RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — South Africa thrashed Pakistan by eight wickets Thursday to level the two-test cricket series, with off-spinner Simon Harmer playing a crucial role with a six-wicket haul. Pakistan opened the series with a 93-run victory inside four days at Lahore last week, but Harmer flipped the script on another spinn...

Detroit Red Wings (5-2, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (3-3, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont, New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Islanders -135, Red Wings +114; over/under is 5.5 BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders host the Detroit Red Wings as winners of three games in a row. New York has...

Toronto Maple Leafs (3-3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Buffalo Sabres (3-4, in the Atlantic Division) Buffalo, New York; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres, on a three-game home winning streak, host the Toronto Maple Leafs. Buffalo has a 3-2-0 record in Atlantic Division games and a 3-4 record overall. The Sab...

Montreal Canadiens (6-2, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (3-3-1, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Oilers -231, Canadiens +189; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the Edmonton Oilers after the Oilers beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 in overtim...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Daniel Suarez, the only Mexican driver at NASCAR’s top level, on Wednesday was named Justin Haley’s replacement at Spire Motorsports. Suarez, the first driver hired by Trackhouse Racing when it launched in 2021, is being replaced after five seasons by 19-year-old Connor Zilisch next year. Spire co-owner Jeff...

Washington Capitals (5-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (3-3, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Metropolitan Division foes meet when the Columbus Blue Jackets play the Washington Capitals. Columbus is 0-1-0 against the Metropolitan Division and 3-3 overall. The B...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nico Daws made 29 saves, Paul Cotter, Brenden Dillon and rookie Arseny Gritsyuk scored and the New Jersey Devils beat the Minnesota Wild 4-1 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory. New Jersey began the streak after an opening loss at Carolina, winning three each at home and on the road. The winning...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jack Quinn had a goal and two assists, Colten Ellis stopped 27 shots in his NHL debut and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Wednesday night. Claimed off waivers from St. Lous earlier this month, Ellis stopped two breakaways and withstood a flurry of shots after Detroit pulled goalie John Gibs...

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mike Matheson scored on a one-timer off Ivan Demidov’s crossing pass a minute into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night. Matheson beat goalie Dustin Wolf from the left side for the Canadiens’ second straight victory and sixth in seven games since an...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Walker Kessler had 22 points and nine rebounds, Lauri Markkanen scored 20 and the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Clippers 129-108 on Wednesday night. Brice Sensabaugh added 20 points off the bench for Utah, which set a team record for points in a season opener. Kessler, the longest-tenured member of the Jazz,...

DALLAS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama had 40 points and 15 rebounds in a highlight-reel return, helping the San Antonio Spurs spoil No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg’s debut in a 125-92 rout of the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night. Flagg, the second-youngest player to start in his NBA debut by two days behind LeBron James, didn’t score...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Anthony Edwards had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves rallied late in the fourth quarter for a 118-114 season-opening win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night. Edwards, who set a career high last season with an average of 27.6 points, was questionable for the game because of back spasms, b...

PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 31 points, Jordan Ott was victorious in his head coaching debut and the Phoenix Suns overcame a 20-point deficit to beat the Sacramento Kings 120-116 on Wednesday night. Veteran guard Dillon Brooks added 22 points in his Suns debut and brought his usual swagger, irritating Kings star DeMar DeRozan...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Chinese national who United States authorities accuse of trafficking large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl into the U.S. before being arrested and then escaping custody in Mexico was recaptured in Cuba, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Zhi Dong Zhang, alias “Brother Wang,” was indicted in federal court in...

PORTLAND (AP) — Felipe Mora scored two first-half goals, defender Kamal Miller added another in the 82nd minute and the Portland Timbers beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 on Wednesday night in a wild-card match. Portland advances to play Western Conference regular-season champion San Diego in a best-of-three first-round playoff series. Mora...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — With 12 wins from 12 games and 20 goals for its star striker, can anyone stop Bayern Munich and Harry Kane? The England captain scored his 20th goal of the season as Bayern Munich swept past Club Brugge in the Champions League on Wednesday. Bayern is already five points clear in the German Bundesliga wit...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Alexander Isak’s underwhelming start to his Liverpool career hit another bump when he sustained a groin injury in the Champions League win at Eintracht Frankfurt. The Sweden striker, signed from Newcastle for a British-record fee of 125 million pounds ($170 million) at the end of the summer transfer window...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Australia captain Mitch Marsh won the toss Thursday and decided to bowl first against India in the second one-day cricket international at Adelaide Oval. Marsh guided Australia to a seven-wicket victory over India with an unbeaten 46 in Sunday’s rain-interrupted, series-opening match at Perth, Western Aus...

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — Nottingham Forest hosts Porto in the Europa League later on Thursday, just two days after Sean Dyche became the club’s third manager of the season. Struggling Forest is hoping for its first win in the competition. It only earned a point in the previous two games in the English team’s return to Europe afte...

