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Brooks Koepka gets a warm reception in PGA Tour return. It might have been about more than him 02/03/2026 09:44am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Brooks Koepka would never consider anything a dream week without a trophy, certainly not a tie for 56th finishing 19 shots behind the winner. But it felt like one at Torrey Pines. ���There's always that little voice in the back of your head,��� Koepka had said a few weeks before h PepsiCo plans price cuts as demand for its drinks and snacks slips 02/03/2026 09:42am • PURCHASE, NY (AP) ��� PepsiCo is cutting prices on Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos chips this year to win back customers exasperated by years of price hikes. ���For some consumers, low- and middle-income consumers, the biggest friction they have today in our category... is affordability,��� Pep Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei's austerity 02/03/2026 09:12am • LOS ALERCES NATIONAL PARK, Argentina (AP) ��� These days, the majestic, forested slopes of Argentina���s Patagonia look like a war zone. Mushroom clouds of smoke rise as if from missile strikes. Large flames illuminate the night sky, tainting the moon mango-orange and turning the glorious views that Seeking shelter from Trump's fury, U.S. trade partners reach deals with each other 02/03/2026 09:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Bullied and buffeted by President Donald Trump���s tariffs for the past year, America���s longstanding allies are desperately seeking ways to shield themselves from the president���s impulsive wrath. U.S. trade partners are cutting deals among themselves ���- sometimes discarding PayPal replaces CEO Chriss with HP's Lores 02/03/2026 08:19am • PayPal is replacing CEO Alex Chriss with Enrique Lores, saying that the pace of change and execution at the company has not met board expectations over the past two years. Lores has served as a PayPal board member for almost five years and has been board Chair since July 2024. He's also spent more t IOC leader Coventry warns of 'uncomfortable' change coming to Olympics programs 02/03/2026 06:42am • MILAN (AP) ��� Change is coming to the Olympic program of sports and events and it is going to be uncomfortable for some, IOC president Kirsty Coventry cautioned on Tuesday. In a keynote speech before her first Olympic Games as its first female leader in its 130-year history, Coventry detailed a def No. 1 UConn continues dominance with only Big East games left on regular-season schedule 02/03/2026 06:00am • UConn has rarely been tested this season, winning all but one of its games by double digits. The No. 1 Huskies, who are the only undefeated team left in Division I basketball, had led by at least double figures at the half in 21 of the first 22 games this season. Sunday's game against rival Tennesse No. 19 Saint Louis' 15-game winning streak puts it in elite company heading into this week 02/03/2026 06:00am • Saint Louis coach Josh Schertz has heard his teams called ���feel-good stories��� over the years, the best example being his Indiana State squad of a couple of seasons ago, which made a run to the NIT finals behind bespectacled star Robbie Avila. The No. 19 Billikens are more than a feel-good story, Maryland House OKs new congressional map, but Senate will likely prove a roadblock 02/03/2026 05:57am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� The Maryland House approved a new congressional map Monday that could enable Democrats to win the state's only Republican-held U.S. House seat, but leadership in the state Senate has said since October the bill doesn't have enough support to advance in that chamber ��� largel Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom 02/03/2026 04:57am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Even as China's expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years ��� raising concern about whether the world's largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change. More than Families mourn those killed in a Congo mine landslide as some survivors prepare to return 02/03/2026 03:03am • GOMA, Congo (AP) ��� After a landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine, families of the deceased and survivors are mourning their lost loved ones, and some survivors prepared to head back to the reopened mines. On Wednesday, following heavy ra Children with disabilities find joy and support through horse therapy in Taiwan 02/03/2026 02:48am • TAOYUAN, Taiwan (AP) ��� The young woman smiles widely as she prepares to get on the horse for her weekly ride. She laughs as the horse takes its first steps. ���The first time she got on a horse, she was happy,��� said Hector Chen of their initial visit. His daughter, Chen You-ching, was diagnosed In the face of aid cuts, Gates Foundation narrows its priorities and defends global health funding 02/03/2026 12:02am • The Gates Foundation will not change course in the face of massive foreign aid cuts, holding out hope that the U.S. specifically will return to funding the global health projects the foundation has long championed, its CEO said Tuesday. Instead, the foundation ��� one of the largest in the world ��� Trump urges House to vote quickly to end the partial government shutdown 02/02/2026 09:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump implored the House on Monday to end the partial government shutdown, but neither Republicans nor Democrats appeared ready to quickly approve the federal funding package he brokered with the Senate without first debating their own demands over immigration en Syrian rapper Al Darwish returns home after 13 years to perform in post-Assad Damascus 02/02/2026 09:35pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ��� Hani Al Sawah recently walked the streets of Damascus, Syria's capital, with wide-eyed excitement. It had been 13 years since the rap artist last was in Syria. Later that night, he would take the stage to perform his unapologetically political songs in his home country for