When Air Force One lands on Sunday in Malaysia, President Trump will begin a tour that will bring him face to face with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, as well as a region that has been increasingly reshaped by the competition between Beijing and Washington. In this new kind of superpower rivalry, he and Mr. Xi are offering contras...

Chicago Fire (15-11-8, seventh in the Eastern Conference during the regular season) vs. Philadelphia Union (20-8-6, first in the Conference during the regular season) Chester, Pennsylvania; Sunday, 5:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Philadelphia -120, Chicago +282; over/under is 2.5 goals BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Union host...

FC Dallas (11-12-11, eighth in the Western Conference during the regular season) vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC (18-7-9, first in the Conference during the regular season) Vancouver, British Columbia; Sunday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Vancouver -240, FC Dallas +525; over/under is 3.5 goals BOTTOM LINE: Dallas visits the Van...

Portland Timbers (11-12-11, eighth in the Western Conference during the regular season) vs. San Diego FC (19-9-6, first in the Conference during the regular season) San Diego; Sunday, 9:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: San Diego -166, Portland +386; over/under is 2.5 goals BOTTOM LINE: San Diego FC hosts the Portland Timbers in...

Buffalo Sabres (4-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (3-4-1, in the Atlantic Division) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Maple Leafs -168, Sabres +141; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres visit the Toronto Maple Leafs after Mattias Samuelsson’s two-goal game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Sabres’ 5-3 w...

Australia 19 (Nick Champion de Crespigny, Josh Flook, Carlo Tizzano tries; Tane Edmed 2 conversions), Japan 15 (Shuhei Takeuchi, Ben Gunter tries; Seungsin Lee conversion, penalty). HT: 14-3

Columbus Blue Jackets (3-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Penguins -119, Blue Jackets -101; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Columbus Blue Jackets as winners of four consecutive games....

Ottawa Senators (3-4-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Washington Capitals (6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Capitals -131, Senators +109; over/under is 5.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals face the Ottawa Senators in Eastern Conference play. Washington has a 6-2 record...

New York Rangers (3-4-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Calgary Flames (1-7-1, in the Pacific Division) Calgary, Alberta; Sunday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames come into a matchup against the New York Rangers as losers of eight in a row. Calgary has gone 0-3-1 at home and 1-7-1 overall. The Flames have a 1-3-0 recor...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least three people and wounded 17 others, local officials said. In the capital, Kyiv, one person was killed and ten wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s city military a...

The United States Department of the Treasury has slapped sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family and the South American country’s interior minister, Armando Benedetti. Friday’s decision marks a significant escalation in the ongoing feud between the left-wing Petro and his US counterpart, the right-wing Donald Tru...

Ivorians will head to the polls on Saturday, October 25, to vote in the presidential election amid widespread anger over incumbent President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a fourth consecutive term. Under the constitution, presidents may only serve a maximum of two terms; however, Ouattara argues major constitutional chang...

NATO member Lithuania has closed its two biggest airports and shut crossings on its border with Belarus after helium weather balloons drifted into its territory, the third such incident in the Baltic nation this month. European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and other air incursion...

The United States will send an aircraft carrier strike group to Latin America, in a major escalation of its military presence in the region amid speculation of a possible effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government. A spokesperson for the US military said on Friday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald For...

Southeast Asia was one of the biggest winners from United States President Donald Trump’s trade war with China in 2018, luring manufacturers to the region to avoid new tariffs on Chinese goods. It benefitted from investment, tax revenues and technology transfers that came with the expanding “China Plus One” supply chain concept. Se...

The United States has launched an investigation into whether China is out of compliance with a 2020 trade deal they struck together, as trade tensions ratchet up between the world’s two largest economies. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced the investigation on Friday, as President Donald Trump travels to Asia to meet...

United States President Donald Trump’s campaign against “narcoterrorists” has transformed the Caribbean into a new battlefield. Since August, Washington has deployed thousands of troops, warships and aircraft across the region, and reopened military bases in Puerto Rico and conducted drills, in what analysts describe as the largest...

Thailand is in mourning following the royal palace’s announcement that former Queen Sirikit, the mother of the current Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and wife of the nation’s late and longest-reigning monarch Bhumibol Adulyadej, has died at the age of 93. “Her Majesty’s condition worsened until Friday and she passed away at 9:21pm …...

Here is how things stand on Saturday, October 25, 2025: France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will provide “additional Aster missiles, new training programmes, and new Mirage aircraft” to Ukraine in the coming days, France’s Le Monde newspaper reports.

A British judge has handed lengthy jail sentences to the two young ringleaders of a group who carried out arson attacks in the United Kingdom on behalf of the Russian state-funded private military firm, the Wagner Group. Prosecutors said on Friday that Dylan Earl, 21, and Jake Reeves, 24, planned “a sustained campaign of terrorism...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gave an emotional speech addressing “racist, baseless attacks” from his opponents, a day before early voting begins in the race he is projected to win. Speaking outside a mosque in the Bronx on Friday, Mamdani criticised his opponents for bringing “hatred to the forefront”, noting that...

Donald Trump is not scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while in South Korea next week, a senior United States official has said, despite speculation about a meeting while the US president tours Asia. “The president, of course, has expressed his willingness to meet with Kim Jong Un in the future. It is not on the sche...