Sandy Brondello is set to become the first coach of the Toronto Tempo, a person familiar with the hire told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made. Brondello’s contract with the New York Liberty wasn’t renewed after the season after leading the te...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kurt Suzuki is taking over the Los Angeles Angels as a first-time manager with a monumental task before him — and perhaps a very limited amount of time to show progress. Suzuki got just a one-year contract when he became the Angels’ sixth manager in the past eight seasons, general manager Perry Minasian said...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tension is rising in the ongoing labor battle between the WNBA and the union representing the players, with the existing collective bargaining agreement expiring next week and no new deal in sight. And the back-and-forth — with the sides taking shots at the other — ramped up quickly on Tuesday and Wednesday. It star...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. Security Council members warned Haiti’s leaders on Wednesday that time is running out to restore security and hold general elections as the deadline to install a new government nears. Haiti’s transitional presidential council is tasked with holding general elections before Feb. 7, 2026, when the ni...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen began his bye week stewing over consecutive losses. Then the Bills quarterback received a valuable piece of advice from a beloved source. “My grandma called me and was like, ‘I just want to see you smile,’” Allen said on Wednesday, when the Bills returned to practice following their weekend brea...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is having its most-viewed postseason in the U.S. since 2017 through the League Championship Series. Viewership is averaging 4.48 million according to MLB and Nielsen, a 13% increase over last year. Most of the gains are due to the first two rounds. The AL Championship Series on Fox, Fox Sports...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Residents of Peru’s capital saw more soldiers and police patrolling the streets on Wednesday, the first day of a state of emergency decreed by newly sworn in President José Jerí in an effort to reign in crime. The sweeping decree suspended several constitutional rights — including freedom of assembly and protest —...

DENVER (AP) — Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton insists his recent comments were a shout-out to Jaxson Dart, not a shot at Russell Wilson. Payton said after Denver’s historic 33-32 comeback win on Sunday that the Giants “found a little spark with” Dart, who became the starter, and hinted that part of a conversation he had with New Y...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Quarterback Brock Purdy remains limited by a toe injury and could miss his fourth straight game and sixth this season for the San Francisco 49ers as he tries to work his way back to health. Purdy got hurt in the season opener against Seattle and missed the next two games. He returned in Week 4 and struggl...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A surfer in distress and a friend who tried to rescue him both died in stormy weather off the coast of the Australian city of Melbourne, police said Thursday. The incident occurred late Wednesday off Frankston Pier in southern Melbourne as the city was being lashed by wind gusts of up to 130 kph (81 mph)...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian police said Thursday they arrested 57 South Korean nationals over alleged links to an online scam organization in the Southeast Asian country. The arrests happened on Wednesday as police raided a building on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh. Police found 86 people working at the complex...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — While so much of the focus of Sunday’s prime-time matchup between Green Bay and Pittsburgh has been on Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers facing his former team, Christian Watson plans on it being a special night for him, too. The Packers wide receiver expects to return to game action for the first time in ne...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday that its latest missile tests involved a new hypersonic system aimed at strengthening its nuclear war deterrent, as leader Kim Jong Un continues to build up weapons designed to overwhelm South Korea defenses. The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency came a d...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki can’t explain Penn State’s futility so far this season. But he has learned a hard lesson that might still benefit the Nittany Lions as they continue their bye week soul-searching before visiting No. 1 Ohio State on Nov. 1. “No matter who you have coming back, or what y...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Brown had a welcome to Madison Square Garden moment Wednesday night, courtesy of a fan dressed in an orange-and-blue suit. “Spike Lee came over and gave me a hug before the game,” Brown said. “I’m like, ‘Spike, do you know who I am?’” Brown is the guy the New York Knicks are counting on to take them across the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As Minnesota was reveling last week in a decisive victory over Nebraska, the level of dominance by the Gophers defense dawned on standout Anthony Smith as he looked around at his teammates and started doing some quick math on their pass-rushing success. “Everybody gets a sack,” Smith said. “It was like Oprah Winf...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar late Wednesday as the country’s new grand mufti, the kingdom’s top religious scholar. Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, 90, took over the position, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported. The decision came from King Salman, based on...

BOSTON (AP) — VJ Edgecombe’s eyes widened and his head lolled back against his locker when he was told that he’d just scored more points than any player in his NBA debut since Wilt Chamberlain first laced up his canvas high-tops. “I worked every day, and all my life, for moments like this. This is my dream,” the Philadelphia 76ers...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — For Donah Falia and the other young people whose weeks of protests paved the way for Madagascar’s military coup last week, the change at the top has brought no immediate relief to their lives. The 20-year-old accounting student still has to wait in line for hours to get water from a tank in his neigh...

NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Wilson fired back at Sean Payton on social media Tuesday, a little under 48 hours since the Denver Broncos’ coach took a swipe at the New York Giants’ backup quarterback who lost his starting job to rookie Jaxson Dart following an 0-3 start. “Classless… but not surprised….” Wilson said on X, formerly Twitter...

