FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Images of Aleksander Barkov hoisting the Stanley Cup are scattered all over the Florida Panthers’ team facility. It’s the ultimate reminder of the last two championship seasons: the team captain being the first one to lift hockey’s chalice. Now, the Panthers face perhaps the ultimate challenge: Doing it...

The NCAA’s decision allowing Canadian Hockey League players to compete at the U.S. college level for the first time won’t alter how the NHL evaluates draft-eligible talent. Wherever players are competing, the scouts will be there, NHL Central Scouting chief Dan Marr said. What Marr envisions changing as a result of the NCAA’s rulin...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nikolaj Ehlers knows what awaits. The forward was a sought-after free agent who chose to sign with the Carolina Hurricanes, a team that has made seven straight postseason trips while becoming a perennial Eastern Conference contender for the Stanley Cup. And that brings a spotlight on his transition with a team...

NEW YORK (AP) — The average time of a nine-inning major league baseball game increased by 2 minutes this season to 2:38 in the third year of the pitch clock. MLB’s average fell from 3:04 in 2022 to 2:40 the following year when the clock was instituted and decreased to 2:36 in 2024, its lowest since 1984’s 2:35. The average game tim...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Tony Mansolino remains in limbo as manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Team president Mike Elias said Monday the Orioles would consider other options for their managerial position, but Mansolino — who was the interim manager for most of this season — would be a candidate. Both Mansolino and Elias took questions at a...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are keeping Don Kelly as manager. The club announced Monday that it had extended Kelly’s contract after the team recovered from a miserable opening six weeks of the season thanks in part to Kelly’s guidance. Pittsburgh was 12-26 when it fired Derek Shelton on May 8 and promoted Kelly, who ha...

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies went down swinging in the ninth inning to end their unceremonious season, striking out three straight times Sunday in a loss where they didn’t score a run. A fitting conclusion to a woeful, record-setting year. By many metrics, this will go down as one of the most dreadful slogs in baseball histor...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Xavier Worthy admitted that he was winded after hauling in a 37-yard pass during the Kansas City Chiefs’ emphatic 37-20 victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. It wasn’t a total surprise, considering the fleet-footed wide receiver had been sidelined with a shoulder injury ever since he ran into Travis K...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Devin Lloyd hasn’t enjoyed a month like this since his rookie season. The Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker, the 27th overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft who is in the final year of his contract, has three interceptions in four games and has been a defensive catalyst for the team’s best start since 2018. Lloy...

After they played as well as any team in the NFL through their first two games, the Green Bay Packers got a reality check the past two weeks. “Or we can be men and say, ‘This is where I’m coming from. This is where you are coming from. And how do we fix it?’ I think we have to be adults here. We have to be professionals. We have to...

The vibe around Virginia football has never been more upbeat than at this moment in coach Tony Elliott’s four seasons in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers are 4-1 for a second straight season and in a three-way tie for first in the Atlantic Coast Conference after Friday’s two-overtime win against what was a top-10 Florida State team....

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Giants owner John Mara announced Monday he was recently diagnosed with cancer. Mara said in a statement released by the team that he has been following a treatment plan recommended by doctors. He did not disclose what form of cancer he has and asked for privacy on the matter. “I’m feeling strong and optimis...

The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 5 of the season: Trinidad Chambliss, Mississippi The senior transfer from Division II Ferris State passed for 314 yards and a touchdown and ran 14 times for 71 yards in the Rebels’ 24-19 win over LSU. Since taking over for an injured Austin Simmons, Chambliss has...

Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek said Monday he felt sixth-year coach Sam Pittman had “lost the tea.m” and it was time for a change. The Razorbacks fired Pittman on Sunday, a day after a 56-13 home loss to Notre Dame. “I just felt like how we performed on Saturday gave me an indication that maybe Sam had lost the team a l...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guineans will hold a presidential election on Dec. 28, its first since the country’s leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya took power in a 2021 coup, according to a presidential decree read on state television. The announcement was made on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court validated the results of a constitution...

GENEVA (AP) — The Champions League sends its top-ranked teams to new places this week and revisits the Barcelona-Paris Saint-Germain rivalry that is among the more storied in its modern era. José Mourinho also returns to Stamford Bridge, his home in two spells coaching Chelsea, for his first Champions League game coaching Benfica....

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The United States will grant $675,000 for crucial demining programs in Cambodia, the U.S. Embassy said Monday, after a freeze on foreign assistance raised doubts about the future support for mine clearance in the Southeast Asian nation. An estimated 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — By the age of 19 Kylian Mbappe had won the World Cup, become one of the most expensive soccer players ever and was labeled the heir-apparent to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Seven years later, and with Messi and Ronaldo long past their peak, Mbappe is still to be officially recognized as the best pl...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan reported two new polio cases in the southern province of Sindh, health officials said Monday, a blow to efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling disease among children. This brings the total to 29 cases across the country since January, despite several immunization drives. The virus was detected...

