Affordability is a hotter topic than ever in 2026. Many people are struggling to manage rising costs and live within their means, making it harder to justify splurging on things they want but don’t need. That applies to car shopping decisions too. If you need a new vehicle and your budget is...

At least 22 people were killed, and 65 others were injured after a cargo truck packed with Ethiopian asylum seekers and migrants overturned on a highway.The road accident took place in Semera, in the country’s northern Afar region, several hundred kilometres west of neighbouring Djibouti, local authorities reported on Tuesday.Recom...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — When explosions erupted by night in Venezuela’s balmy capital, 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashed through the streets of eastern Caracas.It was at 2:05 in the morning and, as explosions boomed in the background, Associated Press photographer Matías Delacroix was on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s centenarian former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was recovering in a hospital Wednesday from a broken right hip that his daughter said was serious but not life-threatening. Mahathir was rushed to the National Heart Institute on Tuesday after he suff...

BERLIN (AP) — Power was being restored on Wednesday to thousands of households in Berlin that had been without electricity in freezing temperatures for four days following a suspected far-left attack on high-voltage lines, authorities said.About 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses lost th...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave Wednesday from his 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt so that he could undergo medical tests at a hospital in the capital after he fell from his bed.Police escorted the 70-year-old Bolsonaro from the fede...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s military held a mass funeral in the country’s capital on Wednesday as it began to bury dozens of soldiers slain during the United States’ weekend operation to capture former President Nicolás Maduro.Men carried wooden caskets cloaked in the Venezuelan fl...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba, Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana.It’s a role that could further complicate already strained relations w...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — An “abhorrent” violation of Latin American sovereignty. An attack committed by “enslavers.” A “spectacle of death” comparable to Nazi Germany’s 1937 carpet bombing of Guernica, Spain.There is perhaps no world leader criticizing the Trump administration’s attack on Ven...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power — a dream that was fulfilled when the U.S. military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug trafficking charges, th...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — A separatist group in southern Yemen said Wednesday it was urgently trying to contact its delegation that traveled to the Saudi capital for talks on de-escalating tensions among rival forces on the ground.The Southern Transitional Council, the most powerful group in southe...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran faces a new round of protests challenging the country’s theocracy, but it seems like the only thing people there want to talk about is half a world away: Venezuela.Since the U.S. military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a longtime ally of T...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Fighting escalated in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday after tens of thousands of residents fled two predominantly ethnic Kurdish neighborhoods when the military ordered civilians to evacuate the area.The evacuations came amid the deadliest round of recent vi...

South Korean President Lee ‍Jae Myung has said he has asked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to play a mediation role as his government seeks to improve relations with the North and restart talks over its nuclear programme.Speaking in Shanghai on Wednesday, at the end of a four-day state visit to China, Lee proposed a freeze in P...

The United States has raised the prospect of using military force to take control of Greenland as leaders in Europe and Canada rallied behind the Arctic territory, saying the island belongs to its people.In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said US President Donald Trump sees acquiring Greenland, which is part of Denmark, as...

United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio say they want to free up the flow of Venezuelan oil to benefit Venezuelans after US forces abducted President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas.“We’re going to rebuild the oil infrastructure, which requires billions of dollars that will be paid for by the oil compani...

The US special forces commandeered a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela in the North Atlantic after a weeks-long pursuit, drawing a sharp rebuke from Moscow.The US military’s European Command said the Marinera oil tanker, originally known as the Bella-1, was seized on Wednesday “for violations of US sanctions”.Recom...

A federal officer with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has fatally shot a woman in a residential neighbourhood in Minneapolis amid protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the area.Details of the killing in the largest city in the state of Minnesota were still emerging on Wednesday, but video of th...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A series of mild eruptions at the most active volcano in the Philippines has prompted the evacuation of nearly 3,000 villagers from a danger zone on its foothills, officials said Wednesday.Authorities raised the 5-step alert around Mayon Volcano in the northeastern...

