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...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Chile on Tuesday launched the first open-source artificial intelligence language model trained on the diverse cultures of Latin America, aiming to better reflect regional realities and strengthen the region’s presence in the global AI race.Latam-GPT is the resu...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is again sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, while again extending the deadline for its tender offer as it scrambles for more shareholder support.On Tuesday, the Skydance-owned company said it would pay Warner shareholders an added “ticki...

TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Hanadi Abu Zant has been unable to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for almost a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police, she hides in a mosque.“My biggest fear is being kicked out of my home. Where...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, February 11COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)6 p.m.Iowa at Maryland — FS16:30 p.m.VCU at La Salle — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports7 p.m.Virginia Tech at Clemson — ACCNAmerican at Lehigh — ESPN app, ESPN Sele...

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...

CHICAGO (AP) — Trevor McOmber and his 14-year-old son, Tye, share a love for the Chicago Blackhawks. When Trevor was his son’s age, he watched the Blackhawks on TV, caught highlights on ESPN and read about the team in the newspaper.It’s a much different experience for Tye.“I go to YouTube wi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google’s YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products....

VERNON, France (AP) — In a tightly controlled manufacturing hangar west of Paris, workers put the finishing touches on an enormous silver-colored engine. In just a few days, a similar machine will help propel the most powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket yet, flying for the first tim...

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...

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry.U.S. Agric...

Amazon said on Thursday that it would spend $200 billion this year on data centers, satellites and other big-ticket items as it invests heavily in the race for artificial intelligence.The eye-popping dollar figure, which topped Wall Street’s predictions by $50 billion, was the latest in a series of announcements by big technology c...

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...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, February 10COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6:30 p.m.Ball State at Eastern Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports7 p.m.Miami (OH) at Western Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsT...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, February 10COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Fordham at Saint Joseph’s — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports7:30 p.m.Marquette at Villanova — TNT, truTV, HBO Max, Sling TV, TNT WEB9 p.m.Duke at Pittsburgh — E...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quotes from SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin in an interview with The Associated Press. Astin, the new head of the actors’ union, will be part of forthcoming negotiations with studios and streamers — the first since the 2023 strike. The interview covered a range of topics —...

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...

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...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening arguments for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, begin this week. Instagram’s parent co...

Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selecte...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms is set to start in New Mexico with opening statements Monday.It’s the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of la...

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...

At a difficult time for America, Super Bowl advertisers ask viewers to take care of themselves and others — and maybe even crack a smile.Ring shows how neighbors can use their doorbell cameras to find lost pets. A Budweiser Clydesdale protects a bald eagle chick from the rain. Novartis touts...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.The creator of the “Made O’M...

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, companies like Waymo and Tesla that operate fleets of robotaxis come to mind first.But a new start-up is focusing on a different goal: automating multi-ton excavators and other construction vehicles to speed the building of housing, data centers and more.Bedrock Robotics plans to announce on We...

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....

Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the floodgates opened on social media.Influencers relayed the timeline from the hours after Nancy Guthrie was last seen and posted photos of the blood found on her front porch that later...

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...

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...

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...

A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a woman who says one of its drivers raped her during a 2023 trip.Uber has faced criticism for its safety record, much of it spanning from thousands of incidents of sexual assault reported by both passengers and drivers. Because drivers o...

You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing. Moltbook is a new “social network” built exclusively for AI agents to make posts and interact wit...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, February 7COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.Drexel at Elon — CBSSN, Fubo SportsLafayette at Army — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsTemple at East Carolina — ESPNU, ESPN app, Fubo SportsVillanova at Georg...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, February 7COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)2 p.m.Miami at Boston College — ACCNLehigh at Holy Cross — NESN, ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports4 p.m.DePaul at Providence — FS1COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)12 p.m.Bu...

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...

LONDON (AP) — The European Union on Friday accused TikTok of breaching the bloc’s digital rules with “addictive design” features including autoplay and infinite scroll, in preliminary charges that strike at the heart of the popular video sharing app’s operating model. EU regulators said thei...

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,...

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...

Thirty-one families that lost relatives in two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to revive a criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer.Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, urged a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

Five days into the desperate search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, investigators on Thursday released a detailed timeline from the hours before and after the disappearance of Guthrie, who is the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.Here is a timeline of events in the disa...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit.But the Seattle-based online behemoth’s shares fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading as its profits came i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Photos of naked people. Names and faces of victims of sexual abuse. Bank account and Social Security numbers in plain view.All of this can be seen among the mountain of documents that the US Department of Justice released on Friday as part of its efforts to comply with a law...