Nigeria’s president has replaced top security officials as the West African country grapples with unabated violence in the conflict-hit north and myriad security challenges. Friday’s shake-up comes as the government has denied rumours of a coup plot in the wake of local media reports that more than a dozen military officers were ar...

A global money-laundering watchdog has taken South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique and Burkina Faso off its “grey list” of countries subjected to increased monitoring. The Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF), a financial crimes watchdog based in France, on Friday said it was removing the four countries after “successful on-site visits...

Nearly two-thirds of South Sudanese children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, with rates reaching as high as 90 percent in the hardest-hit regions, according to a government study released with the charity Save the Children. The National Child Labour Study, published on Friday, surveyed more than 418 households acros...

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal highlighted the mob’s persistence and adaptability to changing times and technology. Four of New York’s five organized crime families alleged...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An employee allegedly stole 47 vehicles from an Avis Budget site at an upstate New York airport and rented them out around the region, police said Friday. The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles, worth more than $1 million, were stolen from its location at Syracuse Hancock Internationa...

Professional basketball was stunned this week as a popular NBA Hall of Famer and head coach, a current player and a former player were arrested by federal authorities on illegal gambling charges. Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Damon Jones were named in indictments unsealed Thur...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A commercial truck driver who is charged with killing three people in a deadly crash in Florida in August had failed a commercial driver’s license test 10 times in the span of two months in 2023 in Washington state, before he was ultimately issued a license, according to a senior official in the Florida Att...

Asleep on their boat anchored off Cape Cod, the Sullivan family was awaken to their dogs barking, the sound of fireworks and smoke. Their boat was on fire. Tyler Sullivan and his parents jumped from the boat Monday night and, in the darkness, began swimming to a privately-owned island. Tyler and his father, Patrick Sullivan, surviv...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s a name many people have trouble pronouncing, but these synthetic chemicals have been used in everything from fast-food packaging to nonstick cookware, clothing, household cleaning products and even firefighting foam. PFAS — or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — resist breaking down and as...

NBA coach and Hall of Fame member Chauncey Billups is charged with luring high-stakes poker players to games he knew were fixed, while veteran NBA forward Terry Rozier is accused of faking an injury and sitting on the bench to help bettors win thousands of dollars in 2023. But do prosecutors have strong cases against them? Proving...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has picked a 30-year fire department veteran as the new fire chief months after she ousted the previous chief over handling of the most destructive wildfire in the city’s history. Bass announced Friday she was selecting deputy chief Jaime Moore to take the reins of the Los Angeles Fir...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court has thrown out the double murder conviction of a Louisville man sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 ambush killing of a father and his 3-year-old daughter. The court said Thursday that the trial judge erred when he didn’t declare a mistrial after a juror learned that a witness...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rintaro Nakano of Japan made eagle on the par-5 13th hole for the second straight day and closed with a birdie for a 6-under 66 to move into a three-way tie for the lead Friday at the halfway point of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. Khanh Hung Le, the 17-year-old from Vietnam who has commit...

LONDON (AP) — Bon Jovi will embark on their first tour in four years in 2026 — and it’s more than just a victory lap. In 2022, singer Jon Bon Jovi saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying. He had major surgery and has been in extensive rehab since. These new shows — kicking off with four nights at New York’s Madi...

President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a new AP-NORC poll shows, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election. The October survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 25% o...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties. The DOJ announced Friday that it is planning to monitor polling sites in Passaic County, N...

On the second Monday of October, the historic Alamo’s official X account posted two messages: one wishing its followers a happy Columbus Day, and another recognizing Indigenous people. “Today, we honor Indigenous Peoples and their communities, recognizing their history at the Alamo,” the second post read. “Opening in 2027, the Alam...

A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area — the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents — was shot by law enforcement officers and wounded, authorities said Friday. The driver was held for a mental health evaluation after “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram into...

After months of financial strain, Planned Parenthood will get a $140 million lifeline to offset losses it sustained after Congress in July cut funding for the health system, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday. The money will help Planned Parenthood keep 109 California clinics open. In a statement, Newsom said the move reflects th...

A federal judge is pausing his disqualification of Sigal Chattah as Nevada’s acting U.S. attorney while the Department of Justice appeals the decision. In a Thursday opinion, Judge David Campbell ruled that he stood by his disqualification decision, but was staying his earlier ruling as the court “recognizes the deference and respe...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A yearlong investigation into suspected fraudulent voter registration forms submitted ahead of last year’s presidential election produced criminal charges Friday against six street canvassers and the man who led their work in Pennsylvania. The allegations of fraud appeared to be motivated by the defendants’ d...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge in New Mexico has halted a federal death penalty case, citing the pinch of the U.S. government shutdown and a funding shortfall for specialized public defenders that stretches back to the summer. The Trump administration in July announced plans to seek the death penalty for Labar Tsethlikai in connecti...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s former elections director was arrested Friday and charged with using a state credit card to pay for more than $5,400 in fuel as he drove his state car for personal use. Howard Knapp, 40, was charged with embezzlement, misconduct in office and eight counts of using his office for personal gain....

BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. government plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, and could do so as early as Oct. 31, according to a Friday court filing. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a magnet for opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies since he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, in violati...

