Denver Nuggets (3-1, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (3-2, fifth in the Western Conference) Portland, Oregon; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Nuggets -4.5; over/under is 235.5 BOTTOM LINE: Denver is looking to keep its three-game win streak intact when the Nuggets take on Portland. Portland...

Boston Celtics (2-3, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (4-0, second in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: 76ers -4.5; over/under is 231.5 BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia hosts the Boston Celtics following the Philadelphia 76ers’ 139-134 overtime win against the Washington...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Gemma Dryburgh’s first and only LPGA Tour victory came three years ago in Japan. On Thursday the 32-year-old Scottish player shot a 7-under 65 at the Maybank Classic to put herself in position for a second victory in Asia. Dryburgh’s seventh birdie of the day on the 18th hole at the Kuala Lumpur Golf a...

Orlando Magic (1-4, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (2-2, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -2.5; over/under is 241.5 BOTTOM LINE: Orlando aims to end its four-game losing streak with a win against Charlotte. Charlotte went 19-63 ove...

Colorado Avalanche (6-1-4, in the Central Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (6-1-3, in the Pacific Division) Paradise, Nevada; Friday, 4 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Vegas Golden Knights host the Colorado Avalanche after Jack Eichel’s two-goal game against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Golden Knights’ 6-3 win. Vegas has a 6-1-3 reco...

PARIS (AP) — Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris this week for alleged involvement in spray-painting blood-red hands on the city’s Holocaust Memorial, an act of vandalism that French intelligence services link to a campaign by Russia to destabilize France and other Western societies. Some 500 red hands were painted last year...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Austin Reaves had the ball for the final possession, of course, dribbling left off the high screen before seeing his opening to split the double team with a crossover and beeline into the lane. Lacking the space and time to reach the rim, Reaves rose up for a floater and, with a quick flick from 12 feet out, swis...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island, a day after she was accidentally abandoned there by the ship’s crew. The passenger’s daughter Katherine Rees on Thursday accused the cruise company Coral Expeditions of a “failure of care and common sense” that left her m...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 were were tied with 98% votes counted in the Dutch general election in an unprecedented neck-and-neck race to become the biggest party. The near total vote count showed each party winning 26 seats in Wednesday’s electio...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian shares initially retreated Thursday after President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. While Trump said the meeting was “amazing” and had resolved many issues, investors appeared skeptical. U.S. futures were nearly flat. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index bounced lower and then inched up l...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump’s comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington’s rivals have been conducting their own atomic tests and expanding their arsenals. Nuclear weapons po...

PARIS (AP) — Five more people have been arrested in the investigation into the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum, but the treasures remain missing, the Paris prosecutor announced Thursday. The five were detained late Wednesday night in separate police operations in Paris and surrounding areas, including the Seine-Saint-D...

One of the many equilibrium-testing experiences Jeremy Allen White had playing Bruce Springsteen came, appropriately enough, at the Stone Pony, the beachside club in Asbury Park, N.J., where the Boss cut his teeth. In the last weeks of shooting, “I performed about five songs in one day on that stage in front of 300 people,” White s...

It sounds impossibly daunting: Choreograph a music video that dances through hundreds of years of art, movie and theater history. Channel everything from Pre-Raphaelite paintings to Busby Berkeley musicals to doo-wop girl groups. Make it all look polished, yet effortless. Also? It’s for Taylor Swift. But Mandy Moore was undaunted b...

Jack DeJohnette, an early member of Chicago’s experimental collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), developed an adaptable style that shaped his career as one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. Originally a pianist, DeJohnette, who died on Sunday at 83, gained recognition in the mid-1960s for flui...

Anthony Jackson, a scholar and virtuoso of the electric bass who redefined his instrument while also laying down funky grooves for both pop stars like Madonna and jazz greats like Chick Corea, died on Oct. 19 on Staten Island. He was 73. He had Parkinson’s disease and in recent years had suffered multiple strokes, his manager, Dane...

The White House has said United States forces have bombed another alleged drug smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four men, just days after confirming it killed 14 people in three separate strikes on vessels in the area. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a post on X late on Wednesday that the “Departm...

A former South Carolina sheriff is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges that he stole from his force’s benevolence fund and took pain medication that was supposed to be destroyed as part of a pill take-back program. Former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright signed a plea agreement last month with federal prosec...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The parents of children killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville are fighting to keep police investigative records a secret, even after many documents were leaked to a conservative media outlet. The Covenant parents also argued that releasing the documents would be traumatic for the fa...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a 32.5% increase in operating profit for the third quarter, driven by rebounding demand for its computer memory chips, which the company expects will continue to grow on the back of artificial intelligence. The South Korean technology giant set a new high in quarter...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two-term mayor of Minneapolis who led the city during the murder of George Floyd is seeking reelection Tuesday against more than a dozen challengers, including a democratic socialist advocating for a change to the “status quo.” Beyond the mayoral race, voters will fill two vacancies in state Senate districts —...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texans will vote on a large menu of constitutional amendments Tuesday while some Houston voters will choose among 16 candidates from across the ideological spectrum in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat. Voters will check off whether they are “for” or “against” 17 state constitutional amendment...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor in a contest Tuesday that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins. Also on the ballot are an open seat race for Jersey City mayor that features a former governor and legislative races across the state for the heavily...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia will elect its first woman as governor Tuesday as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Voters will also decide races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and the state House of Delegates. The c...

