DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions had a lot of things go right in Sunday’s 34-10 win against the Cleveland Browns. Now they need to find out how costly the game will be in the long run. The Lions (3-1) lost both starting cornerbacks to injuries against the Browns — D.J. Reed to a hamstring injury and Terrion Arnold to a shoulder pro...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Darren Waller’s return game was one to remember. The Miami Dolphins tight end — playing his first game since the end of the 2023 season — caught two touchdown passes for only the third time in his career, helping his team beat the New York Jets 27-21 on Monday night for their first win of the season. “It’...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Unburdened by expectations, the young Utah Jazz feel like they have nowhere to go but up. The Jazz, who had the worst record in the NBA last season at 17-65, lost three of their top scorers — John Collins, Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton — clearing the way for a monumental youth movement. First-round draft p...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The only splashes made this summer by the Minnesota Timberwolves were new contracts for two of their best big men, an unusually quiet offseason for an organization that has rarely been far from the next round of upheaval. The front office stayed intact. No roster-rattling trade was made in the days leading up to...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell already had plenty of motivation in his offseason workouts after the Cleveland Cavaliers were eliminated by the Indiana Pacers in five games in the Eastern Conference semifinals despite being the top seed. His drive went to another gear when he heard last month Max Strus was going to be out the fir...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — There’s a new vibe and plenty of buzz surrounding the Orlando Magic after a splashy offseason. It’s been a while since they were considered championship contenders. The Magic are favorites to repeat as Southeast division champions, have the third-best odds to win the Eastern Conference and are eighth-best to ca...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — While rookie Yang Hansen prepares for his first NBA season, the Portland Trail Blazers are readying for the onslaught of attention their Chinese big man will bring the team. Expectations are high for the 20-year-old who has faced the inevitable comparisons to fellow countryman and former NBA great Yao Ming. Bl...

CHICAGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres were terrific at Petco Park this season, going 52-29 on their way to an NL wild card. It was a different story on the road, where Manny Machado and company finished with a 38-43 record. When it comes to any sort of explanation for the discrepancy, well, Machado has no idea. “Can you please go fin...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Detroit’s Tarik Skubal will be back on the mound at Progressive Field on Tuesday for the first game of the AL Wild Card Series against Cleveland. The start comes one week after the Tigers ace had a nightmare sixth inning against the Guardians. Skubal threw a 99 mph fastball that struck David Fry in the nose and fac...

BEIJING (AP) — Coco Gauff broke Belinda Bencic’s serve to open the deciding set and went on to beat the Swiss player 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 on Tuesday to advance to the China Open quarterfinals. The second-seeded Gauff improved her head-to-head career meetings with the 28-year-old Bencic to 4-2. Three of those matches have come this yea...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cincinnati came crashing into the postseason on the final day of the regular season, and the callow Reds are riding a surge of momentum they hope will carry them against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. “The dangers are the youthful enthusiasm, the naivete,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sa...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — For the first time since the season opener, Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson disliked much of what he saw from his team. That changed near the very end of Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Johnson couldn’t complain about the result — a flawed 25-24 victory sealed by Josh Blackwell’s blocked field...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Las Vegas Raiders coach Pete Carroll isn’t ready to panic over the performance of quarterback Geno Smith. His other option is to go to Kenny Pickett, who is on his fourth team in 18 months. But if Las Vegas is to do anything of significance this season, the Carroll-Smith combination that found success in Seat...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani will “probably” make his postseason pitching debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers if their NL Wild Card Series against the Cincinnati Reds goes to a deciding third game. The entire series will be played at Dodger Stadium, starting Tuesday. Game 3 would be Thursday. Manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani is “...