NEW YORK (AP) — Polling places open Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year’s most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor’s race and the contest to pick New Jersey’s next governor. New Yorkers are choosing between Democrat Zohran Mamdani, Republican Curtis Sliwa and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuo...

SALEM, Va. (AP) — René Harvey and her wife arrived at a Roanoke Valley pride celebration in October carrying deep-seated worries about all that could go wrong. The couple had been to the region’s annual pride festival before, but this year felt different. Harvey keeps up with the news, and the headlines describing political violenc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is rejecting the idea of using roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown, according to a Department of Agriculture memo that surfaced Friday. States temporarily covering the cost of benefits next month will not be reimbursed...

NEW YORK (AP) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, saying he respected the will of the primary voters and young people inspired by the Democratic socialist state lawmaker’s candidacy. Jeffries, who represents Brooklyn, has for months declined to officially throw his s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon confirmed Friday that it has accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown, raising ethical questions after President Donald Trump had announced that a friend had offered the gift to defray any shortfalls. While large and unusual, the gift a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged his supporters in New Jersey late Friday to cast a ballot for the Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, before early voting starts in the state on Saturday. Trump said he would campaign with Ciattarelli after he returns from a trip to Asia that started Friday, though no...

TORONTO (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points and 20 rebounds to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Toronto Raptors 122-116 on Friday night. Cole Anthony scored nine of his 23 points in the fourth quarter for Milwaukee. Tied at 86 after three periods, the Bucks outscored the Raptors 36-30 in the fourth en route to their second...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Defenseman Mattias Samuelsson scored twice and the Buffalo Sabres snapped a five-game skid against the rival Toronto Maple Leafs with a 5-3 victory Friday night. Alex Tuch’s short-handed breakaway goal with 3:01 left sealed the win, and came immediately after Buffalo goalie Alex Lyon stopped Matias Maccelli’s o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 31 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 13 rebounds and the New York Knicks rode a huge second quarter to a 105-95 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night and a 2-0 start to the season. The Knicks outscored the Celtics 42-14 in the second quarter en route to a 64-44 halftime lead...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Trae Young scored six of his 25 points in the final 46 seconds, leading the Atlanta Hawks to a 111-107 win over the Orlando Magic on Friday night. Franz Wagner scored a game-high 27 points for Orlando, which led by 12 early in the fourth quarter but shot only 7 for 21 in the final period. Nikeil Alexander-Walke...

A federal judge in Mississippi has admitted that his staff used artificial intelligence to draft a flawed court order, after months of speculation and an inquiry from a U.S. senator. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate sent a letter on Tuesday to the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts in response to an inquiry fro...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Bam Adebayo scored 24 points and the Miami Heat won their first game since guard Terry Rozier was arrested on gambling-related charges, building a first-half lead and coasting to a 146-114 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. The NBA placed Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups on immediate...

Wednesday, Oct. 22: Chicago 3, Orlando 1 Wednesday, Oct. 22: Portland 3, Salt Lake 1 First Round – Best of 3 (x-if necessary) Philadelphia vs. Orlando/Chicago winner Sunday, Oct. 26: Chicago at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1: Philadelphia at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. x-Saturday, Nov. 8: Chicago at Philadelphia, TBD Monday, Oct....

NEW YORK (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 35 points, Jarrett Allen added 22, and Cleveland Cavaliers outlasted the Brooklyn Nets 131-124 on Friday night. Sam Merrill finished with 22 points and Evan Mobley chipped in 13 for the Cavaliers, who won their first game of the season after losing against the New York Knicks on Wednesday nig...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR and two of its teams returned to court Thursday after two failed days of mediation and resumed their bitter antitrust fight with a hearing that included team owner Michael Jordan laughing in disbelief at some of the testimony as the two sides hurtle toward a trial. “Today’s hearing confirmed the facts...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — In the past, Oscar Piastri struggled in the final races of a season while trying to secure a racing championship. The Australian driver hopes that the past can help him cope with his current circumstances in F-1 starting this weekend in the Mexican Grand Prix. Piastri won seven of the first 15 Gran Prix races thi...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Redshirt freshman Drew Mestemaker passed for a school-record 608 yards with four touchdowns and North Texas scored 37 unanswered points to beat Charlotte 54-20 on Friday night. Mestemaker completed 37 of 49 passes with one interception in breaking the record. Mestemaker covered 80 yards with three passes — th...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama had 29 points, 11 rebounds and nine blocks before fouling out in overtime, and the San Antonio Spurs held on to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 120-116 on Friday night. Devin Vassell, who had 23 points, hit a 3 in overtime. Julian Champagnie followed with another from deep shortly after to give th...

HOUSTON (AP) — Cade Cunningham scored 21 points and made two free throws with 5.5 seconds left to help the Detroit Pistons hold on to beat the Houston Rockets 115-111 on Friday night. Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff got his 300th career win, making him and his father Bernie Bickerstaff (419) the first father-son duo to in NBA histor...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — To stay in the hunt for a fifth F1 title in a row, Max Verstappen needs to keep closing the points gap on McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Racing in Mexico City might help him to do just that. The Red Bull driver hit the ground running in Mexico on Friday, finishing in first place in the second pra...

