Though Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed $200-per-person election-year rebate will dominate the political conversation, most of the $28.7 billion budget he released Wednesday will simply maintain a course he and legislators have already charted.The governor’s blueprint for the fiscal year that star...

The incoming archbishop of New York said Thursday that he plans to emphasize the importance of evangelizing as he takes charge of one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses.“How do we be actually be disciples, who do we make disciples?” Ronald Hicks said during a news conference at St. Patrick’s C...

MILAN (AP) — Finland’s national women’s hockey team is getting support and sympathy from its opponents at the Milan Cortina Olympics.Several coaches and hockey officials expressed “Get Well” wishes on Thursday after Finland had to postpone it’s opening pre...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees have rejected a top-secret complaint from an anonymous government insider alleging that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard withheld classified information for political reasons.The res...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday announced an additional $6 million in aid for Cuba as the island’s crisis deepens and tensions escalate between the two countries, with Cuba’s president accusing the U.S. of an “energy blockade.”The ai...

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...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina and the United States said they reached an expansive trade deal on Thursday, boosting Argentine President Javier Milei as he moves to open up the South American nation’s notoriously protectionist economy and reflecting the close alliance b...

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...

NORTH CREEK, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly 70 people were rescued from gondola cabins at an upstate New York ski area after a mechanical problem forced a shutdown of the lift system, leaving skiers stranded for hours up to 70 feet (21 meters) in the air, authorities said.Staff at Gore Mountain in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three people were killed and at least six others were hurt when a car slammed into a grocery store Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, authorities said. The crash was reported shortly after noon at a 99 Ranch Market in the city’s Westwood neighborhood, according...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s legislature on Thursday advanced an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez that could lead to the release of hundreds of opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists detained for political reasons.Such...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has faced questions from the United States Senate about President Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to slash interest rates, despite concerns that such a move could turbo-charge inflation.Bessent appeared on Thursday before the Senate’s Financial Stability Oversight Council.Recommended Stories list of...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned of the threat of a military escalation in the Middle East before talks between Iran and the United States in Oman on Friday.Speaking in Doha on Thursday, Merz said that fears of a new conflict had characterised his talks during his trip to the Gulf region.Recommended Stories list of 3 ite...

Laylah Rivers had already been a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and worked at various tech companies across the West Coast. But when she enrolled at a Los Angeles community college at 31, she was just another freshman — alongside students nearly half her age.Luckily, West Los Angeles College h...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama has joined a growing number of Republican-led states seeking to revive the death penalty for child rape, a sentence outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008.Alabama approved legislation Thursday to add rape and sexual torture of a child under 12...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The writings of the person who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville can be made available to the public, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The ruling is part of a yearslong dispute over public...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A $13.5 million settlement has been reached with six children who were placed into an abusive home in California after they had previously been rescued from squalid and torturous conditions in their parents’ home, according to a copy of the settlement.Riverside Count...

Jurors have awarded $8.3 million to the family of a Kansas foster teen who died in 2021 after he was held facedown for 39 minutes in a juvenile intake center while in the throes of a mental health crisis. Five juvenile officers in Sedgwick County either used excessive force on Cedric “C.J.”...

NEW YORK (AP) — Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, who both dropped out of Kennedy Center appearances after President Donald Trump took over the venue, will give a joint concert at Carnegie Hall as part of a 2026-27 season that also will include a Philip Glass symphony he withdrew from the Nation...

“Do you give?”It can be a pertinent question in any relationship, but it’s a particularly poignant one for the BDSM couple of Harry Lighton’s kink-friendly, disarmingly affecting romance “Pillion.”Like most lovers, Colin (Harry Melling) and Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) have an understanding. OK...

Scarlet Sands-Bliss, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, typically gets up at 6 a.m. to make the drive to rural Lake County, where she’s researching how community members can prepare for extreme heat events. Last Monday evening, after a long day of meetings with tribal representatives and behavi...

Steven Tendo, a Ugandan minister and nursing assistant who moved to Vermont in 2021 while seeking asylum, was detained in Shelburne on Wednesday morning by federal immigration agents, according to the union he’s a part of and the advocacy group Migrant Justice.Tendo was detained by U.S. Immi...

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...