Freddie Freeman is returning to his family roots when the Los Angeles Dodgers open defense of their World Series championship against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Friday. The All-Star first baseman’s parents are from the province of Ontario; father Fred is from Windsor and late mother Rosemary was from Peterborough, about 85 miles n...

DALLAS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama dunked on Cooper Flagg’s debut. And shot over it. And dribbled around it. And reminded everyone what was missing the last two months of the French star’s second season. Wembanyama wowed the Dallas crowd, and had a noisy San Antonio contingent chanting “M-V-P! M-V-P!” in a season opener, getting 40 po...

JERUSALEM (AP) — As U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Israel comes to a close, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would be traveling to the country to keep the momentum on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Earlier this week, Vance announced the opening of a civilian military coordination...

TORONTO (AP) — Baseball could be in the midst of a Dodgers dynasty, a much-debated word reserved for teams achieving sweeping success. By beating Toronto in the World Series that starts Friday night, Los Angeles would capture its third title in six years. “Just winning one is hard,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “If y...

LONDON (AP) — The only British soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre will learn his fate Thursday in a Northern Ireland courtroom. Judge Patrick Lynch is due to deliver his verdict in Belfast Crown Court on whether the former paratrooper identified only as Soldier F committed murder and attempted murder in the dea...

LONDON (AP) — If you listen carefully, you can hear the noise of chocolate frogs flying through the air on the Hogwarts Express. Hermione Granger gasps with delight as Ron Weasley catches the sweet treat thrown his way by Harry Potter, as all three travel home after an eventful first year at the wizarding school. This isn’t the now...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever insisted on Thursday that his European partners must share the risk of using billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets that are held in his country to help keep Ukraine’s economy and war effort afloat in coming years. Ukraine’s budget and military needs for 2026 and 2027 are e...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of the valley into Jerusalem to be crucified. For two years, the Israel-Hamas war has cast a pall on the Holy Lan...

BEELITZ, Germany (AP) — The pumpkin is the undisputed star of the show at the Klaistow farm near Berlin. Over 100,000 pumpkins in various shapes and colors are laid out across the farm and on shelves along its winding paths — 500 different varieties from around the world, each labeled with its name and origin. The huge pumpkin fest...

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Michael Wolff claims in a lawsuit that First Lady Melania Trump threatened to sue him for over $1 billion in damages if he didn’t retract Jeffrey Epstein -related statements he recently made about her. Wolff sought unspecified damages in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. Nicholas...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he will deploy National Guard troops to support food banks in November, a move that comes in light of anticipated delays to federal food assistance amid the government shutdown. About 40 million low-income people across the U.S., including roughly 5.5 million in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction started this week on the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House as construction crews began tearing down the facade of the East Wing, where the new space is being built. The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the main White House itself, at nearly double the...

President Donald Trump’s desire to secure the Republican majority in Congress has prompted an unusual burst of mid-decade redistricting in multiple states. North Carolina is the latest to take action. The Republican-led General Assembly approved changes Wednesday to U.S. House district designed to help the party unseat a Democratic...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man shot by federal officers while he tried to evade arrest Tuesday morning is a popular local TikTok streamer who documents police activity, immigration enforcement and daily neighborhood life. Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, was charged with assaulting a federal officer after authorities say he ramme...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is approving $25 million in disaster aid for Alaska after back-to-back storms — including the remnants of a typhoon — ravaged coastal villages, displaced about 2,000 people and led to one of the most significant evacuation airlifts in state history. Trump said on soc...

CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had been “lost in an enduring pattern of criminality” but he’s grown into a different person in the decades since he’s been in prison. Larry...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators in Wyoming sought to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol, causing the building’s evacuation after a passerby found the object and brought it inside. The bomb, at a time of heightened political angst in the U.S., put the sleepy capital of the least-popu...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it is providing a base of operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area as part of its effort to support federal efforts to track down immigrants in the country illegally and provide border and maritime security. The San Francisco Chronicl...

The dynamics of the race can still change, and ballot questions have a history of quirky outcomes in California. But industry data show TV advertising spending — the main pipeline to voters in the vast state — dropping off dramatically by Republicans and other critics of the proposal. The map pushed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has suggested he’s entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated. Now, the Justice Department that Trump has exerted control over could approve a hefty payout in taxpayer dollars. The Republican president’s comment...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume while protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building in Portland, Oregon, when a federal officer unleashed a torrent of chemical spray directly into the costume’s air vent. Todd, 24, said that while the attention has been overwhelming,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pande...

Several conservative news outlets said Wednesday they had agreed to a new press policy rejected by virtually all legacy media organizations and will take their place in the Pentagon to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. military. The new Pentagon press corps will include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human...