GOYANG, South Korea (AP) — Canada’s Brooke Henderson and Wei-Ling Hsu of Taiwan beat Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom and Ingrid Lindblad 4 and 3 Saturday to qualify the World team for the International Crown semifinals. The win gave the World team its fourth point in Pool B from two wins and two ties in the LPGA team event at the New Ko...

Nevada (1-7, 0-4) took a 3-0 lead on Joe McFadden’s 40-yard field goal and Colton Boomer kicked a 21-yarder on the final play of the first quarter to tie it. Gaines’ 2-yard touchdown run capped a 13-play 94-yard drive with 1:35 left before halftime and the Broncos moved in front 10-3 at the break. Dylan Riley’s 1-yard scoring plung...

Procter & Gamble fiscal first-quarter performance managed to top Wall Street’s view and the consumer products maker now foresees less of an impact from tariffs for fiscal 2026. Shares of the maker of products such as Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent and Charmin toilet paper rose about 1% in morning trading Friday. For the three mon...

The ongoing government shutdown continues to disrupt flights at times and put pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay. On Friday evening, airports in Phoenix, Houston and San Diego were reporting delays because of staffing issues, and the Federal Aviation Administration warned that staffing problems were als...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his 899th career goal and added an assist, and the Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1 on Friday night. John Carlson and Connor McMichael also each had a goal and an assist, and Justin Sourdif and Tom Wilson also scored as Washington got its sixth win in seven games. Log...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Dougie Hamilton scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on Friday night for their seventh straight win. Connor Brown also scored and Nico Hischier had two assists for New Jersey, which hasn’t lost since a season-opening defeat at Carolina. Jake Allen stopped 16 shots to improve to 4-0...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The slumping, injury-depleted Toronto Maple Leafs are finally preparing to welcome back at least one reinforcement. Goalie Joseph Woll is rejoining the team following a month-long personal leave to deal with a family matter, the Maple Leafs announced Friday. “It means a lot,” captain Auston Matthews said after...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Gabriel Vilardi had a goal and assist, backup Eric Comrie made 30 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Calgary Flames 5-3 on Friday night. Jonathan Toews, Alex Iafallo, Vladislav Namestnikov and Kyle Connor also scored to help the Jets improve to 6-2-0. Josh Morrissey had three assists. Blake Coleman, Mika...

Residents and government leaders in the small western South Dakota city of Piedmont are in shock that the state approved a limestone mining operation without notifying them in advance about the project. Locals learned about the sprawling limestone mine set to nearly encircle the city only after brief notices announcing project appr...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs has quickly strained the United States’ longstanding relationship with Canada over the last year. Since taking office in January, Trump has threatened Canada’s economy and sovereignty with steep import taxes on its goods. He’s even claimed that America’s neighbor to the no...

DALLAS (AP) — Kyshawn George scored a career-high 34 points, and the Washington Wizards turned away a Cooper Flagg-fueled rally for a 117-107 victory over Dallas on Friday night, dropping the Mavericks and their No. 1 overall pick to 0-2. Flagg led a second-half comeback from a 17-point deficit by scoring nine consecutive points in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown now in its fourth week likely means there won’t be an inflation report next month for the first time in more than seven decades, the White House said Friday, leaving Wall Street and the Federal Reserve without crucial information about consumer prices. “Because surveyors cannot deploy to th...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s state-owned utility is looking to a private company to revive a project to build two nuclear power plants that was abandoned eight years ago, losing more than $9 billion without generating a watt of power. Santee Cooper’s board agreed Friday to start six weeks of negotiations with Brookfield A...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored off an offensive rebound with six seconds remaining to cap a wild ending and lift the Sacramento Kings to a 105-104 win over the Utah Jazz on Friday night. Zach LaVine had 31 points to help the Kings to their ninth consecutive victory against the Jazz. Malik Monk added 20 points off...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Deni Avdija had 26 points and six assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Golden State Warriors 139-119 on Friday night in Tiago Splitter’s first game as interim head coach. Splitter is stepping in after coach Chauncey Billups was arrested by the FBI early Thursday and arraigned in federal court later...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a case challenging the legitimacy of the main opposition party’s 2023 internal election, ruling that there was no legal basis to remove the current leadership from office. The lawsuit had sought the annulment of the 38th congress of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, hel...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — James Harden scored 30 points, Kawhi Leonard added 27 and the Los Angeles Clippers routed the Phoenix Suns 129-102 Friday night in their home opener. The Clippers bounced back after a season-opening, 21-point loss at Utah, where they trailed by 37 points. Derrick Jones Jr. didn’t miss a shot in scoring 17 p...

One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law. Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, fencing was cut and pens and nest boxes were destroyed to release the mink, which are raised for their pelts, Fur Commis...

BERLIN (AP) — Forget France: The Louvre Museum jewelry heist was a classic case of German efficiency. Photos of a German-made freight lift that the thieves used in a lightning-fast daylight heist at the Louvre have gone viral. And its manufacturer is now riding high from the unexpected endorsement. Alexander Böcker, the managing di...

