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Fall is books' biggest season. Expect some long-awaited returns 08/22/2025 09:38am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, ���The Turner House,��� Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagements, the occasional essay and, throughout, Alabama standout LB Deontae Lawson 'has one shot at this' and wants to make it count 08/22/2025 09:25am • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ��� Deontae Lawson knows he only has one chance remaining. The linebacker is entering his fifth and final college season, a last ride with the eighth-ranked Crimson Tide that means even more after what he endured last November. Lawson tore a ligament in his knee in a loss to Ok How MLB's upcoming deals will change how you watch out-of-market, Sunday night and Wild Card games 08/22/2025 09:19am • When ESPN opted out of its contract with Major League Baseball in February, the network was hoping to get a reworked package at a lower cost while Commissioner Rob Manfred thought the sport could optimize its rights in the short term for Home Run Derby and Wild Card round. In the end, both parties m As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost 08/22/2025 09:01am • Marissa Loewen first started using artificial intelligence in 2014 as a project management tool. She has autism and ADHD and said it helped immensely with organizing her thoughts. ���We try to use it conscientiously though because we do realize that there is an impact on the environment,��� she said 2024 US Open runner-up Jessica Pegula returns to New York in a bit of a rut 08/22/2025 08:57am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� This is supposed to be Jessica Pegula's favorite part of the season. She says so herself. And why wouldn't it be? Pegula gets to stay in North America. She gets to compete in front of friendly and supportive crowds. She gets to play on hard courts, her preferred surface. She gets Tensions boil at Arlington School Board meeting on transgender bathroom policy 08/22/2025 07:04am • The debate was heated Thursday night at the Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia as dozens of speakers lined up to give their thoughts on the school system and its transgender bathroom policy. The room was packed and tensions were high from the beginning, including just after the Ple South Korea must navigate the ���Trump risk��� at key summits in Japan and US 08/22/2025 04:14am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test barely two months after taking office, with back-to-back summits in Tokyo and Washington that reflect the wider struggle of U.S. allies to navigate Donald Trump���s unilateral push to redefine postw Thai court acquits former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of royal defamation charge 08/22/2025 03:57am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a case that could have sent him to prison for up to 15 years. The 76-year-old Thaksin, smiling as he walked away from the courtroom, was the first to reveal the ve McReight to captain Wallabies in second Rugby Championship test against Springboks 08/22/2025 02:43am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Winger Corey Toole will make his test debut and Fraser McReight will replace the injured Harry Wilson as captain when the Wallabies play South Africa in their Rugby Championship match on Saturday. Australia coach Joe Schmidt on Thursday said Rob Valetini would return Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals 08/22/2025 01:33am • BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) ��� At an obstacle course in the humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows recruits how to pull a wounded partner out of danger. In a classroom with desks cluttered with thick legal books about immigration law, recruits learn about how the Fourth Amendment governs their work. And o China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets 08/22/2025 12:26am • TALATAN, China (AP) ��� Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world's largest solar farm when completed high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 square kilometers (235 square miles), which is the size of Chicago. China has been installing solar panels far f Chicago Sky beat New York Liberty 91-85, end five-game losing streak 08/22/2025 12:21am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Kamilla Cardoso had 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, Angel Reese scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the Chicago Sky beat the New York Liberty 91-85 on Thursday night to end a five-game losing streak. Chicago (9-26), which had lost 13 of 14 overall, also snapped a Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates 08/21/2025 11:46pm • A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from gove Erik Menendez was denied parole. Here's what he said at his hearing 08/21/2025 10:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Erik Menendez was denied parole by panel of California commissioners Thursday. During his hearing he offered his most detailed account in years of how he was raised and why he made the choices he did ��� both at the time of his parents' killing and during his decades in prison. The Latest: Trump thanks police and troops as DC crackdown on crime and immigration intensifies 08/21/2025 10:05pm • President Donald Trump took a field trip Thursday to the U.S. Park Police operations facility in Washington, where he addressed about 300 National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials and praised his military crackdown on crime and immigration in the city. The White House said there