LOS ANGELES (AP) — Formula 1 team Cadillac is confident it can resolve a dispute with filmmaker Michael Bay, who is suing for $1.5 million for his ideas being used without permission in a Super Bowl commercial.In a 19-page lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court of California,...

BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They’ve come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it.At dawn, they eat a simple breakfast and won’t eat again until dusk. They’ll spend all day checking th...

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...

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will “support” UK police assessing reports that the former Prince Andrew gave confidential information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The statement on Monday came after police said they were examining reports that the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, sent tra...

The United States military has announced seizing a Venezuela-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean, a move that Washington said demonstrates its determination to enforce its oil blockade on the South American country even “halfway around the world”.The Pentagon said on Monday that it captured the tanker as part of a campaign by US Pres...

The associate and former girlfriend of convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has declined to answer questions during a deposition before the United States Congress.Lawmakers expressed frustration after Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping Epstein abuse teenage girls, invoked h...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

Two websites that distribute instructions for how to manufacture ghost guns are facing a new lawsuit from the state of California alleging that they provide access to illegal and untraceable firearms.The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu,...

It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is a novel that has vexed critics since the beginning, with one in 1848 decrying its “vulgar depravity and unn...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance translated into an immediate surge in global listening, with new data from Apple Music showing sharp gains across streaming charts, playlists and music discovery platforms in the hours following the show.Apple Music, a Super Bo...

On a recent weekday morning as Ashley Fairbanks sat in a salon chair getting her hair done, she put out a call to her 49,000 followers on BlueSky: Twelve families needed their rent paid, urgently.There was no time for fundraisers or applications for emergency rental assistance; they needed t...

Forklifts drove across the frozen campus of Pleasant River Lumber’s sawmill in Enfield on a bitter January morning with ease, preparing neatly wrapped stacks of softwood lumber for customers from Boston to Baltimore.Business was humming and has been for a while even as other forest products...

NEW YORK (AP) — One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 bill...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend.“She’s 41 years old and this...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Vladyslav Heraskevych showed up for the Milan Cortina Olympics with a new helmet, one featuring the images of about a half-dozen of his fellow Ukrainian athletes.They were all killed in Russian attacks.And Heraskevych wants to offer a tribute.The men’s skeleto...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won the first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics over the weekend, and he added another on Day 3.It’s turning into quite the Olympic debut for von Allmen, who partnered with Tanguy Nef to win the team combined Monday...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan reversed its decision to boycott the T20 World Cup game against India and was directed to “take the field” in Colombo next Sunday.A weeklong impasse ended on Monday, a day after International Cricket Council director Imran Khawaja and Bangladesh Cricket Board presid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The children of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, said Monday that a possible visit by President Donald Trump to Beijing in April could be “crucial” in securing the release of their 78-year-old father.Lai’s son and daughter pleaded fo...

For his Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny transported the field in Northern California around 3,500 miles, transforming it into the fields of Puerto Rico. Even before he launched into “Tití Me Preguntó,” the Puerto Rican superstar had suffused the set with symbols of the island — and a sen...

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....

Islamabad, Pakistan – A new survey indicates nearly three-quarters of Pakistanis support deploying troops to the Gaza Strip as part of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF).The findings of the poll by Gallup Pakistan come as media reports suggested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the first formal meeting of Uni...

Duke climbed up to No. 11 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 poll on Monday thanks to a 15-game winning streak.The Blue Devils took over sole possession of first-place in the ACC last week with a one-point victory over then-No. 6 Louisville. Duke, which jumped six places...

The ties between disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Israel are becoming clearer after the release of millions of documents related to the convicted sex offender by the United States Department of Justice, following a years-long campaign.The documents have revealed more details of Epstein’s interactions with members of...

MILAN (AP) — Sidney Crosby is 16 years removed from his first Olympics, when he scored the golden goal to give Canada a much needed title on home ice at the 2010 Vancouver Games.“There’s some days that it feels like 12 years and other days where it feels like yesterday,” Crosby said.Rasmus D...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel in the island, part of a critical energy rationing going into place as the Trump administration cuts the island off from its fuel resources, a commercial pilot confirmed on Monday...

Iran’s atomic energy chief says Tehran is open to diluting its highly enriched uranium if the United States ends sanctions, signalling flexibility on a key demand by the US.Mohammad Eslami made the comments to reporters on Monday, saying the prospects of Iran diluting its 60-percent-enriched uranium, a threshold close to weapons gr...

Arizona remained firmly atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for a ninth consecutive week Monday, while Houston jumped back into the top 5 and Kentucky returned to the rankings for the first time since December.Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats (23-0) claimed all 59 first-plac...