MIAMI (AP) — Bam Adebayo got to help present A’ja Wilson with her record-setting fourth WNBA MVP trophy a couple weeks ago. To say it was a summer highlight for the Miami center would be an understatement. Adebayo addressed the Sept. 19 event in Las Vegas publicly for the first time Monday, when the Heat gathered for their annual m...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports got off to a slow start in NASCAR’s playoffs despite starting the three-round title pursuit with the regular-season champion and all four of its drivers in the title hunt. Something was off immediately as Chase Elliott’s 17th-place finish in the playoff opener at Darlington was the best...

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in China sentenced 11 people to death on Monday for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4 billion and for the deaths of disobedient workers. The Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou We...

Cale Makar has difficulty recognizing the college hockey landscape in the wake of a seismic shift that has transformed the sport in the mere five years since he left UMass to join Colorado in the NHL. From the introduction of name, image and likeness money to the NCAA lifting its ban on Canadian Hockey League players in November, M...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy still remembers his tears from losing so badly in the Ryder Cup. What stung even more were the words from that Sunday four years ago at Whistling Straits. The Americans won 19-9, the biggest Ryder Cup blowout ever over Europe. Yes, the gallery was one-sided because of travel restrictions from t...

BERLIN (AP) — A man whose gambling addiction landed him in prison has become a social media star in Germany with an unusual campaign against sports betting at soccer stadiums. Thomas Melchior shows up at soccer games wearing the jersey of the home team’s fiercest rival — a move sure to rile the home fans — while holding a sign that...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nick Sirianni and the Philadelphia Eagles sent a message to the NFL and the 31 other teams in Week 4. The reigning Super Bowl champions don’t need a tush push to win. And for those who consider it a boring play, now there’s a new twist. The fake makes it even more difficult for opponents to stop and more interest...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 12 forest guards have been killed after gunmen attacked a community in northcentral Nigeria, local police said Monday. No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the killings on Sunday in Oke-Ode, a community in the state of Kwara, police spokesperson Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi said in a statement...

Victor Wembanyama is back. Kyrie Irving and Jayson Tatum might be coming back. Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard don’t plan to play again until next season. Injuries are already big NBA news this season, even before most camps even open. Wembanyama, San Antonio’s All-Star center, is back and raring to go after being cleared this...

So you’re booking your flight, and just when you’re about to check out, the airline asks if you’d like to pay a little something to offset your share of the flight’s pollution. Or, maybe you’re an environmentally minded person, and you’ve heard you can buy these things called carbon offsets. Are they worth it? Let’s explore. A roun...

DUBLIN (AP) — A formal complaint had not been filed as of Monday in connection to reports that Pittsburgh Steelers player Skylar Thompson was assaulted and robbed in Dublin while his team was preparing to play a game in the city, Irish police said. The national police, An Garda Síochána, said in a statement it did not have informat...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buster Posey will search for a fresh managerial voice to guide the San Francisco Giants, someone with an “obsessive” work ethic and attention to detail. Manager Bob Melvin was fired Monday after the club missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season. Posey, San Francisco’s President of Baseball Operations, a...

LONDON (AP) — OpenAI said Monday it’s adding parental controls to ChatGPT that are designed to provide teen users of the popular platform with a safer and more “age-appropriate” experience. The company is taking action after AI chatbot safety for young users has hit the headlines. The technology’s dangers have been recently highlig...

BERLIN (AP) — A kangaroo — well, a wallaby to be precise — is on the loose in Berlin. City police say any passersby who spot it should keep their distance, but an eye on it too. Chief Inspector Martin Halweg told The Associated Press in an email on Monday that Berlin police are no longer tailing the meandering marsupial because it’...

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — A four-story prayer hall in an Islamic boarding school on Indonesia ’s main island of Java collapsed on dozens of pupils who were praying in it Monday, killing at least one male student, officials said. Numerous other children were hospitalized and some were feared trapped under the rubble. The collapse h...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Airplane maintenance workers at a North Carolina airport found the body of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had recently arrived from Europe, police said. The body was found Sunday morning while the plane was undergoing maintenance at Charlotte Douglas I...

One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. Others dislike that term. But there’s no question that these tools are tra...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year. And each year, certain voices dominate. Here, The Associated Press takes the opposite approach and spotlights some thoughts from leaders wh...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, pushing back at President Donald Trump’s assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country’s biggest trade partner. Trump famously said at his inauguration that “during every single day of the...

ROME (AP) — The German nongovernmental organization Sea-Watch said on Monday that one migrant drowned and three others were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast after their dinghy capsized during a chase by the Libyan coast guard. On Sunday, a patrol boat from the Libyan coast guard intercepted a crowded dinghy carryin...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality. It’s the first time Afghanistan has experienced a shutdown of this kind since the former insurgents seized power in August 2021. Earlier this mo...

BEIJING (AP) — Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek defeated Camila Osorio for her 400th career win and advanced to the fourth round at the China Open on Monday. Swiatek, the first player to register 25 or more wins at WTA-1000 events for three consecutive seasons, showed no signs of slowing down as she dismantled her Colombian opponent...

