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Basic services resume at Syrian camp housing IS families as government takes control 02/06/2026 07:11am • AL-HOL, Syria (AP) ��� Basic services at a camp in northeast Syria holding thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group are returning to normal after government forces captured the facility from Kurdish fighters, a United Nations official said on Thursday. Forces of Syria���s ce US Olympic hockey history has been given an outsized boost from a tiny, proud Minnesota town 02/06/2026 06:47am • The pursuit of a gold medal that has eluded the U.S. men's hockey team since the ���Miracle on Ice��� in 1980 appears to be on sound footing. The return of the NHL players after their absence from the last two Winter Games ought to provide a significant boost, but the inclusion of one of player in p US and Russia agree to reestablish military dialogue after Ukraine talks 02/06/2026 06:30am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The U.S. and Russia agreed Thursday to reestablish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years in another sign of warming relations between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to office and sought to end the war in Ukraine. High- History awaits: Will the Super Bowl finally see a punt return touchdown? 02/06/2026 06:00am • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ��� The first touchdown in Super Bowl history came on a pass from Bart Starr to Max McGee 59 years ago for the Green Bay Packers. The most recent came on a 50-yard deep strike from Patrick Mahomes to Xavier Worthy last year. In between those, there have been 323 additional touc Takeaways from AP's report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home 02/06/2026 05:47am • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years. One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind h Graduates of DC tennis program get trip of a lifetime to Abu Dhabi 02/06/2026 05:07am • The Washington Tennis and Education Foundation has been providing students in D.C.'s Wards 7 and 8 with after-school academic support and tennis instruction for decades. Now, the nonprofit is serving up the experience of a lifetime for three of its Alumni Bridge students. For the second straight Cash-strapped Lebanon finds itself sitting on a gold mine, as precious metal prices surge 02/06/2026 03:41am • BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) ��� Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at gold as a way to protect their battered assets. Lebanon���s econom Luka Doncic to have an MRI after leaving Lakers' game against 76ers with left hamstring injury 02/06/2026 02:01am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� NBA scoring leader Luka Doncic will have an MRI exam on Friday after he left the Los Angeles Lakers' game against Philadelphia with a left leg injury. Doncic limped to the locker room with 3:03 left in the first half Thursday night after apparently feeling pain in his hamstring Lightning beat Panthers 6-1 before Olympic break 02/06/2026 01:03am • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots to improve to 16-0-1 in his past 17 games, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 6-1 on Thursday night in the final game for both teams before the Olympic break. Brandon Hagel, Oliver Bjporkstrand, Jake Guentzel, Erik Cerna Warriors erase 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Suns 101-97 02/06/2026 12:55am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Pat Spencer scored a career-high 20 points, Gui Santos added 18 and the shorthanded Golden State Warriors erased a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Phoenix Suns 101-97 on Thursday night. The Suns had a chance to pull ahead in the final seconds, but Dillon Brooks mi Hong Kong ex-media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday after national security conviction 02/06/2026 12:50am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong���s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, could face up to life in prison in the case Australia's chaotic buildup to cricket's T20 World Cup: Injuries, omissions and losses 02/06/2026 12:45am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) ��� Mitch Marsh's Australia squad has had a chaotic buildup to the Twenty20 World Cup, he'll fully agree. Josh Hazlewood was ruled out Friday because of a long-term hamstring injury, meaning Australia will go into a World Cup tournament for the first time since 2011 without Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city's multicultural past 02/06/2026 12:44am • ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) ��� Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown's multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals r Austin Reaves scores 35, Lakers overcome Luka's injury departure for 119-115 win over Sixers 02/06/2026 12:41am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Austin Reaves scored 35 points in just 25 minutes, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame Luka Doncic���s departure with a left leg injury for a 119-115 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night. LeBron James had 17 points and 10 assists for the Lakers, who snapped Phil The Mavs are leaving no doubt that Cooper Flagg is their future after trading Anthony Davis 02/05/2026 11:53pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Cooper Flagg is in the midst of an unprecedented run for an NBA teenager just as the Dallas Mavericks are firmly declaring their rookie No. 1 pick the future face of the franchise. The day was coming regardless. It arrived with Dallas trading Anthony Davis, the 10-time All-Star who j