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After deadly bus crash, Brazilian football team rebuilding and drawing inspiration from NFL 09/04/2025 06:05am • CURITIBA, Brazil (AP) ��� Seconds after Elisa Richter and 5-year-old daughter Helena arrived at the football field in the back of an abandoned racing track in southern Brazil, a flock of emotional fans of the Coritiba Crocodiles team came to hug them. That Saturday afternoon home game was one more s Powerful rain and floods devastate northern India as experts blame climate change 09/04/2025 06:04am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Relentless monsoon rains have unleashed some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades across northern India, killing at least 90 people and displacing hundreds of thousands in recent weeks, government officials said. India���s Himalayan Mountain states and territories such For decades, US Open women's champs got a smaller replica trophy than the men. Now they're equal 09/04/2025 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Coco Gauff was surprised at how much tinier the replica trophy she got to keep after winning this year's French Open was than the trophy she posed with on court at Roland-Garros for all the world to see. She even did a TikTok about the discrepancy, drawing more than 2 million views US Park Police chief to report directly to Interior secretary under new order 09/04/2025 05:22am • The Department of the Interior is restructuring the U.S. Park Police, moving its leadership one step closer to the White House by placing the chief under direct supervision of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. In an order signed by Burgum, Chief Jessica Taylor will now report directly to Burgum or Fairfax Co. holds off on considering potential changes to trash pickup to address misinformation 09/04/2025 04:32am • Fairfax County officials are pressing pause on a sweeping proposal to revamp residential trash collection, opting to delay a public hearing amid mounting confusion, pushback and competing narratives about what the changes could mean for homeowners and small haulers alike. At a meeting last week, Ardie Savea to play his 100th rugby test, Kyle Preston to debut for New Zealand against South Africa 09/04/2025 02:34am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Ardie Savea will make his 100th test appearance for the All Blacks while scrumhalf Kyle Preston will make his debut from the bench in Saturday's test against South Africa, a Rugby Championship match being billed as the biggest of the year. No. 1-ranked New Zealand wi TV writer Graham Linehan's arrest over posts on X sparks debate over free speech and its limits 09/04/2025 01:56am • LONDON (AP) ��� The arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan in Britain over social media posts about transgender people has sparked a debate about freedom of speech and its limits. Supporters of Linehan say U.K. laws are stifling legitimate comment and creating what ���Harry Potter��� author J.K. Row Rugby Championship: Wilson back as captain, Lynagh at flyhalf for Wallabies against Argentina 09/04/2025 01:48am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) ��� Harry Wilson will come back from a knee injury to lead the Wallabies and Tom Lynagh will return at flyhalf for Saturday���s Rugby Championship test against Argentina. Andrew Kellaway was named at fullback to replace injured Tom Wright, and Tom Hooper shifted into the se Trump says US strike targeting Venezuelan gang will cause cartels to think twice 09/04/2025 01:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels. Asked why the milita Climate change made heat and dryness that fueled Iberian wildfires 40 times more likely, study finds 09/04/2025 12:56am • MADRID (AP) ��� The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions, which fueled one of the IberianPeninsula's most destructive wildfire seasons in recorded history, were 40 times more likely due to climate change, according to a study released Thursday. The analysis by World Weather Attribution, or WWA, s New Carrollton neighborhood braces for the loss of a popular grocery store 09/04/2025 12:49am • In New Carrollton, Maryland, residents are bracing themselves for a major change in their grocery shopping habits. Their local Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, a neighborhood fixture for decades in the 7700 block of Riverdale Road, is shutting down next month. It's one of four Maryland loca Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness elected to a third term as main opposition candidate concedes 09/04/2025 12:19am • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) ��� Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness secured a third term early Thursday following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns. Preliminary results showed that Holness��� Jamaica Labor Party won at least 34 seats, while Mark Golding���s FACT FOCUS: DeSantis' misleading claims about why Florida missed out on a congressional seat 09/04/2025 12:04am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Gov. Ron DeSantis says the 2020 census numbers for Florida need ���fixing��� in a way that would give the Sunshine State another congressional seat. The Republican governor blamed the U.S. Census Bureau last month for shortchanging Florida following the last head count of ever Sudan's latest tragedy counts a village wiped out by a landslide 09/03/2025 09:58pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� A devastating landslide that killed an estimated 1,000 people in Sudan's Darfur region struck as the northeastern African nation reels from a civil war that pushed some of its parts into famine. The nation of over 50 million people has a long history of conflicts, including the one th Publisher agrees to changes in Virginia Giuffre's memoir after family objections 09/03/2025 09:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The publisher of a posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre says it has agreed on a final draft with family members after they publicly raised questions about the book's release. Surviving relatives of Giuffre had worried that ���Nobody���s Girl��� presented an