A man charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at patrons of a North Carolina waterfront bar, killing three people and wounding five others, was a decorated Marine combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose last assignment was with a Wounded Warrior battalion. Nigel Edge, 40, is scheduled to appear in a North Carolina...

Efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage are spreading to more states ahead of next year’s elections. Lawmakers in three states have approved new congressional districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for mid-decade redistricting. The trend began in Texas, where the Republican-led Legislature passed...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that sought to dramatically improve how students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by greatly exaggerating how many students it served. Javice, 33, was sentenced in Manhatta...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — In the chaotic moments after a former Marine smashed his pickup truck into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan and began shooting, church members dragged others to safety while smoke filled the building, officials said Monday. Four people died and eight others were wou...

CAIRO (AP) — Ethiopia claimed Monday that its recently inaugurated dam has helped lessen floods that have hit Sudan, as speculation rose over whether it has actually caused the deluges. Sudan on Saturday issued a flood alert citing rising water levels along the Nile River’s two main tributaries, the Blue and White Nile. Sudanese au...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian government officials are set to meet with representatives of the country’s oil workers union on Monday, a union leader told The Associated Press, following a strike to protest the firing of oil workers at Africa’s biggest refiner. The walkout threatens to halt nationwide supply. The union called Satur...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30% of the country’s best-known national park. The office of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said Sunday that an unknown number of wildlife have been killed in the fire, which started last Monday and has spread ac...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They had a lot to say about global affairs. But complicated things happening closer to home? Not so much. Like their counterparts from other continents, African leaders took to the United Nations podium over the past week to address the U.N. General Assembly on pressing global issues, including climate change,...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina fired the prime minister and the rest of his government Monday in response to days of deadly protests in the Indian Ocean island over the failure of the electricity and water supplies. Rajoelina said in a speech on national television that Prime Minister Christian...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools Monday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed at least one man. The storm was located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Great Abaco Island of the Bahamas, which is still recov...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won’t give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping a “balance of power” with South Korea. “We will never walk away from this position,” he said. Under the spotlight of t...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief warned Monday that “harsh global headwinds” from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have worsened the U.K.'s economic outlook since the governing Labour Party won power last year. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves told Labour’s ann...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Lufthansa Group said Monday that it would shed 4,000 jobs by 2030 with the help of artificial intelligence, digitalization and consolidating work among member airlines — even as the company reported strong demand for air travel and predicted stronger profits in years ahead. Most of the lost jobs would be i...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi man has been sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking after he recruited Iraqis to fight for Russia against Ukraine, court officials said Monday. The Najaf Criminal Court said in a statement that the convicted man had “formed groups and sent them to fight in foreign countries in exchange for financi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — London real estate developer Dar Global said Monday that it plans to launch a Trump Plaza in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, its second collaboration with the Trump Organization, the collection of companies controlled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s children. The $1 billion project will be the second...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set a Dutch-flagged cargo ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, officials said, injuring two mariners and forcing its crew to abandon the damaged vessel. The attack on the Minervagracht represents the most-serious attack in the Gulf of Aden, some dist...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is stepping up aerial surveillance in the Baltic Sea, while France, Germany and Sweden are bolstering Denmark’s air defenses ahead of two summits in Copenhagen this week over a series of troubling drone incidents near the country’s airports and military bases. The number of serious airspace violations in Europe...

CAIRO (AP) — Much remains unknown about U.S. President Donald Trump’s 21-point peace plan for Gaza. But one difference stands out from previous ceasefire proposals: For the first time, it tries to outline the key question of how the territory will be ruled after the war. There are provisions that could be rejected by either Israel...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The blast came without warning. A Russian missile ripped through a cluster of townhouses on the edge of Kyiv, tearing facades from nearby apartment blocks and scattering debris across the streets like lumps of confetti. The neighborhood was left stunned by the destruction. But within hours early Monday, it was...

PHOENIX (AP) — A man convicted of killing eight people in metro Phoenix in 2017 is scheduled on Monday to start the sentencing portion of his trial, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 43, was found guilty last week of murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and sexual assault charges in attacks over a...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — The Europeans were looking for someone, anyone, to hit a shot or make a putt and bring an end to a golf drama that was becoming unexpectedly unbearable. Who better to do it than Ireland’s Shane Lowry, the man who lives for the Ryder Cup? It was Lowry who brought a cold stop to America’s dream of a historic...

Ryder Cup all-time winners list 2025: Europe 15, United States 13 2023: Europe 16½, United States 11½ 2021: United States 19, Europe 9 2018: Europe 17½, United States 10½ 2016: United States 17, Europe 11 2014: Europe 16½, United States 11½ 2012: Europe 14½, United States 13½ 2010: Europe 14½, United States 13½ 2008: United States...

ATLANTA (AP) — Fallout from the 2020 presidential election feels like it may never end in Georgia. Maybe more any other state, the decisions made after Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow win — and Donald Trump’s false claims of victory — still define politics in the Peach State. In Georgia, 2020 may guide the Republican choice for governo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions. If government funding legislation is not pas...