It’s getting more expensive for Americans to get their caffeine fix. The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024, according to U.S. government figures. Coffee prices have been increasing sharply since the start of thi...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — U.S. international Cameron Carter-Vickers will be sidelined for at least several months after the Celtic center back sustained an Achilles injury, manager Brendan Rodgers said Friday. Rodgers estimated Carter-Vickers would miss three to five months, which could limit the defender’s chances of making the U.S...

BREMEN, Germany (AP) — Marco Grüll curled in left-foot shot in the 72nd minute to give Werder Bremen a 1-0 win over Union Berlin in the Bundesliga on Friday. The win gave Bremen consecutive home victories for the first time this season and moved it into the top half of the table ahead of the weekend’s other games. In a game of few...

BANGKOK (AP) — China said Friday it is creating a new holiday called the Commemoration Day of Taiwan’s Restoration, as part of its claims over the self-ruled island. The standing committee of its rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, said the new holiday will mark Oct. 25, the day in 1945 when Taiwan, then a Jap...

MILAN, Italy (AP) — Zachary Athekame scored with a long-range drive in injury time to rescue a 2-2 draw for Serie A leader AC Milan against bottom club Pisa on Friday and avoid what would have been the surprise result of the Italian league season so far. Athekame was about 10 yards outside the area when the ball was played to him f...

In the summers, the sky is jet black when Raul Cruz arrives at this Imperial Valley sugarcane field to start his day. He chops, cleans and bundles the crop, taking heed as the sun rises. It’s hard work, but so is starting at 4 a.m., even though he knows it’s the safest thing when temperatures in this California desert frequently so...

A South Dakota company is recalling more than 2.2 million pounds (998,000 kilograms) of Korean barbecue pork jerky sold at Costco and Sam’s Club stores because the product may be contaminated with pieces of metal, federal health officials said Friday. LSI, Inc., of Alpena, voluntarily pulled the product after customers complained a...

LEEDS, England (AP) — Nuno Espirito Santo became the first West Ham coach since 2018 to go winless in his first four games as his struggling team showed the same defensive frailties that have plagued it all season in a 2-1 loss to Leeds in the Premier League on Friday. The Portuguese coach joined the Hammers a month ago after leadi...

The bombing took place in the city of Hangu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as the officers were heading to a police station that had been attacked less than an hour earlier, local police chief Adam Khan said. He gave no further details. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attacks and blamed them on the Pakistani Taliban, w...

TORONTO (AP) — Reaching the World Series for the first time at the end of his 39th season in professional baseball, Don Mattingly gives more than advice to Toronto manager John Schneider. Donnie Baseball provides cover. On the night before Game 3 of the Division Series, Schneider brought Mattingly along for dinner at Patsy’s, an ol...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pe...

New York assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a deal to become the head coach of the Seattle Storm, a person familiar with the hire told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity on Friday because no official announcement has been made. Raman was an assistant with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies for four years bef...

TORONTO (AP) — Favoring his injured knee and clearly not fully healed, Bo Bichette still managed to spark the Toronto Blue Jays in his World Series debut. Bichette singled early, walked to begin a nine-run sixth inning and made a nice defensive play in his first game at second base in six years, helping the Blue Jays beat the Los A...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A court in Cyprus on Friday sentenced an Israeli businessman to five years for developing and selling luxury apartment complexes in the breakaway northern part of the divided island without permission of the Greek Cypriot owners of the land. The case is one of several where Cypriot authorities seek to bust de...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration’s annual cost-of-living adjustment will go up by 2.8% in 2026, translating to an average increase of more than $56 for retirees every month, agency officials said Friday. The benefits increase for nearly 71 million Social Security recipients will go into effect beginning in Janua...

TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays outfielder Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history during Toronto’s 11-4 Game 1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Batting for Davis Schneider against left-hander Anthony Banda, Barger drilled a 2-1 slider 413 feet to right-center — his third home ru...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s parliament on Friday voted to reintroduce compulsory military service in the European Union and NATO member country. The move comes amid heightened tensions in Europe following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, as well as an apparent arms race and military buildup in the Balkans, which went th...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL reminded its players Friday that they are prohibited from taking part in any form of illegal gambling and betting on league games. In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, the league asked all 32 teams Friday to reiterate key aspects of its gambling policy and make the document readily available to player...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings were all-in on developing quarterback J.J. McCarthy this season, after his rookie year was lost to injury, with the belief they could insulate him from some of the natural struggles of inexperience by surrounding him with a stacked veteran team and a savvy coaching staff. After a bumpy start...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A rubber dinghy carrying 18 migrants sank in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern coast on Friday, leaving at least 14 dead, Turkish officials said. Two people survived, including an Afghan national, while search and rescue efforts were underway for two others still missing. A statement from the regional g...

LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday sentenced five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence as part of a wider campaign of sabotage and disruption. Their sentences ranged from seven to 17 years in prison. Another man was sentenced for not disclosing informati...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pulled out of trade talks with Canada Thursday night, furious over what he called a “fake’’ television ad from Ontario’s provincial government that quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- Trump’s favorite economic tool. The ad features audio excerp...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs will miss his second game since sustaining a concussion in an accident at home. The Cowboys (3-3-1) ruled out Diggs for Sunday’s visit to Denver (5-2). He missed last week’s 44-22 victory over Washington. Diggs had the accident at home three days before that game. Coach Br...