DENVER (AP) — After months of extraordinary steps to ensure his party maintains control of the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s midterms, President Donald Trump is turning his sights toward the voting process in next week’s elections. That pivot is raising alarm among Democrats and others who warn that he may be testing...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to get more homes built for people like Liam Murphy: a fifth-generation city kid who found himself repeatedly outbid for tiny two-bedroom houses that wound up selling for $1.6 million. Murphy, 39, now lives about an hour’s drive away from his job as a San Francisco fir...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western Alaska community of Quinhagak. Wooden spoons, toys, a fishing lure and other artifacts were strewn, in some cases for miles, along the beach. The Yup’ik community near the edge of the Bering...

CHICAGO (AP) — Matas Buzelis scored 27 points, and the Chicago Bulls defeated the Sacramento Kings 126-113 on Wednesday night to remain unbeaten. Chicago improved to 4-0, its best start since 2021-22. Josh Giddey had 20 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds, and Nikola Vucevic had 13 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists for Chicag...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 17-year-old cricketer has died after being hit in the head during a training session in suburban Melbourne. Local cricket officials said Ben Austin was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after being struck by a ball during practice at Ferntree Gully on Tuesday. He was batting in the nets — whic...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Cam Cook scored a go-ahead touchdown with 4:29 left and then the Jacksonville State defense ended two drives to secure a 24-21 victory over Middle Tennessee on Wednesday night. Jacksonville State (5-3, 4-0 Conference USA) is tied atop the league standings with Kennesaw State (6-2, 4-0) after a third strai...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Basketball players who frequent a South Florida park feel like they’re being run off in favor of wealthy residents of a new luxury development. The city of Fort Lauderdale is planning to replace the decades-old, beachside basketball courts with pickleball courts, part of a deal with developers for a mas...

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 21 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, matching an NBA record with his fourth straight triple-double to start the season, and the Denver Nuggets routed the winless New Orleans Pelicans 122-88 on Wednesday night. Jokic joined Oscar Robertson (1961-62) and Russell Westbrook (2020-21) as the only players...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Jacob Clark threw for 163 yards and two touchdowns, Shomari Lawrence rushed for 104 yards and two scores against his former team, and Missouri State beat Florida International 28-21 on Wednesday night for the program’s first home win over a FBS program. Since the season opener at USC, Missouri State (5-3, 3-...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cole Sillinger had two goals and an assist, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Wednesday night for their third straight win. Mathieu Olivier had a goal and three assists, Zach Werenski had a goal and an assist, and Ivan Provorov and Dante Fabbro also scored for the Blue Jackets,...

DALLAS (AP) — Brandon Williams scored 20 and Dwight Powell scored 18 points as the Dallas Mavericks beat the Indiana Pacers 107-105 on Wednesday night in a matchup of injured-depleted teams. Indiana had a chance to win when Aaron Nesmith grabbed an offensive rebound after RayJ Dennis intentionally missed a second free throw with 3....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jrue Holiday had 27 points and eight assists, and he hit four free throws in the final seconds to help the Portland Trail Blazers hold off a late Utah rally and beat the Jazz 136-134 on Wednesday night. Deni Avdija added 19 points and nine rebounds for the Blazers, and Shaedon Sharpe and Jerami Grant finished...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Austin Reaves swished the 12-foot winner in the lane right before the buzzer to finish with 28 points and lift the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-115 victory on Wednesday after the Minnesota Timberwolves had taken the lead with a late 14-2 run. Reaves matched his career high with 16 assists, Jake LaRavia had 27 poin...

PHOENIX (AP) — Ja Morant scored 28 points — including a go-ahead 11-foot jumper with 7.6 seconds remaining — to push the Memphis Grizzlies past the Phoenix Suns 114-113 on Wednesday night. The Suns trailed 99-89 midway through the fourth, but rallied to tie at 108 on Devin Booker’s jumper with 2:23 left. Mark Williams had a dunk wi...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Emma Sears scored three goals and Catarina Macario added twp as the U.S. women’s national team routed New Zealand 6-0 on Wednesday night. It was the most goals scored by the United States in a match under coach Emma Hayes. Michelle Cooper had two assists. Cooper sent Lily Yohannes’ backheel pass over to Sear...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Flamengo is into the Copa Libertadores final after salvaging a scoreless draw against Racing Club on Wednesday in the second leg of their semifinal series. The Brazilian club managed to hold on to the 1-0 lead it took in the first leg, and will be aiming to win the prestigious South American soccer to...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw lingered on the field at Dodger Stadium, taking in the sights for the last time at the ballpark he’s called home for his entire 18-year career. His four children scampered about, catching balls he tossed. He shared an embrace with his wife, Ellen, who wore his No. 22 jersey and is expecting their...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nathan Ordaz scored an easy tap-in in the 79th minute to give LAFC a 2-1 victory over Austin on Wednesday night to begin the best-of-three series. LAFC plays at Austin on Sunday for a chance to advance to the Western Conference semifinals. LAFC took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute on Brendan Hines-Ike’s own goal. R...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Snell thinks bad luck had about as much to do with his Game 5 struggles as the Toronto Blue Jays. “Luck plays in baseball, too,” he said. The two-time Cy Young Award winner gave up two home runs on his first three pitches, then faltered again late in a 6-1 loss Wednesday night that put the defending champio...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trey Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Game 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday that moved them within one win of their first championship since 1993. Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected...

