The immense challenge of threepeating as Stanley Cup champion got even more difficult for the Florida Panthers when they lost their captain and arguably most important player for the next 7-9 months to a knee injury. Even without Aleksander Barkov, the Panthers have a chance to do something no NHL team has done in more than 40 year...

MADRID (AP) — Coach Diego Simeone watched Atletico Madrid’s home game against Eintracht Frankfurt from the stands Tuesday while serving a suspension for his altercation with a Liverpool fan in the previous Champions League round. Simeone was sent off following a heated confrontation with a fan at the end of Atletico’s 3-2 loss at A...

LONDON (AP) — Chants of “Jose Mourinho, Jose Mourinho” swirled inside Stamford Bridge as Chelsea fans welcomed back their former manager for a Champions League match against his current club, Benfica, on Tuesday. Wearing a white shirt under a dark coat, Mourinho exchanged pleasantries with Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca in the tunnel...

VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Oviedo scored twice in two minutes to seal a come-from-behind win at Valencia on Tuesday in a Spanish league match originally scheduled Monday but postponed because of bad weather. Luka Ilic scored in the 85th minute and Salomón Rondón in the 86th to stun the hosts, who had dominated most of the match at Mest...

TURIN, Italy (AP) — An undefeated run to the ATP Finals trophy later this year will result in a paycheck of more than $5 million — slightly more than what Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka earned for their U.S. Open titles this month. The exact amount for an undefeated run at the year-ending event for the top-eight players is $5,0...

NEW YORK (AP) — Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve has been fined $15,000 by the WNBA for her comments and conduct after her team’s Game 3 semifinal loss to the Phoenix Mercury, a person familiar with the penalty told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been mad...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals expect to have nine-time All-Star catcher Salvador Perez back next season. They expect to have the same set of goals, too. First on the list is a return to the playoffs, which they managed to accomplish in 2024 but failed to replicate this season. The Royals were in contention until la...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chaim Bloom says the St. Louis Cardinals will be sticking to their roots to get back to October baseball. Bloom, who has been in line since last year to become the organization’s president of baseball operations, spoke to the media Tuesday as he takes over a team that finished the season 78-84, fourth in the NL Cen...

HOUSTON (AP) — Instead of getting ready for a playoff game Tuesday, Houston Astros manager Joe Espada and general manager Dana Brown were fielding questions about their job security and what went wrong this season. “I am the GM of the Astros,” Brown said in response to a question about his contract status. “And that’s what I would...

The Indianapolis Colts are wickedly good at something that’s dreadfully bad: turning touchdowns into touchbacks. For the second time in nine months, a goal-line gaffe by the Colts proved costly in a road loss when wide receiver Adonai Mitchell botched a potential 76-yard TD catch against the Rams when he lost control of the ball at...

Sauce Gardner said after the New York Jets’ latest loss what a lot of their fans were also ranting about. Sure, there’s plenty to clean up as the team dropped to 0-4 and is still looking for its first victory under Aaron Glenn. But as far as Gardner’s concerned, it seems the officials have also become a tough opponent to overcome....

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill’s season is done after the star Miami receiver suffered a significant knee injury during a game against the New York Jets, and the Dolphins are now preparing for what their offense will look like without one of the most dynamic players in the NFL. Hill was undergoing what Dolphins coach Mike M...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars signed quarterback Carter Bradley to their practice squad Tuesday, bringing in the son of one of the franchise’s former head coaches, Gus Bradley. The Jaguars released quarterback Seth Henigan to make room for Bradley on the 16-man practice squad. Bradley originally signed with Las...

Chase DeLauter, an outfielder with no major league experience, was included on the Cleveland Guardians’ roster for their Wild Card Series against the Detroit Tigers. Selected 16th in the 2022 amateur draft, DeLauter hit .278 with five homers and 21 RBIs in 34 games at Triple-A Columbus. He turns 24 on Oct. 8. DeLauter was sidelined...

Over the quarter-century that covers the Minnesota Wild’s modest existence in the NHL, Kirill Kaprizov has made himself one of a kind. The price of keeping the star left wing hardly compares to what the steep cost of losing him could’ve been. Kaprizov signed an eight-year, $136 million extension on Tuesday, giving him the richest c...

The NCAA is on the verge of approving a single transfer window in college football that would allow players on teams competing in the postseason to remain eligible for playoff and bowl games before entering the portal. The window of Jan. 2-16 was approved by the Division I bowl subdivision oversight committee on Monday and needs on...

Even the best quarterbacks look average or worse when they don’t have time to throw. Just see Patrick Mahomes in his two Super Bowl losses. The Kansas City Chiefs couldn’t protect him and were routed by the Philadelphia Eagles last season and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55. With so many offensive linemen getting hurt at...

