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Gregg Berhalter understands why Gio Reyna may leave Dortmund 01/19/2024 01:07pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) — U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter understands why Gio Reyna may leave Borussia Dortmund during the January transfer window. The 21-year-old midfielder has started just one Bundesliga match this season, playing the first half at Eintracht Frankfurt on Oct. 29. Reyna has made eight subst Recovering from natural disasters is slow and bureaucratic. New FEMA rules aim to cut the red tape 01/19/2024 12:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Anyone who has lived through a natural disaster and then applied to the federal government for assistance knows that it can be a lengthy, frustrating and bureaucratic process. New rules announced Friday by the federal agency in charge of emergency management aim to simplify and s NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 01/19/2024 11:50am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ A panel of healthcare experts discussed ‘Disease X’ at Davos. Bu Boeing 747 cargo plane makes emergency landing shortly after takeoff at Miami airport 01/19/2024 11:22am • MIAMI (AP) — A witness saw sparks shooting from a cargo plane as it made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport shortly after takeoff. The aircraft landed safely Thursday night “after experiencing an engine malfunction soon after departure," a spokesperson for Atlas Air said in a st A baby lived because an Oregon teen couldn't stand by after she saw 3 people get electrocuted 01/19/2024 08:49am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been putting their baby in the car. The woman screamed to Griezmann emerges as challenger to Bellingham for most decisive player in Spain 01/19/2024 08:19am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After scoring a gorgeous winner to eliminate Real Madrid from the Copa del Rey, Antoine Griezmann once again eclipsed Jude Bellingham in their duel to be considered the most decisive player in Spain. Griezmann beat Vinícius Júnior to the ball, danced down the end-line and NATO holds its biggest exercises in decades next week, involving around 90,000 personnel 01/19/2024 05:08am • BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of drills aimed at showing the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia, top officers said Thursday. The exercises come as Russi AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 01/19/2024 12:00am • Jan. 12-18, 2024 Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa decreed a national state of emergency to deal with gang violence. In Rio de Janeiro, Carnival dancers rehearsed. Inmates in Bolivia crafted miniature cars and furniture to sell at a fair. Indigenous people in Guatemala held a ceremony to honor new P As the youngest Israeli hostage turns 1, his family pleads for a deal to release more from Gaza 01/18/2024 11:50pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Between 9 and 12 months old, babies learn to stand, say their first word, maybe take their first steps. As the family of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli held in captivity in Gaza, celebrated his first birthday without him, they wondered which, if any, of the typical milest Lawmakers propose taxing dealers and manufacturers of guns, ammunition to fund Maryland trauma system 01/18/2024 10:42pm • Some Maryland lawmakers are proposing legislation to tax dealers and manufacturers of guns and ammunition to fund the state’s trauma system. Del. Bernice Mireku-North (D-Montgomery), who will sponsor the Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act in the House of Delegates, said an excise tax wo We could see the world's 1st trillionaire in the next decade. Here are some of today's richest 1% 01/18/2024 08:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%. In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade — as How watermelon imagery, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians, spread around the planet 01/18/2024 08:51pm • Over the past three months, on banners and T-shirts and balloons and social media posts, one piece of imagery has emerged around the world in protests against the Israel-Hamas war: the watermelon. The colors of sliced watermelon — with red pulp, green-white rind and black seeds — are the same a Live updates | US bombs Yemen a fifth time, as Netanyahu rejects any postwar Palestinian state 01/18/2024 08:32pm • The United States conducted a fifth strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen on Thursday, even as President Joe Biden acknowledged that bombing the Iran-backed militants has yet to stop their attacks on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has South Korea calls on divided UN council 'to break the silence' on North Korea's tests and threats 01/18/2024 08:27pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea called on the divided U.N. Security Council on Thursday “to break the silence” over North Korea’s escalating missile tests and threats. “It’s a big question,” South Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Hwang Joonkook told reporters after an emergency closed meeti EU, AU, US say Sudan war and Somalia's tension with Ethiopia threaten Horn of Africa's stability 01/18/2024 08:14pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The African Union, European Union, and United States called Thursday for an immediate cease-fire and constructive dialogue between warring factions in Sudan. The groups also called for an end to tension between Somalia and Ethiopia over an agreement signed between Ethiopia an