PROVO, Utah (AP) — The 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk will have a court hearing Monday where he and his newly appointed legal counsel will decide whether they want a preliminary hearing where the judge will determine if there is enough evidence against him to go forward with a trial. Prosecutors have charged Tyle...

On her first full day of preschool, Alexander Lane’s 3-year-old daughter stayed in the car for an hour at drop-off because she didn’t want to go inside. On the second day, she entered class in tears. But by the third day, she eagerly ran into the classroom. Starting preschool or kindergarten is a milestone, but also a source of anx...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities, according to a Defense Department memo received by state leaders on Sunday. The deployment is being made over the objections of state leaders a...

Days after his defiant speech at the United Nations rejecting demands to end the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to confer with his most important supporter. But Monday’s meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington comes at a tenuous moment. Israel is increasingly isolated, losing support from ma...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West. With nearly all polling station reports counted on Monday, electoral data showed the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, or...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Tutu Atwell hasn’t received many opportunities to make big plays in his five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. He knew he finally had a chance Sunday when he looked over his shoulder to see Matthew Stafford’s perfect spiral sailing toward him, and the speedy receiver pulled it in and took it all the way ho...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — First-year coach Kellen Moore and the New Orleans Saints are winless four games into the season. If there’s any consolation, they earned the respect of Josh Allen after giving the Buffalo Bills a scare on Sunday. “They’re a team that’s establishing the culture with their head coach,” Allen said after leadi...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds lost their regular-season finale 4-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday but still reached the playoffs because the New York Mets fell to the Miami Marlins. Cincinnati entered Sunday knowing it could reach the playoffs if it beat Milwaukee or if the Mets lost to Miami. The Mets’ 4-0 loss to the M...

73 — Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants, 2001 70 — Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals, 1998 66 — Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs, 1998 65 — Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals, 1999 64 — Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs, 2001 63 — Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs, 1999 62 — x-Aaron Judge, N.Y. Yankees, 2022 61 — Roger Maris, N.Y. Yankees, 1961 60 — Babe Ruth...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are getting healthier, deeper and more dynamic as the season presses on. The Baltimore Ravens? Pretty much the opposite of all of that. Patrick Mahomes threw for 270 yards and four touchdowns in a turn-back-the-clock kind of performance, and the Chiefs jumped on a Ravens team missing s...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — With the way the defense and special teams are playing for Jacksonville in the opening month of the season, the Jaguars are able to keep pulling out wins even if Trevor Lawrence and the offense aren’t yet operating at peak efficiency. Parker Washington had Jacksonville’s first punt return touchdown in eig...

MIAMI (AP) — Edward Cabrera tossed five innings of two-hit ball and the Miami Marlins used a four-run fourth to beat the Mets 4-0 in their regular-season finale Sunday, preventing New York from making the playoffs. The Mets (83-79) needed a win and a Cincinnati loss at Milwaukee to reach the postseason. The Reds (83-79) lost 4-2 to...

NEW YORK (AP) — Philadelphia’s Trea Turner won his second National League batting title with a record-low .304 average, and the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge earned his first American League championship by leading the major leagues at .331. San Diego’s Tony Gwynn had the previous low for an NL champion at .313 in 1988. The only lo...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kenley Jansen sounded like a politician running for reelection. “Four more years,” the Angels closer said after Sunday’s season-ending 6-2 loss to the Houston Astros. “That’s the goal, man. The offseason begins tomorrow. No kidding. I’m getting in my gym at 5 a.m. I want to drop a few more pounds, get stronge...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — From a punt return returned for a touchdown to a missed field goal, special teams played a key factor during Sunday’s 42-13 win by the New England Patriots over the Carolina Panthers. The Patriots received a noticeable lift from their special teams, with Marcus Jones delivering the biggest impact. The fourt...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Asked what he might have done differently in a Ryder Cup that got away early, before getting really close late, U.S. captain Keegan Bradley focused on the way he set up the course at Bethpage Black. If only the list stopped there. In searching for answers for a 15-13 loss that turned out to be much closer t...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the end, the Bears’ win over the Raiders came down to Josh Blackwell getting a hand on a field-goal attempt. But he’s not even in that position if Chicago doesn’t put together a red-zone stand to stay within a possession, quarterback Caleb Williams doesn’t overcome a fierce Las Vegas pass rush and his own incons...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Harris English was getting ready to start his warmup for singles play at the Ryder Cup on Sunday when the message came that he was not participating, after all. Europe’s Viktor Hovland withdrew because of a neck injury, and, by rule, the U.S. had to designate a player to also sit out, with the match being r...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were down three touchdowns, but hardly out against the Philadelphia Eagles. Chase McLaughlin kicked a 65-yard field goal on the last play of the first half, Mayfield ignited a sputtering offense with a pair of long touchdown passes in the third quarter, and a defense th...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A capsule look at Sunday’s singles matches at the Ryder Cup: Cameron Young, United States def. Justin Rose, Europe, 1 up. Young is the only New Yorker on the U.S. team and had the best week. He was sent out first against the 45-year-old Rose, and appeared to have it wrapped up with a par on the 12th hole to...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Luke Donald tinkered with lineups. He tinkered with the shampoo and bedding at the team hotel. Whatever it took to give Europe an advantage in the Ryder Cup, Donald seemed to think of it. No wonder everyone at Bethpage Black, from President Donald Trump to U.S. captain Keegan Bradley, raved about Donald’s l...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police ordered champion boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford out of his vehicle at gunpoint during a traffic stop for reckless driving early Sunday, hours after his hometown held a parade to celebrate his victory over Canelo Alvarez two weeks ago. A video circulating on social media showed a portion of the traffic...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Rookie defender Alex Freeman scored on a header in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time and Orlando City rallied for a 1-1 draw with FC Cincinnati on Sunday. Freeman took a long pass from Tyrese Spicer and used his head to send a shot past Cincinnati goalkeeper Evan Louro for the tie. Orlando City won in...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A brief look Sunday at the Ryder Cup matches at Bethpage Black: THE SCORE: Europe 15, United States 13. THE SERIES: The U.S. lead in the all-time series shrinks to 27-16-2. A ROAD WIN: Europe has now won five times in 10 trips to the U.S. since 1979. MATCH OF THE DAY: Justin Rose rallied from 3 down to tie...