SYDNEY (AP) — Jacob Bethell posted his first test century Wednesday and it couldn’t have come at a more crucial time for England, ensuring the fifth and last Ashes test will be decided on Day 5 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.The 22-year-old, Barbados-born allrounder went to the crease in the f...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Mukesh Awasti was all set to leave for Australia to pursue a degree in civil engineering on a sunny day in September, but instead he joined a youth revolt against corruption in Nepal and lost his leg after being shot by security forces.Lying on a hospital bed at the N...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Deadly clashes between local residents and operators of a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan left four people dead and five others injured, officials said Wednesday.Abdul Mateen Qane, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the violence erupted Tuesday...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan, after its operator was found to have fabricated data about earthquake risks.It was a setback to Japan’s attempts to accelerate nucle...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday that he will visit China next week to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as Canada looks to reduce its reliance on the United States, which has threatened its economy and sovereignty. It is the first visit to China by...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday that it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for...

WAKISO, Uganda (AP) — The Ugandan presidential candidate known as Bobi Wine wears a flak jacket and helmet while campaigning to protect himself from gunfire. But the safety gear offers no protection from the stinging clouds of tear gas that often follow him on the campaign trail. Wine is cha...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The runner-up in Central African Republic ‘s presidential election rejected the provisional results on Wednesday and alleged widespread fraud, while the Russia-allied country’s leader said he had invited President Vladimir Putin to visit.Anicet Georges...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s government announced Wednesday it has arrested and extradited to China a prominent tycoon who allegedly led a huge online scam operation and was wanted by U.S. authorities on related criminal charges.Cambodia’s Interior Ministry said Chen Zhi and two ot...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to serve as a mediator to help resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis and ease animosities between the two Koreas. Speaking with reporters traveling with him on the Shanghai l...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine crew members were hoisted to a helicopter off a commercial crab boat amid near gale force winds, strong downward drafts from a nearby cliff and rough seas after the fishing vessel grounded on an Alaska island in the Bering Sea.The Coast Guard said there were no...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has finalized a plan to roll back regulations implementing a landmark environmental law that the White House says needlessly delays federal approvals for energy and infrastructure projects.The action Wednesday by the White House Council on Environme...

Once a home of the Manhattan Project, the fields surrounded by forested valleys and rolling hills in Oak Ridge, Tenn., could soon yield another nuclear first.Concrete foundations and pilings are rising here for what is expected to be one of the first of a new generation of nuclear power plants, known as small modular reactors. The...

Western oil companies have been fighting to recoup tens of billions of dollars that they say Venezuela owes them — debts that could play a prominent role in efforts by President Trump to compel U.S. businesses to produce more oil in the country.Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips top the list of oil companies with big financial claims a...

The New York Times is joining an expedition by sea to Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers.

After 10 days with nothing in sight but open ocean and the odd iceberg, the Araon entered the zone of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica at roughly 5 a.m. on Monday, and the world was made anew. Suddenly there was floating ice as far as the eye could see, as brilliant and white as the open sea had been forbidding and inky.The edges...

Despite the Trump administration’s claims that it was targeting Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro over the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, the administration is now fixated on a very different Venezuelan export: oil.In the days since the extraordinary capture of Maduro in Caracas, which appeared to violate the Unite...

Over the course of a few hours on Monday, the sea ice changed completely.No longer was it disconnected plates that you could plausibly walk across. Instead, it was a huge icy plain in all directions, as if the ship were sailing atop snow-covered land.Before, the floes had been dynamic, bumping and jostling against one another as th...

Iran’s top judge warned protesters who have taken to the streets during a spiralling economic crisis there will be “no leniency for those who help the enemy against the Islamic Republic”, accusing the US and Israel of sowing chaos.“Following announcements by Israel and the US president, there is no excuse for those coming to the st...

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are experiencing respiratory infections, skin diseases, and other health problems, a humanitarian group warned, as Israel maintains strict curbs on crucial shelter supplies despite freezing winter temperatures.Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said on Wednesday that babies are...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Had history turned out differently, Tim Walz might be about to begin his second year as vice president. Instead, the Minnesota governor is thinking about going back to teaching geography.“What I’m really good at is, I’m a really good geography teacher,” Walz said with a la...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he plans to call a special session in April for the Republican-dominated legislature to draw new congressional districts, joining a redistricting arms race among states that have redrawn districts mid-decade.Even though Florida’s...