Voters in northern New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District will select nominees in a special congressional primary on Thursday to replace Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the U.S. House now that she’s governor. The winner of the Democratic primary will face the only candidate in the Republican pr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Telehealth company Hims & Hers said Thursday it will launch a cheaper, off-brand version of the weight-loss pill Wegovy, just weeks after drugmaker Novo Nordisk launched its highly anticipated reformulation of the blockbuster medication.The announcement from Hims is the lat...

Pizza Hut plans to close 250 U.S. restaurants in the first half of this year as its parent company considers a sale of the chain.Yum Brands said Wednesday it’s targeting underperforming Pizza Hut restaurants in its system. Pizza Hut has more than 6,000 locations in the U.S.Louisville, Kentuc...

It’s an annual ritual in Michigan: The state proclaiming how much cash the lottery is pouring into schools. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced that for the seventh year in a row, the lottery contributed more than $1 billion to the School Aid Fund.But buying a $1 scratch-off doesn’t mea...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the Wh...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man was arrested Thursday on charges of cyberstalking and threatening to kill or assault Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers involved in the crackdown in Minnesota.Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Kyle Wagner, 37, of Minneapolis, was char...

ZAPOPAN, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican state of Jalisco on Thursday issued a health alert and mandated the use of face masks in schools as a measles outbreak hit the state capital, a key host city for the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup.The measures come on the heels of an epidemiological alert iss...

NEW YORK (AP) — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led to new kinds of art, music and more.Now, for...

The United States embassy in Poland says it is breaking off contact with the country’s parliamentary speaker over what it calls “outrageous” insults directed at President Donald Trump.US Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose said on Thursday that the decision to end all dealings with Wlodzimierz Czarzasty would take effect “immediately”.Th...

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...

Italy 4, France 1Italy112—4France100—1First Period_1. France, Gabrielle de Serres (Clara Rozier), 9:42. 2. Italy, Kayla Tutino (Nadia Mattivi, 10:42. Penalties_Franziska Stocker, Italy (tripping), 9:12.Second Period_3. Italy, Rebecca Roccella (Kristin Della Rovere, Laura Lobis), 35:17. Penal...

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Goldberg brings a stack of newspapers to the office every day. The CEO of a Florida public relations firm scours stories for developments relevant to her clients while relishing holding the pages in her hand. “I want to touch it, feel it, turn the page and see the pho...

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate barely budged this week, staying close to 6% as the spring home-buying season nears.The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate edged up to 6.11%, essentially flat compared to last week when it was 6.1%, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. On...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch military has got a new high-profile volunteer as it seeks to boost recruitment to counter growing fears about peace and security in Europe.Queen Máxima, the 54-year-old Argentinean-born wife of King Willem-Alexander, started training this week to becom...

For much of two decades, police, FBI agents and prosecutors investigated allegations that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls. Now, the Justice Department has released much of what they found to the public.The millions of documents comprise the most detailed look yet at the inner...

NEW YORK (AP) — During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right.The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the fi...

The Senate Elections Committee adopted a measure on Tuesday that would, at least partially, restore the system to allow Mississippians to bypass the Legislature and put issues to a statewide vote. The committee voted to approve Senate Concurrent Resolution 518, which would require initiative...

MANSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying hazardous materials tumbling into a river, though officials say they don’t appear to be leaking. Local and state officials said the incident happened shortly before 9:30 a.m. along the Willimantic...

Brad Karp, chairman of one of the country’s most prestigious law firms, has resigned from his position after the release of emails revealing his exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein, a high-profile departure in the fallout among those with ties to the late convicted sex offender.A statement Wednes...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors. The agency announced Thursday that food labels may claim to have “no artificial colors” when they are free of petroleum-based dyes, even when they con...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will launch TrumpRx, a website it says will help patients buy prescription drugs directly from manufacturers at a discounted rate at a time when health care and the cost of living are growing concerns for Americans.The government-hosted we...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says it would be “up to the president” to decide whether or not to sue Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, if he fails to lower interest rates.During remarks at a private black-tie dinner of the elite Alfalfa Clu...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Republic of Congo’s President Denis Sassou N’guesso announced Thursday that he will run in the March 15 presidential election, possibly extending his decades-long hold on power in the Central African country.The 82-year-old Sassou N’guesso made the annou...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha has reiterated that his team will abide by his government’s ruling not to play India in the much-anticipated Twenty20 World Cup fixture next week.India vs. Pakistan is usually the showpiece match in world tournaments — the eyeballs o...