Tuesday, Sep. 30: Detroit (Skubal 13-6) at Cleveland, 1:08 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Oct. 1: Detroit at Cleveland, 1:08 p.m. (ESPN) x-Thursday, Oct. 2: Detroit at Cleveland, 1:08 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Sep. 30: Boston (Crochet 18-5) at New York (Fried 19 - 5), 6:08 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Oct. 1: Boston (Bello 11-9) at New York (Rodón 18...

Snoop Dogg is headed back to the Olympics. NBCUniversal announced Sunday night that the global megastar — who was a roving correspondent for its coverage of the Paris Games in 2024 — will be part of the coverage for the Milan-Cortina Games coming in February. “Guess who’s back?” Snoop — dressed in full Team USA red, white and blue...

Sunday, Sept. 14: Minnesota 101, Golden State 72 Wednesday, Sept. 17: Minnesota 75, Golden State 74 Sunday, Sept. 14: Las Vegas 102, Seattle 77 Tuesday, Sept. 16: Seattle 86, Las Vegas 83 Thursday, Sept. 18: Las Vegas 74, Seattle 73 Sunday, Sept. 14: Atlanta 80, Indiana 68 Tuesday, Sept. 16: Indiana 77, Atlanta 60 Thursday, Sept. 1...

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Indiana Fever (24-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (30-14, 16-8 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Las Vegas Aces face the Indiana Fever. The Aces have gone 17-5 at home. Las Vegas ranks fifth in the Western Conference in team defense, giving up 80.7 points while holding opponents t...

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The odds were stacked against Chase Elliott as he lined up eighth in overtime at Kansas Speedway in a pivotal NASCAR playoff race. He had five Toyota drivers ahead of him including Denny Hamlin, who had dominated all of Sunday until a slew of late cautions turned the race upside down. Even so, not even Elli...

Chicago Fire (14-11-6, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Inter Miami CF (16-6-8, third in the Eastern Conference) Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Inter Miami CF -149, Chicago +319, Draw +329; over/under is 3.5 goals BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Fire come into a matchup against Inter Miami af...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Minnesota Lynx looked like a team of destiny all summer, steamrolling through the WNBA schedule with the best record as they worked to avenge their loss in the Finals last season. The dream fell apart in less than a week. The top-seeded Lynx saw their season come to an end Sunday when they lost 86-81 to the Phoen...

MIAMI (AP) — Pete Alonso will opt out of his contract with the New York Mets and enter free agency again this fall, the All-Star first baseman said Sunday after the team missed the playoffs. Alonso tested the open market last offseason before ultimately staying with the franchise that drafted him in 2016 out of Florida. He signed a...

BOSTON (AP) — The Detroit Tigers are heading back to the familiar surroundings of Progressive Field in Cleveland after a short diversion to Boston. Detroit will be on the road to face the Guardians in a best-of-three Wild Card Series starting Tuesday after Cleveland claimed the AL Central title on the last day of the regular season...

CLEVELAND (AP) — It was fitting in many ways that Brayan Rocchio hit the walk-off homer that put an exclamation point on the Cleveland Guardians’ historic run to an AL Central title. Even though Cleveland had secured its 13th division crown in the eighth inning when the Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers, the Guardians weren’t...