Colorado coach Deion Sanders apologized to BYU on Tuesday just before the Big 12 Conference reprimanded the Buffaloes and issued a $50,000 fine for derogatory chants by fans over the weekend. The expletives and religious slurs directed at Mormons took place as No. 23 BYU beat Colorado 24-21 at Folsom Field. “That’s not indicative o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Flamethrowers ruled the mound in the major leagues this year, with the average four-seam fastball among right-handed pitchers reaching 95 mph for the first time. Average velocity has increased for seven straight seasons, ticking up 0.3 mph this year for right-handers, according to MLB Statcast. Among right-handed re...

Napheesa Collier came prepared for her exit interview on Tuesday, delivering a blistering statement on her thoughts on the current state of the WNBA. Collier, a senior member of the WNBA Players Association executive council, started her press conference calling out the WNBA and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert for a lack of accountabi...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Tarik Skubal tied Detroit’s postseason record with 14 strikeouts and the Tigers beat the Cleveland Guardians 2-1 on Tuesday in Game 1 of their AL Wild Card Series. Will Vest got the final four outs for Detroit, surviving a tense ninth inning after Cleveland star Jose Ramírez got hung up between third base and home...

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s economic disparity will be on display in the playoffs, where the Los Angeles Dodgers have committed more than $500 million in salaries and luxury tax this season as they take on a Cincinnati Reds team with a $121 million payroll. Six of the 12 postseason teams have payrolls of $200 million or more, with t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The star of Sean Feucht — once a little-known conservative Christian worship leader and musician — began to climb in 2020 as he challenged government restrictions brought on by the coronavirus’ tightening grip on the world. At well-attended protest concerts that brazenly flouted social distancing rules, he became...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials decided Tuesday to set aside nearly three acres of prime downtown Miami real estate next to the historic Freedom Tower as a potential site of the future presidential library of President Donald Trump. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to give the parcel appraised a...

DALLAS (AP) — A Mexican man who was among three people shot at a Dallas immigration field office last week has died, becoming the second person killed in the attack, his family said Tuesday. The family of Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, said he died after being removed from life support, according to a statement provided through...

PHOENIX (AP) — Rep. David Schweikert jumped into the Republican primary for Arizona governor Tuesday, joining a field crowded by two candidates backed by President Donald Trump and raising Democratic hopes for flipping his seat in Congress. “Congress is so dysfunctional that there is no value in the work,” Schweikert said as he con...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of Minnesota, its two largest cities and a county over so-called sanctuary policies that the agency says interfere with the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration policies. The lawsuit filed Monday targets the state, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Henne...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, alleging it violated the Constitution by moving too slowly to process gun licenses for people who want to carry concealed weapons. The sheriff’s department’s “unreasonable delays” in granting licenses violates California r...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state Sen. Greg Dolezal entered a crowded race for lieutenant governor Tuesday with a hard-line MAGA campaign pledging to curb the “radical left.” Dolezal, a Republican from Cumming, is now the fourth Republican state senator running for lieutenant governor. His campaign launch video touts his support for Pre...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After years of failed attempts, Republicans in Nebraska have enacted a measure that uses taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition, despite voters repealing a newly-passed state law that would fund private school tuition with state dollars. Republican Gov. Jim Pillen signed an executive order opting the...

The expression “stay woke” started out as an affirmation for African Americans. In the past decade it has been used by some Republicans — and some Democrats — as a pejorative for people thought to be too “politically correct,” another term that took on negative connotations as it gained wider use. “Woke” has come up in cultural and...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A pair of northeastern North Carolina legislative districts can remain intact, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting Black voters’ claims that state Republicans illegally manipulated the boundaries to prevent them from electing their favored candidates. Ruling after a trial held nearly eight months ago, U.S....

As Idaho increases its oversight of youth treatment homes, a new ombudsman said the state still isn’t penalizing facilities where kids could be at risk. And lawmakers say they aren’t satisfied with the way the state Department of Health and Welfare is investigating child abuse in those facilities. Those updates came during a presen...

The Trump administration has restored almost all of the 500 National Institutes of Health grants it suspended at UCLA in July in response to a federal judge’s order last week. Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice submitted a court-mandated update on the status of the grant restorations Monday evening. They report that the Na...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With weeks to go in New Jersey’s high-stakes governor’s race, key members of Democrats’ diverse coalition, including union and Black leaders, have been raising concerns — even when they’re not supposed to. New Jersey state Democratic Chair Leroy Jones Jr. spoke on a recent Democratic National Committee co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A First Amendment group and watchdog organization pressed a federal appeals court on Tuesday to compel the release of a Justice Department special counsel’s report on the criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Even though the charges against...

BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-U.S. citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judged said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech....

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has died, the school said. He was 80. Smoot died on Sept. 18 in Paris of a heart attack, accor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prime Video will bring many of its interactive features from “Thursday Night Football” and NASCAR to its NBA coverage. Prime will have key moments and rapid recap, allowing viewers to catch up on the game if they tuned in at some point. There will also be a way to access the team and individual stats via a tradit...

NEW YORK (AP) — Crowds wore maga flowers and “pavas” — straw hats traditionally worn by jíbaros, Puerto Rican rural farmers. They drank Medalla beer and danced salsa. Over the course of a 31-date residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Bad Bunny worked a miracle, inspiring patriotism in the hearts of a proud Boricua pe...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A single mother who relied on federal food assistance lost her benefits in 2020 after Kentucky investigators concluded she’d committed fraud. The state alleged she had made multiple same-day purchases, tried to overdraw her account a few times, entered a few invalid PINs and sometimes made “whole-dollar” purc...

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA has another broadcast partner after signing an 11-year media rights deal with Versant to show regular-season games and portions of the playoffs beginning next year on USA Network. As part of the multi-year agreement, which runs through 2036, USA Network will present at least 50 games annually, including cov...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage. The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actor petitioned on Tuesday to end her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy winning country singer in a Nashville court. The documents state the couple has undergone “marital difficulties and irreconc...

Federal officials have sued two pro-Palestinian groups and some demonstrators involved in a heated protest last year outside a synagogue in northern New Jersey, citing a law traditionally used to prevent people from blocking access to abortion and reproductive health clinics. The civil lawsuit filed Monday by the Justice Department...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive. But the experiment resulted in abnormalities in the chromosomes, prompting the Oregon Health & Science University team to caution it could take a decade of ad...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As Hurricane Maria roared over Puerto Rico in September 2017, Marena Pérez and Aureo Andino hunkered down inside their ballet studio. The couple never imagined that they, their daughter and Pérez’s parents would live there for three months, sleeping on pullout couches and relying on a gas generator. The...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If it seems like its getting more expensive to replace a broken door, kitchen fixtures or upgrade a major appliance, you’re not wrong. The cost of home repair and remodeling projects is up compared to a year ago and running ahead of inflation overall, according to a report from data analytics company Verisk. The...

Former associates of conservative Christian worship leader Sean Feucht allege he mismanaged millions of dollars in ministry funds while underpaying employees and mistreating volunteers. Feucht, once a little-known musician and aspiring politician, shot to fame during the COVID-19 pandemic when his packed concerts that flouted socia...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — On a recent whirlwind visit to Puerto Rico, Lin-Manuel Miranda snuck away for a moment to walk the block where his grandparents once lived. Visiting takes the “Hamilton” creator back to childhood summers he spent in Vega Alta, a municipality about a 30-minute drive west of San Juan, idling the muggy day...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined again in September as Americans’ pessimism over inflation and the weakening job market continued to grow. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell by 3.6 points to 94.2 in September, down from August’s 97.8. That’s a bigger drop than analysts were...

CHICAGO (AP) — When it comes to his plans for the Chicago Blackhawks, general manager Kyle Davidson is focused on the growth and maturation of the organization’s top prospects. That group includes a total of 11 first-round picks since the 2022 draft. Such is life these days for the NHL’s rebuilding teams, looking to chart a course...

Authorization for the largest residential flood insurance program in the U.S. is set to expire Tuesday, leaving homeowners unable to access new coverage and potentially wreaking havoc on home sales in flood-prone areas. Millions of policyholders rely on the National Flood Insurance Program to secure flood coverage that is rarely pa...

Deep cuts in federal Medicaid assistance aren’t the only threat to health care for needy families and children in Connecticut. Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has identified major cost overruns in the entitlement program, known as HUSKY, which has struggled to stay out of the red since 2022. Less than three months into the new fis...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s counties, school districts and social service agencies are warning of mounting layoffs, borrowing costs and damage to the state’s safety net as the politically divided state government enters its fourth month of a budget stalemate. The stalemate entangling Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, the Demo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer has agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday as he promised similar deals with other drugmakers under the threat of tariffs. Trump made the announcement at the White House alongside Pfizer CEO Albert Bo...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A group led by Florida-based real estate developer Patrick Zalupski closed on its purchase of the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, finalizing the sale of the team from former owner Stuart Sternberg. Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the transaction last week. The price was not disclosed. “It’s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — DoorDash is expanding its offerings, adding restaurant reservations and robot deliveries in some U.S. markets. The San Francisco-based company, already the largest U.S. delivery provider, announced its expansion plans Tuesday, saying it wants to bring even more business to the merchants it works with and stay a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. jobs openings were essentially unchanged million last month amid economic uncertainty arising from President Donald Trump’s trade policies and an impending government shutdown. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that job openings blipped up to 7.23 million from 7.21 million in July. Economists had forecast...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government starts phasing out paper checks for most programs on Tuesday. The change, which was initiated through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March, will affect recipients of benefits including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and tax refunds. Trump’s Republican admi...