The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s previous finding that a proposed ballot initiative aiming to end corporate spending in political campaigns is unconstitutional.A group of former public officeholders last summer proposed a constitutional initia...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venezuela’s oil industry has been in the spotlight since President Donald Trump used military force to capture the country’s leader, President Nicolas Maduro. In the days that followed, Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela and tap its oil reserves. He said Venezuela stole...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — On the first day of the 2026 legislative session, Nebraska lawmakers were asked Wednesday to consider a motion to expel a fellow senator accused of making a sexually-charged comment to a legislative staffer and touching her inappropriately during a session-end party last...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.Trump — who has been under pressure to address voters’ concerns about affordab...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting U.S. military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Ma...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The world’s largest tech showcase does not come without theatrics. Innovations and gadgets like a lollipop that sings to you as you consume it, a laundry-folding robot and a “smart” LEGO brick have stolen the spotlight so far at CES 2026. But underscoring this year’s program...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In Ohio’s closely watched race for governor, Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Democratic former health chief Amy Acton rolled out their picks for running mate on Wednesday, announcing a seasoned conservative lawmaker for him and a pragmatic former party chair...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Golden Globes are fast approaching, and Nikki Glaser is struggling to find a Julia Roberts joke. “She’s been the toughest nut to crack,” Glaser, who’s hosting Sunday’s Globes, said Tuesday with a determined laugh. “But I’m going to crack it.” The comedian got the hosti...

About 800 people have drowned in the waters off Hawaii’s roughly 1,000-mile coastline in the last decade, with an increasing number of people frequenting remote stretches of coastline with little to warn them of risks. Yet the state has not called for a single new warning sign to be put up o...

The Nevada agency responsible for administering food stamps is planning to ask the federal government to prohibit recipients from using benefit dollars toward sugary and energy drinks and certain candies.During a legislative meeting Tuesday, officials with the Division of Social Services con...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nominees for the Actors Awards have been announced, with “One Battle After Another” leading the way.The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio scored a record seven nominations Wednesday. The ceremony, formerly known as the SAG Awards, focuses solely on performances in film a...

Graduate student workers are making an unusual request in their contract negotiations with the University of California: a legal fund to help them navigate visa issues.The ask from United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents 48,000 teaching assistants, postdocs and researchers at UC Ber...

Republican and Democratic officials in about one-third of the states have considered revising their U.S. House districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for remapping as a means of boosting the chances of Republican candidates in this year’s midterm elections. New congressional di...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing behind a newly-appointed housing official as she faces backlash for years-old social media posts, including messages that called for the seizure of private property and linked homeownership to white supremacy.Cea Weaver, a longti...

DETROIT (AP) — Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s.For all of 2025, 165 homicides were committed in the Motor City, Police Chief Todd Bettison told reporters Wednesday.That is 38 fewer than...

Associated Press (AP) — A dog escaped from a rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike and wandered for about 25 miles (40 kilometers) before she was found safe the next day with help from a drone.Abbie, a 9-year-old golden retriever mix, was travelling from a South Carolina shelter to a plann...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.President Donald Trump on...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request by the U.S. Justice Department for detailed voter information, after their states became the latest to face federal lawsuits over the issue.“Pound sand,” Arizona Secretary of State Ad...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — It is a sight Ted Koerner feared he might never see again after his house burned down: His treasured golden retriever, Daisy Mae, playing in his backyard, under the shade of his 175-year-old Heritage Oak. A year ago, as the wind-swept Eaton Fire moved in, Koerner...

The fatal shooting Wednesday of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis was at least the fifth death to result from the aggressive U.S. immigration crackdown the Trump administration launched last year.The Department of Homeland Security said the officer fired in self-defense as the...

ATLANTA (AP) — Eliminating state income taxes sounds great to many voters, but Republicans backing the push in multiple states still face questions about whether such big tax cuts can be made without raising other taxes or sharply cutting state funding for education, health care and ot...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial losses.Block Communications Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3. The paper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and says on it...

