By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press A FRENCH ARMY BASE, France (AP) — Battle cries pierce the smoke and rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire as Ukrainian soldiers fight through and take enemy trenches and dugouts that hide gruesome, bloody remains. “Grenade!” one screams in Ukrainian. Another yells: “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!” This time, no
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Landing Jimbo Fisher, a coach with a national title on his resume, seemed like just what Texas A&M needed to finally become a championship contender. But Fisher failed to replicate his success at Florida State in six years with the Aggies and athletic director
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tyler Harris had 22 points in Portland’s 76-65 victory over UC Riverside on Sunday night. Harris also contributed 12 rebounds for the Pilots (3-0). Tyler Robertson scored 18 points while shooting 6 for 11 (3 for 3 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free throw line. Alimamy Koroma
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Gabriela Jaquez had career highs of 30 points and 12 rebounds for her first double-double, Lauren Betts and Charisma Osborne also had double-doubles and No. 4 UCLA rolled to a 113-64 win over over Bellarmine on Sunday. Betts, a 6-foot-7 sophomore transfer from Stanford, added 22 points, a career-high, and 11
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Dan Campbell wanted to make sure his team had the ball until the last second, even if it meant passing up a chance to take the lead. With 1:47 remaining and the score tied at 38-all against the Chargers on Sunday, the Detroit Lions coach
Continue ReadingBy ERIC HE Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Cameron Brink had 20 points and 17 rebounds to help No. 15 Stanford rout ninth-ranked Indiana 96-64 on Sunday, dominating an early-season matchup between two ranked teams. “I think this is just the tip of the iceberg of how good this team can be,” Stanford coach
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey was standing on the sideline with several other starters, seemingly done for the day until the San Francisco 49ers started driving late. Suddenly, they had a chance to score again — and a chance to get McCaffrey in the end zone again.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Michael Ajayi scored 27 points and 11 rebounds and Pepperdine beat Lafayette 76-53 on Sunday night. Malik Moore was 4 of 6 shooting and 6 of 6 from the free throw line to add 15 points for the Waves (2-1). Houston Mallette had 10 points and was
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Tyson Degenhart scored 17 points as Boise State beat San Francisco 63-58 on Sunday night. Degenhart also added five rebounds and three steals for the Broncos (2-0). Max Rice added 15 points while going 5 of 14 from the floor, including 2 for 5 from 3-point range and 3 for 4
Continue ReadingPRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Israel’s chances of reaching the European Championship finals went down Sunday after its 1-0 loss to Kosovo in their delayed qualifying game. It was the first soccer match for Israel since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and the ongoing war in Gaza. It had originally been scheduled for Oct. 15
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, Sophie Tanno and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to answer whether he would take responsibility for failing to prevent the October 7 attack on Israel, saying that there would be time for such “difficult” questions once the war is over. In an interview with CNN’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Nadeen Ebrahim, Sophie Tanno and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to answer whether he would take responsibility for failing to prevent the October 7 attack on Israel, saying that there would be time for such “difficult” questions once the war is over. In an interview with
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon and U.S. officials say U.S. fighter aircraft have conducted airstrikes on locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, likely causing casualties and destroying weapons stored at the two targets struck — a training location and a safe house. A defense official
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Desmond Bane scored 27 points and the Memphis Grizzlies won for the second time this season, beating the reeling Los Angeles Clippers 105-101 on Sunday. Memphis improved to 2-8 while waiting for All-Star guard Ja Morant to return from a 25-game suspension next month. Both
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie promised on Sunday to tell Americans of the devastation he saw in Israel after becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to visit the country following the October 7 Hamas attacks. Christie, who has made US leadership on the world stage a focal point of
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as crews assess how much damage was caused by a raging fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown, officials said Sunday. Hazardous materials teams were clearing burned material from underneath Interstate 10 to make way for engineers to make sure the
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out another set of strikes against targets affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following continued attacks on US forces in the region. Austin said the strikes were directed by President Joe Biden and
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as crews assess how much damage was caused by a raging fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown, officials said Sunday. Hazardous materials teams were clearing burned material from underneath Interstate 10 to make way for engineers to make sure the
Continue ReadingBy GREGOIRE MEROT Associated Press MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Water taps flow just one day out of three in Mayotte, a French territory off Africa’s eastern coast. That’s because of a drawn-out drought compounded by years of water mismanagement. Diseases like cholera and typhoid are on the rebound, and the French army recently intervened to
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Matt Phillips, Ashley R. Williams and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Southern California drivers may face travel headaches this week after a large storage yard fire over the weekend shut down part of Interstate 10, one of the major traffic routes for downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. A section of I-10, also
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