Follow live updates on the 2026 Super Bowl SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Defense won this championship.Devon Witherspoon, Derick Hall, Byron Murphy and the rest of Mike Macdonald’s ferocious unit pummeled Drake Maye, and the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 o...

The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols o...

BANGKOK (AP) — Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% to a record on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election. Takaichi is expected to pursue market-friendly policies, having declared she...

A court in Hong Kong has sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in jail following his conviction on charges of foreign collusion and seditious publication.The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper heard his sentence before three High Court judges on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 3 ite...

Iranian authorities have arrested four people on charges of attempting to “disrupt the country’s political and social order” and working “for the benefit” of Israel and the United States during the antigovernment protests of January.The detainees, who were arrested on Sunday, included three prominent reformist politicians, accordin...

ERADICATION: A Fable, by Jonathan MilesIn the early aughts, teams of sharpshooters were dispatched in helicopters to eliminate a grave threat to the Galápagos: wild goats, hundreds of thousands of them. Introduced centuries ago by passing whalers, the goats had proliferated by eating the forests bare and wreaking havoc on the ecosy...

Kelt Reeves has sold high-end personal computers for 34 years, catering to gamers and others who are willing to pay $4,000 and more for extreme performance.His company, Falcon Northwest, builds these systems to order using powerful computer chips, particularly a variety known as random-access memory, or RAM, which hold data tempora...

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...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The man who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting told an appeals court Monday that he felt forced to admit to the crimes because of “irrationality” due to harsh prison conditions, as he sought to have his guilty pl...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Children accompanying their parents to a polling station in Portugal’s presidential election Sunday got to try their hand at casting a vote, though the candidates weren’t on the ballot.Fictional characters popular with children, such as Super Mario and Roblox, were on...

Israel’s security cabinet has approved new rules aimed at strengthening Israeli control over the occupied West Bank, according to local media reports, drawing condemnation from Palestinian authorities.The Palestinian presidency, in a statement on Sunday, called the decision “dangerous” and an “open Israeli attempt to legalize settl...

Antonio Jose Seguro of the centre-left Socialist Party has secured a landslide victory and a five-year term as Portugal’s president in a run-off vote, beating his far-right, anti-establishment rival, Andre Ventura, according to partial results.With 95 percent of votes counted, 63-year-old Seguro has garnered 66 percent. Ventura tra...

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media tycoon and fierce critic of Beijing, is set to be sentenced Monday in one of the most prominent cases brought under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.Three government-vetted judges in De...

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...

HONG KONG (AP) — To his supporters, former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai is a fighter for democracy. To the government, he is a traitor to his motherland.The 78-year-old outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party awaits sentencing Monday after being convicted in December of conspir...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge refused Sunday to help in attempts to open early voting sites at three public North Carolina universities, declining requests to overrule decisions by Republican-controlled elections boards leading up to the state’s upcoming primary.U.S. District Judge...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government on Sunday blocked Cuban citizens from entering the country without a visa, effectively cutting off a key route for Cuban migration to the United States at a time when the Trump administration has put the Caribbean island in an economic chokehold.Nica...

Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, according to her lawyers and a group that supports her.Mohammadi, 53, was on ⁠a week-long hunger strike that ended on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement. It said Mohammadi told her...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading U.S. health official on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states and as the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status.“Take the vaccine, please,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin of the U.S. and Shun Sato of Japan will decide the team figure skating medals at the Milan Cortina Olympics.Amber Glenn finished behind Japanese star Kaori Sakamoto and Anastasiia Gubanova of Georgia in the women’s free skate on Sunday night, leaving the defending c...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's top diplomat insisted Sunday that Tehran's strength comes from its ability to "say no to the great powers," adopting a maximalist position just after negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program and following nationwide protests.Forei...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The stated purpose of Israel President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is to support the Jewish community still reeling from an antisemitic attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead. But his critics warn his presence undermines rather than repairs social...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — When Kristin Skaslien brushed off her husband’s playful prod, it was hardly grounds for a divorce. Yet it sure revealed some tension in Norway’s curling team at the Winter Olympics.Then again, giving each other the cold shoulder is hardly new for Skaslien and...

PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — An early photo of the Prevc ski jumping clan shows teenager Peter eyeing three little siblings — Nika, Domen and Cene — perched on the edge of a sofa, tiny torsos tucked over bent knees and arms stretched back as if about to launch themselves to Olympic glory.Sixteen y...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — When Claudia Riegler started speaking about her snowboarding rivals at the Winter Olympics, she had a verbal slip that confirmed an obvious truth.“I never think about age,” she said. “If I’m racing, I even don’t know how old the girls are.”Then, she did a quick, embarra...

