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Trump moved fast to cut a funding deal. It's a striking change from the last shutdown fight 01/31/2026 09:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump moved quickly this week to negotiate with Democrats to try and avert a lengthy government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding, a sharp departure from last year���s record standoff, when he refused to budge for weeks. Some Republicans are f A bullet shattered her knee. Now a Gaza teen's chances of walking depend on Rafah crossing's opening 01/31/2026 09:13am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Rimas Abu Lehia was wounded five months ago when Israeli troops opened fire toward hungry Palestinians mobbing an aid truck for food in Gaza and a bullet shattered the 15-year-old girl's left knee. Now her best chance of walking again is surgery abroad. She is on a Elena Rybakina wins Australian Open by beating No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka for her 2nd Grand Slam title 01/31/2026 08:51am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Elena Rybakina finally won her second Grand Slam title with a victory over top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open on Saturday, and it was something of a testament to quiet achievers. After some tumult at the start of 2025, including the suspension of her coac Mertens and Zhang, Harrison and Skupski win Australian Open doubles titles 01/31/2026 03:35am • Elise Mertens marked her return to the No. 1 ranking in women's doubles by combining with China's Zhang Shuai to win the Australian Open title on Saturday at Melbourne Park. Back together after four years apart as a team, Mertens and Zhang trailed 3-0 and 4-1 in the first set but rallied to beat Ann Cade Cunningham leads Pistons past Warriors 131-124 with 29 points, 11 assists 01/31/2026 01:03am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 11 assists and the Detroit Pistons jumped to a big lead early before holding off the Golden State Warriors for a 131-124 win Friday night. Stephen Curry scored 23 points for his fourth straight 20-point performance before exiting with right kn Suns sweep back-to-back, ending Cavaliers' winning streak at 5 with 126-113 victory 01/31/2026 01:03am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Dillon Brooks scored 27 points and the Phoenix Suns beat Cleveland 126-113 on Friday night to sweep a back-to-back and end the Cavaliers' winning streak at a season-best five games. On Thursday night against Detroit, the Suns gave out ���Dillon the Villain��� T-shirts before Brooks Nuggets' Nikola Jokic returns to lineup against Clippers in 1st game since knee injury on Dec. 29 01/31/2026 01:01am • DENVER (AP) ��� The Denver Nuggets finally have some beneficial news on the injury front ��� big man Nikola Jokic is back on the court. Jokic returned to the starting lineup Friday night in a 122-109 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in his first game since suffering a knee injury Dec. 29. Jokic Nikola Jokic returns from knee injury to lead Nuggets past Clippers, 122-109 01/30/2026 11:41pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Nikola Jokic had 31 points and 12 rebounds in his first game in a month, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 22 points and the Denver Nuggets knocked off the Los Angeles Clippers 122-109 on Friday night. Jokic, the three-time NBA MVP, missed 16 games after injuring his left knee in the first half NASCAR's Greg Biffle wasn't flying his plane before crash that killed him and 6 others 01/30/2026 11:12pm • Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was not flying his own jet when it crashed last month, killing him and six others, according to a Friday report from investigators. The preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board also concluded that while an experienced pilot was at the control Pushed by Trump, US allies are resetting relations with China 01/30/2026 10:26pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a busy few weeks receiving Western allies seeking warmer ties with the world's second-largest economy. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a trade deal slashing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and Canadian canola oil. U.K. Prime Mini Pritchard scores 29 points to lead Celtics to dominant 112-93 win over Kings 01/30/2026 10:09pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Payton Pritchard scored 29 points, Baylor Scheierman had 16 and the Boston Celtics rolled to a 112-93 win over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night. Neemias Queta added 10 points and 15 rebounds for the Celtics, who rebounded from Wednesday���s home loss to Atlanta. Pritchard and Sc White Sox players embrace higher expectations after young core showed promise last season 01/30/2026 09:59pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Colson Montgomery grew up in Indiana rooting for the Hoosiers and committed to play baseball for them before the Chicago White Sox made the slugging shortstop a first-round pick in the 2021 draft. Fair to say, he's inspired by the football team's historic transformation under coach What a reporter found when she returned to Cuba after last trip 3 years ago 01/30/2026 09:54pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Caribbean correspondent D��nica Coto returned to Cuba in late January, more than three years after her last visit to the island. The landscape and lives in Cuba are now very different, and more changes are anticipated since the fallout of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Cuba���s strong From stilettos to safety concerns on Inauguration Day: 4 takeaways from Melania Trump's new movie 01/30/2026 09:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The new documentary ���Melania��� opens on a close-up of the trademark stilettos of first lady Melania Trump as she walks the halls of Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach home, in early January 2025, following her as she climbs into a dark SUV for the short drive to the airport and a flig ���Dances With Wolves��� actor Nathan Chasing Horse convicted on sexual assault charges 01/30/2026 09:16pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A Nevada jury on Friday convicted ���Dances With Wolves��� actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls in a case that sent shock waves through Indian Country. The jurors in Las Vegas found Chasing Horse guilty of 13 of the 21 charges he faced. Most