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays capped a turnaround from worst to first by holding off the New York Yankees to win the AL East on the final day of the season, their first division title in a decade and the seventh in team history. “The job is not finished,” slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. said after a 13-4 win over the Tampa Bay...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The pregame tiff between San Francisco defensive coordinator Robert Saleh and Jacksonville coach Liam Coen over accusations of “legal” sign stealing by the Jaguars spilled over into the postgame. Coen could be seen yelling at Saleh as he was being held back by offensive lineman Robert Hainsey following Ja...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bad Bunny will bring his Latin trap and reggaeton swagger to the NFL’s biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show in Northern California. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Bad Bunny will lead the halftime festivities from Levi’s Stadiu...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — After an unimpressive first three games of his NFL career, Ashton Jeanty became the playmaker the Raiders thought they were getting when they made him the sixth pick in the NFL draft. The bruising rookie had 21 carries for 138 yards — including a 64-yard touchdown run — and two TD catches against the Chicago Bears...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott both said winning was the only thing that mattered in the Green Bay pass rusher’s hyped return to Dallas to face the Cowboys and their franchise quarterback. Turns out neither star got what he wanted Sunday night. Brandon Aubrey and Brandon McManus traded short field goals in o...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All-Star center Aliyah Boston finished with 24 points and 14 rebounds and Kelsey Mitchell scored 25 points to help the Indiana Fever avoid elimination in the WNBA semifinals with a 90-83 victory over the second-seeded Las Vegas Aces on Sunday. The best-of-five series is now tied 2-2 with a winner-take-all Game 5...

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge preferred to think ahead about the Yankees’ Wild Card Series against Boston and not dwell on any of the losses that cost New York a second straight AL East title. “The games in March, April are just as important as the ones — game 162 — so nothing we can do about it now besides turn the page and get lock...

Southern California star JuJu Watkins announced on social media that she will be sidelined for the season after suffering an ACL injury in the NCAA Tournament last season. “These last few months have been filled with a lot of healing, rest, and reflection,” Watkins said on Instagram. “Recovering from this injury hasn’t been easy, a...

PHOENIX (AP) — Alyssa Thomas scored 23 points, DeWanna Bonner made two late 3-pointers and the Phoenix Mercury overcame a 13-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the short-handed Minnesota Lynx 86-81 in Game 4 on Sunday to advance to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2021. Phoenix will face the Indiana-Las Vegas winner. Ind...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson left with a right hamstring strain late in the third quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, adding to a wave of injuries that have decimated Baltimore on both sides of the ball. Left tackle Ronnie Stanley left Baltimore’s 37-20 loss with an ankle injury, cornerback...

PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball’s postseason has delivered some spicy matchups for this week’s Wild Card Series, particularly in the American League. The four series begin Tuesday, highlighted by a matchup between the archrival Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. All games of the best-of-three series will be at Yankee Stadium...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy helped Europe win the Ryder Cup and then called out the hostile New York crowd for “unacceptable and abusive behavior.” Over his five matches at Bethpage Black, McIlroy endured a torrent of insults about everything from his personal life to past failures on the golf course. People shouted out a...

Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” and Matthew McConaughey playing the real-life bus driver who saved elementary school students during California’s deadliest wildfire are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings wo...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Monday it hanged a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest as Tehran carries out its largest wave of executions in decades. Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobiasl, whose case wasn’t immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty...

Shares were mostly higher Monday in Asia after Wall Street broke its three-day losing streak, trimming its losses for last week. China factory data are due out on Tuesday and a quarterly business sentiment survey by the Bank of Japan comes on Wednesday. The next big event for Wall Street could be a looming shutdown of the U.S. gove...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — India Twenty20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav has claimed that his team was denied the chance to lift the 2025 Asia Cup trophy, after it beat Pakistan in the final by five wickets on Sunday. Tilak Varma’s nerveless half-century helped India beat arch rivals Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket St...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand ’s annual bird election is contested by cheeky parrots, sweet songbirds and cute, puffball robins. This year’s winner was a mysterious falcon that wouldn’t think twice about eating them. Kārearea, the Indigenous Māori name for the New Zealand falcon, was crowned Bird of the Year on Monday....

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s new prime minister told lawmakers on Monday that his government would address the country’s economic woes, find solutions to the ongoing border conflict with Cambodia through diplomacy and push for a new and more democratic constitution. Anutin Charnvirakul faces a self-imposed deadline. He had promised to...

BEIJING (AP) — An overseas Hong Kong activist said he was denied entry to Singapore over the weekend for what he presumes were political reasons. Nathan Law said he was detained at the Singapore airport on Saturday night and told four hours later that his entry had been denied. He was going to attend a closed-door, invitation-only...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of North Korea and China agreed to deepen bilateral ties and resist hegemonism or unilateralism, a likely reference to their pushbacks against the United States. Their meeting in Beijing on Sunday came about three weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Ji...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jim O’Neill, a former investor, critic of health regulations and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s deputy, is taking control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out. O’Neill was picked by President Donald Trump to be the CDC...

State media said rescue teams were searching for 17 missing fishermen. Forecasters in Vietnam said that at 10 a.m. Monday, the storm’s center was over land near the border of Nghe An province and Laos, with winds of 74 kph (46 mph). They said it would push deep into central Laos. Vietnamese authorities grounded fishing boats and su...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has plastered tariffs on products from almost every country on earth. He’s targeted specific imports including autos, steel and aluminum. Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war. For decades, in fact, imp...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and explain the turmoil...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data under to a lawsuit settlement with doctors groups and other organizations who sued. The settlement was announced this week by the lead plaintiffs in the case, the Washington State Medical Association. Soon after President Donald T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for more than a half century. The results from drugmaker Mindmed tested several doses of LSD in patients with moderate-t...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — A contentious three-hour hearing between U.S. senators and Robert Kennedy Jr. devolved into multiple screaming matches on Thursday as the nation’s health secretary fended off accusations about sweeping changes he’s made to vaccines, health care...

