TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama circuit judge on Monday denied Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ending the 7-foot center’s collegiate eligibility and his season with the Crimson Tide.County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Pruet cited that Bediako...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called on the nation’s highest court to lift a suspension on an economic emergency decree that would grant his government the authority to raise taxes without congressional approval.In a televised Cabinet meeting, Petro sai...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration. In ne...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

HIIUMAA, Estonia (AP) — Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that citizens of Estonia can now drive across a 20-kilometer (12 1/2-mile) stretch of frozen sea linking the country’s two main islands. The so-called “ice road” connecting the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, located i...

BLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria (AP) — Illuminated by the flickering glow of candlelight, priests approached the tables arranged in the shape of a cross in the middle of a church, enveloped in the heady scent of incense wafting from a censer. On the tables were jars of honey, waiting to be blessed on...

Fresh snow blanketed the ground and the temperature hovered around 20 degrees when Will Richardson stepped from his heated vehicle to walk onto Lake Forest Beach on Lake Tahoe’s east shore.Richardson, who was out despite battling a cold, has repeated the same early-January routine for years,...

Svitlana Zinovieva wiped icy condensation from her living room window and pointed to a smokestack rising from a central boiler heating her apartment block. There, in the distance, she had seen a Russian missile streak in and explode a few days before.“It was like fireworks,” she said. “But I knew it would soon be cold.”Not long aft...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures accelerate the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it has sparked a boom in ships taking routes that were previously impassable because they were frozen.The increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic, which received increased attent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official. The Environmental Protection Agency will is...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — There was only one person in the crowd at a luge event for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games Monday night who did not watch any of the runs.French artist Marc Ahr focused on the spectators to capture their reactions as their national teams triumphed or fell short,...

A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels they’ve seen in decades...

MILAN (AP) — Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence — far less known — that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross. The Cross of the Athletes has arrived in Milan for the Winter Games and holds pride of place beside the ma...

Expanding natural gas infrastructure is a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda to lower energy costs and boost the fossil fuel industry. He has referred to Democrats opposed to such projects as “ anti-energy zealots.”But political support for gas pipelines has run into powerful loc...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. health official urged people Sunday to get vaccinated against measles at a time with active outbreaks in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles elimination status.“Please get vaccinated,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on track to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, are one of the most...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.In recent weeks, images of emaciated livestock in the arid area near the Som...

Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its chief executive officer on Monday, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.Foran led Walmart’s U.S. division for six years before departing in 2019. While there, he introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerat...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops — signs of a warming world. “I definitely thought we’d be wearing all the layers,” said Jay Tucker, who came from...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.The increase in marine Arctic traffic, which received increased attention as President Donal...

The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols o...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Stars have been front-and-center at Super Bowl 60, from Chris Pratt and Jon Bon Jovi introducing the teams to a series of soaring pre-game performances.Highlights from Levi’s Stadium include Blue Ivy Carter leaping in an end zone before the game and Green Day deliv...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone.She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six downhills and six super-Gs — and has a total of 20 podium results there, stretching back to her...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend is typically one of th...

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned recent anti-Olympics protests in Milan and alleged sabotage of train infrastructure, calling those responsible “enemies of Italy and Italians” early Sunday.The protesters “demonstrate ‘against the Olympics,’ causing these images to end up...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics....

MILAN (AP) — Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday.The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — For one month starting on Saturday, Olympic spectators keen for a side trip to a UNESCO World Heritage Site can use Uber to reserve a ride on a snowmobile along the snow-covered road to the base of the Three Peaks of Lavaredo.The dramatic, jagged limestone pin...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For weeks, popular Kenyan podcaster and radio presenter Francis Kibe Njeri has used his social media platforms to spotlight a problem he says many electric motorcycle riders face but few companies in the industry acknowledge: batteries unable to be swapped across networ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weed killer dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over its tendency to drift and destroy nearby crops.The agency said dicamba was critical for...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Nearly two weeks after an ice storm knocked out power to her home, Barbara Bishop still finds herself trying to flip the lights on and looking in her fridge for food that has since spoiled.Bishop, 79, and her 85-year-old husband, George Bishop, live in a rural area near...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that its use of emergency orders to keep aging coal-fired plants operating helped prevent a major blackout from power shortages during the brutally frigid weather that has gripped most of America for the past two weeks.Scattered outages...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing.Trump said the order would reestablish fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England...

Nevada fell well short of its greenhouse gas emission-cutting goals in 2025, and it’s poised to be much further behind when the bar raises again in 2030. According to the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP), the state’s carbon emissions are projected to stay nearly the same...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Repairs on a pipe rupture that has sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., will take weeks more to repair because of an unexpected blockage, according to the local water authority.In a release posted on its website Thursday, DC Water, which...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will resume staff cuts that were briefly paused during January’s severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers, stoking concern across the agency over its ability to address disasters with fewer workers.FEMA at the start of January abruptly stopp...

MIAMI (AP) — Winged babies shooting heart-shaped arrows might get most of the credit on Valentine’s Day, but the real magic behind millions of romantic bouquets happens in a cargo warehouse at a South Florida airport.Agricultural specialists at Miami International Airport will process about...

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported a 43% drop in quarterly profit on Friday and announced that its chief financial officer, Kenta Kon, will become its new chief executive and president.Kon, a Toyota veteran, will replace Koji Sato in both roles in April. Shareholder approval is expected in June.“T...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ve heard a lot about snow lately. Today we’ll find out about the rock salt that’s crunching underfoot. We’ll also get details on a guilty plea by a public defender who was accused of stealing public funds to pay for vacations and teeth whitening.ImageCredit...Graham Dic...