DENVER (AP) — Jake Browning and the Cincinnati offense marched right down the field with relative ease for a field goal on the opening drive Monday night. They wouldn’t run a play on the other side of midfield again. A smothering defense led by Nik Bonitto and Pat Surtain helped the Denver Broncos to a 28-3 win over the Bengals. Ci...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Justin Fields is not giving up hope with the New York Jets at 0-4. The hard work hasn’t produced any results yet for Fields and first-year coach Aaron Glenn, who was brought in to change the Jets’ culture after Robert Saleh was fired last year in the middle of what became a 5-12 season. So far, it’s been...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans will host the college football national championship game for the 2027 season, a person familiar with the decision said Monday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because a formal announcement involving Gov. Jeff Landry was scheduled for Wednesday. The game will be held...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has offensive help on the way, a freshman receiver who just might make a difference against No. 9 Texas on Saturday. Dallas Wilson is practicing for the first time since injuring his left foot in training camp and is scheduled to make his collegiate debut against the Longhorns, coach Billy Napier sa...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — No. 10 Alabama will be without starting outside linebacker Qua Russaw for “an extended period” with a broken foot, coach Kalen DeBoer said Monday. The sophomore suffered the injury early in a 24-21 win at Georgia on Saturday and was scheduled for surgery this week. He played just eight snaps against the Bull...

NEW YORK (AP) — As several ballparks around the majors buzzed with playoff preparations Monday, from Yankee Stadium to Wrigley Field, the one standing at 41 Seaver Way in Queens sat conspicuously empty. A weathered New York Mets tarp covered the mound, another one encircled home plate. No possibility of any October baseball coming...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Moments after Tyreek Hill was injured on Monday night, the Miami Dolphins star receiver flashed a bright smile and told a few jokes to teammates as he was carted off the field at Hard Rock Stadium. Hill had just dislocated his knee on a scary play in the third quarter of Miami’s 27-21 win over the New Yor...

Democratic senators introduced a bill Monday that would rewrite a 1961 law prohibiting college sports conferences from banding together to sell their media rights. It’s a move they say is designed to protect athletes, Olympics sports and smaller leagues that could be getting priced out of the increasingly expensive business of name...

DENVER (AP) — Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos finally justified their head coach’s talking them up all offseason. Nix threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to atone for his end zone interception and the Broncos snapped a two-game skid by sending the Cincinnati Bengals to their second straight blowout loss, 28-3 Monday night. T...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins fired manager Rocco Baldelli on Monday, ending his seven-year tenure that included three AL Central titles but only one playoff appearance over his final five seasons. Baldelli’s dismissal came after a second straight dispiriting finish by the Twins, this one marked by a major selloff leading...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bruce Bochy will not return as manager of the Texas Rangers after a three-year stint that began with the franchise’s first World Series championship in 2023 before missing the playoffs and not having a winning record in both seasons since then. The Rangers announced Monday night that the team and Bochy mutua...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard said Monday he didn’t receive all of the money he was owed from a California company he had an endorsement deal with in a business relationship that is under investigation by the NBA, but he insisted there was no wrongdoing. The Los Angeles Clippers superstar spoke for the first time publicly...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill’s season for the Miami Dolphins potentially came to a sudden end on Monday night, when the standout wide receiver’s left knee became badly twisted shortly after he made a catch near the sideline. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Hill was diagnosed with a dislocated knee. Hill was to remain ho...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent headquarters to tell each other — and those who administer the pl...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Gunfire erupted during a peace rally in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding over two dozen others, police and government officials said. Local police officer Mohammad Afzal said the shooting happened as hundreds of people marched along a main road in Muzaffarabad, the r...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of trying to join the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 23, changed his plea to guilty during an appearance before U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank in St...

PARIS (AP) — At Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello dialed up the drama Monday night at Paris Fashion Week with a set of gigantic white flowers that loomed like a cinematic backdrop. If the blooms hinted at delicacy, the clothes told another story: big, bold, and unafraid of excess. Madonna was in attendance, and at times she stole t...

As Gaza’s humanitarian crisis grows, some women say they have been exploited by local men promising food, money, water, supplies or work in exchange for sexual interaction. For an Associated Press report, six women described their experiences, each speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from their families or th...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer will say Tuesday that Britain faces a stark choice between decency and division, in an attempt to reset his government and stem the rising popularity of the hard-right party Reform UK. Starmer will tell his center-left Labour Party that Britain faces “a fight for the soul of our...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — In Paraguay, one of the most conservative countries in the Americas, many LGBTQ+ people feel compelled to leave their hometowns due to discrimination, harassment and gender-based violence. Social rejection and the absence of legal protections take a particular toll on transgender women like Alejandra Monge...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A Mexican marine biologist was seriously injured after he was attacked by a shark while working off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast and transferred to a hospital in the country’s capital on Monday, authorities said. Costa Rica’s Fire Department said it had rescued 48-year-old Mauricio Hoyos from the attack Sa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is just hours away from yet another federal government shutdown, with prospects looking rather bleak for a last-minute compromise in Congress to avoid federal closures beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Republicans have crafted a short-term measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, but Democrats h...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For all he had already accomplished in life, San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama realized he truly had not done much. Lying in a hospital bed awaiting surgery that could potentially save his life, much less an NBA career, Wembanyama waited for relief from a deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. It le...