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Mobility Show is highlighting more than just cars or the types of fuel they use from electric to hydrogen, but also various kinds of futuristic transport. Think scuttling robotic chairs, like the Uni-One from Honda Motor Co. The Tokyo-based maker of the Accord sedan says it is all about personal mobility as a...

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an “equal basis” with Russia and China. He made the announcement on social media minutes before he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday in South Korea...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, in the winding canals and farms on the fringes of Mexico City, the flower also known as the Mexican marigold has been farmed for...

President Donald Trump said he has made deals with China after meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, the final day of a trip to Asia that was an opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to stabilize relations after months of turmoil over trade issues. Trump made the comments aboard Air Force One as...

SINJIL, West Bank (AP) — Since Israel ‘s war with Hamas began more than two years ago, Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, further stifling movement for Palestinians and hindering daily lives, a local government body says. While Israel’s military has long imposed movement and acce...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — China said Thursday it’s on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country’s ambitious plans to be a leader in space exploration. “Currently, each program of the research and development work of putting a perso...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. Stunned residents wandered about, some staring at their roofless homes and waterlogged belongings strewn around them. “I don’t have a house now,” sa...

CAIRO (AP) — After two decades of anticipation and countless delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally having its grand reveal. The museum, which is set to officially open Saturday, highlights Egypt’s ancient civilization and is a centerpiece of the government’s drive to boost the tourist industry, a major source of foreign curr...

United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has partially walked back his warning that taking Tylenol during pregnancy is directly linked to autism in children. In a news conference on Wednesday, Kennedy struck a more moderate tone than he generally has in his past public appearances. “The causative associ...

Israel’s military has carried out another deadly attack in northern Gaza despite claiming to resume the fragile ceasefire, which was already teetering from a wave of deadly bombardment it waged the night before. Israel’s latest aerial attack on Wednesday evening occurred in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area, killing at least two people, acco...

The medical organisation Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF) has said it was ordered to leave Libya by November 9, with no reason given for its expulsion. MSF had already been forced to suspend its activities in the country in March, and said in a statement on Wednesday that it was told to leave in a recent l...

GREGORY, TX (AP) — Thick smoke blanketed a rural community in southern Texas and many residents were ordered to evacuate as firefighters worked to contain a blaze on Wednesday evening, officials said. The Mill Fire in Gregory, Texas, about 150 miles (80.5 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, had grown to 15 acres and officials had...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that is expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a 2019 case challenging the constitutionality of a law that states only a doctor licensed by the State Medical Board can perform an abortion in Alaska. Th...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to reroute an aging oil pipeline around a northern Wisconsin tribal reservation. Enbridge wants to build a new 41-mile (66-kilometer) segment of pipeline around the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa...

HOUSTON (AP) — A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road funding. The mural, which was painted on a street in front of the federal courthouse in Laredo and said, “Defund the Wall,” was removed...

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — California Rep. Doug LaMalfa made a last-ditch plea Wednesday for Republicans to vote ‘no’ on a ballot measure aimed at pushing him out of office. “It’s really a blatant power grab,” he said at a news conference in Chico, a city at the southern end of his district that covers a vast, rural swath of Northern Cal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country’s history is told. The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate gener...

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks reserve guard Brandon Williams apologized Wednesday for being a distraction after he was arrested Saturday on a charge of marijuana possession. “I can’t really go into further detail,” Williams, 25, said before the Mavericks’ game against Indiana. “I just want to apologize for just being a distraction...

TORONTO (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 31 points, Jabari Smith Jr. added a season-high 25 and the Houston Rockets thumped the struggling Toronto Raptors 139-121 on Wednesday night. Alperen Sengun had 18 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as the Rockets won their second straight after starting the season with back-to-back losses. A...

NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young left Wednesday night’s game against the Brooklyn Nets with a sprained right knee. Young was injured in the first quarter when teammate Mouhamed Gueye fell into the side of his leg on an inbounds play. Young, a four-time All Star, immediately grimaced and clutched the knee. The team rul...

BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 30 points, including 13 during a 20-3 run to end the first half that helped the Boston Celtics pull away from Cleveland to win 125-105 on Wednesday night and snap the Cavaliers’ three-game winning streak. Sam Hauser scored 21 points off the bench for Boston, which has won two straight since opening...

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks forward Anthony Davis left Wednesday night’s game against the Indiana Pacers late in the first quarter with left lower-leg soreness and didn’t return. Davis hit a floating jumper near the left baseline for his second field goal of the game and hobbled when starting back downcourt. He crouched near the...

