy last year with the expectation that he could be the team’s top receiver. Instead, Jeudy has had a frustrating time in Cleveland and is leading the league in a category that no receiver wants to be a part of. According to Sportradar, Jeudy has eight dropped passes. Four of...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Joey Aguilar stayed on the ground after a long run and the Tennessee fans held their breath until he sat up. Then they started chanting “Joey! Joey!” The quarterback who came through the transfer portal from Appalachian State via a short detour to UCLA has been everything they could have wanted. Aguilar quic...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — They’re 5-0, ranked No. 2 in the country, are the odds-on favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference, have been installed as a two-touchdown favorite to win this weekend and are a popular pick to win the national championship. The Miami Hurricanes are hearing all that praise. They also heard different t...

The breakout season by North Carolina State running back Hollywood Smothers helped him earn a midseason honor from The Associated Press. Smothers, the Atlantic Coast Conference’s leading rusher, was voted the league’s most surprising player so far this season, according to the AP honors released Wednesday. “I knew last season as th...

It’s not easy to stand out in the Southeastern Conference’s crowd of 10 AP Top 25 teams. Coach Clark Lea and Vanderbilt are pulling it off. No. 17 Vanderbilt, which 5-1 overall and 1-1 in the SEC, was voted the SEC’s most surprising team at the midpoint of the season by Associated Press journalists who cover the conference. Lea was...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ottawa Senators owner Michael Andlauer said Wednesday that captain Brady Tkachuk is having a second opinion to determine if surgery will be required for his injury. Tkachuk appeared to injure his right arm/wrist Monday night when he was cross-checked into the boards by Nashville defenseman Roman Josi five minutes in...

This is one of those weekends when college football fans must be judicious allotting time for yardwork or running errands. Their best option might be to plop down in front of their screens and take in a Week 8 schedule highlighted by a season-high five matchups of Associated Press Top 25 teams on Saturday. The day starts with No. 1...

Last week was the toughest of the season for Associated Press Top 25 teams as a group, with five losing to unranked opponents a week after three others went down the same way. Big picture, the upper echelon of the sport is on track to have one of its better seasons against the unranked. The Top 25 is 95-17 against unranked opponent...

LeBron James’ beard has quite a bit of gray in it these days. Chris Paul has been hearing questions for years about how much longer he wants to play. Kyle Lowry already has his retirement job lined up, for whenever that day comes. Meet the NBA’s current 20-year club. It’s bigger than ever before. There are no players currently in t...

The Big 12 fined Kansas $25,000 on Wednesday for coach Lance Leipold’s statement that a pocketknife was thrown at his staff during the Jayhawks’ game at Texas Tech last weekend. The conference said the allegation was inaccurate and Leipold’s comments after the 42-17 loss to the Red Raiders were “disparaging.” “Coach Leipold’s comme...

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto rookie Trey Yesavage says his family has been subjected to abuse since his impressive postseason debut last weekend against the New York Yankees. “Living in this world where there’s so many different opinions and feelings which results in a lot of hate, it’s sad to see that people close to me are being attack...

Here’s a simple way to switch up your walking routine, according to experts: try going backward. Taking a brisk walk is an exercise rich in simplicity, and it can have impressive mental and physical benefits: stronger bones and muscles, cardiovascular fitness and stress relief, to name a few. But like any workout, hoofing it for yo...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A long, frustrating night for the Detroit Lions inside Arrowhead Stadium ended with Brian Branch delivering a punch to Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, setting off a brief fistfight among players from both teams. It was about as much fight as the Lions showed all night. They were dominat...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Bill Belichick has denied reports that he’s been seeking an exit strategy from his North Carolina coaching role. “Some of the reports out last week about my looking for a buyout and trying to leave here and all that is categorically false,” Belichick said Monday during his first public comments since a blow...

The NBA has reminded teams to prioritize addressing inappropriate fan behavior at games this season. In a memo sent to all 30 clubs, the league told teams that it wants “consistent and vigilant enforcement of the NBA Fan Code of Conduct ... to deter and address fan misconduct at NBA games and events.” A copy of the memo was obtaine...

When Tennessee used the No. 1 overall draft pick on quarterback Cam Ward, the plan was for a long-term pairing with head coach Brian Callahan to bring success to the Titans. The marriage didn’t even last a full season with Callahan fired after six games in a move that maybe should have been predictable based on recent history. Over...

The Philadelphia Eagles had a few extra days off to seethe and regroup after a humiliating loss to the New York Giants. The Minnesota Vikings (3-2) had an extra week off to rest, prepare and let their ailing quarterbacks heal up. Critics were bashing Philadelphia (4-2) after a 4-0 start because an offense featuring Jalen Hurts, Saq...

Former MVP Russell Westbrook is joining the Sacramento Kings, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hasn’t announced the deal. Westbrook’s agent, Jeff Schwartz, confirmed the deal to ESPN earlier Wednesday. Schwartz did not immediatel...

BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. Foxborough, Massachusetts, home to the NFL’s New England Patriots and about 30 miles from Boston, is set to stage matches as the U....

PARIS (AP) — France could sink deeper into political crisis Thursday when the prime minister faces two attempts in Parliament to topple his fragile new government, which could leave President Emmanuel Macron with no palatable option other than calling snap legislative elections. Legislators in the National Assembly, the powerful bu...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Two explosions rocked different parts of Ecuador on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after a vehicle exploded in a port city in the South American country and left one person dead. Interior Minister John Reimberg accused “Los Lobos,” one of Ecuador’s largest criminal gangs, which is designated a foreign terrorist...

NEW DELHI (AP) — K.L. Rahul scored an unbeaten 58 to pace India to a seven-wicket win over West Indies on Tuesday and complete a sweep of the two-test cricket series. India resumed Day 5 on the overnight total of 63-1, needing just 58 further runs to clinch the second test after winning the first test at Ahmedabad by an innings and...

The first foreign trip Joel Holsinger took in 2019 after joining the board of directors at the global health nonprofit PATH convinced him that he needed to do more to raise money for charities. The investment manager, who is now also a partner and co-head of alternative credit at Ares Management Corp., saw firsthand how a tuberculo...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rory McIlroy has expressed a desire to be the European Ryder Cup captain one day — but not until “the mid-2030s.” McIlroy is playing his first tournament in India this week as he returns to competitive action after helping Europe retain the Ryder Cup by beating the United States in New York last month. The 36-year-...

BANGKOK (AP) — China did not back down Monday in a back-and-forth with the U.S. over trade, calling for U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw his latest threat of a 100% tariff and other export control measures announced over the weekend. In the latest escalation of the trade war between the two nations, Trump issued the tariff t...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. indexes bounced between gains and losses on Tuesday and wound up mixed on Wall Street as trade tensions continued to simmer between Washington and Beijing. The S&P 500 closed 0.2% lower after shifting between a steep morning loss and a recovery in the afternoon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4% and...

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry said Tuesday it was banning dealings by Chinese companies with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean in the latest swipe by Beijing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to rebuild the industry in America. The ministry also announced that it was investigating a probe...

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded their reach into overseas markets. Domestic passenger car sales climbed 11.2% year-on-year in last month down from a 15% rise in August, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Tuesday. Exports of...