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...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans. Under an agreement announced Thursday between Genies and MLB Players Inc., the business affiliate of the players’ association, AI avatars o...

The two artificial intelligence startups behind rival chatbots ChatGPT and Claude are bracing for an existential showdown this year as both need to prove they can grow a business that will make more money than they’re losing.The fiercest competition between the two AI developers, along with...

TOKYO (AP) — Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it will be manufacturing some of the world’s most cutting-edge semiconductors in Japan to meet booming artificial intelligence-related demand, in a boost for the country’s chipmaking ambitions.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a majo...

TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s profit in the last quarter surged 11% on healthy global sales, prompting the Japanese entertainment and electronics company to raise its full year profit forecast.Tokyo-based Sony Group Corp. said Thursday that it recorded an October-December net profit of 377.3 billion y...

As class started for more than a dozen toddlers at Onelau’ena Emergency Shelter in Kapolei, there were no tearful goodbyes or difficult separations from parents. Instead, family members sat cross-legged next to their children in the morning circle, joining the class in singing “Aloha Kakahia...

NEW YORK (AP) — No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun to break out across American culture, spanning the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. Bruce Springsteen released a new song Wednesday that...

Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio. The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the reg...

The New Orleans City Council passed a yearlong ban on data centers in New Orleans and began an effort to clarify zoning regulations for new data center projects on Wednesday (Jan. 28). The vote will head off any data center development in New Orleans East, which has drawn concerns about ener...

In more than 125 cities and counties across Michigan, nondescript cameras perched near busy roadways snap a picture every time a car drives by. The cameras — automated license plate readers primarily operated under contract with Flock Safety of Atlanta — are touted by law enforcement agencie...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, January 31COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.Pittsburgh at Clemson — ACCN1 p.m.Robert Morris at Purdue Fort Wayne — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports2 p.m.Lafayette at American — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESP...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, January 30COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Pennsylvania at Columbia — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsProvidence at Villanova — FS1, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6 p.m.Cornell at Pennsylvania — N...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — There’s a chance the dreaded buzz of propellers heard on Ukrainian battlefields is coming from drones built in a country with a population of just over a million on Europe’s southeastern fringe: Cyprus.Manufacturer Swarmly says there are more than 200 of its H-10 Posei...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu successfully gathered the sediment at a dep...

Taipei, TAIWAN (AP) — China executed four people found guilty of causing the deaths of six Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations out of Myanmar worth more than $4 billion, authorities said on Monday.The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in south China announced the exe...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, February 1COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.Rhode Island at Duquesne — USA2 p.m.Minnesota at Penn State — NBCS Network, PeacockCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)1 p.m.Robert Morris at IU Indianapolis — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN...

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide rides throughout the world while other deep-pocketed rival services backed by Tesla and Amazon try to catch up.The fundraising announced Monday values Waymo at $126 b...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia began to implement a ban on cellphones in classrooms Monday, as the school year starts in the landlocked South American nation.Children in Bolivia, and teachers, will be asked to keep their cellphones in lockers or in their bags while they’re in classrooms. The...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, February 4COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)6:30 p.m.Seton Hall at Villanova — Peacock7 p.m.Lehigh at Loyola Maryland — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsDuquesne at George Mason — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Un...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, February 4COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6 p.m.Saint Joseph’s at Rhode Island — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsEastern Michigan at UMass Amherst — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsNHL HO...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, February 4COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Duquesne at George Mason — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsLehigh at Loyola Maryland — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsBucknell at American —...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rent can eat up an entire paycheck at the start of the month, so a growing number of renters are turning to a financial product that promises relief by letting them split the bill — for a price.So-called “rent now, pay later” services have emerged over the past few years as h...

A major drone surveillance program could be coming to Waikīkī as soon as March as part of a statewide push to use modern technologies to fill gaps in policing. Sheriffs plan to fly drones over the tourist district to watch for crimes being committed in public spaces during peak bus...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s latest quarterly report provided further evidence that its internet empire is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup that’s turning into another potential boon for the company.The numbers released Wednesday marked Google’s third...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general announced plans to deploy legal observers to monitor federal immigration enforcement efforts in the state.The initiative will send observers, wearing purple security vests, to areas where immigration activity is reported to gather information “that...

MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.Sánchez chided the world’s biggest tech companies in a speech at a Dubai summit, saying they allow...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nude photos. The names and faces of sexual abuse victims. Bank account and Social Security numbers in full view. All of these things appeared in the mountain of documents released Friday by the U.S. Justice Department as part of its effort to comply with a law requiring it to...