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Mark Carney set a goal for Canada to double its non-U.S. exports in the next decade, saying American tariffs are causing a chill in investment. Carney, who will release his government’s budget on Nov. 4, said Wednesday many of Canada’s former strengths — based on close ties to America — have become vul...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has been bombed, seen United Nations sanctions reimposed and its economy collapse further into the red this year. But its theocracy so far hasn’t taken any major action to halt the slide, restart crucial nuclear negotiations with the West nor fully prepare for possible further hostilities wit...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday. “Today is a good day for Europe and Ukraine,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in a stateme...

HAARLEM, Netherlands (AP) — Palwasha Hamzad wants the Dutch election to be not about migration, but about tackling the chronic housing shortages in the Netherlands. For Daniëlle Vergauwen, it’s about putting “our own people” first. Their opposing views sum up two of the key issues in campaigning for the Oct. 29 election for all 150...

Chess’s international governing body said Wednesday it’s considering disciplinary action against a former Russian world champion who persistently leveled unproven cheating allegations at Daniel Naroditsky in the year leading up to the American grandmaster’s death. The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky train...

NEW YORK (AP) — For little ghosts, witches, KPop Demon Hunters and superheroes, Halloween is one of the most exciting nights of the year. But it’s also one of the busiest for parents as they try to keep track of their trick-or-treaters, give out candy and watch over their homes. Fortunately, there are some tech tricks out there tha...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday following a retreat on Wall Street, while crude prices jumped more than $2 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions on Russian oil giants. The sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil are intended to drive Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla reported a fourth straight decline in quarterly profit even as sales rose, triggering a drop in its shares in after-hours trading. The car company run by Elon Musk reported third-quarter earnings plunged 37% to $1.4 billion, or 39 cents a share, from $2.2 billion, or 62 cents a share, a year earlier. That mark...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tens of millions of red crabs are making their way to the ocean as part of their annual migration on Christmas Island, where a much smaller human population uses leaf blowers and garden rakes to help them on their way. Christmas Island National Park acting manager Alexia Jankowski said Thursday there wer...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal lawsuit that temporarily had interrupted operations at an immigration detention in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” was paused Wednesday by an appellate court because of the government shutdown. Earlier this month, U.S. government attorneys had asked the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court o...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola. Officials urged residents of flood-prone areas to seek higher ground. Dozens of people were already in shelters in the Dominica...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need to defend the confinement of seven chimpanzees. The Oct. 17 decision by Judges Matthew Ackerman, Brock Swartzle and Chistopher Trebil...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper who shot himself, then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway, sparking a regionwide search, was sentenced to six months in jail on Wednesday. Thomas Mascia was also given five years of probation and ordered to undergo mental health treatment...

Mississippi Free Press (AP) — Clarksdale High School Graduation Coach Tre’Shawn Malone exited the front doors of the high school and escorted two senior students to a 17-foot truck parked in the bus loop. As they approached the Get2College Mobile Unit, an outside TV monitor played YouTube videos about college. Malone verified that...

A federal judge has found a former California man accused of setting a fire outside the Burlington office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2024 not competent to assist in his defense. Judge William K. Sessions III wrote in a ruling last week that 36-year-old Shant Soghomonian, who has been detained since his arrest days after the inc...

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades into his career and the unthinkable happened. It was 2022, and Jon Bon Jovi began struggling through his songs. He saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying. He needed major surgery. Bon Jovi had the procedure, and in the years since, has undergone extensive rehab, leading to the current mo...

The plot of the new Colleen Hoover adaptation “Regretting You” is a little wild. There’s romance, an affair, unrequited love, death and even a baby with questionable paternity. Dave Franco, whose character has long pined for Allison Williams’ character but ends up having a child with her sister who is having an affair with her brot...

It’s been 20 years since Brandi Carlile released her self-titled debut album. After two decades of extensive collaborations and accolades for her music that blends folk, alt-country, rock and Americana, she’s stripped back again for the great “Returning to Myself.” What the title means for Carlile varies across the project. Just mo...

The USA TODAY Sports preseason Top 25 men’s basketball poll, with team’s RECORDS FROM LAST YEAR in parentheses, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last year’s final poll and first-place votes received. Dropped out: No. 9 Maryland (27-9); No. 18 Mississippi (24-12); No. 19 Texas A&M (23-1...

Tuesday, Sept. 30: Detroit 2, Cleveland 1 Wednesday, Oct. 1: Cleveland 6, Detroit 1 Thursday, Oct. 2: Detroit 6, Cleveland 3 Tuesday, Sept. 30: Boston 3, New York 1 Wednesday, Oct. 1: New York 4, Boston 3 Thursday, Oct. 2: New York 4, Boston 0 Tuesday, Sept. 30: Chicago 3, San Diego 1 Wednesday, Oct. 1: San Diego 3, Chicago 0 Thurs...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cincinnati coach Wes Miller is excited about the future of freshman star Shon Abaev. Oklahoma State counterpart Steve Lutz is just as happy with his team’s ability to play on the road, where the Cowboys struggled so mightily last season. The good feels don’t just come from practice, either. As the coaches an...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Sovereignty, Preakness winner Journalism, and defending champion Sierra Leone head a loaded field pre-entered Wednesday for the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar. The Classic field was among the 207 horses, including 58 from overseas, pre-entered for the over $34 mi...

