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Connect Four, lightsabers, Furbies ... and snow: Which playthings belong in the Toy Hall of Fame? 09/18/2025 08:15am • Later this year, the National Toy Hall of Fame could induct snow ��� yes, the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky. But only if it ices out enough of the competition ��� a group that features hugely popular board games, outdoor favorites and giggling plushies. The Hall of Fame announced its George Soros' philanthropy reaches for new ideas as it grapples with the limits of its power 09/18/2025 08:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy of hedge fund billionaire George Soros, has consistently been one of the largest funders of human rights organizations around the world. But what that means has changed in recent years, with a new focus on addressing inequality. ��� Rome derby to start earlier amid violence concerns; San Siro sale moving along 09/18/2025 06:27am • ROME (AP) ��� Roma is unexpectedly struggling to score under attack-minded coach Gian Piero Gasperini. Lazio looks confused under returning coach Maurizio Sarri, who abandoned the stadium immediately after a Serie A loss at Sassuolo last weekend. And both sides are facing financial fair play issues If beer and wine in Md. grocery stores statewide is a no-go, is there room for some exceptions? 09/18/2025 06:25am • Nearing the end of her first term, Prince George's County Council member Krystal Oriadha, sponsor of more legislation than most if not all of her colleagues, would define legislative success with a goal that's more modest than you might think. "If I could get a grocery store to come to Seat Pleas Everton, be warned: Liverpool is taking a run of late winners into the Merseyside derby 09/18/2025 06:01am • They might start calling it ���Slot Time.��� Arne Slot's Liverpool, the defending Premier League champion, is making an uncanny habit of scoring late winning goals to start this season. And it is evoking memories of the great Manchester United teams under Alex Ferguson doing the same on so many occa No longer a dull formality, NFL kickoffs require a new set of skills for kickers and returners 09/18/2025 06:01am • The biggest gaffe of the NFL season so far may have occurred in Pittsburgh last weekend, when a Steelers rookie let a kickoff bounce into the end zone and left the ball sitting there, apparently unaware that Seattle could ��� and did ��� score a touchdown by falling on it. That type of mistake is a WNBA playoffs: Three decisive Game 3s highlight a balanced season 09/18/2025 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It's fitting that many of the opening round playoff series are going the distance after the balanced regular season the WNBA had. There will be three decisive Game 3s over the next two days. That's the first time that's happened since 2015. Last season all four opening round series One of the rarest birds in the world finds a city sanctuary in Hong Kong 09/18/2025 04:46am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos found an unexpected sanctuary among Hong Kong ���s towering skyscrapers, but like their human neighbors they now face trouble finding a place to call home. Native to Indonesia and East Timor, the snow-white birds, their crests flashin Australia targets at least 62% emissions cut in the next decade 09/18/2025 04:00am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Australia on Thursday set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035. The new target adds to Australia���s ambition of a 43% cut by the end of this decade and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Prime Ministe In coastal Ghana, female oyster farmers try to save an old practice threatened by climate change 09/18/2025 02:10am • TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) ��� Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana���s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It���s a family tradition she���s been doing since she was 15. Now 45, she is struggling to sustain the practice and pass Despair deepens for a Palestinian family forced to flee across Gaza yet again 09/18/2025 01:16am • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Exhaustion, despair and anger are grinding away at Ne'man Abu Jarad. Once again, for the 11th time, he and his family have been forced to uproot and move across the Gaza Strip. ���It���s a renewal of the torture. We���re not being displaced, we���re dying,��� Ne'man Anthony Roth Costanzo, who introduced $11 tickets, brings opera with a difference to Philadelphia 09/18/2025 12:24am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Anthony Roth Costanzo, the man who brought $11 opera tickets to Philadelphia, hopes to keep surprising audiences during the company���s new season. ���It is very much opera. It���s dramatic, it���s cathartic, it���s collaborative in interdisciplinary ways,��� Costanzo said of O When self-doubt creeps in at work, pause and reframe your negative thoughts. Here's how 09/18/2025 12:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When we make mistakes at work, it can lead to a cycle of negative thinking. The damaging thoughts swirl: ���I���m an impostor.��� ���I���m not smart enough.��� ���I���m failing at my job.��� Feeling like an impostor ��� doubting one���s own abilities despite a track record of succe The Latest: Trump enjoys royal pageantry during unprecedented second UK state visit 09/17/2025 10:05pm • President Donald Trump relished the glow of a British royal spectacle Wednesday, greeted at Windsor Castle on his state visit by King Charles III, military honor guards and mounted troops before paying a private tribute at Queen Elizabeth II���s tomb. No. No U.S. president, or any other world leader Starbucks workers sue over company's new dress code 09/17/2025 08:02pm • Starbucks workers in three states took legal action against the coffee giant Wednesday, saying it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes. The employees, who are backed by the union organizing Starbucks' workers, filed class-actio