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Tour Championship now offers official money and richest prize in golf with a $40 million purse 08/13/2025 06:51pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) ��� The Tour Championship now has the richest individual prize fund in golf with the PGA Tour making the FedEx Cup payoff count as official money for the first time. The total purse is $40 million, with $10 million to the winner. Since the FedEx Cup began in 2007, the bonus NY attorney general sues Zelle's parent company after Trump administration drops similar case 08/13/2025 06:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York's attorney general on Wednesday sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case as the Trump administration was gutting the agency. Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, su Tennessee Tech makes historic move to Southern Conference, leaving Ohio Valley after 77 years 08/13/2025 06:16pm • COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee Tech announced Wednesday that the school is switching to the Southern Conference on July 1, 2026, and leaving the Ohio Valley Conference, where the Golden Eagles had been members since 1949. ���This historic move changes the trajectory of our athletic aspirations New US Capitol Police chief says increased law enforcement in DC 'benefits everybody' 08/13/2025 05:58pm • The new chief of U.S. Capitol Police, Michael Sullivan, was sworn in a little over a month ago. Now that he's got his footing, he's been subject to rapid-fire changes from President Donald Trump's administration. Amid a shifting landscape in law enforcement in the nation's capital, Sullivan told In his words: Trump's rhetoric about Zelenskyy and Putin has evolved 08/13/2025 05:34pm • U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful campaign for a second term that he could end the war in Ukraine ���in 24 hours.��� But since his Jan. 20 inauguration, the road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics among Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk Rising seas could put Easter Island's moai at risk by 2080, study warns 08/13/2025 04:28pm • By the end of the century, rising sea levels could push powerful seasonal waves into Easter Island���s 15 iconic moai statues, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage. About 50 other cultural sites in the area are also at risk from flooding. ���Sea level rise is real,� A tale of two Chief Pams: Federal takeover brings confusion over command of DC police 08/13/2025 03:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of the police department in Washington, D.C. ��� so says the White House. But the city's police force already has a Pam at the helm ��� Chief Pamela Smith ��� and she says she only reports to the mayor. D.C. and federal official What's life like for a mermaid performer in the DC area? 08/13/2025 03:42pm • A woman who goes by Ch�� Monique glides through a lake in Northern Virginia, occasionally whipping her long "tail" behind her to splash at the water's surface. The Northern Virginia woman makes it look natural, capturing the mythical creature's essence, but a lot of grit goes into being a profess Crackdown on players faking injuries, tweak to video review verbiage among changes in college game 08/13/2025 02:43pm • Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews. Those are among the changes for the 2025 season, the National Football Foundation ann The home of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning renamed Benchmark International Arena 08/13/2025 02:07pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� The home of the Tampa Bay Lightning has a new name, Benchmark International Arena, after the NHL team unveiled a multiyear agreement Wednesday with the mergers and acquisitions company. The change takes effect immediately. The building that opened in 1996 had been known as Amali New draft of global plastic pollution treaty wouldn't limit plastic production 08/13/2025 01:58pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn't limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products. The biggest issue of the talks has been whether the treaty should impose caps on produ NFL's coaching hot seat includes Mike Tomlin and Zac Taylor 08/13/2025 01:39pm • Nick Sirianni entered last season with his job on the line in Philadelphia and finished it hoisting the Vince Lombardi trophy, earning a lucrative contract extension. There are several coaches under similar pressure this year. Can anyone pull off the same feat? Sirianni led the Eagles to the p People often miscalculate climate choices, a study says. One surprise is owning a dog 08/13/2025 01:33pm • It turns out many Americans aren't great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change. A study recently published by the National Academy of Sciences found that when asked to rank actions, such as swapping a car that uses gasoline for an electric one, carpooling or reduc Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine is latest chapter in Alaska's long history ��� and tension ��� with Russia 08/13/2025 12:47pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter in the 49th state's long history with Russia ��� and with international tensions. Siberian fur traders arrived from across the Bering Sea in the fi A $200 million endowment focused on Black Americans is taking shape 08/13/2025 12:21pm • Started in 2020 as a five-year initiative inspired by the racial justice outcry following the police murder of George Floyd, the California Black Freedom Fund plans to expand to a $200 million endowment. The move is both rare in the world of philanthropy and politically bold, given the Trump adminis