The PGA Tour is canceling its season opener at The Sentry instead of finding a replacement course for water-deprived Kapalua on Maui, the first time a tournament has been canceled since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Sony Open in Honolulu will be the first tournament of 2026 on Jan. 15-18, the latest start to a year since the P...

Mikaela Shiffrin has already ruled out competing in the downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Another event may be on the way out, too. The two-time Olympic champion remains on the fence about competing in the super-G, only because of a lack of training time. She may focus on slalom and giant slalom for the Feb. 6-22 games. “I ad...

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EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Islanders fired goaltending coach Piero Greco, making the change at an unorthodox time just six games into his seventh season with the team and after winning three in a row. General manager Mathieu Darche announced the abrupt decision Wednesday to part ways with Greco and promote Sergei Naumovs...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Mohamed Salah has dropped to the Liverpool bench for only the second time this season as coach Arne Slot seeks to end his team’s four-game losing run when it faces Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday . In place of Salah, Hugo Ekitiké returns to the starting lineup to face his old club...

Aaron Rodgers already beat one former team. Now, he’s going against his original one. Rodgers faces the Green Bay Packers for the first time when they visit the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night. The four-time NFL MVP led the Packers to a Super Bowl title 15 years ago and was traded to the New York Jets in 2023. Rodgers and the S...

MUNICH (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Lennart Karl was handed his first Champions League start and made the most of it. Within five minutes of kickoff against Club Brugge on Wednesday, Karl became Bayern’s youngest Champions League goalscorer in style, breaking a record set by Jamal Musiala. Karl picked up a pass in midfield from Jonath...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young worked on the side with trainers during the portion of practice open to the media Wednesday as the team amped up its preparation for Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. Young, who suffered a right ankle sprain in the second half of Carolina’s 13-6 win over the Ne...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel met with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa several times this week, as he always does. They discussed what went wrong in Tagovailoa’s last start, when he threw three interceptions for the second straight game and was pulled in the fourth quarter for rookie Quinn Ewers. McDaniel has e...

By Week 8, fantasy football managers start separating the contenders from the pretenders. The waiver wire is thin, but opportunity is still everything — and the right matchup can swing your week. Here’s which players to trust and which to bench heading into this week. Start: Dak Prescott, Cowboys vs. Broncos Yes, Denver is defendin...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Khris Middleton awoke in Milwaukee on the morning of an NBA season opener, just as he has done many times over the last dozen years. The difference on Wednesday was that he was doing it as a member of the Washington Wizards rather than the Bucks. “I’m not going to lie,” the 34-year-old wing said Wednesday during th...

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — No. 24 Arizona State will be without Big 12 leading receiver Jordyn Tyson against Houston on Saturday due to a hamstring injury. Tyson suffered the injury in last Saturday’s 26-22 win over No. 14 Texas Tech, but returned to catch a key pass on the Sun Devils’ winning drive. “This is something where I’m trying to...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Lamar Jackson was on the practice field for the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday after missing two games with a hamstring injury. Jackson initially did not take the field with Baltimore’s other two quarterbacks, but with practice still open to reporters, he came out with his helmet on and did some throwing, al...

The San Francisco Giants have hired Tennessee Volunteers coach Tony Vitello as manager for his first pro coaching job. San Francisco announced the move Wednesday, an unprecedented gamble by president of baseball operations Buster Posey on a coach with no pro experience. The 47-year-old Vitello is making the jump after spending his...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis judge on Wednesday confirmed Dec. 11 as the trial date for Fox Sports analyst and former NFL player Mark Sanchez, who’s charged with attacking and seriously injuring a truck driver outside a hotel in what prosecutors say was a dispute over a parking place. The pretrial conference lasted only abou...

ATLANTA (AP) — A vocal critic of Georgia Power Co. was arrested Tuesday on felony charges that allege she swiped the company’s confidential information from a desk during a break in a regulatory hearing. Georgia Capitol Police arrested Patty Durand of Mableton, Georgia, and charged her with felony theft of trade secrets, booking he...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Meta Platforms is cutting roughly 600 artificial intelligence jobs even as it continues to hire more workers for its superintelligence lab, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Axios first reported the cuts, which will affect Meta’s Fundamental AI Research, or FAIR unit, as well as product-related AI and AI...