TORONTO (AP) — Seven Toronto police officers and one retired officer have been arrested and charged in an organized crime investigation involving bribery, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking, authorities said Thursday. Police officials at a news conference said the officers had...

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...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — An explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya on Thursday, killing at least 18 workers and injuring another, authorities said.Police officer Vikash Kumar said rescue teams recovered 18 bodies from the site of the explosion...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has agreed to reveal the vetting process used by the ruling Labour Party to approve Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States in December 2024 after new revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files about the relationship between the diplomat and the billi...

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Ja Morant are waiting to learn whether they’ll be changing addresses after a former MVP and plenty of other big-name players already have switched teams ahead of Thursday’s NBA trade deadline.Antetokounmpo has been the center of attention heading into the trade dead...

MILAN (AP) — Show respect. Be humble and a good Olympic partner. Keep Team USA athletes safe.United States Olympic leaders set out goals Thursday for the Milan Cortina Winter Games that arrive during what they acknowledged is “a period of geopolitical turmoil.”The days before the opening cer...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — A BYU sports team was the target of a derogatory chant in an opponent’s venue for at least the fourth time in a year, and the Big 12 again announced that the conference is looking into the matter.Kevin Young, coach of the 16th-ranked Cougars men’s basketball team, sa...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The league MVP and the winners of the other seven AP NFL awards will be announced at NFL Honors on Thursday night, just days ahead of Super Bowl 60. Christian McCaffrey is only the second player to be a finalist for three AP NFL awards in the same year. He joins Josh All...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Andrés Velásquez didn’t stick around to become one more government critic jailed after Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election.A former governor who had crisscrossed Venezuela stumping for then-President Nicolás Maduro’s opponent in the disputed race, he grew a thick...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection on Thursday, offering the moderate governor some progressive heft as she faces a challenge from her political left in her campaign for a second full term in office. In an op-ed in The Nation, Mam...

Sweden 4, Germany 1Sweden121—4Germany100—1First Period_1. Germany, Katarina Jobst-Smith (Luisa Welcke, Carina Stoebel), 8:30. 2. Sweden, Lina Ljungblom (Feliza Wikner Zienkiewicz, Jenna Raunio), 11:53. Penalties_Nina Christof, Germany (cross-checking), Sara Hjalmarsson, Sweden (slashing), La...

MILAN (AP) — The puck dropped Thursday on the first game at the Milan Cortina Olympics in the newly built hockey arena that needed a rush to the eleventh hour to finish.The women’s game between host Italy and France followed several days of practices on the brand new sheet of ice that had to...

The Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly food-poisoning outbreak in 2024 is back in business, company officials said.The Jarratt, Virginia, site resumed limited operations on Monday, nearly 17 months after it was shut down following the listeria outbreak that killed 10 people and sic...

SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, Cuba (AP) — The smell of sulfur hits hard in this coastal town that produces petroleum and is home to one of Cuba’s largest thermoelectric plants. Yet, even as the plant cranks back to life, residents remain in the dark, surrounded by energy sources they cannot use.As t...

The price of bitcoin continued its monthslong slide Thursday, falling another 11% to $67,000, its lowest level in 15 months.The original cryptocurrency, pitched as “digital gold,” has lost 46% of its value since Oct. 6, when it hit a record high of $126,210.50, according to crypto trading pl...

ZURICH (AP) — A record number of 5,973 international transfers were recorded in the January trading window for men’s soccer, according to a FIFA report released Thursday.That marks a 3% increase from the previous year in global deals between clubs in the countries that are processed by FIFA....

AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — Basic services at a camp in northeast Syria holding thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group are returning to normal after government forces captured the facility from Kurdish fighters, a United Nations official said on Thursday.Forces of Syria’s...

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...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Thursday indicted a brother of the chief of Israel’s security service for smuggling tens of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes into war-ravaged Gaza Strip at a time when getting aid into the territory was difficult and many Palestinians were going h...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Organizers of an international flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on Thursday announced plans for another mission with more than 100 boats in March.Campaigners, who organized a similar aid flotilla last year, described the upcoming mission as the biggest...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings fell to the lowest level in more than five years, another sign that the American labor market remains sluggish.The Labor Department reported Thursday that vacancies fell to 6.5 million in December — from 6.9 million in November and the fewest since Septemb...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday said he hoped an ongoing legal battle with a Hong Kong firm over operations of Panama Canal ports would “not escalate,” but that Panama’s government would remain firm in its ruling against the company.“Panama is a dignified...