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Kremlin says Russia and US agree that quick nuclear arms are talks needed 02/06/2026 01:55pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and U.S. negotiators discussed the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries and agreed on the need to quickly launch new arms control talks, the Kremlin said Friday. At the same time, the U.S. emphasized the need for China to join a future Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics 02/06/2026 01:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — White House border czar Tom Homan's announcement that enforcement in Minnesota was being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed months of internal grumbling and infighting among agencies about how to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation cam Minnesota United brings Colombian star James Rodríguez to the MLS on a short-term contract 02/06/2026 01:09pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota United signed midfielder James Rodríguez to a short-term contract on Friday, the Major League Soccer club's highest-profile player to date in an arrangement that gives the Colombia veteran a team to ramp up with in preparation for the World Cup this summer. Pendin This year’s Super Bowl commercials feature AI, weight-loss drugs and celebrities galore 02/06/2026 12:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. Dozens of advertisers are pulling out all the stops for Super Bowl 60, airing UK police search two properties linked to Peter Mandelson as part of Epstein probe 02/06/2026 12:15pm • LONDON (AP) — British police on Friday searched two properties linked to ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson as part of a probe into potential misconduct stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hayley Sewart said that “officers from the Met Facing high Trump tariffs, Africa's leading economy says it's close to a new trade deal with China 02/06/2026 11:20am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — China and South Africa signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal on Friday as Africa's leading economy looks to other options following the high import tariffs imposed on it by the U.S. and its diplomatic fallout with the Trump administration. South Africa's Patrick Reed takes the lead in Qatar and tries to wrap up Middle East swing with another win 02/06/2026 11:01am • DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Patrick Reed birdied two of his last three holes Friday for a 5-under 67, giving him a one-shot lead in the Qatar Masters as the American tries to wrap up a career-changing month in the Middle East with another victory. Reed took advantage of late scoring opportunities at Doha G Czechia women's hockey coach Carla MacLeod confronts breast cancer with familiar upbeat approach 02/06/2026 08:17am • MILAN (AP) — Carla MacLeod approaches life with a smile and stubborn level of optimism, making it difficult to imagine what could ever get her down. Losing a hockey game for Czechia's women’s team or the PWHL's Ottawa Charge is always viewed by the coach as a learning experience from which her p Trump's aggressive tactics force a reckoning between local leaders and Washington 02/06/2026 07:18am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston regularly games out responses to threats like destructive tornadoes or hazardous waste leaks. He's added a new potential menace: the federal government. When President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to some U.S. cities last year over the ob Basic services resume at Syrian camp housing IS families as government takes control 02/06/2026 07:11am • AL-HOL, Syria (AP) — Basic services at a camp in northeast Syria holding thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group are returning to normal after government forces captured the facility from Kurdish fighters, a United Nations official said on Thursday. Forces of Syria’s ce Deal is signed in Beirut to transfer 300 Syrian prisoners in Lebanon to their home country 02/06/2026 06:30am • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Syria signed an agreement Friday to transfer more than 300 Syrians from Lebanese prisons to continue serving their sentences in their home country, a step that will likely help improve strained relations between the two neighbors. The signing came a week after Lebanon’s Arturas Karnisovas launches Bulls' rebuild with series of trades at deadline 02/06/2026 06:30am • CHICAGO (AP) — Arturas Karnisovas finally decided he'd seen enough. The Chicago Bulls' top basketball executive took a wrecking ball to the roster leading up to Thursday's trade deadline, dealing Nikola Vucevic to Boston, Kevin Huerter to Detroit, Coby White to Charlotte and Chicago product Ayo Do History awaits: Will the Super Bowl finally see a punt return touchdown? 02/06/2026 06:00am • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The first touchdown in Super Bowl history came on a pass from Bart Starr to Max McGee 59 years ago for the Green Bay Packers. The most recent came on a 50-yard deep strike from Patrick Mahomes to Xavier Worthy last year. In between those, there have been 323 additional touc Takeaways from AP's report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home 02/06/2026 05:47am • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years. One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind h Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms 02/06/2026 02:11am • KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For every crawfish Courville dumps out of a trap, three or four snails clang onto the boat’s metal