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LONDON (AP) — Spotify said Tuesday that founder Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chairman, in an announcement that sent its shares sliding in Tuesday trading. The Stockholm-based streaming giant said Ek will be replaced by two lieutenants who will become co-CEOs: Chief Product and Technology Officer Gustav...

NEW YORK (AP) — Like thousands of actors, Tilly Norwood is looking for a Hollywood agent. But unlike most young performers aspiring to make it in the film industry, Tilly Norwood is an entirely artificial intelligence-made character. Norwood, dubbed Hollywood’s first “AI actor,” is the product of a company named Xicoia, which bills...

After nearly 20 years, the beloved, long-running children’s series “Reading Rainbow” is back, this time on the KidZuko YouTube channel. The first of four episodes hosted by Mychal Threets, a librarian and literacy advocate, will be released Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern. The others will drop on subsequent Saturdays at the same time....

NEW YORK (AP) — Online juggernaut Amazon Inc. unveiled its next generation of Kindle, Ring and Echo devices, among other gadgets, that are all powered by artificial intelligence and connected to Alexa+, its AI-infused personal assistant, which made its debut in February. The lineup, announced at a presentation and showcase in New Y...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, no one to ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote in now viral weekend social media posts that officers were conducting a D...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new lawsuit against Brown University has renewed questions surrounding the secrecy afforded many law enforcement officers employed by private colleges and universities across the U.S. Unlike public campuses, private higher education institutions are largely exempt from disclosing arrest records, incident r...

More online platforms are giving secondhand shopping a digital upgrade, rolling out features like livestream shopping and AI-powered search to make thrifting faster and more exciting. Although choosing secondhand over new is often the more sustainable option, experts say it’s not a license to overconsume. They warn that resale has...

PARIS (AP) — Screaming fans jammed the gates before the Louvre pyramid, blocking entrances and snarling traffic. They weren’t there for the Mona Lisa. They came for Louis Vuitton — and for the front row. Emma Stone sat with Zendaya, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Ana de Armas and Sophie Turner, a casting flex that says as much abo...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s army said Tuesday it successfully test-fired a long-range cruise missile that is aimed at strengthening the country’s conventional missile arsenal. The Fatah-4 surface-to-surface missile has a range of 750 kilometers (470 miles) and is equipped with advanced avionics and modern navigation systems, the mi...

Gardening tools are evolving to incorporate technology — including artificial intelligence — to help us keep plants healthier, avoid unpleasant tasks and even grow crops indoors over winter. And we can use them without losing the stress-relieving, analog benefits that nature provides. If you don’t enjoy mowing the lawn, you can buy...

NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a virtual merchant that can help sell goods for Etsy and Shopify as the artificial intelligence company looks for new revenue in online commerce. ChatGPT users can now buy directly from Etsy sellers while interacting with the chatbot and will soon be able to do the same with Shopify se...

The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy. Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government activities. Other functions — like NASA’s space missions, President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and certain public health work at...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with the heavily prosecuted vice president of Equatorial Guinea in Washington after the Trump administration approved a waiver of corruption sanctions that allowed the leader of the West African country to travel to New York for last week’s high-level U.N....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people have reached out with related stories to the family of a 32-year-old man who died of blunt force injuries two weeks ago while riding the new Stardust Racers roller coaster at Universal’s Epic Universe theme park, the attorney for the man’s family said Tuesday. People who’ve contacted the family...

PARIS (AP) — Inside the Centre Pompidou, Helen Mirren opened Stella McCartney ’s Paris Fashion Week show with a spoken rendition of The Beatles ’ “Come Together.” Less performance than manifesto, it set the tone for a Tuesday night collection framed around humanity, animals and Mother Earth. McCartney has long been ahead of the cur...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — One of the people killed in the attack on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Michigan was being remembered as a grandfather who adored spending time with his family. John Bond, a Navy veteran, was among those who died Sunday morning when a Marine veteran smashed his pick...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Workers and industry are bracing for the end of a longstanding U.S. trade agreement that gave African exporters preferential treatment and now leaves businesses vulnerable to new competitive pressures and tariffs. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) will terminate as scheduled on Tuesday amid uncerta...