DETROIT (AP) — Cade Cunningham had 30 points and 10 assists as the Detroit Pistons overcame a slow start to beat the Orlando Magic 135-116 on Wednesday night. Cunningham added six rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots. The Pistons trailed for most of the first half, but outscored Orlando 70-52 in the final two quarters. Th...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The sight of newly signed 41-year-old tight end Marcedes Lewis on the practice field Wednesday brought sighs of relief and moments of awe to the Denver Broncos. “It was pretty cool,” quarterback Bo Nix said. “He didn’t look like he was playing as that old of a veteran. But he’s going to, I’m sure, help us ou...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Johnson scored 23 points, and the Atlanta Hawks held off the winless Brooklyn Nets 117-112 on Wednesday night after losing star guard Trae Young to a sprained right knee in the first quarter. Young was hurt when teammate Mouhamed Gueye fell and collided with his knee. The four-time All-Star grabbed the knee in...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders were often referred to as “Patriots West” when then-coach Josh McDaniels was signing players he worked with in New England. Current Las Vegas coach Pete Carroll is remaking the Raiders as “Seattle South” by bringing in players he had with the Seahawks. The latest was wide receiver Tyler...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Stafford was in attendance for the first half of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ marathon 18-inning win in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday. The Rams quarterback was back in bed when Freddie Freeman finally hit a walk-off home run. “I gave it my best effort, but I knew I was going to have to get up and get s...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry intends to prevent LSU Athletic Director Scott Woodward from hiring the Tigers’ next football coach. “Hell, I’ll let Donald Trump select him before I let him do it,” Landry said of Woodward during a press conference he held in Baton Rouge on Wednesday to mainly discuss other governmental matters. Woodward...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — As J.J. McCarthy worked toward completion of his recovery from a severely sprained ankle, Carson Wentz was enduring even more agony with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. The quarterback situation, the most conspicuous part of this unexpectedly frustrating and painful season for the Minnesota Vikings, migh...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have picked former bench coach Derek Shelton as their new manager, a person with knowledge of the decision confirmed Wednesday night. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the hire. Major League Baseball encourages clubs to avoid...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani could pitch out of the bullpen for the Los Angeles Dodgers when the World Series goes back to Toronto this weekend. Ohtani has never pitched in relief during his major league career. He made a handful of relief appearances in Japan for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, mostly as a rookie in 2013. Th...

Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, “We have to get the overall numbers way, way down.” Vance took questions from students at the University of Mississippi at an event organized by Turning Point USA, stepping into the role of debater that was so often performed by the organization’s...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays hit the first back-to-back homers to begin a game in World Series history Wednesday night when Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected on the first and third pitches by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Blake Snell. Leadoff hitter Schneider delivered his first career playoff homer on Snel...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the U.S. military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard, as the Trump administration pursues its divisive campaign against drug cartels in the waters off South America. Heg...

NEW YORK (AP) — Monday night’s 18-inning marathon between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series averaged 11.31 million viewers in the U.S. according to Nielsen, Fox and MLB. That is a 17% decline from the audience of last year’s third game between the Dodgers and New York Yankees, and it wasn’t...

United States President Donald Trump expects “a lot of problems” will be solved between Washington and Beijing when he meets China’s President Xi Jinping in South Korea for a high-stakes meeting on Thursday, amid growing trade tensions between the two. Relations between the two world powers have been strained in recent years, with...

Lithuania is tightening its border with Belarus for a month after waves of balloons carrying contraband cigarettes entered its airspace. Lithuania’s cabinet decided Wednesday to continue halting traffic at the Salcininkai crossing in the southeast until the end of November, while heavily restricting passage at its only other crossi...

A Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives has been indicted by the Department of Justice in connection with a protest in front of a federal immigration facility in Illinois. On Wednesday, in a post on social media, Kat Abughazaleh, 26, announced that she had been charged alongside five other protesters....

Cam Skattebo being lost for the season sucked some of the energy out of the New York Giants’ season after he and quarterback Jaxson Dart infused so much of it into an organization that experienced a lot of losing before the rookies arrived. It’s not their first setback on offense, either. Malik Nabers tearing the ACL in his right k...

PARIS (AP) — Ligue 1 leader Paris Saint-Germain dropped points with a 1-1 draw at lowly Lorient on Wednesday and picked up another injury as forward Désiré Doué went off in the second half. PSG was not punished however, as Marseille conceded six minutes into stoppage time in a 2-2 home draw with Angers. Victory would have moved Mar...

The New York Jets agreed to trade cornerback Michael Carter II to the Philadelphia Eagles on Wednesday for wide receiver John Metchie III. Both teams announced the trade, pending physicals, in which the Jets will also receive a sixth-round pick in the 2027 NFL draft and will send a seventh-round selection in that draft to the Eagle...

SEATTLE (AP) — Danny Sprinkle has enjoyed plenty of success at his previous coaching stops. He won at Utah State. He won at Montana State. In his first year at Washington, however, such couldn’t have been further from the case. Sprinkle, who was hired to coach Washington in 2024 after guiding Utah State to a Mountain West regular-s...

Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills own Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the regular season. It’s been reversed when it matters most in the playoffs. The Bills have won four straight matchups between the teams in the regular season but the Chiefs have won the past four playoff meetings, including two AFC championship game...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco didn’t practice on Wednesday because of a shoulder injury, leaving his status for Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears in question. Flacco is making an effort to play, which Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor appreciates. “It would be easy to make decision that there’s no way...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills coach Sean McDermott put to rest any suggestion of a disconnect between him and coordinator Joe Brady on how they view Buffalo’s suddenly struggling passing attack. McDermott welcomed a question on the issue Wednesday by saying he and Brady are on the same page, two days after they presented contradi...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts right tackle Braden Smith felt the dark thoughts creeping back into his mind before last weekend’s game. This time, though, he won the battle. After missing Indy’s final five games last season because of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that led him to contemplate suicide, the former Aubur...

Mississippi State (21-13 overall, 8-10 SEC) Coach Chris Jans enters his fourth season at Mississippi State and has taken the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament in his first three seasons in a program first. Jans has yet to win an NCAA Tournament game at Mississippi State and has not recorded more than nine conference wins in a season...

The momentum generated by last season’s Sweet 16 appearance, only the second in school history, solidified coach Chris Beard’s program entering his third season. Ole Miss consistently used seven seniors in the playing rotation and will need immediate contributions to remain among the league’s elite teams. Beard was in a similar sit...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Brad Marchand is stepping away from the Florida Panthers to help a friend whose daughter died last week of cancer. Marchand is serving as a guest coach Wednesday night for the under-18 March and Mill Co. Hunters in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in place of friend JP MacCallum. Marchand is a co-ow...

Liverpool fielded a weakened team and got duly punished in a 3-0 loss to Crystal Palace in the League Cup on Wednesday, the latest setback to strike the beleaguered English champions. Ismaila Sarr scored two first-half goals at Anfield and Yeremy Pino added a third for Palace, which consigned Liverpool to a sixth defeat in its last...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — This wasn’t the type of start Nate Hobbs had in mind when the former Las Vegas Raiders defensive back signed with the Green Bay Packers. Hobbs dealt with a knee injury during training camp, struggled through the first half of the season and finally fell out of a starting cornerback role Sunday during the Pack...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Injuries are adding up and adding to the insult of a dismal season for the Tennessee Titans. The toll is most noticeable on defense, which doesn’t bode well for hosting the Los Angeles Chargers (5-3) and quarterback Justin Herbert on Sunday. Two starters from the season opener are on injured reserve with roo...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears did what they could to support an injury-depleted defense by signing former Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson on Wednesday. They could need a stronger defensive effort to back their own offense Sunday against Cincinnati if quarterback Caleb Will...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Quarterback Brock Purdy remains limited at practice because of a toe injury and the San Francisco 49ers won’t know until later in the week whether he will be able to return to face the New York Giants on Sunday. Purdy initially hurt his toe in the season opener and missed the next two games. He returned i...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlie Freeman had to watch one of his father’s most important home runs on a replay. “Charlie said he missed it. I don’t know what he was doing in the family room, but he said he missed it,” Freddie Freeman said Wednesday, two days after his 18th-inning home run lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-5 win over...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions signed star edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson on Wednesday to a contract extension through the 2030 season. The No. 2 overall pick out of Michigan in 2022, Hutchinson has 34 1/2 sacks in 46 career games. He also has 78 quarterback hits, 36 tackles for loss, 11 pass defenses, eight forced fumble...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have shuffled their slumping lineup for Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday, notably moving Mookie Betts down in the order for the first time in four years and benching Andy Pages. Betts will bat third in the lineup submitted by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, while Freddie Freeman moved...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Springer is not in the Toronto Blue Jays’ starting lineup for the second straight game at the World Series on Wednesday night due to an injury on his right side. Davis Schneider is the leadoff batter and Bo Bichette is the designated hitter for Game 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Toronto manager John S...

Exclusive talks with AB InBev will begin for a six-year deal starting in 2027, said UC3, the joint business venture between Champions League organizer UEFA and the increasingly influential European Football Clubs (EFC) group. The potential deal would be global and cover all UEFA men’s club competitions for six seasons, UC3 said in...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Court of Auditors on Wednesday rejected a key government project, refusing to sign off on plans to build a 13.5 billion euro massive bridge connecting Sicily to the mainland, dealing a blow to the right-wing government led by Premier Giorgia Meloni. The court — which has a dual role of financial control and juri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is deploying several dozen disaster relief workers, including urban search and rescue teams, to Caribbean island nations as they deal with devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. Disaster Assistance Response Team personnel from Washington and regional hubs in Miami and Costa Rica as well as the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada, just as President Donald Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with U.S.'s northern neighbor that is one of its largest economic partners. The 50-46 tally was the latest in a series of...

DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $5.85 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a city bus, the second fatality involving the same driver since 2015. Wayne County Judge Kathleen McCarthy signed off on the deal last week, court records show. Janice Bauer, 67, was hit by a city...

The National Transportation Safety Board wants the owners of nearly 2,000 Learjets — which have long been associated with the rich and famous — to urgently inspect their landing gear to make sure they won’t collapse as happened in a fatal crash in February involving a private jet owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil. The NTSB iss...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent on Wednesday announced its first-ever quarter with more than $100 billion in revenue, a milestone that illustrates the unwavering power of its internet empire amid legal and competitive threats. The news of Alphabet Inc.’s accelerating growth in revenue and profit comes on the heels of...