SEATTLE (AP) — A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington state law to prohibit defendants who represent themselves from directly questionin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. population is projected to grow by 15 million in 30 years, a smaller estimate than in previous years, due to President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and an expected lower fertility rate, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.The...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states on Wednesday as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.The combination of rain, snow and slush blanketed the region, causing dozens of...

Even with two incomes, Charity Pallum said she and her husband would not be able to afford child care for their 1-year-old twins. But because of federal child care subsidies, both Pallum, a teacher, and her husband, who works at a car dealership, are able to work full-time. Now, the Trump ad...

California will lose $160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants, federal transportation officials announced Wednesday.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy already withheld $40 million in federal funding because he said California isn’t enfo...

Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to withdraw its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for freedom of action in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to US President Donald Trump at the time.The Russians repeatedly raised the idea of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States almost tripled the number of countries whose citizens must pay bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for entry into the country.Less than a week after adding seven countries to the list of nations subject to visa bonds, bringing the total to 13, the State Depart...

Offshore wind developers affected by the Trump administration’s freeze of five big projects on the East Coast are fighting back in court, with one developer saying its project will likely be terminated if they can’t resume by the end of next week.Norwegian company Equinor and the Danish ener...

Faith leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging prayers for peace as they attend to congregations roiled by uncertainty and high emotions following the U.S. capture of deposed leader Nicolás Maduro.In Venezuela, initial statem...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up.Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, the Labor Department said Wednes...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world’s cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They responded by indicating continuity with Pope Francis’ key aims of making the church more...

Ever since the federal government began issuing the Dietary Guidelines in 1980, it has told Americans to limit themselves to one or two standard alcoholic drinks a day. Over time, the official advice morphed to no more than two drinks a day for men, and no more than one for women.No longer. The updated guidelines issued on Wednesda...

Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisors are advising their staff to prepare for the elimination of 1,000 jobs this month as part of changes that Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is overseeing at the agency, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.The dismissals would app...

President Trump was expected to withdraw the United States on Wednesday from the bedrock international agreement that forms the basis for countries to rein in climate change.The agreement, which has been in place for 34 years, counts all of the other nations of the world as members.In a social media post, the White House announced...

After a 12-day journey across the southern seas, the nearly 40 scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon on Wednesday reached Antarctica’s fastest-melting glacier, the Thwaites. An ambitious campaign to study the ice by air, under sea and with boots on the frozen surface is now underway.The voyage from New Zealand was mostly smooth, a...

Senate Democrats on Wednesday launched an investigation into what American oil companies may have known before the Trump administration seized control of Venezuela, ousted its leader and took control of the country’s oil industry.Five lawmakers sent letters to the chief executives of eight major oil companies, asking them to disclo...

Researchers on Wednesday announced that fossils discovered in a Moroccan quarry are about 773,000 years old, filling a critical gap in the understanding how of human beings came to be. The find has the potential to revise theories on early human evolution.The bones of hominins, primates leading up through the human lineage that bra...

Today it seems obvious: Dip a sharp object in a poisonous substance, and then use that weapon to take down your prey. But when did human beings figure out this deadly strategy?It remains as mysterious as the dawn of setting fires, building wheels and painting on caves. But a new study pushes back the timeline of this innovative hun...

Since the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by US special forces, President Donald Trump has promised US investment in the country’s underproductive oil fields.“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken inf...

Over the weekend, the United States carried out a large-scale military strike against Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro in a major escalation that sent shockwaves across Latin America.On Monday morning, US President Donald Trump doubled down, threatening action against the governments of Colombia, Cuba and Mexico unle...

Millions of Christians, including those in Eastern Europe and across the Arab world, such as Palestine and Egypt, are celebrating Christmas today.Christmas Day commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, who was born in Bethlehem.However, for these communities, which number about 250 million people, the most important day of the season...

Among the thousands of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who joined a public protest in Caracas against his weekend abduction by United States soldiers, one man stood out.Wearing a blue cap emblazoned with the slogan “To doubt is to betray,” Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello marched on Tuesday...