Social media users incorrectly identified a small boy who was part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas.The boy was actually L...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

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...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal judges around the country are scrambling to address a deluge of lawsuits from immigrants locked up under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.Under past administrations, people with no criminal record could generally request a bond hearing before an imm...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s opposition leader charged with treason appeared in court for the first time in months on Monday, but the hearing was adjourned yet again after he opposed the prosecution’s plan to have secret witnesses appear in a special enclosed cell.Opposition leader Tundu...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu, two Olympic standouts who have faced their share of hate over the years, each weighed in Monday on Donald Trump’s bashing of their friend, American freeskier Hunter Hess, for having said he didn’t back the U.S. president’s heightened crackdown o...

(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...

TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada said Monday it is suspending service to Cuba because of a shortage of aviation fuel on the island.Canada’s largest airline said it took the decision after the Cuban government announced aviation fuel would not be available at Cuban airports as of Tuesday.Cuba has be...

(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...

You’d expect an animated basketball movie with four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry in the producer’s chair to be an easy lay-up. So why is “GOAT” such a brick?Despite a wondrously textured, kinetic world and some interesting oddball characters, the movie is undone by a predictable, sacchari...

MILAN (AP) — YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul showed up for speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday, taking a second-row seat in the stands for the women’s 1,000 meters, in which his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, was among the medal favorites.Wearing a scarf o...

MILAN (AP) — Handle with care. That’s the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours.Olympic organizers are investigating with “maximum attention” after a spate of medals have fallen off th...

Some fans spent the second half of the Super Bowl focused on the Seattle Seahawks closing out a decisive victory over the New England Patriots. Others were concerned with another question: Did that couple who appeared in the wedding scene during Bad Bunny’s halftime show just get married for real?Yes, the couple did get married liv...

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s prominent pro-democracy prisoner and media mogul, was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Beijing’s sweeping national security law on Monday in a high-profile case that has dragged on for five years.Lai, the founder ⁠of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, was first arrested in August 2020 and found gui...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety, health insurance and other issues.The tentative agreement announced Monday by the union representing nurses involves the Montefi...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a confusing time for people with student loans. Collections restarted, then were put on hold. At the same time, borrowers had to stay on top of changes to key forgiveness plans. Last year, the long-contested SAVE plan introduced by the Biden administration ended wit...

MILAN (AP) — Ukraine’s sports minister decried actions by the International Olympic Committee that his government says indicate the body may soon ease restrictions against Russian athletes, allowing them to once again represent their country in future Olympic Games.At the Milan Cortina Olymp...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Astin has taken on the presidency of the SAG-AFTRA at a particularly perilous time for the actors union, and for Hollywood. There’s the threat of human actors being replaced by artificial intelligence. The ongoing upheavals of streaming. Studio consolidation and reali...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s political parties were considering their options on Monday after the conservative Bhumjaithai Party’s decisive election victory showed that voters chose stability over change, analysts said. “This will be the first time in the 21st century that a conservative party...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces U.S. sanctions on...

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 —...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating.Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie returned to her Arizona neighborhood several times over the weekend, ahead of a Monday evening deadline set by her purported abductors who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return.The investigatio...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by the Islamic State group killed at least 20 people in an attack over the weekend on a village in eastern Congo, the military said Monday. The attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, took place early Saturday in the village of Mambimbi-Isigo in t...

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...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims by the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area. Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spid...

Claude Code, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate computer code when people type a prompt, is having a viral moment.The tool, which the A.I. start-up Anthropic introduced in May, has shown record growth over the past two weeks, the company said, without sharing its data. People had time to experiment with Claude Code o...

ABOARD BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY (AP) — Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr. marked a milestone: his 100th birthday.The World War II Navy veteran and longtime volunteer was honored last week with a special l...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits, and more res...

Arica, Chile – On November 28, with just weeks remaining until the run-off in Chile's presidential election, far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast issued a warning."To the irregular immigrants in Chile," he said, "I tell you that 103 days remain for you to leave our country voluntarily."Kast ultimately won the election and is expec...

MILAN (AP) — Host nation Italy secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women’s hockey tournament for the first time by beating Japan 3-2 on Monday.Italy improved to 2-1, with one game left against Germany, and is guaranteed one of the three quarterfinal spots in Group B, where th...

Eight Muslim-majority countries have denounced Israel for trying to impose “unlawful Israeli sovereignty” in the occupied West Bank, after it approved controversial new measures expanding its control and making it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land.Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and the United...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s communications chief Tim Allan has stepped down as leader of the governing Labour Party faces fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The move on Monday came a day after Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, also quit.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Epstein files set off Norwegi...

A Lebanese party with an armed wing has accused Israel of abducting one of its members during a cross-border raid in southern Lebanon.The al-Jamaa al-Islamiya accused Israel on Monday of seizing its official Atwi Atwi from his home in the Hasbaiyya district and taking him to an unknown location.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsli...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — In any other Olympic sport, a tie game with the result hanging in the balance would create tension between teams. Not in curling. When U.S. mixed doubles curler Korey Dropkin accidentally kicked his stone off the center line Monday, in the middle of a decisive...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s president has warned that the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan has created conditions “similar to or worse than” those before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a sign of rising tensions with Kabul after last week’s mosque attack in Islamabad, which analysts said Mon...