Some Mississippi universities have stopped giving money to student organizations for club activities due to uncertainty over a state law — on hold by a federal judge — that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools. It’s one of the first widespread, tangible consequences of a law that attorneys say will have s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is purchasing enough doses of a new twice-a-year HIV prevention shot to share with up to 2 million people in poor countries by 2028, the State Department announced Thursday. Gilead Sciences had already announced it would sell that supply of the protective drug lenacapvir at no profit for use in low- and m...

Michelle Newmark has tried — and failed — a couple times to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. First, she was told she needed a prescription. Then she learned that her local CVS drugstore won’t have shots for a couple more weeks. The Reston, Virginia, resident was considering a drive to Maryland to get vaccinated before a friend told...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization no longer considers the mpox outbreak in Africa to be an international health emergency, the U.N. agency’s director said Friday. The new form of mpox emerged in early 2024 in Congo and neighboring African countries, spread through close contact including sex. WHO declared it a global heal...

But the FDA has long struggled to defend its actions against drug promotions in court. And reworking some of its key regulations — including those governing TV advertising — could take years. Here’s a look at the administration’s plans and some of the hurdles that may lie ahead. A promise for more FDA warnings after years of legal...

In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI “therapy” as more people turn to artificial intelligence for mental health advice. But the laws, all passed this year, don’t fully address the fast-changing landscape of AI software development. And app developers, policymakers and m...

NEW YORK (AP) — West Nile virus infections are intense so far this year, with case counts running 40% higher than normal, health officials say. More than 770 cases, including about 490 severe cases, were reported as of early September, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted this week. About 550 cases —...

NEW YORK (AP) — Albertsons Companies has recalled several of its store-made deli products because they may contain listeria bacteria, in a move that arrives shortly after federal health officials warned consumers to not eat certain pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s over similar contamination concerns. The Boise, Idaho-ba...

NEW YORK (AP) — A passing comment in a hotel hallway at one of the many conferences on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual high-level meetings this past week may have turned into a solution. A global antipoverty nonprofit executive, recently returned from Zambia, mentioned that a hospital there had just on...

NEWTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Tyler Jones and Kayla McDonald both grew up camping, so when it came time to plan their wedding, they wanted to be outside to celebrate with friends and family in nature. They also wanted a late summer wedding. That meant choosing a venue that could move the event inside at the last minute if the weather in the...

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist. He called it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and urged world leaders to “get away from the green scam.” It was a pointed and extraordinary takedown of the int...

LADAKH, India (AP) — Carrying her 1-year-old son on her back, Tsering Dolma herds a dozen yaks into a stone-walled corral as evening approaches in the desolate mountains of India’s remote Ladakh region. A few herders tending livestock are the only people visible for miles on the wind-swept plains where patchy grass gives way to gra...

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It’s a workout in what feels like a sauna as the late-morning June temperatures rise. Though Barnes was hot, his bees were even hotter. Their body temperatures can be up to 27 degrees Fah...

MELAMCHI, Nepal (AP) — In between the Himalayas’ towering mountains, the town of Melamchi is no stranger to extreme weather, and its landscape bears the scars of years of floods and landslides. Located just 50 kilometers (31 miles) outside Kathmandu, lush green mountainsides are dotted with landslips and rubble. Amid the debris, pe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 3...

But this year, it was too hot for a bonfire. As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting them enjoy being outside with nature. It’s something camps say they’ve been aware of for several years as climate change means rising heat. (AP video/Jos...

JAMMU, India (AP) — The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by a city of some 740,000 people. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes and suffocating heat to sort thro...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — When the running gets hard in this desert dubbed “hell on Earth,” Danny Westergaard tells himself: “Slow and steady” or “smooth as butter.” For 18 years, Westergaard, 66, has braved the scorching summer heat of California’s Death Valley in an ultramarathon billed as the world’s toughest. La...

SHAMROCK, Texas (AP) — As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: Hail. Hail rarely kills, but it hammers roofs, cars and crops to the tune of $10 billion a year in damage...

LEVELLAND, Texas (AP) — Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science. They hope these hailstones will reveal secrets about storms, damage and maybe the air itself. But what do you do with nearly 4,000 melting ice...

INSIDE A TEXAS HAILSTORM (AP) — Wind roared against the SUV’s windows as its tires sloshed through water dumped onto the road by the downpour. A horizon-wide funnel cloud loomed out the window, several miles away. Then came the loud metallic pings on the roof. First one, then another. Then it was too fast to count and too loud to h...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) — As a boy, when the water was low Talbert Cypress from the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida rummaged through the Everglades’ forests, swam in its swampy ponds and fished in its canals. But the vast wetlands near Miami have radically changed since Cypress was younger. Now 42 and tribal council chairman,...