The Utah college where conservative leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated lacked several key public safety measures and practices that have become standard safeguards for security at events around the country, an Associated Press review has found. Utah Valley University’s outdoor courtyard, where Kirk showed up on Sept. 10 to debate...

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Turning Point USA’s college tour will return to Utah on Tuesday for its first event in the state since its founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on a college campus earlier this month. The stop, at Utah State University in Logan, is about two hours north of Utah Valley University, where Kirk was killed Sept. 10...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed his “Global Governance Initiative,” Beijing made its intent clear at the most global of forums — that it should, and is qualified to, help shape the world order even as the United States tips more inward under Donald Trump. In a seemingly jargon-filled spe...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s foreign minister has “renounced” her U.S. visa to protest a decision by the U.S. State Department to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Colombian government said Monday. The decision by Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio comes as tensions between both nations escalate over...

BANGKOK (AP) — An appeals court in Thailand on Tuesday upheld a two-year prison sentence for a lawmaker from the progressive People’s Party for defaming the monarchy in a speech she made four years ago. The court in Bangkok granted Chonthicha Jangrew’s request for bail, which was set at 150,000 baht ($4,600). Chonthicha said she wo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has released President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported the plan following a meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday, but it’s unclear if Hamas will accept these terms. Here is Trump’s proposal, verbatim: 1....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to 19 in the country with more missing. Rainfall topped 30 centimeters (nearly a foot) in parts of Vietnam over the past 24 hours, the national weather agency said Tuesday. It warned that heavy do...

After weeks of scraping by to feed her six children in Gaza, the 38-year-old woman thought she’d found a lifeline. At a shelter, a friend told her about a man who could help with food, aid, maybe even a job. The woman — separated from her husband, and forced to shutter the business that once kept the family afloat — approached him....

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors Tuesday a day after the structure fell. At least three students were killed, more than 100 were injured and dozens were presumed burie...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful car bomb went off outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary security forces in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding several others, authorities said. Residents said the blast was so powerful it was heard from miles away. Ambulances rushed...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press. The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols form...

Hamas said Tuesday it will discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza within the group and with other Palestinian factions before responding. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already thrown his support behind it but it’s unclear whether Hamas will agree or when it would give its response. The proposal de...

Journalists who cover the Pentagon and the Trump admnistration are in a standoff about new rules that limit the access of the media to most areas within the Pentagon and appear to condition overall entry to the building on an agreement to restrictions in reporting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team characterizes the changes as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled th...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law that aims to prevent people from using powerful artificial intelligence models for potentially catastrophic activities like building a bioweapon or shutting down a bank system. The move comes as Newsom touted California as a leader in AI regulation and cr...

NEW YORK (AP) — In what could become the largest-ever buyout funded by private equity, video game maker Electronic Arts has agreed to be acquired in a deal valued at $55 billion. Beyond the potentially record-breaking price tag, the deal could bring wider shifts in the gaming world. Electronic Arts (EA) owns popular titles like Mad...

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed in narrow trading Tuesday as investors braced for a possible U.S. government shutdown. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 declined nearly 0.3% to finish at 44,932.63. China reported lackluster data on factory activity for September that reflect persistent weakness in the world’s second largest economy...

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol following the election that resulted in him leaving the White House for four years. The settlement of the more than four-year-old case earma...

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s factory activity shrank for a sixth straight month in September, the longest slump since 2019, an official report said Tuesday. The official manufacturing purchasing managers index, or PMI, improved to 49.8 from 49.4 in August. But it remained below the 50-cutoff level between contraction and expansion on a...