Meta’s stock slid in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the tech giant posted strong third-quarter results but warned that its expenses will be significantly higher in 2026 than this year. Like its rivals, Meta Platforms Inc. has been on an artificial intelligence spending spree and said its costs will grow much faster next yea...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A pair of court rulings declaring some of Florida’s gun restrictions unconstitutional are creating some confusion in the notoriously firearm-friendly state — and fueling activists’ calls for Republican legislators to take action to update state statutes so they abide by the new legal landscape. Despite Flor...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago. The new amount is roughly half the $6...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Children from San Francisco’s Tenderloin ate pizza, jumped in a bouncy house, got their faces painted and scooped up bags of candy Wednesday during the neighborhood’s first ever pumpkin patch festival. The Tenderloin neighborhood near City Hall is among San Francisco’s most troubled, rife with open drug use and...

With federal SNAP food assistance set to run dry this weekend amid the protracted U.S. government shutdown, Louisiana, New Mexico and Vermont became the latest states Wednesday announcing help for low-income households that rely on the funds to eat. They join other states — from New York to Nevada — in scrambling to find ways to ge...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the relocation of U.S. Space Command to Alabama was illegally motivated by President Donald Trump’s desire to punish Colorado for its mail-in voting system. The litigation announced by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser asks a federal judge to block the move as...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to encase a segment of an aging oil pipeline that runs beneath a Great Lakes channel, pushing past its own findings that construction could ruin the environmentally sensitive area. The corps initially planned to issue a permitting decision early...

A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access and hamper thorough and accurate reporting. Currently, reporters witnessing lethal injections do not see the entire process. The coal...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California animal rights activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant was found guilty Wednesday of trespassing and other charges, which could carry a sentence of up to five years. Zoe Rosenberg, 23, did not deny taking the animals but argued she wasn’t breaking the law because she...

GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday after meeting with the country’s president. President Lee Jae Myung stressed to Trump in their Wednesday meeting that the goal was to moder...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigration authorities did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of a man living in Alabama until after he had been deported to Laos, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, dismissing claims that officials violated the order. Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, was deported on...

GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to meet face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, a chance for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to stabilize relations after months of turmoil over trade issues. Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs since returning to the White House for a second...

An armed rebel group in Myanmar says it has reached a truce with the military-run government to stop months of heavy clashes in the country’s north. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) announced on Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with Myanmar’s government following several days of China-mediated talks in Kunming, rou...

Two men arrested over a jewel heist at France’s Louvre Museum are to be charged with theft and criminal conspiracy after “partially admitting to the charges”, Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau has said. The suspects were to be brought before magistrates with a view to “charging them with organised theft, which carries a 15-year...

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly called for an end to a US economic embargo on Cuba for a 33rd year, despite lobbying by Washington that included sharing an accusation that up to 5,000 Cubans are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. It adopted a resolution with 165 votes in favour, seven against and 1...

Prominent lawyers in criminal and civil law and across the private and public sectors concur that a dearth of lawyers, especially in their early careers, present barriers to accessing legal services in Vermont — which they say threatens the principle of a functioning justice system. Earlier this month, the Vermont Supreme Court for...

The Texas Education Agency is taking over the Fort Worth Independent School District — a district with more than 70,000 students — because a campus with just over 300 sixth graders repeatedly failed to meet state academic standards. While Leadership Academy at Forest Oak Sixth Grade ultimately set off the state’s ability to interve...

As a senior at Castle High School, Shanelle Bartlett wished for an easier way of applying for college. She planned to enroll in Kapiʻolani Community College’s competitive medical laboratory technician program, but she didn’t know how to apply for the program and struggled to find financial aid options. “I had to figure out how to d...

After Jackson installed some listening devices as part of a trial aimed at detecting the location of gunfire, city leaders found that the program never got far enough off the ground to evaluate if the technology would aid in crime prevention. The Jackson City Council voted last week to end a contract with Atlanta-based Flock Safety...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man accused of killing four of his children after human remains were found inside the trunk of a vehicle at their home appears to have spread the slayings over several months, a sheriff said Wednesday. Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, was charged Tuesday with four counts of murder. The s...

ATLANTA (AP) — There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia’s Jon Ossoff. He is the party’s only senator who is seeking reelection next year in a state that Republican Donald Trump won in 2024, and any chance that Democrats may have in regaining Senate control...

A decade ago, Nebraska’s corrections department allowed hundreds of inmates to leave prison early through a program that few — including judges, lawmakers and the public — knew existed. Corrections devised the early-release initiative as part of a larger, and ultimately scandal-plagued, effort to ease overcrowding in Nebraska’s pac...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted for blocking a federal agent’s vehicle during September protests outside an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. The felony indictment, filed last week by a special grand jury, accuses...

Boeing reported mixed third-quarter results on Wednesday, as higher aircraft deliveries and a growing backlog of orders were offset by continued certification delays for its 777X jets. CEO Kelly Ortberg said the first delivery of Boeing’s next generation of long-haul, wide-body jets is now expected in 2027 instead of 2026, resultin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders in Congress said it’s all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out funding to continue food aid for more than 40 million Americans who stand to lose it as part of the government shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening the government as they dema...