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have busted a criminal group dedicated to stealing your seat. Literally. Spain’s National Police said Wednesday that they had arrested seven people suspected of stealing more than 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars in Madrid and another nearby municipality in just two months...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s troubled role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas, officials said Wednesday. The items, including an Inuit kayak, are part...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A fire and shooting at a camp hosting loyalists of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in central Belgrade on Wednesday injured one person, officials said, while Vucic described the incident as a “terrorist attack.” The fire erupted Wednesday morning at the tents outside the Serbian parliament building, which...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Houthi rebels released a dozen United Nations international staffers Wednesday and allowed three others to move freely within the U.N. compound after detaining them in the facility in Yemen’s capital over the weekend, according to the world body. The 12 international staffers departed Sanaa on a U.N. humanitar...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Forty people, including infants, died when a boat carrying migrants seeking to reach Europe sank Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia, according to local judicial authorities. Around 30 others were rescued. Tunisian naval units that arrived on the scene rescued 30 other migrants on board the boat, which sank off...

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. Reddit’s lawsuit in a New York federal court takes aim at San Fran...

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, according to an international report on North Korea’s cyber capabilities. Officials in Pyongyang orchestrated the clandestine work to finance r...

MILAN (AP) — The Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic organizing committee on Wednesday unveiled two official posters for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games — bold graphic depictions that officials said were meant to represent “the character of the destinations.” Posters have been commissioned for the Olympics since the early 20th centu...

Santa Clara County leaders will establish ICE-free zones throughout Silicon Valley — raising physical barriers and locking gates to prevent federal immigration agents from unlawfully using county properties for surveillance and arrests. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to follow Chicago’s lead and create an invent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed 34 people in eight strikes against drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United S...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The Indigenous alliance that organized demonstrations blocking highways in Ecuador over the past month said Wednesday it was ending the protest following President Daniel Noboa ’s threat to use the military to clear blockades. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador had called for a national s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause Trump administration civil rights investigations. The Charlottesville campus became a target of President Donald Trump’s administration in April when the Justice Department began reviewing the university’s admi...

Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill. On a recent Monday in October, walking through the forests of northwest Montana, Hemphill recalled how she and Walder would put their ears to the railroad tracks to check for oncoming trains. If...

Thousands of sea cucumbers have washed up on the beach in the Oregon coastal town of Seaside thanks to a combination of heavy surf and low tide. The partially translucent, pink gelatinous creatures are called skin breathing sea cucumbers. They normally burrow into the sand along the low tideline and farther out. But on Tuesday, the...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday brought charges against a Georgia man who was arrested a day earlier by police after his family contacted authorities saying he planned a shooting at Atlanta’s international airport. Billy Joe Cagle, 49, threatened to “shoot up” the world’s busiest airport on a FaceTime call while drivi...

Officials have identified more than 1,000 available hotel rooms plus additional rental options in Alaska’s largest city for the hundreds of people displaced to Anchorage after the remnants of a typhoon ravaged their villages earlier this month. Becky Windt Pearson, Anchorage’s municipal manager, told a news conference Tuesday that...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to death in November under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions. Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is scheduled to die by le...

NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of a newborn girl who was abandoned at a busy midtown Manhattan subway station with her umbilical cord still attached was arrested early Wednesday, city police said. The 30-year-old Queens woman was taken into custody shortly before 3 a.m. and charged with abandoning and endangering a child. She was expec...

To kick-start Hispanic Heritage Month, students at Brashear High School festooned the building’s south wing corridors with bright murals, forming a tapestry of color that reflects the school’s diversity. A pillar is painted with flags from countries around the world alongside a painting of a man holding a letter that says, “We the...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa began dumping heavy rain on Hispaniola on Tuesday as forecasters warned of a significant flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region later this week. The rains snarled traffic in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, and at least one traffic light was downed as winds whipped around the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday as forecasters warned of significant flood risk in parts of the northern Caribbean this week. The slow-moving storm was located about 320 miles (510 kilometers) south-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A tanker truck laden with gasoline exploded Tuesday in north-central Nigeria, killing at least 31 people, police said. The explosion occurred in the Bida area of Niger State after the truck fell and as local residents rushed to the scene to scoop up spilling fuel, police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said in a state...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 20 people have been arrested in Cameroon in connection with protests over the Oct. 12 presidential election, authorities said on Tuesday, as tensions mounted ahead of the proclamation of results expected later this week. Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, confirmed...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — For over 30 years, Edith Nyachuru has carried the weight of her brother’s unexplained death. At 16, Guide Nyachuru’s life was cut short at a Christian camp in Zimbabwe in 1992. Guide was one of over 100 boys and young men abused by British barrister and lay preacher John Smyth at camps spanning Britain, Zimb...

Course: Black Desert Resort. Yardage: 7,421. Par: 71. Prize money: $6 million. Winner’s share: $1,080,000. Television: Thursday-Saturday, 5-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 4:30-7:30 p.m. (Golf Channel). Defending champion: Matt McCarty. FedEx Cup champion: Tommy Fleetwood. Last tournament: Xander Schauffele won the Baycurrent Classi...