Syria and Israel have agreed to set up a joint mechanism after US-mediated talks in Paris on Tuesday, in what they are calling a “dedicated communication cell” aimed at sharing intelligence and coordinating military de-escalation.The two countries have had a US-backed security agreement in place since 1974. However, when the Assad...

US President Donald Trump sees Greenland as a United States national security priority to deter Washington’s “adversaries in the Arctic region”, according to a White House statement released on Tuesday.The statement came days after Trump told reporters that the US needs Greenland from a national security perspective because it is “...

Millions of people around the world celebrated Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holy day.Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russian and other traditions, follow the ancient Julian calendar. It runs 13 days later than the...

PARIS (AP) — France said goodbye to one of its biggest movie stars, Brigitte Bardot, on Wednesday with a funeral in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where the icon lived for more than half a century after retiring from movie stardom at the height of her fame. The ceremonies included a...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is renewing internal negotiations over a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela a week after the United States’ audacious raid there to detain President Nicolás Maduro.Ministers of Agriculture from across the 27 European...

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam’s international airport as snow and ice that is pummeling parts of Europe grounded hundreds of flights and choked highways and railroads Wednesday.In Paris, a skier slid along the snowy bank of the...

President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring Greenland from Denmark fits into a long, little-known pattern in U.S. history. From quiet discussions after the Civil War to a $100 million offer in the wake of World War II, American leaders have repeatedly seen Greenland as a strategic...

The lightning U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces botched an attempt to capture Ukraine’s capital and topple its leader at the start of Moscow’s invasion nearly four years ago...

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one, for an alliance focused on external threats that could now face an armed confrontation involving its most powerful membe...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Crowds flooded the freshly opened showroom floors on Day 2 of the CES and were met by thousands of robots, AI companions, assistants, health longevity tech, wearables and more.Siemens President and CEO Roland Busch kicked off the day with a keynote detailing how its customer...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a vision of the near future shared at CES, a girl slides into the back seat of her parents’ car and the cabin instantly comes alive. The vehicle recognizes her, knows it’s her birthday and cues up her favorite song without a word spoken.“Think of the car as having a soul...

Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar, according to the latest edition of federal nutrition advice released Wednesday by the Trump administration.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins iss...

Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while continuing to limit added sugars, sodium and saturated fat.That’s the advice released Tuesday by a panel of nutrition experts charged with counseling the U.S. governmen...

As they age, it’s not uncommon for many people to let out a muted groan when getting out of bed in the morning.But if you “oof” every time you get in a car or “aargh” while bending over to pick up something, it may be time to prioritize exercises that target your mobility.Dr. Miho Tanaka, a...

BEIJING (AP) — China escalated its trade tensions with Japan on Wednesday by launching an investigation into imported dichlorosilane, a chemical gas used in making semiconductors, a day after it imposed curbs on the export of so-called dual-use goods that could be used by Japan’s military.Th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. again rejected a takeover bid from Paramount and told shareholders Wednesday to stick with a rival offer from Netflix. Warner’s leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Skydance-owned Paramount’s overtures — and urged shareholders just weeks ago to back the sale of its...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The high-profile private attorney for Nick Reiner was granted a request to be removed from his case Wednesday, but later told reporters that according to California law his client is not guilty of murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner....

No one can say Tony Dokoupil is slipping into his new job as “CBS Evening News” anchor unnoticed.In a week, he’s issued a veritable manifesto for how he intends to fulfill the role, cast subtle shade on saintly predecessor Walter Cronkite, had an unexpected debut dominated by Defense Secreta...

PENDLE, England (AP) — Nestled in the rolling countryside of Ribble Valley in northwest England is a modest ski slope about 140 meters (yards) long, 10 meters wide and surrounded by roaming sheep.It’s a gentle hill, featuring three tiny inclines at the start and a mostly flat section to fini...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — John Harbaugh’s 18-year tenure in Baltimore included two distinct periods of success.After taking over, Harbaugh capitalized on the last few years of Ray Lewis’ career, reaching the AFC title game three times in his first five seasons as coach and winning a Super Bow...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has for now denied the A’s request to trademark the names “Las Vegas Athletics” and “Vegas Athletics.”The club, which intends to move to Nevada in 2028, has three months from when the refusals were issued Dec. 29 to ask for an extension t...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some san...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor d...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration doubled down on its intention to take over Greenland, the strategic Arctic island that is a self-governing territory of Denmark.Since the capture of former Venezuelan lead...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s army chief threatened preemptive military action Wednesday over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic, likely referring to U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning that if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States “will com...