Federal regulators are trying to make it easier to develop cheaper alternatives to powerful drugs that many Americans depend on to treat autoimmune diseases or cancers. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has released guidance to simplify studies for biologic drugs and cut unnecessary testing. Biologic drugs are made...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federal funds rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another. While the rates consumers pay to borrow money aren’t directly lin...

Starbucks reported better-than-expected revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter as its U.S. sales improved. The Seattle-based company said Wednesday its net revenue rose 5% to $9.6 billion in the July-September period. That was better than the $9.3 billion Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Starbucks’...

DETROIT (AP) — Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through two years of use than a gas-powered vehicle. The study also estimated that gas-powered vehicles cause at least twice as much environment...

Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on children. The company is facing several lawsuits over child safety, including by the mother of a teenager who says the company’s chatbots pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Character Techno...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Isaiah Williams was sitting at home, upset and uncertain if he had just blown his NFL chance. The wide receiver and return specialist had just been waived by the New York Jets, a few days after two costly mistakes were key contributors to the team’s loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sept. 29. “The night when I...

By Week 9, the fantasy football grind is real — bye weeks, injuries and matchups separate contenders from pretenders. Whether it’s a quarterback in rhythm, a running back on a roll, or a receiver trending up, here’s who earns a start and who’s better off on your bench. Start: Lamar Jackson, Ravens vs Dolphins Jackson faces a Miami...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are expected to be without running back Isiah Pacheco for their high-profile showdown against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday after their leading rusher sprained a knee ligament in last week’s win over the Washington Commanders. Pacheco did not practice Wednesday as the Chiefs turned their...

PARIS (AP) — Jannik Sinner’s bid to reclaim the No. 1 ranking got off to a good start Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Zizou Bergs in the second round of the Paris Masters, which the Italian needs to win to knock Carlos Alcaraz off the top spot. Sinner’s 65-week reign as No. 1 ended in September when Alcaraz won the U.S. Open...

Swiss-Italian driver Laura Villars says she is challenging the FIA’s election rules in a Paris court case that could delay the auto racing governing body’s upcoming election. Villars is fighting electoral rules which made it harder for her and other would-be candidates to challenge incumbent FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Vill...

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and receiver Drake London are both day to day going into next week’s game against the New England Patriots, coach Raheem Morris said Wednesday. Both players missed the Falcons’ 34-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. The Falcons have lost two in a row and...

ROME (AP) — Igor Tudor’s firing at Juventus produced an immediate result. The Bianconeri beat visiting Udinese 3-1 in Serie A on Wednesday to end an eight-match winless streak that had stretched back to mid-September. Defender Federico Gatti headed in the winner for Juventus after Dusan Vlahovic opened the scoring by earning and co...

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PADERBORN, Germany (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen scored twice in the final minutes of extra time to win a thrilling German Cup second-round game 4-2 over second-division Paderborn on Wednesday. Leverkusen avoided another embarrassing cup exit after its semifinal loss to a third-tier team last season, but it was another shaky defensive pe...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona playmaker Pedri will be sidelined because of a muscle tear in his left thigh, the club said Wednesday. Spanish media reported the midfielder could be out for a month, but Barcelona only said that Pedri’s recovery “will dictate his return to action.” Pedri had missed only one game under coach Hansi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals interim manager Miguel Cairo, who replaced the fired Dave Martinez in July, will not get the job on a permanent basis, and members of his coaching staff are being let go, too, a person with knowledge of the moves told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymit...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young was a full participant in practice on Wednesday and the team is optimistic he might be able to play on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers. Young sat out Carolina’s 40-9 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday with an ankle injury, the first game he has missed this seaso...

Baltimore (2-5) at Miami (2-6) Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EDT, Prime Video. Against the spread: Ravens 2-5; Dolphins 3-4. Series record: Ravens lead 9-8. Last meeting: Ravens beat Dolphins 56-19 in Baltimore on Dec. 31, 2023. Last week: Ravens beat Bears 30-16, Dolphins beat Falcons 34-10. Ravens offense: overall (21), rush (8), pass (28)...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The past few meetings between the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins have unfolded like this: In 2021, Tua Tagovailoa came off bench at halftime to spark an upset. A year later, he led a stunning comeback in one of the best games of his career. Then Lamar Jackson flipped the script in 2023, dominating Mi...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Terry McLaurin re-injured his quadriceps muscle and will sit out the Washington Commanders’ game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. It will be the fifth time in the past six weeks that McLaurin has been sidelined. “Bummed for him, for us,” Commanders coach Dan Quinn said before practice on Wednesday....

Georgia Tech is the only undefeated team in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the eighth-ranked Yellow Jackets have a path through the regular season without having to face any of the league’s other three Top 25 teams. In fact, the 17-team ACC has no head-to-head matchups in November between Georgia Tech (8-0, 5-0 ACC), No. 10 Mia...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Years before DeSean Jackson and Michael Vick thrilled Eagles fans with deep-threat touchdown passes and decades before they became head coaches set to lead their teams from historically Black colleges into a showcase game on national television at an NFL stadium, the future friends first met at a Los Angeles shop...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stakes for all these U.S. skiers, skaters, snowboarders and sliders over the next 100 days could not be more clear. A chance to compete for a gold medal. And this year, for the first time, a chance to make $100,000. Thanks to a recent record $100 million donation to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, at...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions against separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and his family, turning back financial penalties that were imposed by the Biden administration in 2022. Dodik is staunchly pro-Russian and has called for the Serb-run half of Bosnia to break off and join Serbia. Un...

