WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Super Rugby enters its 30th year when the Highlanders and defending champion Crusaders meet Friday, having proved its durability and adaptability as the premier Southern Hemisphere club competition.When the Hurricanes and Blues met on March 1, 1996 to launch a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A grand jury in Washington refused Tuesday to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person familiar with the matter.The Justice Department opened an investigation into the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Cardi B was part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. What she did exactly, well, that turned into a perplexing question for two major prediction markets.At least one Kalshi trader filed a complaint with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over how the prediction mark...

VANCOUVER, Canada (AP) — A shooting at a school in British Columbia left eight dead including the suspect, with two more people found dead at a home believed to be connected to the incident, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people are inj...

ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — A post-race interview with the bronze medal winner in the men’s Olympic biathlon competition on Tuesday took an unexpected turn when he revealed in a live broadcast that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend.Sturla Holm Laegreid, one of Norway’s top biathletes, fi...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Three people believed to be migrants died and a fourth was hospitalized after two boats capsized off Panama’s Caribbean coast Tuesday, authorities said.The Panama Maritime Authority said in a statement that the incidents occurred along a remote stretch of coastline near th...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, February 11:Fighting A Russian attack killed four people, including three small children, in the Ukrainian city of Bohodukhiv, west of Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app early on Wednesday. “Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl died as a...

Leqaa Kordia’s family say they were left in the dark when the 33-year-old was rushed from an immigration detention centre in Texas to a nearby hospital late last week.For more than 12 hours, Kordia’s family and legal representation said they were given no information about her whereabouts and condition. Her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of trying to hijack plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary and using the nonprofit National Park Foundation to solicit money from private donors for some of the president’s pet projects, including t...

Sunday night’s Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records for most watched U.S. broadcast and halftime show.Seattle’s 29-13 victory over New England averaged 124.9 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel ra...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly all of the 230 people up for Oscars across 24 categories gathered Tuesday for the Academy Award nominees luncheon, an event that functions as a celebration, group portrait session and orientation for next month’s big ceremony. Nominees including Jessie Buc...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who quit amid a dispute with the Trump administration is now representing former CNN host Don Lemon, who was one of nine people indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a service at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enfor...

Tuesday’s release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.The process involved days...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The father of slain Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay announced his plans to run for the nation’s presidency on Tuesday, despite falling out with his son’s party the Democratic Center.In a campaign event in Bogota, Miguel Uribe Londoño said that he wi...

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...

The document includes numerous claims about ballots and elections that have been widely debunked. Witnesses’ names were redacted before the affidavit was unsealed.

Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez has said that the country will not hold presidential elections in the immediate future, emphasising that the government’s current focus is on national stability.His comments came late on Monday in an interview published with the conservative outlet Newsmax in the United States...

Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations has called on the international community to stop Israel’s recent moves to cement control over the occupied West Bank, which he said amounts to “the annexation of the land of the Palestinian people”.Flanked by representatives of Arab and Muslim-majority nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour told...

Connecticut education leaders are expressing cautious optimism as the state Department of Education tries its hand at course development.The department announced the release of its first-ever “Course in a Box,” An American History of Rock and Soul, in January. It’s a one-semester elective de...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin playfully threw a couple of jabs at a TV camera while skating off the ice Tuesday night, the pressure of his first Olympics having seemingly vanished following a team gold medal and a near-perfect short program to begin the men’s competition.The American wunderkind...

PHOENIX (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted a series of videos online since their mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, went missing earlier this month in a mysterious case that has gripped the nation. In the Instagram videos, Savannah, Camron and Annie Guthri...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Bad Bunny said “God bless America,” a common English expression for the United States, during the Super Bowl halftime show and then began naming countries across the continent, the phrase functioned as both a play on words and a statement. In Spanish, América usually...

Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census. The groups said the lawsuit filed late last month by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway would vi...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the Department of Justice that sought to obtain Michigan’s voter rolls, marking the latest judicial rejection in President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging attempts to gain access to voter data from states. The Justice Department...