Caracas, Venezuela – The normally noisy capital of Caracas was eerily quiet on Monday, two days after the United States bombed the city and abducted Venezuela’s leader, Nicolas Maduro.But many “caraqueños” nevertheless ventured out to buy food and other necessities, albeit at marked-up prices.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist...

China has unveiled new export controls on Japan amid elevated tensions over Taiwan, prompting a rebuke by Tokyo.China’s Ministry of Commerce said it had banned so-called dual-use items, with military applications, in light of Japan’s “erroneous” and “egregious” statements about the self-governing island, which Beijing considers its...

Winter break at Morningside Elementary in Great Falls is a reprieve from what has been a whirlwind two years for the school. It’s in the middle of its second year as a public charter school that embeds college students earning teaching degrees over three years within a functioning elementary...

An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North Carolina voted unanimously Monday to return the land.The Noquisiyi Mound in Franklin, North Carolina, was part of a Cherokee mother town hundreds of years before the fo...

As the Trump administration continues to investigate a series of alleged fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents, social media users are falsely citing a Craigslist ad as evidence of such deceit.The ad, which is no longer live, said a day care center in Minneapoli...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Less than two weeks before her inauguration, Democrat Abigail Spanberger says she’s still digesting what it means to become the first female governor in Virginia’s nearly 250-year history. “The campaign was about the things I want to do for Virginians,” Spanberger told T...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80.The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced his death in a post on the social platform X on Tuesday, calling him “a steadfast guardian of his...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s unexpected death on Monday has created a vacancy in the House ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has some control over when the seat will be filled.Here’s what to know:What does this do to the H...

Mark Silverman announced Tuesday he will be stepping down as Fox Sports’ president and chief operating officer and will move into a consulting role.Silverman oversaw live event and studio programming, production, marketing and digital for Fox, FS1 and FS2. He joined Fox Sports in 2018 as pre...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single, ending the 19-year marriage of one of entertainment’s most prominent power couplesA Nashville, Tennessee, judge issued an order at a hearing Tuesday dissolving the marriage of the Oscar-winning actor and t...

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Since the start of 2023, Nevada has written off more than $106 million in “bad debt,” meaning state officials have deemed it impossible or impractical to collect, according to a Nevada Independent analysis.Four businesses did not pay off more than $1 million in debt each — two of which filed...

BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it’s closing its doors, six years after opening. The Trump Store, which sells hats, flags, T-shirts and other items in hotly politically...

MIAMI (AP) — In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening.Then Venezuela’s foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,000 donation to the president’s inauguration. With the social...

As California becomes more dependent on tax revenue from the tech industry, its stake in the health of the artificial intelligence industry has grown.The state is seeing financial benefits from the AI boom, a new analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office shows. But the boom raises questio...

Halfway through the decade and the clock continues to tick down on San Jose’s ambitious climate target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2030. The road to success is looking steeper than ever.The City Council has formally acknowledged the city is not on track to hit the climate milestone. The...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Pacer Jacob Duffy was named in New Zealand’s squad for the Twenty20 World Cup on Wednesday after an outstanding 2025 in which he captured 81 international wickets.The 31-year-old Duffy broke Richard Hadlee’s 40-year-old record of 79 wickets in a year and rose t...

Detroit’s Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to change the way people cross the Detroit River. For the first time in decades, residents will be able to walk or bike, in addition to driving, into Canada. Expected to open in early 2026, the bridge is designed to ease congestion at existin...

GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. (AP) — After a dead whale was found on the bow of a container ship docked in New Jersey, authorities were working Tuesday to remove the carcass and determine the endangered animal’s cause of death.The Marine Mammal Stranding Center, a New Jersey-based animal rescue serv...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States. Less than a week after adding seven countries to the list of nations subject to visa bonds, bringi...