MILAN (AP) — The crash. The gasps. The helicopter.Lindsey Vonn’s frightening fall in the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics couldn’t help but overshadow U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson’s feat — winning her country’s first gold medal at these Games.Johnson’s victory Sunday in Cortina...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that it is hard to cheer for American Olympians who are speaking out against administration policies, calling one such critic “a real Loser” who perhaps should have stayed home. It was the latest and most prominent example of U.S. Olymp...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel ’s security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the dec...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Canada’s mixed doubles curling team failed to reach the Olympic semifinals, a result that would have stunned fans of the sport just a decade ago, South Korea’s 9-5 victory Sunday night was the Canadians’ fifth consecutive defeat and knocked them out of content...

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A truck carrying passengers crashed in northern Nigeria because of reckless driving, killing at least 30 people and injuring several others, authorities said Sunday.The trailer was driving along a highway in Kwanar Barde town in Kano’s Gezawa local government area when i...

MILAN (AP) — This could turn out to be Italy’s best Winter Olympics ever after a record-breaking day on home snow and ice.The host nation picked up five medals on Sunday, the most Italy has ever won in a single day at the Winter Olympics.Ski star Sofia Goggia kicked it off with a bronze meda...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Flash floods caused by a storm in northern Morocco killed at least four people as the country struggled with days of heavy rain and water releases from overfilled dams that forced mass evacuations, local authorities said Sunday.Three children — a girl and two boys aged...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned anti-Olympics protesters as “enemies of Italy and Italians” after violence on the fringes of rallies in Milan and the alleged sabotage of train infrastructure.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) also joined the criticism on Sunday, condemning violence linked to the protests...

Ethiopia’s ‌foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of military aggression and of supporting armed groups inside Ethiopian territory, amid growing tensions between the neighbours.The two longstanding foes had waged war against each other between 1998 and 2000, but signed a peace deal in 2018 and became allies during Ethio...

At least six people have been killed and seven others were wounded when two adjoining buildings collapsed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the head of ⁠the municipal council said.Abdel Hamid Karimeh, speaking at a press conference in Tripoli on Sunday, did not say how many people might still be ‌trapped under debris in the...

ATLANTA (AP) — Following the arrest of James Pearce Jr. on Saturday night, the Atlanta Falcons face troubling questions about the standout rookie’s immediate and long-term future with the team.For at least the 2026 season, Pearce’s status could be jeopardized by serious legal problems. Pearc...

Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo, and Joey Votto have been hired as analysts by NBC when it returns to broadcasting Major League Baseball this year.The network made the announcement during Sunday’s Super Bowl pregame show.Kershaw, Rizzo and Votto will appear on pregame shows leading into “Sund...

MILAN (AP) — An Italian curling athlete who blamed nepotism for her non-selection for the Milan Cortina Olympics had her appeal rejected Sunday.The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judge rejected the argument of Angela Romei that there was a “conflict of interest” when the Italian cur...

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...

MILAN (AP) — A project in Olympics host city Milan has invited parkgoers to reflect on the values of sport — both figuratively and literally.“Together to Reflect” was conceived as a collective artwork that takes shape as slender stakes topped with mirrors, on which people write their thought...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa on Sunday was released after more than eight months in prison, he said in a video posted on social media.Guanipa, one of the closest allies of opposition powerhouse María Corina Machado, had been held at a detention fa...

The PM’s ruling bloc projected to win at least 300 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house, according to exit polls.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has quit over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States after files revealed the extent of Mandelson’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appo...

Q: We live in a co-op in New York City that has four buildings spread over several city blocks. The board is redoing the lobbies and landscaping, and wants to permanently close one of the three entrances to our building. This would mean that my husband, who uses a walker, would have to walk an extra city block each time he came and...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.Videos and photos s...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The urgent investigation into the apparent kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continued Sunday, a week after the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing in Arizona.Savannah Guthrie solemnly told the potential kidnappers in a social media vi...

BEIRUT (AP) — At least two people were killed and four rescued from the rubble of a multistory apartment building that collapsed Sunday in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, state media reported.Rescue teams were continuing to dig through the rubble. It was not immediately clear how ma...

Thailand’s ruling Bhumjaithai Party has taken an early lead in general elections, according to a preliminary vote count.With around 30 percent of polling stations reporting results, the party, led by Prime Minister Anutin Charnviraku, took a commanding lead over the progressive People’s Party, showed partial results released by the...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party is set to win 274 to 328 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house of parliament, well above the 233 needed for a majority, according to exit polls published by public broadcaster NHK.Together with its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin, Takaichi’s Liberal Demo...