MIAMI (AP) — Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bolster the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader.Fe...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — When thousands of New York City nurses walked off the job last month in the city’s largest strike of its kind in decades, 9-year-old Logan Coyle was a patient in the cancer unit at NewYork-Presbyterian’s children’s hospital in Manhattan. Logan was recovering from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top immigration officials appeared before Congress Tuesday for the first time since the shooting deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis, seeking to defend their officers’ actions as their agencies face intensifying scrutiny over nationwide i...

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited c...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Political deadlock in South Sudan is sharply escalating violence, putting the world’s newest nation on a “dangerous precipice,” the United Nations’ peacekeeping chief warned Tuesday.Jean-Pierre Lacroix urged the U.N. Security Council and the broader international commun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology, the company announced Tuesday.The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secre...

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...

United States President Donald Trump has continued to threaten Iran with possible military attacks if Tehran does not accede to his demands on issues ranging from nuclear enrichment to ballistic missiles.In comments to the Israeli outlet Channel 12, published on Tuesday, Trump hinted at aggressive actions if no deal comes together...

Egypt’s House of Representatives approved a cabinet reshuffle put forward by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, reshaping key economic posts as the country grapples with a floundering economy.The shake-up announced on Tuesday brings 13 new ministers to the government, including those overseeing housing, higher education, planning, inv...

The stars of “The ’Burbs” stopped by the New York Times kitchen studio to make a stack of gluten-free pancakes.

On June 8, 1967, the Israeli military machine-gunned, bombed and torpedoed the U.S.S. Liberty, an American vessel floating off the Sinai Peninsula, killing 34 service members.Those facts are not in dispute. But almost everything else about the attack is driving a wedge through the MAGA movement.On one side are prominent voices like...

MILAN (AP) — The Minions made it.After a music rights dispute that took over the Winter Olympics, Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate donned his yellow-and-blue costume and brought the mischievous spirit of the Minions to Milan in the men’s short program Monday.“It felt amazin...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year. The families say state and federal law enforcement...

A state prosecutor has subpoenaed the city of Jacksonville to look for evidence of what the Florida attorney general alleges is immigration enforcement interference by Mayor Donna Deegan’s Hispanic outreach coordinator.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the subpoena in a post...

Nevada will pay $447,000 in court-ordered fines for continued delays in providing mental health care to criminal defendants in Clark County, the latest sign of its struggles to quickly provide treatment.Defendants deemed unfit for trial are supposed to be transferred to a mental health facil...

A federal civil jury issued a verdict Monday clearing three Richmond police officers of any liability in the 2021 in-custody death of 47-year-old Ivan Gutzalenko of Concord.The jury came back with its ruling less than two hours after hearing closing arguments in the trial, which began Feb. 2...

The owners of Colony Ridge, a Houston-area developer accused of running a predatory lending scheme that deceived Latinos, agreed to a sweeping legal settlement that will require them to invest in law enforcement and infrastructure on their properties and tighten selling practices to address...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors wit...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy nearly two years ago says she doesn’t want people to forget about her son and is still seeking accountability so it doesn’t happen to someone else.Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 2...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Mon...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado suspended his campaign for governor on Tuesday, ending his challenge to fellow Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul as she seeks reelection to a second full term.Delgado had been running since last summer as a progressive alternative to Hochul. But...

More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Border Patrol predictive domestic intelligenc...

ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor hours after its prime minister signaled there could be a detente. The Gordie Ho...

MILAN (AP) — For fans of the Milan Cortina Olympic mascots, the eponymous Milo and Tina, it’s been nearly impossible to find a plush toy of the stoat siblings in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.Many of the official Olympics stores in the host cities are already sold out, less than a week into th...

PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — Slovenia defended its gold medal in mixed team ski jumping at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday, and sibling stars Domen and Nika Prevc became the first brother and sister to win a medal on the normal hill at the same Olympics.Norway took silver with a foursome that i...

