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Department of Homeland Security suspends Global Entry as the partial government shutdown drags on
DALLAS — The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that the Global Entry program would be shut down as long as the partial government shutdown remains in effect. The announcement comes after the department said Saturday night that it planned to shut down both Global Entry and the Transportation Security...
Trump’s big speech will be delivered to a changed nation and a Congress he has sidelined
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will stand before Congress on Tuesday to deliver the annual State of the Union address to a suddenly transformed nation. One year back in office, Trump has emerged as a president defying conventional expectations. He has executed a head-spinning agenda, upending priorities at home, shattering...
As antisemitism rises and strife over Israel continues, Josh Shapiro turns toward his Jewish faithVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Thousands of teenagers from more than a dozen countries, many standing on their chairs in a cavernous convention hall, screamed and cheered as Josh Shapiro took the stage. Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor still may be unknown among many Americans outside his home state, but here at BBYO, the world’s...
Millions are stuck at home due to blizzard warnings and travel shutdowns in northeastern U.S.
NEW YORK — A massive snowstorm pummeled the northeast United States from Maryland to Maine on Monday, forcing millions of people to stay home amid strong wind and blizzard warnings, transportation shutdowns, and school and business closures. The storm dumped up to 2 feet of snow in parts of the...
Slugger Kurtz looks to build on AL Rookie of the Year Award
MESA, Ariz. — Aside from towering over most of his Athletics teammates at 6-foot-5, Nick Kurtz blends in at his locker in the middle of the clubhouse. And that’s just the way he prefers it. Even now with the extra fanfare and attention on him this spring as reigning AL...
Overtime hockey heartbreak closes Milan Cortina Olympics for Canada
MILAN — Canada’s Olympic run in Italy ended with a 2-1 overtime loss to the United States in the men’s hockey final Sunday. Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into overtime, left alone in the slot during 3-on-3 play as Canada scrambled after surrendering an odd-man break seconds earlier. Matt Boldy also...
Hellebuyck, Hughes add names to U.S. Olympic hockey legends
MILAN — Go ahead and put the names Jack Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck in the same revered place that Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig have occupied since their “Miracle On Ice ” triumph in 1980. It had been 46 years since the United States won the men’s hockey gold medal...
Roundup: Eileen Gu’s halfpipe victory among highlights of final day of Olympics
MILAN — Eileen Gu is now 6-for-6 in Olympic medal events after another halfpipe victory. The 22-year-old Gu, American-born but competing for her mother’s homeland of China, is already the most decorated freeskier in the short history of the sport at the Olympics. She also captured two silver medals at...
Jacob Bridgeman holds on at Riviera for 1st PGA Tour title
LOS ANGELES — Jacob Bridgeman allowed himself to imagine winning the Genesis Invitational, the massive crowd filling the amphitheater around the 18th green at Riviera, the trophy presentation with Tiger Woods. Almost all of it came true Sunday except for one small detail. “I pictured myself walking up that hole...
Twin Milan and Cortina Olympic cauldrons are extinguished, signaling the end of Winter Games
VERONA, Italy — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever. In declaring the 2026...
Tyler Reddick wins at Atlanta to give Michael Jordan 2nd straight NASCAR Cup victory
HAMPTON, Ga. — Whether on or off the racetrack, all Michael Jordan does is win in NASCAR. For the second consecutive Sunday to open the season, the basketball great and co-owner of 23XI Racing celebrated in Victory Lane with driver Tyler Reddick. This time, after a thriller at Echo Park...
‘One Battle After Another’ wins big at BAFTA film awards
LONDON — Politically charged thriller “One Battle After Another” won six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, building momentum ahead of Hollywood’s Academy Awards next month. Blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” and gothic horror story “Frankenstein” won three awards each, while Shakespearean family tragedy “Hamnet”...
Mexican army kills leader of powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel during an operation to capture him
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho, ” on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico’s most powerful cartel and giving the government its biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration its efforts. Oseguera Cervantes was...
Photos from the closing ceremony of Milan Cortina Olympics
MILAN — This photo gallery features highlights from the closing ceremony of the Milan Cortina Olympics....
It’s a quiet box office weekend as ‘GOAT’ edges ‘Wuthering Heights’
It was a battle of the holdovers at the North American box office this weekend, with the family friendly film “GOAT” edging out the R-rated “Wuthering Heights.” Sony Pictures Animation’s “GOAT” took in $17 million, while Warner Bros.’ “Wuthering Heights” earned $14.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Both films...
Blizzard warnings cascade across East Coast with winter storm’s approach
NEW YORK — Snow and rain began falling Sunday across parts of the East Coast, the first jabs of an intense winter storm expected to wallop the region through the day and overnight, with blizzard alerts and weather warnings buzzing in communities from Maryland to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service...
NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs before astronauts strap in
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The space agency said Sunday it’s targeting Tuesday for the slow, four-mile trek across Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting. NASA had barely...
TSA says PreCheck still operational after previous announcement of suspension during funding fight
DALLAS — The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational despite an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. ” As staffing constraints arise, TSA will evaluate on a case-by-case...
Stars and royals gather for the BAFTA film awards, with ‘One Battle’ and ‘Sinners’ leading the race
LONDON — Hollywood stars and British celebrities, from Paddington Bear to the Princess of Wales, gathered Sunday for the British Academy Film Awards, where politically charged thriller “One Battle After Another” and blues-steeped epic “Sinners” fought it out for the top prizes. The two films are both up for best...
Next U.S.-Iran nuclear talks are Thursday in Geneva as Washington awaits proposed deal from Tehran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and Iran will hold their next round of nuclear talks Thursday in Geneva, a facilitator said Sunday, as the Islamic Republic faces both the threat of a U.S. military strike and new protests at home. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr al-Busaidi, confirmed the...
Israeli airstrikes in eastern Lebanon kill 8 Hezbollah members, officials say
RAYAK, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon have killed eight members of the militant Hezbollah group, including several local officials, two officials with the group said Saturday. The Lebanese Health Ministry put the death toll at 10, but did not distinguish between militants and civilians. The Hezbollah officials told...
NFL receiver Rondale Moore found dead in his Indiana hometown
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Rondale Moore, an NFL receiver who had season-ending training camp knee injuries in each of the last two years after a standout college career at Purdue and a promising start with the Arizona Cardinals, was found dead Saturday, authorities said. He was 25. Police said Moore...
Jack Hughes scores in overtime as U.S. beats Canada for gold at the Olympics
MILAN — The United States is on top of the hockey world for the first time in nearly a half-century. No miracle needed. Jack Hughes scored less than 2 minutes into overtime, and the U.S. beat Canada, 2-1, in the gold-medal final at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday, earning...
This 89-year-old is ‘King of the Volunteers’ at the Olympics and will star in the closing ceremony
VERONA, Italy — When Mario Gargiulo traveled to the 1956 Cortina Winter Games, his first trip to northern Italy from his hometown of Naples, the 20-year-old never imagined he’d return to the Olympics. But he has, 70 years later, this time as the so-called “King of the Volunteers.” He was...
Eileen Gu finds gold on the halfpipe to make it 6 medals in 6 Olympic events over her career
LIVIGNO, Italy — Eileen Gu snatched a gold ribbon off a gift basket on her way to the mountain Sunday and stuck it in her pocket just in case. Just in case? If her 16-day odyssey at the Milan Cortina Games taught the world anything, it’s that there are no...