NEW YORK (AP) — The CDC is in chaos and some groups are starting to step in and take over work the agency was doing.The moves come in response to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s extensive — and some say illegal — restructuring and downsizing of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease...

BOSTON (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations.The petition for habeas corpus relief was filed Monda...

President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud.“For too long, Democrat-led states and Governors have been complicit in allowing massive amounts...

BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Departme...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has launched what officials describe as the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, preparing to deploy as many as 2,000 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area for a sweeping crackdown tied in part to allegat...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing in the U.S. — a spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life.The deposed South Ameri...

Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time. The Russians repeatedly floated the idea of a...

PARIS (AP) — After nearly four years of war and continued Russian attacks, Ukraine ’s allies praised the progress made Tuesday on a framework of international security guarantees to be activated after a ceasefire.Meeting in Paris, leaders from Europe and Canada joined U.S. representatives an...

President Donald Trump spread some confusion about childhood vaccinations in social media posts about changes to U.S. vaccine recommendations.Trump’s administration on Monday took the unprecedented step of cutting the number of vaccines the government has long routinely recommended for all c...

A day after a Hampton Inn in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville, Minn., was accused of denying service to immigration agents, the Hilton hotel company scrubbed the franchise location from its system, and Hilton’s website was no longer displaying the hotel as a booking option.Other travel sites, including Expedia and Booking.com, h...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the test flights of hypersonic missiles, underscoring the need to bolster the country’s nuclear deterrent amid “the recent geopolitical crisis” and “complicated international events,” according to state media.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) confirmed the drills on Monday, a day af...

Thailand’s army says Cambodia has claimed that a new strike was an accident, after a Thai soldier was wounded in a mortar attack in a disputed border region, as a ceasefire agreed in late December continues to hold.On Tuesday morning, Thai forces had accused their Cambodian counterparts of violating the 10-day-old truce, after bomb...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Republicans have “so many good nuggets” to campaign on this year as they try to hold onto their razor-thin margin in the House.But the president’s nearly 90-minute speech before House Republicans had little in the way of a fresh...

For many, the images from Caracas were jarring in their familiarity.Armoured vehicles on empty streets. The nation’s leader abducted by the United States. A declaration from Washington later that the operation was decisive, necessary and complete – even as President Donald Trump warned of a “second, bigger wave” should resistance e...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services.“You have to be a little flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, Trump t...

Federal aviation records show that a week before a fatal helicopter crash, a notice was issued that a tightrope would be stretched across a mountainous area of Arizona, providing a warning for pilots to watch out for the temporary obstacle as they charted flights through the region....

NEW YORK (AP) — Lisette Oropesa impresses Peter Gelb as more than a singer.“She reminds me a little bit of Beverly Sills,” the Metropolitan Opera general manager said. “She seems to have that kind of intellectual quickness. She’s extremely astute and she connects with people. Who knows? Mayb...

The College Football Playoff has some viewer momentum going into this week’s semifinals.Last week’s quarterfinals had a 14% increase from last season. According to ESPN and Nielsen, the four matchups averaged 19.3 million viewers, including the three most-watched games of the season.The CFP...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three of the four suspects accused of plotting to bomb several Southern California business locations on New Year’s Eve have pleaded not guilty.Audrey Carroll, 30, and Zachary Page, 32, entered their pleas in federal court Monday. Tina Lai, 41, entered her plea in court a...

DENVER (AP) — An external audit of 114 cases handled by a former U.S. Center for SafeSport investigator accused of sex crimes he allegedly committed at his previous job led to the watchdog agency’s reopening of three of those cases.The audit, results of which the center released Monday, also...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals have hired Jason Sinnarajah from the Kansas City Royals to become their president of business operations.Sinnarajah will oversee all business-related aspects of the Nationals in his new role. He had been working as the Royals’ senior vice president...

PARIS (AP) — Ukraine’s allies said they made major progress Tuesday toward agreeing how to defend the country if a peace deal is struck with Russia, saying they were ready to provide international guarantees to deter Moscow from attacking its neighbor again.Plans discussed at a key meeting i...

