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Nice soccer player Atal will face trial Dec. 18 after sharing an antisemitic message on social media 11/24/2023 12:56pm • NICE, France (AP) — French authorities detained Nice defender Youcef Atal and ordered him to stand trial next month on charges of inciting hatred after he shared an antisemitic message online, the regional prosecutor’s office said Friday. Atal was suspended by the French soccer league for seven Nicaragua's Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country 11/23/2023 10:52pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the "legitimate joy and pride” President Daniel Ortega's government expresse New Steelers offensive coordinator Eddie Faulkner is focusing on the present 11/23/2023 01:14pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — This isn't the way Eddie Faulkner wanted to get the biggest job of his professional life. Faulkner and Matt Canada are friends. Their wives are friends. Their families are friends. It's a bond that goes back well over a decade, a bond that hardly ended when the Pittsburgh Steeler German soccer federation limits Facebook comments following racist abuse directed at U17 players 11/23/2023 11:08am • BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer federation has had to limit comments on the Facebook page of its junior teams following a slew of racist and discriminatory comments against its Under-17 players. The federation posted a picture of four players from the Germany U17 team, all Black, celebrating Tuesd English FA council member resigns after inappropriate social media post on war in Gaza 11/23/2023 10:14am • LONDON (AP) — A council member at the English Football Association who made an inappropriate post regarding the war in Gaza resigned from his position on Thursday. Wasim Haq had been suspended for the comments he made this month on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, which reportedly Their families wiped out, grieving Palestinians in Gaza ask why 11/18/2023 03:09pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The night a blast struck his family's home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. He reached for his cellphone to find that a friend had written — and then deleted — a message George Mason removes student responses to president's message over Israel-Hamas war after listserv issue 11/18/2023 11:21am • A recent listserv issue at George Mason University exposed emails from students replying to the president's message on the Israel-Hamas war to the entire university. The university then removed the emails from everyone's inboxes, leaving students wondering if their school was trying to silence th Joe Burrow is out for the rest of the season with a torn ligament in his right wrist 11/17/2023 09:23pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Burrow will miss the rest of the season with a torn ligament in his right wrist, ending a disappointing campaign for the Cincinnati Bengals' star quarterback in the first year of a $275 million contract. Burrow and Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor disclosed the injury Friday an NFL investigating why Bengals didn't list Joe Burrow on injury report, AP source says 11/17/2023 08:08pm • The NFL is investigating why the Cincinnati Bengals did not list Joe Burrow on their injury report before Thursday night's game at Baltimore, which Burrow exited in the second quarter with a wrist injury that will end his season, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Frida Texas approves new textbooks after friction over fossil fuels in the US's biggest oil and gas state 11/17/2023 06:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board approved new science textbooks Friday but called on some publishers to remove material that some Republicans criticized as incorrect or negative portrayals of fossil fuels in the U.S.'s biggest oil and gas state. The vote laid bare divisions on the Te New York judge lifts gag order that barred Donald Trump from maligning court staff in fraud trial 11/16/2023 08:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns. Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate app Backpage founder convicted of 1 count of money laundering. Arizona jury deadlocks on 84 other counts 11/16/2023 08:23pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was convicted Thursday on a single count of money laundering and acquitted on another. But an Arizona jury deadlocked on 84 other counts against him in a case that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex Texas jury convicts woman of fatally shooting cyclist Anna 'Mo' Wilson in a jealous rage 11/16/2023 07:56pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Thursday convicted a woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer. Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, faces a penalty of up to life in priso Tesla didn't squelch United Auto Workers message when it cracked down on T-shirts, court says 11/16/2023 05:15pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Automaker Tesla did not infringe on its workers’ rights to unionize when it ordered employees at a California assembly plant to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the United Auto Workers logo, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw o Russian soldier back from Ukraine taught a school lesson and then beat up neighbors, officials say 11/16/2023 02:57pm • A Russian soldier recently returned from fighting in Ukraine went to teach schoolchildren about Russia's military campaign there before later beating up his neighbors, Russian news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on its Telegram channel. It is the latest report of a fighter from Ukraine returning