Donald Trump has met with Honduran President Nasry Asfura in Florida, with the US president hailing what he described as a growing alliance aimed at curbing drug trafficking and irregular migration.Trump said he met with his “friend” Asfura, a conservative businessman, at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday. Asfura took office last w...

The PM’s ruling bloc projected to win at least 300 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house, according to exit polls.

The PM’s ruling bloc projected to win at least 300 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house, according to exit polls.

The PM’s ruling bloc projected to win at least 300 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house, according to exit polls.

Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman detained in the United States by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency since March, has been rushed to a hospital after a medical episode, according to media reports.Kordia is being held in Texas after being detained as part of US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro...

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United States to respect his country as the two nations look ahead to another round of nuclear negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman.“Our reasoning on the nuclear issue is based on rights stipulated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he wrote...

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...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Before U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn’s startling crash on Sunday while racing on a badly injured left knee, Iran’s Alpine women’s skiing coach shared words of admiration for the American. “She’s my superhero,” Mitra Kalhor told The Associated Press in the Cortina Ol...

MILAN (AP) — It had been four long years since American figure skater Vadym Kolesnik saw family members still living in Ukraine.Four years of Russian bombs landing on Kharkiv, reducing their homes to rubble. Four years of war that destroyed the appliance and lighting business run by Kolesnik...

MILAN (AP) — Russian figure skater Petr Gumennik has been forced to change his short program music two days before the men’s program at the Milan Cortina Olympics after joining a growing list of figure skaters dealing with copyright issues.Gumennik, who is participating as a neutral athlete...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned recent anti-Olympics protests in Milan and alleged sabotage of train infrastructure, calling those responsible “enemies of Italy and Italians” early Sunday.The protesters “demonstrate ‘against the Olympics,’ causing these images to end up...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on course to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, is among the most r...

Leaders from India and Malaysia have affirmed their commitment to strengthening trade ties and exploring new cooperation in semiconductors, defence and other sectors.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim met on Sunday in the Malaysian administrative capital, Putrajaya.Recommended Stories lis...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class.Trump has instead argued for protecting existing owners who have watched the values of their homes climb. It’s a po...

The PM’s LDP set to win 274 to 328 of the 465 seats in Japan’s lower house, according to exit polls.

Sanaa, Yemen – After weeks of consultations in Riyadh, the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Yemen’s internationally recognised government, has announced a new cabinet, whose members have diverse political and regional affiliations, as part of efforts to govern the divided Arab nation.The move on Friday came weeks...

Hamas’s political leader abroad, Khaled Meshaal, has rejected calls to disarm Palestinian factions in Gaza, arguing that stripping weapons from an occupied people would turn them into “an easy victim to be eliminated”.Speaking on the second day of the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Sunday, Meshaal described the discussion around Hamas...

A man accused of shooting a high-ranking Russian military official on Friday has been taken into custody, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).The suspect, Russian national Lyubomir Korba, was arrested and extradited from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where he fled hours after the attack, Russia’s state-run TAS...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal.The attack on the city of...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, demanding that Iraq’s government reverse recently imposed customs tariffs that they say have sharply increased their costs and disrupted trade.The new tariffs that came into effect...

Pro-Palestinian groups are planning several rallies across Australia to oppose a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog despite the government’s restrictions on rallies.Herzog is scheduled to visit Sydney on Monday to honour the victims of December’s Bondi Beach attack, which killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia...

Polls have opened in the second round of Portugal’s elections, viewed as a high-stakes choice between the socialists and a resurgent far right.Voting began at 9am local time (09:00 GMT) on Sunday for the presidential election, with 11 million voters at home and abroad eligible to cast their ballots.Recommended Stories list of 3 ite...

Israel has returned dozens of Palestinian bodies and human remains to Gaza without providing any information about their identities or how they were killed, according to Palestinian medical officials.The remains arrived at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday in plain white bags and are now being examined by forensic teams i...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Florian Wirtz took time to catch fire at Liverpool. Now he’s cooking.A run of six goals in 10 games has blown away concerns that the Germany international couldn’t handle the hustle and bustle of the Premier League. It has also shone a light on the level of expecta...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Security Service said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot several times Friday...

CAIRO (AP) — Palestinians on both sides of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which opened last week for the first time since 2024, were making their way to the border on Sunday in hopes of crossing, one of the main requirements for the U.S.-backed ceasefire. The opening comes as Prime Min...