Associated Press stories, Page 72
Messi and Inter Miami win MLS Cup, topping Vancouver, 3-1
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lionel Messi ‘s legacy was long secured when he came to Inter Miami and joined Major League Soccer. He’d won a World Cup, won dozens of trophies, was generally considered the greatest player in the sport’s history. He didn’t need an MLS Cup. But he wanted...
Jalen Buckley’s two long touchdown runs lead Western Michigan to MAC Championship
DETROIT — Jalen Buckley had touchdown runs of 67 and 64 yards, and Western Michigan won the MAC Championship, defeating Miami of Ohio, 23-13, on Saturday. Buckley’s 67-yard touchdown burst on the third play of the game gave the Broncos the early lead. Palmer Domschke added three field goals in...
Texas Tech wins Big 12 title with 34-7 win over BYU
ARLINGTON, Texas — Cameron Dickey scored right after the first of linebacker Ben Roberts’ two interceptions in the second half as No. 5 Texas Tech won the Big 12 championship game and almost certainly locked up a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff with a 34-7 victory over 11th-ranked...
Threats pile up as Indiana Republicans confront pressure from Trump on redistricting
Spencer Deery’s son was getting ready for school when someone tried to provoke police into swarming his home by reporting a fake emergency. Linda Rogers said there were threats at her home and the golf course that her family has run for generations. Jean Leising faced a pipe bomb scare...
Michael Annett, who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s 3 national touring series, dies at 39
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Michael Annett, a former racecar driver who made 436 combined starts in NASCAR’s three national touring series, has died. He was 39. JR Motorsports, one of Annett’s former teams, posted the news on social media on Friday. No cause of death was announced. “Our thoughts and prayers...
911 calls from Texas floods reveal chaotic and desperate pleas for rescues
KERRVILLE, Texas — In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty in the Texas Hill Country as catastrophic flooding inundated cabins and youth camps along the Guadalupe River. A firefighter clinging to a tree who watched his wife be swept away. A family breaking through...
New Orleans leaders blast immigration crackdown, pointing to video of agents chasing U.S. citizen
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans’ mayor-elect said Friday that a federal immigration crackdown launched this week is already causing harm as encounters between masked agents and residents, including some caught on video, has prompted public backlash in the blue city. Frustrated city officials pointed to the case of Jacelynn Guzman,...
Cameron Young and J.J. Spaun part of another 5-way tie for the lead in the Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas — U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun converted two of his three eagle chances, Cameron Young shot 30 on the back nine and Hideki Matsuyama was bogey-free, all of them part of another five-way tie for the lead Friday in the Hero World Challenge. Missing from a share of...
Michael Jordan testifies in NASCAR antitrust trial, says he had no choice but to sue ‘the entity’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Retired NBA great Michael Jordan took the stand at the landmark NASCAR antitrust case Friday and testified that he has been a fan of the stock car series since he was a child but felt he had little choice but to sue to force changes in a...
Argentina and Messi to open World Cup against Algeria, US starts against Paraguay
WASHINGTON — With eyes across the globe focused on 48 balls being plucked from four bowls, next year’s World Cup came into focus Friday when a draw determined Argentina and Lionel Messi will start their title defense against Algeria, and the U.S. will open against Paraguay. Teams from five-time champion...
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels to start vs. Vikings after missing past 3 games
ASHBURN, Va. — Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels will start Sunday at Minnesota after missing three games with a dislocated left elbow. Daniels, the 2024 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year, got hurt in the final minutes of Washington’s 38-14 home loss against Seattle on Nov. 2. Though the television...
Cardinals QB Kyler Murray ruled out for rest of season because of foot injuryVideo
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will miss the remainder of the season because of a foot injury that’s kept him out of the lineup since Week 6. Coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters the decision before Friday’s practice. “Kyler will not play again this year,” Gannon said. “He...
Supreme Court will decide whether Trump’s birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling...
Social Security Administration plans to cut field office visits by 50%. What it means for you
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration is hoping to cut visits to its field offices in half next year, a move that advocates for the agency fear signals more closures are coming. Field offices have long been community-based branches that serve as the public face of the SSA, which provide...
Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs in Washington on eve of Capitol riot appears in court
WASHINGTON — A Virginia man on Friday made his first court appearance on charges that he planted a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of a mob’s attack on U.S. Capitol. U.S. Magistrate Moxila Upadhyaya ordered Brian...
Day 4 of Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing is postponed because he’s sick, judge says
NEW YORK — A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione’s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick, his lawyers and the judge said. The hearing is slated to resume Monday. Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun, notebook and other items...
Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode...
Wall Street flirts with its all-time high
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market is flirting with its all-time high on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and was on track earlier in the day to squeak past its record closing level, which was set in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 164 points, or...
Virtual playoff lock Texas Tech plays CFP hopeful BYU in ‘manifested’ matchup for Big 12 title
ARLINGTON, Texas — BYU coach Kalani Sitake and Texas Tech’s Joey McGuire have shared a few meals together, and they’ve talked about their teams making the Big 12 championship game. “If you want me at my best, Joey understands this, it’s usually when we’re eating,” said Sitake, the former Cougars...
Ohio State, Indiana clash for Big Ten crown in rare title game featuring nation’s top-ranked teams
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana coach Curt Cignetti has been here before. Twice. His second-ranked Hoosiers, just like first-ranked Ohio State, have not. For the first time in more than a decade and just the third time since conference championship games were standardized, the nation’s top-ranked teams will play for a title....
German president visits WWII bombing site as Europe seeks to bolster united front against Russia
LONDON — Germany’s president laid a wreath Friday at Coventry Cathedral in central England, symbolically atoning for the atrocities of World War II as his country and the United Kingdom seek to bolster an alliance to combat the new war raging in Europe. Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s pilgrimage commemorates the Nazi bombing...
MLB players union gathers to prepare for potentially contentious labor negotiations in 2026
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Roughly a month after the Los Angeles Dodgers finished a scintillating seven-game World Series triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, the Major League Baseball Players’ Association gathered in Arizona this week to discuss the future of the game and look ahead to a possible lockout next December....
U.S. vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are...
A county jail in Arkansas produces hundreds of ICE arrests under a program surging across U.S.
ROGERS, Ark. — She was already separated from her husband, the family breadwinner and father of her two youngest children, and had lost the home they shared in Arkansas. Then Cristina Osornio was ensnared by the nation’s rapidly expanding immigration enforcement crackdown just months after her husband was deported to...
U.S. raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official
DUMAYR, Syria — A raid by U.S. forces and a local Syrian group aiming to capture an Islamic State group official instead killed a man who had been working undercover gathering intelligence on the extremists, family members and Syrian officials have told The Associated Press. The killing in October underscores...