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — West Indies came out on top in the Super Over against Bangladesh on Tuesday to level their three-match ODI series at 1-1. Both sides ended on 213-9 after a spin-fest that saw spinners bowl 92 of the 100 overs, the highest in the ODI history. West Indies used spinners for the full 50 overs, setting a new re...

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Louis Rees-Zammit was called up to Wales’ rugby squad on Tuesday for the first time since his return to the sport after a stint in the NFL. Rees-Zammit made the switch to American football in January 2024. He signed contracts with the Kansas City Chiefs and then the Jacksonville Jaguars, but did not play a com...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An unidentified gunman fatally shot an opposition Sri Lankan politician at his office on Wednesday, making him the first politician killed in a spate of shootings that have gripped the island nation in recent months. Lasantha Wickramasekara, the head of the council of the coastal town of Weligama, about 15...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Ukrainian citizen allegedly working for Russian intelligence services as part of a sabotage campaign was detained in Poland, while two others were arrested in Romania, prosecutors said Tuesday. Prosecutors said the individuals acting on behalf of the Russian intelligence services were allegedly preparing act...

The Coca-Cola Co. said sales of premium beverages and mini cans helped boost its third-quarter results despite tepid demand in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Atlanta beverage giant said Tuesday it continues to see a divergence among consumers in North America and Europe, with higher-income buyers opting for its more expensive brands l...

LONDON (AP) — Leaders of six Western Balkan nations met British and European officials in London on Wednesday for talks on migration, security and economic growth in a volatile region where Russia seeks to wield influence. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and diplomats from several o...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Francisco Pinto Balsemão, a former prime minister of Portugal in a turbulent post-coup period who withdrew from front-line politics and created a national media empire, has died. He was 88. The website of the Portuguese president’s office and the media group he created, Impresa, said he died late Tuesday but...

LONDON (AP) — Six people were arrested after a crowd outside a hotel housing migrants near Dublin threw bricks, bottles and fireworks at officers and burned a police van, Ireland’s national police force said Wednesday. One police officer was treated for a foot injury, said the force, the Garda Siochana. Hundreds of people, many wav...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s two main political parties will mark a national holiday on Thursday by holding rival demonstrations that will likely bring hundreds of thousands to the streets and kick off a campaign for elections next year. With the ballot approaching in April, long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — trailing...

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by keeping watch for climate disasters around the world. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the World Meteorological Organization as science faces an assault in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a book coming out in January, touching upon everything from his swift political rise to the trauma of his home being set on fire. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Tuesday that “Where We Keep the Light: Stories From a Life of Service,” will be released Jan....

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation, said about 100 inve...

HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of people on Tuesday attended a Mass in Havana to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Celia Cruz’s birth just days after Cuban authorities canceled a theater performance in honor of the revered singer without explanation, drawing criticism over what some say was an act of censorship. Activities to remember the...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An auction house plans to sell off a variety of actor Gene Hackman’s possessions in November, including Golden Globe statues, a wristwatch and paintings he collected and created himself. Hackman died at age 95 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after transitioning from an Oscar-winning career in film to a li...

BERLIN (AP) — A major German private art collection accumulated over four generations is going on large-scale show for the first time in Berlin, with a who’s who of French art of the 19th and 20th centuries at its core. The Scharf Collection has its roots in a collection started more than a century ago by Otto Gerstenberg, who led...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Popular Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, known for his allegorical and deeply poetic lyrics that commented on Greek politics, identity and society, has died. He was 80. A prominent figure on the Greek cultural and intellectual scene, Savvopoulos died Tuesday night, his family announced on his offi...

Robert Redford’s legacy and mission was always going to be a key component of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, which will be the last of its kind in Park City, Utah. But in the wake of his death in Septemberat age 89, those ideas took on a new significance. This January, the institute that Redford founded over 40 years ago, plans t...

Sometimes the best films are the ones that are most difficult to describe, the ones that can’t be boiled down to a pithy tagline or plot summary. This is almost certainly the case with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” one of most audacious films of the year, in which Rose Byrne plays a mother on the edge. There’s an unseen kid with a...

In his 500-page memoir, “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen spends less than three pages on the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska.” Moving on, folks, nothing to see here, he seems to be saying. The first authorized biopic of his life — “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — disagrees, delving deep into the inner turmoil The Boss wa...

TORONTO (AP) — In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos. She manipulates. She cuts people to the bone with a quip. She pours more drinks. Hedda Gabler, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play, has long been one of theater’s most tragic figures, a woman hemmed in by societal convention and her own drea...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” premiered last year, the series exploded in popularity in ways its creator and stars could never have imagined. It spent six weeks on Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and was viewed 57 million times in three months, according to the streaming service....