LONDON (AP) — A 35-year-old Colombian man was sentenced Friday to a life sentence with a minimum term of 42 years after murdering two men in their London apartment and then dumping their remains in suitcases in southwest England. Yostin Andres Mosquera killed Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, in July last year with a hamm...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A gaggle of Nebraska fans was lined up behind a barricade near the tunnel leading to the visitors’ locker room, waiting for Houston Christian’s players to come through moments after they lost to the Cornhuskers by more than seven touchdowns. Win or lose, the 26-year-old welder from Lincoln is there to greet vis...

Down by seven with under a minute remaining, Navy faced fourth-and-1 near midfield. Blake Horvath took a shotgun snap and ran up the middle. After one key block right at the line to gain, the senior quarterback slipped through a seam in the defense and was gone. For a team that doesn’t exactly load up on five-star recruits, Navy ca...

PARIS (AP) — A vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar that had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades sold Friday at auction for 32 million euros (about $37 million), including fees — surpassing expectations but far from the artist’s most expensive work ever auctioned. Painted in...

NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly three years, JPMorgan Chase has picking up the legal tab of Charlie Javice and Olivier Amar, the two convicted fraudsters who sold their financial aid startup Frank to the bank. But the two have racked up an astronomical, nine-figure legal bill that far exceeds any reasonable amount the two may have neede...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Quarterback Brock Purdy will miss his fourth straight game and sixth in the past seven weeks for the San Francisco 49ers with a toe injury. Coach Kyle Shanahan said Friday that Purdy was ruled out this week against the Houston Texans but will travel for the game as his condition has improved. Purdy skippe...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities said Friday they have made progress in solving the housing shortage for attendees of the upcoming U.N. climate conference, while also defending a recent decision to allow exploratory drilling in the Amazon. Both issues have been contentious as Brazil prepares to host the summit, known as COP30...

PARIS (AP) — It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctively, he took the shot. It wasn’t a p...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan are heading to Turkey for a second round of crisis talks, officials said Friday, after recent fighting between them killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more. The neighbors are embroiled in a bitter security row that has become increasingly violent, with each side saying they were r...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi raised the Golden Boot. He then got Inter Miami started with his head. Messi opened the scoring with a diving header in the first half, then capped the scoring in the 96th minute as Inter Miami opened the Major League Soccer playoffs with a 3-1 win over Nashville SC in Game 1 of their Easte...

WARNER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg is getting a new contract while searching for the school’s next football coach. Oklahoma State and the A&M Board of Regents announced the four-year deal Friday, saying it ensures continuity in leadership for the school amid the evolving landscape of college sports....

It is not clear how the California-based Reagan Foundation decided to enter the fray over the ad, which was purchased by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and used portions of a 1987 Reagan speech on trade in which he questioned the wisdom of using tariffs as economic policy. But shortly after the foundation said on social media that the a...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Kyron Drones threw a touchdown pass in the second overtime before running for the two-point conversion and Virginia rallied last in a 42-34 victory over California on Friday night. Drones hit Takye Heath for a 7-yard touchdown to begin the second OT for Virginia Tech (3-5, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial. That high-court ruling is back in the spotlight after the arrests on Thursday of more than 30 people, including an NBA player an...

LONDON (AP) — An asylum-seeker sentenced to 12 months in a British prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was mistakenly released Friday, prompting an urgent police search for a man whose case had prompted anti-migrant protests. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, the catalyst behind a wave of angry protests a...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who supervised royal projects to help the rural poor, preserve traditional craft-making and protect the environment, died on Friday. She was 93. The Royal Household Bureau said she died in a hospital in Bangkok, adding that she began suffering from a blood infection on Oct. 17 and des...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Stunned by the arrest of head coach Chauncey Billups in a sprawling alleged poker scheme, the Portland Trail Blazers took to the court Friday night under an interim coach as they navigated an unexpectedly tumultuous start to the new season. Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier were among those arrested T...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump headed for Asia Friday night for the first time this term, a trip where he’s expected to work on investment deals and peace efforts before meeting face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to deescalate a trade war. “We have a lot to talk about with President Xi, and he...

MIAMI (AP) — The reality began setting in for the Miami Heat on Friday when they gathered for a morning shootaround practice and Terry Rozier wasn’t with the team. And that almost certainly won’t change anytime soon. Rozier has been placed on indefinite leave by the NBA after he was arrested Thursday by federal agents and charged f...

TORONTO (AP) — Standout rookie starter Trey Yesavage didn’t have his best stuff but limited the Los Angeles Dodgers to two runs over four innings for the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night. Toronto rallied for an 11-4 win. The 22-year-old Yesavage was making just his seventh major league appearance. He...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luka Doncic scored 49 points and became the fourth player in NBA history to begin a season with back-to-back 40-point performances, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 128-110 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. Doncic followed his 43-point game in an opening-night loss to Golden State with h...

MIAMI (AP) — As a new NBA season opened this week, coach Rick Carlisle and the Indiana Pacers received their annual league-mandated briefing on the do’s and don’ts of gambling. Betting in casinos is generally allowed. Betting on other sports, provided it is legal, is also allowed. Betting on NBA basketball is not. For veterans of t...