KWALE, Kenya (AP) — A Budapest boxing club said on Wednesday that one of its board members and his family were among the 11 killed in a plane crash in Kenya the day before, while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve. The Vasas SC sports club said in a statement that Gyula Süllős was “a decades-long supporter” and president of i...

MILAN (AP) — With 100 days to go until the start of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, preparations are going right down to the wire. The ice hockey arena that is set to welcome back NHL players to the Olympics is still not ready and won’t be tested until less than a month before the first puck is dropped at the 2026 Games. “There...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California, are challenging his detention in court, his legal team said Wednesday. Hamdi, who is Muslim, was detained Sunday by ICE officers at San Francisco International Airport, according to fede...

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province on Wednesday said the U.S. ambassador to Canada should apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington after the ambassador reportedly shouted profanely at him about the province’s anti-tariff ad. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Ambassador Pete Hoekstra owes David Pate...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft on Wednesday reported its quarterly sales grew 18% to $77.7 billion. The software maker also reported a 22% increase in quarterly profit to $30.8 billion, or $4.13 per share, which beat Wall Street expectations for the July-September period. Microsoft said those results excluded the impacts of some $...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t curtailing travel. He’s not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren’t from McDonalds, this time. In shutdowns past — including during Trump’s first term — presidents normally scaled back their schedules. With sta...

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and Democrats in Virginia pressed ahead Wednesday with plans that could allow mid-decade redistricting as part of a growing national battle for partisan advantage in next year’s congressional elections. Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation pushing back the state’s 2026 primary elections by a mont...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has charged more than 2,400 people over recent youth-led protests that turned violent, a sweeping response to some of the country’s largest anti-government demonstrations in years. Of the 2,480 charged, 1,473 people remain in custody awaiting trial. Charges included armed rebellion, insulting and using...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Over 100 Palestinians were killed, including dozens of civilians, according to Gaza health officials. One Israeli soldier was killed in an attack that helped prompt the fierce Israe...

VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Spain commemorated Wednesday the anniversary of last year’s massive floods that killed over 230 people as citizens continue to express frustration over what they consider to be a botched government response. King Felipe VI led the national memorial ceremony, speaking along with three family members of victims...

A Russian strike on a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine has wounded at least nine people, authorities have said, shortly after Kyiv targeted Russian energy sites with drones. Four children were injured in Russia’s strike on the medical facility in Kherson on Wednesday, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described a...

Thousands of people are feared to have been murdered in the western Sudanese city of el-Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized it. El-Fasher fell on Sunday after 18 months of RSF siege, which blocked the entry of food and essentials for hundreds of thousands of people trapped...

Mohammed Zakaria had not slept in two days when the news came that el-Fasher, his hometown, had fallen to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The Sudanese video journalist and human rights activist had been monitoring the deteriorating situation from Kampala, Uganda, watching as the paramilitary seized the North Darfur governor’...

MirrorIndy (AP) — In the 1950s and ’60s, the streets of Martindale were lined with fruit trees and berry bushes. If Eunice Trotter forgot to eat breakfast, she could always count on plucking an apple or pear off of a tree on her walk to School 26. It’s one of the things she remembers most about growing up in the predominantly Black...

HEIDELBERG, Miss. (AP) — Three monkeys were still on the loose Wednesday in Mississippi after a truck carrying the research animals overturned. Officials said midday Tuesday that all but one of the escaped Rhesus monkeys had been killed, but Jasper County Sheriff’s Department later said officials from Tulane University, which had b...

In the West Virginia town of Triadelphia, the rain had stopped, and the sun had come out. But then, emergency calls began pouring in. People were trapped in their cars. As Triadelphia Fire Chief David Patterson and his crew tried to respond, a flooded bridge blocked their path. “I looked up, and there’s a wall of water coming at us...

ZURICH (AP) — Swiss motorbike racer Noah Dettwiler’s life is no longer in danger following a serious crash at a Moto3 race in Malaysia, his team said Wednesday. “According to the doctors, Noah’s condition is now stable and no longer critical,” French racing team CIP Green Power said in a statement. The 20-year-old Dettwiler was in...

ESPN and Athletes Unlimited announced a three-year rights extension Wednesday that makes ESPN the official broadcast partner for the women’s professional sports company’s softball, basketball and volleyball leagues. ESPN platforms will broadcast more than 50 exclusive Athletes Unlimited Softball League games each year during the de...

1,501 Debbie Hockley, New Zealand (1982-2000) 1,321 Mithali Raj, India (2000-22) 1,299 Janette Brittin, England (1982-97) 1,231 Charlotte Edwards, England (1997-2013) 1,227 Laura Wolvaardt, South Africa (2017-25) 1,219 Suzie Bates, New Zealand (2009-25)