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By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer Maggie Steffens asked for more support for the U.S. women’s water polo team, and the captain received one particularly surprising response. From a clock-wearing rap icon. Moved by Steffens’ Instagram post, Flavor Flav has stepped forward to help the U.S. team as it goes for an unprecedented fourth consecutive
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money case say they expect to call just two more witnesses, laying the ground to possibly rest their case next week. The announcement came after witness testimony concluded for the day, capping a feverish week in court. Madeleine Westerhout, a former Trump White House aide, was
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan killed at least 50 people on Friday, a Taliban official said. The floods also caused losses to homes and property in several districts, according to Edayatullah Hamdard, the provincial director of Natural Disaster Management in Baghlan. He said that the death
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of salacious testimony from porn actor Stormy Daniels, prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial narrowed their focus to checks and phone records Friday as they laid the groundwork for jurors to hear from
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Rosemary Ketchum became West Virginia’s first openly transgender lawmaker when she was elected to the Wheeling City Council in 2020. Now, she’s running for mayor of the city of around 26,000 in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Ketchum says her time in local politics has
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At least 90 people were injured in Argentina’s capital when a passenger train struck an empty boxcar on the tracks and derailed Friday, authorities said, a rare collision that fueled questions about basic safety. The train was on its way from Buenos Aires to the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money case say they expect to call just two more witnesses, laying the ground to possibly rest their case next week. The announcement came after witness testimony concluded for the day, capping a feverish week in court. Madeleine Westerhout, a former Trump White House aide, was
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Powerful storms left thousands without electricity Friday in Florida and other Southeastern states, where damaging winds toppled trees onto homes and power lines following days of deadly severe weather that produced tornadoes in Michigan, Tennessee and other states. The National Weather Service said wind gusts of 71 mph (114 kph), just
Continue ReadingBY STEPHEN McGRATH and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate. He’s awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal extended by 60 days the restrictions stipulating that Tate,
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a $500 million fundraising campaign Friday to ensure long-term, global support for its Oscar prizes, museum and educational programming in view of its 100th anniversary in 2028. Academy officials announced the campaign at a press conference in Rome alongside the leadership of Cinecitta,
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. In a reversal experts believe was the first of its kind,
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press U.S. health and agriculture officials pledged nearly $200 million in new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation’s dairy cows that has spread to more than 40 herds in nine states. The new funds include $101
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War is hell.” General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and TOM MURPHY Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A cyberattack on the Ascension health system across the U.S. diverted ambulances, caused patients to miss medical visits and blocked online access to their records. A spokesperson for Ascension says it detected what it called unusual activity Wednesday on its computer network systems,
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MIKE BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A soon-to-be-released Biden administration review of Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in its war in Gaza does not conclude that Israel has violated the terms for their use, according to three people who have been briefed on the matter. The
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a teen sex-trafficking victim convicted of fatally stabbing a man whom she accused of abusing her has absconded from her probation. The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the arrest of 19-year-old Pieper Lewis this month after learning she had been removed from a treatment
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge is awaiting trial in Texas for allegedly shooting at parked vehicles and then rear-ending a woman in traffic. Now the same judge has been indicted in Oklahoma on charges of shooting into the occupied home of his brother-in-law six months before the road-rage
Continue ReadingBy RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter are among six players displayed on the cover of EA Sports College Football 25. The popular video game is set to return after being discontinued 11 years ago. The cover for the deluxe edition
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — The WNBA is reportedly heading to Toronto. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that the women’s professional basketball league has awarded a franchise to the Kilmer Group. The reported deal would have Toronto’s WNBA team start playing in May 2026. The WNBA did not confirm the report. The league says “we continue to
Continue ReadingVALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s deputy prime minister has resigned and ended his European Commission bid. The resignation of Chris Fearne came after he was charged with fraud in a hospital scandal roiling the Mediterranean island nation. In his resignation letter, Fearne denied wrongdoing but said he must put Malta before everything else. He resigned
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