At least 100 federal investigators are responding to an attack in a Michigan community where a former Marine crashed a pickup into a Mormon church during a Sunday service, shot into the building and set it ablaze. The police chief said officers were on the scene within 30 seconds after a 911 call and eventually fatally shot the man...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on Thursday after becoming infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, a strain of avian flu. Foundation officials...

HUDSON, Fla. (AP) — A man on Florida’s Gulf Coast has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities said he killed, cooked and ate two of his pet peacocks. The 61-year-old man from Hudson, Florida, was arrested last week on a third-degree felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty, according to an affidavit from the Pasco Coun...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people on a Florida highway last month waived his first appearance hearing Monday and entered a not guilty plea, court records show. Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old native of India, is being held in the St. Lucie County Jail...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A state agency revoked the professional license of the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on Monday, days after federal agents arrested him on accusations that he was living and working in the country illegally. The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners said in a letter to Des Moines public schools Superi...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin police on Monday outlined how a new, rapidly unfolding DNA and ballistics evidence trail led them to declare a dead man as the likely perpetrator in the killing of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop in 1991, a horrific crime that haunted the city for decades. And officials noted there was no kno...

Jennifer Allen has wanted to be a teacher since high school. She admired her social studies and English teachers especially. After four years studying elementary education at Delta State University and a full-time teaching position in a local district her senior year, she felt she had cleared all the important hurdles to becoming a...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for a new trial for the South Florida matriarch who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law. Donna Adelson is facing a life sentence for her role in the 2014 murder-for-hire of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Earlier this month, jurors r...

HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call at the home of a suspect who appeared to have later killed himself, authorities said. Hays Police Sgt. Scott Heimann died of his injuries early Sunday after being transported by air to a hospital, the Kansas Bureau of Inv...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care — actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to “minimize the damage from President Trump’s disastrous bill” cutting federal taxes an...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state House member who advocated for Palestinians at the 2024 Democratic National Convention is entering the state’s race for governor. Ruwa Romman announced her 2026 bid for governor on Monday, saying Democrats need a clearer progressive vision and greater focus on organizing voters. She’s at least the eig...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former state economic development director for Wisconsin, who previously worked as an executive at a dairy cooperative, announced Monday that she is running for governor as a Democrat, promising to reject “divisive politics.” Missy Hughes took a less combative approach toward Republican President Donald Tru...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “ doxing ” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, federal prosecutors said. Investigators said the women followed the agent home, livestreamed their pursuit and then posted th...

On a recent Saturday near Seattle, Cheryl Ewaldsen pulled three golden loaves of wheat bread out of her kitchen oven. The fragrant, oat-topped bread was destined not for her table, but for a local food bank, to be distributed to families increasingly struggling with hunger and the high cost of groceries. “I just get really excited...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 5-11: Oct. 5: Singer Arlene Smith of The Chantels is 84. Singer-guitarist Steve Miller is 82. Singer Brian Johnson of AC/DC is 78. Actor Karen Allen is 74. Director Clive Barker is 73. Guitarist David Bryson of Counting Crows is 71. Astrophysicist and “Cosmos” host Neil deGrasse Tyson is 67....

Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member was set to tour in support of his book, “Cat on the Road to Findout,” which will release in the U.S. on Oct. 7 and was made avail...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — Party leaders in Congress have long criticized government shutdowns as toxic and destructive. “Always a bad idea,” former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of shutdowns in 2024. A potential “disaster,” Democratic Leader Chuck...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton has postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges,” the country legend shared on social media Sunday night. She did not provide specific details, writing, “As many of you know, I have been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few...

NEW YORK (AP) — The singing trio behind HUNTR/X, the fictional music group at the center of the summer’s massively popular animated film “KPop Demon Hunters,” is scheduled to perform live for the first time Oct. 7 on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The NBC show announced Monday that Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami will per...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for the drug’s potential in treating one of the most common forms of chronic pain. The 800-patient study by a German drugmaker is the latest evidence of the therapeutic properties of cannabis, whi...

President Donald Trump says he will slap a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States — a vague directive aimed at protecting a business that America already dominates. Claiming that movie production “has been stolen’’ from Hollywood and the U.S., Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that “I will be imposing a 100% tari...