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...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and flares during a demonstration Tuesday night in central Tirana by thousands of opposition supporters demanding the resignation of Albania’s government. Sixteen protesters were treat...

European Parliament passed new legislation letting member states deport migrants to designated “safe” countries outside the EU even if they are not from those nations.European lawmakers approved the measure on Tuesday with a vote of 396‑226 as centre and far-right members backed it.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trum...

Washington, DC – Tom Malinowski, a moderate Democrat, has conceded defeat to progressive Analilia Mejia in a crowded primary race in New Jersey for the United States House of Representatives.But the race is being called a loss not just for Malinowski but also for the influential pro-Israel organisation that opposed him: the America...

The United States has imposed sanctions on a gold firm in Lebanon that it accused of having ties to Hezbollah as Washington pushes to choke off the group’s revenue streams.The administration of US President Donald Trump blacklisted Jood SARL on Tuesday, saying the company is helping convert Hezbollah’s “gold reserves into usable fu...

Zimbabwe’s ‌cabinet backed draft legislation that would change the constitution to extend presidential terms from five years to seven, allowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030.Other proposed changes in the bill presented to the cabinet on Tuesday include ⁠a provision that the president be elected by parlia...

Two young boys spend a day with their oft absent father in Lagos amid political turbulence in “My Father’s Shadow,” an affecting debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr.The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, might have missed out on the Oscars (the U.K.’s selection didn’...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Six former players on the women’s basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh have sued coach Tory Verdi and the school over what they call abusive coaching methods and say their efforts to seek help were ignored. “These players aren’t soft. We aren’t talking about se...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Before a new landlord shuttered the iconic Brickyard Lounge and Grill last month, you could walk into the tiny, race-themed restaurant located two miles from Daytona International Speedway, skip the menu and ask them to bring you what NASCAR chairman Jim France ord...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire.The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. gover...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history. The multicolored flag, one of the world’s most well known emble...

LONDON (AP) — In an earlier era, Britain’s royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Not during the reign of King Charles III.Since October, the king has stripped his younger brother of the right to be called p...

Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency led by entertainment industry executive and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman, who appears in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein.Wasserman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with...

Opposition to a deal that would allow U.S. companies access to critical minerals in Congo is growing after Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi returned from the U.S. minerals summit last week — with praises from U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers.Tshisekedi has offered U.S. compan...

MILAN (AP) — Dustin Gazley grew up in Novi, Michigan, played hockey at Michigan State, led the ECHL in scoring one season and skated in more than 300 games in the American Hockey League. Then he took his talents to Europe and settled in Bolzano in the Italian Alps.“I haven’t looked back,” Ga...

YANOUH, Lebanon (AP) — Mourners in southern Lebanon on Tuesday buried a father and his young son killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a Hezbollah member.Hassan Jaber, a police officer, and his child, Ali, were on foot when the strike on Monday hit a passing car in the center of th...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are...

Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new request for information regarding butylated hydroxyanisole, a preserv...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to four years in prison for acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government while working as a campaign adviser for a local politician.Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Los Angeles after pleading guil...

NEW YORK (AP) — The operator of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus said that it will close eight Saks Fifth Avenue stores as well as its Neiman Marcus Boston store as it focuses on its most profitable businesses and pares down debt during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.Saks Fifth A...

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United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played down his connections to child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails shared details about their interactions.Facing calls for his resignation, Lutnick told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he “barely knew” Epstein, although emails appear to contradict his...

Washington, DC – No other world leader has visited the United States in an official capacity over the past year more than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.And the Israeli prime minister is set to break his own record when he embarks on yet another trip to the US this week – his sixth since President Donald Trump returned to the White Ho...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will present Donald Trump with “principles” for negotiating with Iran as he heads to Washington, DC, for his sixth official visit with the US president over the past year.Netanyahu hailed the “unique closeness” between Israel and the United States and his own warm ties to Trump befo...

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.