Several European leaders pushed back Tuesday on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about seeking an American takeover of Greenland.The leaders issued a statement reaffirming the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island “belongs to its people.” The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Pol...

President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president’s backing.Ma...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven’s police chief abruptly retired following allegations he stole money from a department account, Mayor Justin Elicker announced Monday.The Democrat said Chief Karl Jacobson admitted he took money from a city fund that compensates confidential informants for h...

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville filed paperwork Monday to officially enter the 2026 race for Alabama governor, saying he wants to be the “chief recruiter to make our state better.”Tuberville, who leveraged fame from his Auburn University football coaching days to wi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a contentious settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, according to a government tender.The tender, which seeks bids from developers, would clear the way to be...

United States President Donald Trump has said that he will delay the implementation of tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for one year, amid growing concerns over cost-of-living issues.Trump signed an order on Wednesday night, during the New Year’s Eve holiday, pausing a planned 50 percent tariff...

A brief power vacuum had emerged in Venezuela in the sudden chaos and confusion after the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro by the United States.But shortly after the US military rained strikes down on Caracas and other areas on Saturday, US President Donald Trump – in a surprise snub against Venezuelan opposition leader...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was abducted from Caracas along with First Lady Cilia Flores, appeared in a United States court on Monday, facing a range of charges linked to the Donald Trump administration’s accusations describing him as a “narco-terrorist”.US troops abducted the couple on Saturday and f...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is to appear in a New York court on Monday, two days after he was abducted by US special forces in a military operation in Caracas.The US military arrested Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday and brought them to New York, where they face multiple federal charges, including drugs and we...

Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade blame for the deadly clashes, which came after SDF-gov’t talks in Damascus.

Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade blame for the deadly clashes, which came after SDF-gov’t talks in Damascus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about the larger message he’s trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges.“Ameri...

SYDNEY (AP) — Travis Head’s third century of the series and Steve Smith’s first guided Australia to a 134-run first-innings lead over England by stumps on the third day of the fifth and final Ashes test.Head resumed Tuesday at 91 and was out for 163 from 166 balls, a masterful innings to fol...

After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro unfolded swiftly over the weekend, with American forces converging on Caracas to arrest Maduro and his wife.In subsequent days, Maduro would be spirited from a U.S. warship to a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials briefed leaders in Congress late Monday on the striking military operation in Venezuela amid mounting concerns that President Donald Trump is embarking on a new era of U.S. expansionism without consultation of lawmakers...

In the wake of last weekend’s U.S. military action in Venezuela, the news media got something it has seldom heard from the Trump administration: a “thank you.”Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited news organizations that had learned in advance about Saturday’s strike that led to the captur...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Venus Williams has lost her first singles match of 2026 to fifth-seeded Magda Linette at the WTA Tour tournament in Auckland, New Zealand.The 45-year-old Williams put up a superb show before losing 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to the No. 52-ranked Linette, who was only two ye...

Fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019 at the Swiss bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead and over 100 injured, local authorities said Tuesday.Investigators have said they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire at Le Constel...

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company’s general director Alexander Neef said Tuesday.The 73-year-old Bychkov agreed to a four-year contract and will conduct two operas and six symphonic concerts per season, Neef...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, director of such works as “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse” and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly comic films, has died at 70.During a career spanning decades, Tarr wrote and directed nine fe...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s president on Tuesday set a parliamentary election in the European Union country for March 22.“I want the election to be conducted fairly, and I will pay attention to disinformation and manipulation, including from abroad,” President Natasa Pirc Musar sai...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered a third body Tuesday from a tour boat that sank during a Christmas holiday trip, leaving two sons of a Spanish soccer coach still missing, officials said.The body was recovered near the coast of Pede beach after fishermen spotted the wr...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Indigenous governor general and its foreign minister will visit Greenland in early February, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday.The visit comes as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, the Inuit self-governing ter...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan ’s military on Tuesday warned that Afghanistan is becoming a “hub for terrorists and non-state actors,” widening its allegations to assert that its Taliban government is patronizing al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and the Pakistani Taliban.Military spokesman Lt. G...