By JAMES ROBSON, AP Soccer Writer The wait is over for the biggest World Cup ever with 48 teams, 104 matches, three host nations and a slew of questions and controversies swirling around the highly scrutinzed event that will last …
From Trump to Messi, Iran to ICE, politics and sport collide at the biggest World Cup in history Read MoreBy MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used …
FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years Read MoreThey won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year. “So you want to find out who …
NASA unveils 4 astronauts to fly on Artemis III mission Read MoreThe vote counts have finally solidified in the nationally watched race for Los Angeles mayor, and projections suggest that Mayor Karen Bass will face off against Councilmember Nithya Raman in the November general election. Anyone familiar with the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter-registration …
Editorial: Raman v. Bass sends MAGA into Conspiracy Land Read MoreBy SAM McNEIL and SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — A coalition of six countries on Tuesday issued new joint sanctions on Israeli settlers and settlements in the West Bank, including a hard-line Israeli cabinet minister already sanctioned by Western countries, …
UK, France and other Western nations issue new sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank Read MorePLAYER OF THE YEAR James Tronstein, Harvard-Westlake, Sr. Harvard-Westlake baseball coach Jared Halpert summed it up pretty well this past spring when talking about senior standout James Tronstein. “When you talk about the Mount Rushmore of players that’ve come through …
Daily News All-Area baseball 2026: James Tronstein is the Player of the Year Read MoreCall it President Trump’s “credibility gap.” That’s a phrase used for President Lyndon Johnson prevaricating on the Vietnam War. Trump’s gap got wider during his Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” held in a Wisconsin …
Echoes of Vietnam: Trump’s growing credibility gap over the Iran war Read MoreBy STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction against the NCAA that allows him to remain eligible even after he acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets worth at least $90,000 on college …
Why is Brendan Sorsby still eligible after gambling? What to know after QB wins injunction vs. NCAA Read MoreReal Madrid have submitted a club-record offer to sign Julian Alvarez (NurPhoto via Getty) Real Madrid have revealed that their €150 million (£129.4m) bid for Julian Alvarez has been rejected by Atletico Madrid. Speaking before he was re-elected as Madrid’s …
Real Madrid announce £129m bid to sign Arsenal target Read MoreFire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – just one of the main first party games on show (Nintendo) The long-awaited first party Nintendo Direct has (mostly) not disappointed, with far more games being unveiled beyond just the Zelda remake and the new …
Nintendo Direct June 2026 – trailers for The Duskbloods, Fire Emblem, and more Read MoreSean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting a child actor (Picture: REUTERS) Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been accused of sexual assault of a child actor in a new lawsuit, days after a new probe into potential fresh criminal …
Diddy sued over alleged sexual assault by former child actor Read MoreDonald Trump has vowed to respond after an Apache was shot down (Picture: Getty) Donald Trump has called for revenge on Iran after an American helicopter was shot down. A drone boat rescued two pilots who were on the Apache …
US Apache shot down over Strait of Hormuz with Trump promising retaliation on Iran Read MoreMore than 100 former federal prosecutors who served in northern Illinois delivered an extraordinary rebuke of Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros on Monday, concluding there’s been a “failure of leadership” in an office with “a renowned history of excellence pursuing …
Over 100 ex-federal prosecutors call out ‘failure of leadership’ by Chicago’s embattled U.S. attorney Read MoreAt least 22 City Council members say they plan to reject the sale of Chicago parking meters to a New York investment firm, after accusing Mayor Brandon Johnson of withholding critical information from the Council and secretly agreeing to a …
22 alderpersons say they’ll reject parking meters sale, accuse Johnson of holding back info about the deal Read MoreComEd está ofreciendo pagos de hasta $500 a sus clientes propietarios de pequeños negocios que están navegando para pagar sus facturas de electricidad tras dos años de aumentos de precios relacionados con el crecimiento de los centros de datos. Las …
ComEd ofrece hasta $500 a pequeños negocios para pagar sus facturas de luz cada vez más altas Read MoreBy KOSTYA MANENKOV TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders who were in Estonia for a regional summit Tuesday, a visit that comes amid friction over Ukrainian drones straying into the region in recent months. …
Ukraine is ready to share drone technology with Nordic and Baltic countries, Zelenskyy says Read MoreBy PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan’s original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America’s great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious …
Proposed $8B transformation of NYC’s Penn Station features Roman-style columns, ornamental design Read MoreBy WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Richard Nixon bowled. Dwight D. Eisenhower put in a putting green. George H.W. Bush added a horseshoe pit. Herbert Hoover played a game named for himself to get more exercise, while …
From tennis to T-ball, the White House’s South Lawn is no stranger to sports. But not like the UFC Read MoreBy MIKE CATALINI A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins …
Democratic group launches ad campaign to help flip control of Congress in midterm elections Read MoreBy SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 …
Survivors share experiences and lessons from Congo’s 2018 Ebola outbreak Read More