KABAENA, Indonesia (AP) — The crystal blue waters that once surrounded Kabaena are murky brown now, and the octopi and colorful fish that locals used to catch nearby to eat and sell have fled. The lush seaweed they used to harvest is gone. And parents who grew up swimming happily in the Flores Sea now warn their children to stay ou...

A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during Sunday services, inflicting casualties after ramming his vehicle into the front door of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township. It was the latest of many shooting attacks on houses of worship in the U.S. over the past 20 years. Here’s a list of so...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson spent about 20 years writing “One Battle After Another.” After two decades, it’s never felt more relevant. The epic action thriller, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” hits theaters Friday. With a running time of 2 hours and 50 minutes, “One Battle After Another” wastes no time immersin...

GENEVA (AP) — Eurovision Song Contest organizers said Friday that member broadcasters will vote in November on whether Israel can participate in the musical extravaganza next year, as calls have mounted for the country to be excluded over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. According to spokesperson Dave Goodman, the board of the Europea...

LONDON (AP) — A London court on Friday threw out a terror-related charge against a member of the controversial Irish rap group Kneecap, basing its decision on a technical error in the way the charge was brought forward. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who is also referred to by his anglicized name Liam O’Hanna and performs under the name Mo Ch...

NEW YORK (AP) — iHeartRadio has unveiled its star-studded 2025 Jingle Ball lineup, including performances by Ed Sheeran, Monsta X, Alex Warren, BigXthaPlug, Jelly Roll, Jessie Murph, Laufey, mgk (formerly Machine Gun Kelly), The Kid Laroi, Olivia Dean and more. The 10-city tour will hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Los Angeles, Chic...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a new U.S. House map into law Sunday as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a narrow Republican majority in next year’s congressional election. Kehoe’s signature puts the revised districts into state law with a goal of helping Republicans win one addi...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox. The exact questions to be voted on Thursday a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials intend to award a contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate whether there is a link between vaccinations and autism, according to a government procurement notice. The Troy, New York, engineering school is getting the no-bid contract because of its “unique ability” to link d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, federal health officials are taking aim at telehealth companies promoting unofficial versions of prescription drugs — including popular weight loss medications — as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pharmaceutical advertising. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday posted mor...

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee on Thursday recommended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopt new restrictions on a combination shot that protects against chickenpox as well as measles, mumps and rubella. The panel advised that the vaccine known as M...

ATLANTA (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot. Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine step in the fall for nearly all Americans...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Thursday to shut down a Miami organ donation group, calling it “failing” because of underperformance, unsafe practices and paperwork errors. The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency is one of 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, nonprofit agencies around the country that coord...

Drugstores are ready to deliver updated COVID-19 vaccines this fall and insurers plan to pay for them, even though the shots no longer come recommended by an important government committee. On Friday, vaccine advisers picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to specifically recommend the shots but said people could...

Five months after ending development of its own obesity treatment, Pfizer is accelerating its push into the rapidly growing field with a nearly $5 billion acquisition. The COVID-19 vaccine and treatment maker said Monday that it will pay $47.50 in cash for each share of development-stage drugmaker Metsera. That represents a premium...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many doctors and scientists were reeling Monday after President Donald Trump went on TV to insist that pregnant women should never take Tylenol and revive debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Trump went beyond his own Food and Drug Administration’s more modest advice that doctors “should consider minimizin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder. “Don’t take Tylenol,” Trump instructed pregnant w...

President Donald Trump blasted Tylenol this week, promoting unproven links between the pain reliever and autism and pushing the well-established treatment into another national image crisis. “Don’t take Tylenol,” Trump instructed pregnant women around a dozen times during a White House news conference. He also urged mothers not to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration is strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. “I want to say it like it is, don’t take Tylenol,” he said, encouraging women to “just fight like hell not to take it.” But his comments came under inte...

NEW YORK (AP) — Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase, CDC researchers wrote in an article pu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would repurpose an old, generic drug as a new treatment for autism, it came as a surprise to many experts — including the physician who suggested the idea to the nation’s top health officials. Dr. Richard Frye told The Associated Press that he’d been talkin...

Faith Ayer had no qualms about taking Tylenol for chronic migraines and COVID-19 during her pregnancy, and grew disappointed and angry as she watched President Donald Trump rail against the pain medicine. “A lot of the claims that were shared have just not been backed by evidence,” said Ayer, a nurse practitioner in Jacksonville, F...

For the first time in years, the performance of Mississippi schools and districts fell from the previous academic year, according to state education rankings released Thursday. The new scores interrupt the steady progress of Mississippi’s education system that’s been praised across the country and occasionally referred to as the “M...

Shares of some big drugmakers advanced above broader indexes Friday as Wall Street started sorting out President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement. The president said late Thursday that he would place 100% import taxes on branded or patented pharmaceuticals starting Oct. 1, but those tariffs would not apply to companies bui...

NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously, pig kidneys h...