Pregnancy centers in the U.S. that discourage women from getting abortions have been adding more medical services — and could be poised to expand further. The expansion — ranging from testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections to even providing primary medical care — has been unfolding for years. It gained steam afte...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, in his first public comments since the arrests of Portland coach Chauncey Billups and Miami guard Terry Rozier on gambling-related charges, said Friday night that he was stunned by the indictments that have rocked the league. “My initial reaction was I was deeply disturbed,” Silver said on Amazon Prime...

TORONTO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani followed his two-way show for the ages with a homer in the Dodgers’ World Series opener, but he also grounded out with the bases loaded in Los Angeles’ 11-4 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. With LA trailing 11-2 in the seventh inning, Ohtani hit a soaring two-run shot to right field off Br...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia won the toss Saturday and decided to bat first in the third and final one-day international against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground. It was the 18th consecutive loss at the toss for India in an ODI match. Australia has already clinched the series 2-0, winning Thursday’s match in Adelaide by two wickets. C...

TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays fans waited 32 years to let loose cheering a World Series home run. They got to do it three times. Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in Fall Classic history, Alejandro Kirk followed with a two-run homer in a nine-run sixth inning and Toronto overwhelmed the defending champion Los Angele...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are launching an investigation into whether China lived up to its commitments under a 2020 trade pact that President Donald Trump described at the time as “an incredible breakthrough.’’ The announcement Friday by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer came the same day Trump was scheduled to head...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Less than six months after Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania’s first woman president in 2021, the country’s most famous cartoonist depicted her in a military general’s uniform under the title “Dictatoress.” In the cartoon by Tanzanian-born Gado, drawn from his base in Kenya where there is more p...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, pledged Friday to further embrace his Muslim identity in response to growing attacks by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his surrogates that he characterized as “racist and baseless.” Encircled by faith leaders outside a Bronx mosque, Mamdani spoke in emoti...

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her publicly, suggesting that her views aren’t compatible with the history of the Texas shrine. Kate Rogers said in a statement Friday that she had resigned the day before, after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote a letter to the Alam...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers opened talks Saturday ahead of a landmark ASEAN summit that will formally welcome East Timor as the bloc’s 11th member and mark U.S. President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia since returning to the White House. The meeting serves as a curtain-raiser for the annual As...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast is voting to elect a new leader Saturday as longtime President Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term. Voting is expected to open at 0800 GMT and close by 1800 GMT, with 8.7 million people registered to vote. Turnout has only been slightly above 50% in the last two elections. Vote counting is...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president on Friday replaced top security officials as the West African country grapples with unabated violence in the conflict-hit north and myriad security challenges. No reason was given but the shake-up comes as the government has denied rumors of a coup plot in the wake of local media reports th...

LONDON (AP) — When President Donald Trump took the stage in Egypt to hail the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, a row of world leaders stood behind him like extras in a political drama. It was a telling image. European governments have struggled to play a significant role in diplomacy over the Gaza war, while t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade, sharply escalating tensions with the leftist leader of one of the closest U.S. allies in South America. The Treasury Department...

TOKYO (AP) — Just days after taking office, Japan’s new leader faces a series of back-to-back foreign policy tests, with a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo sandwiched between Asia-region summits in Malaysia and South Korea. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, with limited experience in international affairs, will have t...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — At age 72, Rosalba Casas finally celebrated her 15th birthday on Friday, donning a flowing pink dress and a tiara for the quinceañera she dreamed of as a teenager. “This is the happiest day because I’m celebrating my 15th birthday,” Casas said, adding that she’d stayed up all night thinking about the big day...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa was expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Saturday as forecasters warned of massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding and landslides in the northern Caribbean, with an astounding 35 inches (89 centimeters) of rain anticipated in southwest Haiti. The erratic and slow-moving s...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged to its lowest recorded level. In 2005, Putin said the demographic woes needed to be resolved by maintaining “social and economic stabi...

LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday urged the United States to expand sanctions on Russian oil from two companies to the whole sector, and appealed for long-range missiles to hit back at Russia. Zelenskyy was in London for talks with two dozen European leaders who have pledged military help to shield his...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — In photos, Wahiba Shabat immediately recognized her son’s body. A mother’s heart knows, she said. But when she finally saw his decomposed corpse, she wasn’t sure. Israel had handed over her son’s body naked, his hands tied behind his back with a zip tie. Scars around his ankles indicated he’d been b...

LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) — The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland. From dawn to dusk, Abdulmumen, 25, has looked over a flock of 400 animals for months in Los Cortijos, a village of 850 people in the pla...

KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday toured a U.S.-led center in Israel overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, as the Trump administration worked to set up an international security force in the territory and shore up the tenuous truce between Israel and Hamas. Rubio was the latest in a series of top U.S....

TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s most populous province said Friday he’ll pull the anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said after talking with Prime Minister Mark Carney he’s decided to pause the advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade t...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Houthi rebels detained two additional United Nations staff members and raided the homes of several others in Yemen over the last 48 hours, the latest in a series of events now forcing the world body to reassess how it operates in the war-torn country. The detainment of two staffers was confirmed by Farhan Haqq...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is negotiating with Qatar and Oman to acquire used Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets as part of its effort to bolster its air force capabilities, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments released Friday. Turkey aims to purchase dozens of Eurofighters and other advanced jets as a stopgap measure to...