The ground has been restless in this California community 35 miles east of San Francisco. Since late last year, dozens of earthquakes have rumbled through San Ramon and its tidy neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs, disrupting the suburban calm.They have been mostly quick, and relatively weak, rumbles occurring here and there, with a few...

Two weeks of heavy snowfall has wreaked havoc in Japan, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 200 others, according to Japan’s government, with local officials warning that the toll could rise.Japan is known for wintry deluges, especially along the western coast and in northern prefectures. But especially heavy sno...

If only this were a game of musical chairs.But in the competition for curbside parking after a blizzard, the rules aren’t as clearly defined, occasionally leading those who are left circling the block without a space to retaliate against the “winners.”After the sprawling snowstorm last month, a brawl over a parkin...

Two rescues and three deaths last week in the United States underscore the dangers of walking on thin ice.Though temperatures are below freezing in many parts of the country, the water in ponds, lakes and rivers has to turn into an ice block four inches thick before most people can safely walk across, according to scientists.The ge...

Last month’s snow remains stubbornly frozen in gutter-side heaps across New York City, and with temperatures set to plunge again, it’s likely to remain there for a while.A fresh dusting of snow this weekend could coat the grime-encrusted piles, but the real story is the biting cold trailing behind it, with forecasters warning that...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s climate commissioner on Friday announced a continentwide force of 300 firefighters to battle wildfires, after Europe faced its worst year for wildfires in 2025, which a recent study said was intensified by climate change.EU Climate Commissioner Wop...

It’s that time of year when many parents across the U.S. see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from their children can cause mixed feelings of loss, grief, loneliness, relief and freedom and can l...

California is again updating the system it uses to decide which polluted communities get cleanup funding. The tool, CalEnviroScreen, has already steered billions of dollars to the state’s most burdened neighborhoods, but critics say it still overlooks some of them. The update is reigniting a...

Energy Star, the program that helps guide consumers to more energy-efficient appliances and electronics, has survived the Trump administration’s plans to cut it.The program received sufficient support in Congress that it was included in budget legislation signed this week by President Donald...

ALTO ILA, Ecuador (AP) — On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was being trailed. Fresh puma tracks now lined the path alongside his own footprints. Unfazed, he continued his trek, focused entirely on the precious cargo he carried — seeds from some of...

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BEIJING (AP) — Even as China's solar and wind power expansion advanced rapidly in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal-fired power plants than it had in recent years, raising concerns about whether the world's biggest emitter will reduce carbon dioxide emissions enough to limit climat...

MADRID (AP) — A woman in Spain who was swept up by a swollen river remained missing Friday as Storm Leonardo pummelled the Iberian Peninsula.The woman, 45, was reported missing after she fell into a river in the country’s southern Malaga province on Wednesday while trying to rescue her dog....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It was designed to be as simple as buying airtime: a quick tap on the dispenser, a few shillings and a cooking canister refilled. Now, more than 3,000 Koko fuel supply points across Kenya sit idle, with no fuel and no clear answers for the households that relied on them...

Alessandra Tarantino has been working with The Associated Press in Italy since 2005. Based in Rome, she mainly covers the Vatican, sports and politics. Here’s what she had to say about this extraordinary photo.Why this photo?I had been wanting to make a story about blindness for a long time,...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he’s finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana.Snails. Big ones.For every crawfish Courville dumps out of a trap, three or four snails clang onto the...

When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send “proof of life,” she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes.“We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated,” she said. Before artificial intelligence tools...

AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — Basic services at a camp in northeastern Syria housing thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are slowly returning to normal after government forces seized the facility from Kurdish fighters, a United Nations official said Thursday.Syria's...

Gov. Josh Green has described the new green fee to fund environmental protection projects and cope with climate threats as “the biggest and perhaps most exciting change” happening in state government.Environmental initiatives are crowd-pleasers, and the green fee windfall has definitely caus...

MILAN (AP) — In Cortina d’Ampezzo you can’t escape the fact the mountain town is gearing up for its second Winter Olympics.In Milan you could easily miss that the Games are about to start.The vibe in the two main hubs for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games could not be more different.Cortina, surr...

A federal district judge on Wednesday declared a 2021 law restricting state investments in companies boycotting the fossil fuel industry unconstitutional, calling it “facially overbroad” and citing First and Fourteenth Amendment concerns.Legislators passed Senate Bill 13 as a way of discoura...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal went to a record-setting salary arbitration hearing Wednesday, with the left-hander asking for $32 million and the Detroit Tigers offering $19 million.A decision by Jeanne Charles, Walt De Treux and Allen Ponak is expect...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — More than 140,000 people were evacuated from their homes in northwestern Morocco as heavy rainfall and water releases from overfilled dams led to flooding, the Interior Ministry said. Stormy weather also disrupted maritime traffic between Morocco and Spain.Torrential ra...

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — The Argentine justice system requested the United States on Wednesday to extradite the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who has been under arrest in that country since the beginning of January, to be investigated in a case for alleged crimes against humanity p...

A man has lost his life in Portugal after floodwaters engulfed his car, and in Spain, a girl has been reported missing after being swept away by a river as Storm Leonardo has battered the Iberian Peninsula with torrential rain and gale-force winds.Leonardo is the latest in a wave of half a dozen storms to sweep across Portugal and...

VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Dejan Furtula sighed with despair while looking at construction machines working around the clock to remove tons of trash clogging the Drina River near his hometown of Visegrad, in eastern Bosnia. The environmental activist is frustrated because the proble...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a “dumping ground” for the world’s waste.The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that al...

A major investigative collaboration among five newsrooms shows how chemicals used to make carpets stain-resistant have contaminated swaths of the South.In the mills of northwest Georgia, workers treated carpets with these chemicals starting in the 1970s. Carried in manufacturing wastewater,...