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s choice to challenge maverick Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced his candidacy Tuesday, pledging to steadfastly support the president’s agenda while describing the incumbent as an obstructionist. “I’ve dedicated my life to serving my country, and I’m ready to answer t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Christopher P. Moynihan is accused of sending a text message on Friday noting that Jeffries, a New York Democrat...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats rallied Tuesday against a new U.S. House map proposed by North Carolina Republicans that would likely reap another GOP seat at President Donald Trump’s behest, but the critics acknowledged they’ll likely be unable to halt the redraw for now. But they vowed to defeat it in the long run. The new map off...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction started this week on the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House as construction crews began tearing down the facade of the East Wing, where the new space is being built. The Republican president and top White House officials had initially said nothing would be d...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officers shot a man in the elbow after he rammed his car into law enforcement vehicles while trying to evade arrest Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, authorities said. A deputy U.S. Marshal assisting with the arrest was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet, authorities said. Immigration and Customs Enforc...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the Trump administration’s prosecution of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver on charges she assaulted and impeded immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center told the government to remove social media posts he called “prejudicial” to the congresswoman. U.S. District Judge Jamel S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve to serve as the Army’s second-highest-ranking officer, according to congressional records. Gen. James Mingus is currently vice chief of staff and has not publicly said he plans to step aside. He has been in the job less than two years, and it is typi...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco next, blasting the California city as crime-ridden and saying its residents are clamoring for federal help. But local and state leaders say that couldn’t be farther from the truth, noting overall crime is down and the city h...

The Wyoming Capitol, including the governor’s office, was evacuated Tuesday after a person found a suspected explosive device in front of the building and brought it inside. The grounds were searched with drones and bomb-sniffing dogs following discovery of the device on the state seal between the building’s front steps and the str...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit that seeks to get Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the state’s newest member of Congress after U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to seat her a month since winning the post. The Democratic attorney general filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Washington on...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner revealed Tuesday that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol, but he dismissed the connotation and chalked it up to a drunken Marine’s attempt at fearsomeness. He said he plans to have the tattoo removed. Platner is the latest Demo...

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a request from New Jersey Republicans to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a key county that will help settle the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race. State officials disputed that characterization and called any federal intervention “highly inappropriate.” The...

NEW YORK (AP) — An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on Manhattan’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic on Tuesday after droves of angry New Yorkers surrounded federal agents and attempted to block them from driving off, prompting arrests and fierce standoffs along a bustling downtown corridor. The confrontation began s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insisted he would have the ultimate say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.” Trump’s comments to reporters at the White House ca...

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the military in Democratic-led cities — over the objections of mayors and governors — has brought a head-spinning array of court challenges and overlapping rulings. As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether to clear the way for the National Guard in Chicago, a federal appea...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama board is seeking to prohibit public libraries from placing books that “positively” depict transgender themes and topics in teen and children’s sections. The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors is considering a proposed rule change that expands the existing requirement for youth secti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week. In an Oct. 15 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his deputy, Steve Feinberg, ordered Pentagon officials — including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — to obt...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayoral candidates are set to meet for their final debate Wednesday night, with Democrat Zohran Mamdani looking to stay in control of a race increasingly seen as his to win while former Gov. Andrew Cuomo amps up the pressure on Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out. With just days left until early voti...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders completed their remapping of the state’s U.S. House districts on Wednesday, intent on picking up one more seat to help President Donald Trump’s efforts to retain GOP control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. The new boundaries approved by the state House...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court suggested solutions Wednesday that could have prevented lawmakers from going unpaid for months while the court reviewed the legality of a June raise. During oral arguments for a suit brought by one of the legislature’s own members, the justices said legislators could have offic...

Since the state’s first dispensary opened in 2021, West Virginia’s medical cannabis program has collected roughly $34 million in taxes, licensing fees and interest. State law requires the money be used to create a medical cannabis research program, provide resources to residents with substance use disorder and fund law enforcement...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Republican John E. Sununu announced a campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday, hoping to reclaim a seat he lost nearly two decades ago and boosting the GOP’s chances of regaining a foothold in a region overwhelmingly represented by Democrats. Sununu, 61, is seeking the Republican nomination for the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon is staging a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest President Donald Trump’s “tightening authoritarian grip on the country” amid the government shutdown. Merkley started speaking at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday evening and was still going into Wednesday afternoon, pausing for in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead an office charged with protecting federal whistleblowers appeared to be in jeopardy on Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he hoped the White House would withdraw the nomination. The growing opposition to Paul Ingrassia comes after a Politico report of a text...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said. The U. S. Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Se...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol. The first-time political candidate said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he was in his 20s and in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted. Paul Ingrassia, who was nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel, had been scheduled to have his confirmation hearing th...

For most people, it’s natural to assume that if something is exclusive to the wealthiest echelons of society, it must be better. Asset management firms looking to access trillions of “retail” investor dollars explicitly reference this exclusivity when marketing private equity offerings. But investors should be wary when fund market...

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming greenhouse gases of 42 coal-fired power plants. Carleigh Bodrug, a cookbook author who emphasizes cooking with plants and low-waste recipes, s...