About five years ago, Gail Friedman noticed her Parson Russell Terrier was constantly licking his paws and seemed super uncomfortable. “The poor dog. I would put baby socks on his feet so that he wouldn’t lick them or bite at them,” said Friedman, of Oak Brook, Illinois. “I was constantly changing the socks, washing his feet a lot....

NEW YORK (AP) — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile, were just 2 week...

In this age of heightened anxiety, many of us turn to our pets for emotional support. But is our behavior increasing our furry friends’ fears? The answer isn’t simple, says Frankie Jackson, a veterinary nurse and animal behavior consultant, and the owner of Canine Counseling in Smyrna, Georgia. She said she’s seen an increase in an...

It turns out, our furry best friend might be our sleep enemy. Lots of pet owners let their animals sleep on the bed with them, which usually disrupts sleep. But many would say it’s worth it. And researchers don’t necessarily disagree. Melissa Milanak, a professor at Medical University of South Carolina specializing in sleep health,...

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Legislation signed into law Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will impose tougher penalties on people who abandon pets during natural disasters, a measure inspired by the rescue of a dog left in floodwaters during Hurricane Milton. With the 2025 hurricane season starting next week, the governor al...

LONDON (AP) — “Have you seen the cats?” That’s a common refrain in my household because our two felines, Maple and Juniper, can venture outside through a flap in the backdoor. Like many other London house cats, they’re free to come and go, roaming the surrounding backyards and beyond, equipped with microchips to identify them if th...

HOUSTON (AP) — Getting ready for a hurricane’s landfall means making sure everyone in your household is prepared, including your furry family members. It’s important that the work in gathering essential items for your dog or cat and determining if your pets have their ID tags and are microchipped is done before a storm is bearing d...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A runaway pet zebra that was on the loose for more than a week in Tennessee and became an internet sensation in the process was captured Sunday, authorities said. Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Ruth...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — With record temperatures hitting the U.S., pet owners have to protect their four-legged family members from dangers like heat stroke and dehydration. But keeping an animal the size of a small car cool isn’t as easy as bringing it inside to the air conditioning. That’s why Alicia Grace, owner of Pink Fla...

CHICAGO (AP) — Nine puppies from parts of Texas submerged by catastrophic flooding that killed at least 132 people arrived Wednesday at the no-kill shelter PAWS Chicago, joining dozens of puppies that had already arrived. The critters landed by plane at Waukesha Airport in Wisconsin then made a three-hour journey by van to Chicago....

If you’re going to be road-tripping with your family this summer, get ready to embrace unexpected moments of both connection and inevitable chaos. I found both when I packed up the car with my husband and two kids — one of them a teenager — for the eight-hour drive from Boston to Niagara Falls. We had taken long road trips as a fam...

NEW YORK (AP) — The animal rights group PETA sued Tuesday to try to force the American Kennel Club to abandon the standards it backs for hyper-popular French bulldogs and some other breeds, contending that the influential club is promoting unhealthy physical features. The lawsuit turns up the heat around one of the biggest flashpoi...

LAHORE (AP) — The owners of a pet lion that escaped from a farmhouse and injured a woman and her two children have been arrested in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, authorities said Sunday. The arrest comes after dramatic video footage surfaced showing the lion leaping over a wall before attacking the victims in a residential...

TOKYO (AP) — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji” to popular modern-day manga and animation like “Mushishi,” featuring insect-like supernatural creatures. Japanese people appreciate...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — As residents along Thailand’s border with Cambodia fled the ongoing fighting, many tried to take their animals with them. For those who were unable to do so, livestock officials stepped in to help. Thailand’s Livestock Department asked its local offices to provide safe space for animals whose owners have had...

Crossing paths with dogs, cats and other animals is part of campus life for students at Eckerd College, a liberal arts school in Florida that allows pets to live in dormitories. Sophie Nocera, an Eckerd senior, said she probably knows the names of pets better than her fellow students. “That’s the case for a lot of the students,” sa...

The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline —silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic—that’s playing in more than 500 independent theaters in the U.S. and Canada. A portion of ticket proceeds benefit cat-focused charities, shelt...

In the Emmy-nominated opening credits of HBO’s “White Lotus,” wallpaper-like images told a story: The tropical prints started off innocuously enough, but then turned ominous. Fruit started rotting, fish got tangled in seaweed, and a sense of foreboding set the whole premise of an exotic paradise on its edge. The artist, Lezio Lopes...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of small pets as food for its predators. The Aalborg Zoo said it is trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there “for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity” and offers assurances the pets will be “gently euthanized” by tra...

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — Anne Pace has been hearing about Dog Mountain for years, but until earlier this month, had never made a trip to the park. “I really wanted to see this place,” she said, during a visit to the grounds with her one-year-old border collie, Tam. “I put a note up for my previous border collie. He was my best bud...

World got you down? A hit of “dopamine decor” might lift the spirits. The biggest trend in home decorating this fall is an emphasis on happiness, self-expression, color and creativity. Does orange make you smile? Dress your kitchen in the happy hue. Love a variety of styles? Do a mashup. The look goes by many names. Fashion writer...