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Caroline Garcia turned down $270,000 betting company offer for her tennis podcast 12/08/2025 11:45am • PARIS (AP) ��� Retired French tennis player Caroline Garcia has rejected a $270,000 sponsorship deal for her podcast from a betting company, saying she chooses values over money. Garcia, who reached a career-high ranking of No. 4, retired earlier this year. She has stayed connected with the sport th Hegseth defends strikes on alleged cartel boats, says Trump can order use of force 'as he sees fit' 12/06/2025 06:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended strikes on alleged drug cartel boats during remarks Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, saying President Donald Trump has the power to take military action ���as he sees fit��� to defend the nation. Hegseth dismissed critici Hong Kong residents and experts defend bamboo scaffolding after deadly fire 12/04/2025 12:55am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city���s deadliest blaze in decades, as a debate flares over whether it should be replaced. Autho College football picks: Numbers show more sweeps than splits when teams meet twice in same season 12/03/2025 12:01pm • Six of the nine Bowl Subdivision conference championship games will be rematches of regular-season meetings, and while coaches often talk about the difficulty of having to beat a team twice in the same year, there have been more sweeps than splits in such situations since 2000. The rematches: BYU-Te Chile becomes latest country to ban smartphone use during class 12/03/2025 10:14am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools. The new law will take effect next year, making Chile the latest country to restrict smartphone use among young students to reduce its harmful e Bangladesh's ex-leader Hasina and her British lawmaker niece both found guilty of corruption 12/01/2025 07:26am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� A court in Bangladesh���s capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, British Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to two years in prison on Monday for corruption involving a government land project. Rabiul Alam, the judge of Undav scores again but it's not enough as 10-man Hamburg stuns Stuttgart in Bundesliga 11/30/2025 03:35pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Fabio Vieira scored in stoppage time as Hamburger SV shocked Stuttgart 2-1 in the promoted team���s third Bundesliga win of the season on Sunday. Stuttgart was pushing for a late winner against Hamburg���s 10 men, but Angelo Stiller���s free kick went straight to an opponent and Fabi Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial in Israel 11/30/2025 01:38pm • TEL AVIV (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country���s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel���s legal system over the charg No. 6 Ole Miss beats Mississippi State in Battle for the Golden Egg; Kiffin decision up next 11/29/2025 12:53am • STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) ��� Trinidad Chambliss threw for 359 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 6 Mississippi beat Mississippi State 38-19 Friday in the Battle for the Golden Egg. The win was the 11th in the regular season for the Rebels, marking the most regular-season wins in school history. The Re Drew Mestemaker leads No. 21 North Texas over Temple 52-25 for spot in American title game 11/28/2025 08:30pm • DENTON, Texas (AP) ��� Drew Mestemaker threw for 366 yards and three touchdowns, including a 77-yarder to Cameron Dorner, and No. 21 North Texas wrapped up a spot in the American Conference championship game with a 52-25 victory against Temple on Friday. The Mean Green (11-1, 7-1 American) rolled in Canada's prime minister and Alberta's premier sign pipeline deal that could reverse oil tanker ban 11/28/2025 02:41pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada���s oil rich province of Alberta agreed Thursday to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country���s oil exports beyond the United States, in a move that has caused turmoil in Carney's inn Zelenskyy's chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home 11/28/2025 01:57pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in talks with the U.S, after Yermak's residence was searched by anti-corruption investigators. The unprecedented s A high-stakes Egg Bowl could be overshadowed by Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin's future 11/26/2025 08:42am • STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) ��� The 124-year-old football rivalry between Mississippi and Mississippi State has a new subplot that could very well overshadow what is a high-stakes game in its own right. The sixth-ranked Rebels (10-1, 6-1 SEC, No. 7 CFP) could lock up a spot in the College Football Playof Bible sales keep growing, even as many Americans lose their religion 11/24/2025 04:06pm • (RNS) ��� Many Americans may have lost faith in organized religion, but according to recent data, they still love the Good Book. As of September, Bible sales were up 11% this year over 2024, part of a continuing boom in Bible sales. That includes 2.4 million sold in September 2025 as part of a surge Things to know about the growing pressures facing Zelenskyy during a crucial week of diplomacy 11/24/2025 11:46am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces a crucial week of diplomacy, testing his abilities to stand his ground while demonstrating to the United States that he is willing to compromise. Since a draft of a 28-point U.S.-Russia brokered peace plan was leaked to the press o