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The 49ers get off to a fast start to the season with a blowout win over the Steelers 09/11/2023 07:51pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have gotten off to shaky starts to the season too often under coach Kyle Shanahan. After a training camp dominated by a lengthy contract holdout from the team's best defensive player Nick Bosa, the trading away of the former future franchise quart Republican opposition to abortion threatens global HIV/AIDS program that has saved 25 million lives 09/11/2023 07:37pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived. Today, the orphanage in Kenya’s capital is a happier, more h Slave descendants face local vote on whether wealthy can build large homes in their island enclave 09/11/2023 07:27pm • DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes and dirt roads. Black residents of the Hogg Hummock c McCarthy juggles a government shutdown and a Biden impeachment inquiry as the House returns for fall 09/11/2023 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a man who stays in motion — enthusiastically greeting tourists at the Capitol, dashing overseas to the G7 summit of industrial world leaders, and raising funds back home to elect fellow Republicans to the House majority. But beneath the whirlwind Grand Canyon hiker dies after trying to walk from rim to rim in a single day 09/11/2023 04:47pm • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 55-year-old Virginia man died in the Grand Canyon while trying to hike from the South Rim to the North Rim in a single day, a distance of 21 miles (33.8 kilometers), authorities said Monday. Grand Canyon National Park officials identified the hiker who The international Red Cross cuts budget, staffing levels as humanitarian aid dries up 09/11/2023 04:42pm • GENEVA (AP) — The part of the international Red Cross that deals with conflict and prisoners of war announced Monday it will trim its projected budget by about one-eighth next year and cut nearly 20% of staff at its headquarters. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which among other thin Texas defense emerging as a dominant group for No. 4 Longhorns after 2 games 09/11/2023 04:39pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After a routine win over Rice to start the season, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian noted there had been little talk about how good the No. 4 Longhorns' defense could be. A road win at No. 10 Alabama should change the conversation. The Longhorns were dominant at times against the C With Rubiales finally out, Spanish soccer ready to leave embarrassing chapter behind 09/11/2023 04:36pm • Spanish soccer is ready to move forward, three weeks after its women’s team won the Women's World Cup but had its celebrations marred by a kiss that ignited a crisis. Luis Rubiales, the Spanish soccer federation president who kissed a player on the lips without her consent during the trophy ceremo All Blacks in no rush to clear list of injured players at Rugby World Cup 09/11/2023 04:03pm • LYON, France (AP) — New Zealand is in no rush to clear its list of injured players even though it must win its remaining pool games to reach the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals. Forwards coach Jason Ryan's update on Monday had none of the injured in contention to play against Namibia on Friday in To Wisconsin wolf hunters face tighter regulations under new permanent rules 09/11/2023 03:44pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wolf hunters in Wisconsin would have to register their kills faster, face a limited window for training their dogs and couldn't disturb dens under new regulations being finalized by state wildlife officials. The state Department of Natural Resources plans to hold a public hear Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 17-23 09/11/2023 11:13am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 17-23: Sept. 17: Singer-turned-photographer LaMonte McLemore of the Fifth Dimension is 88. Singer Fee Waybill of The Tubes is 75. Actor Elvira is 72. Comedian Rita Rudner is 70. Puppeteer Kevin Clash (formerly Elmo on “Sesame Street”) is 63. Actor-direct Fukushima nuclear plant's operator says the first round of wastewater release is complete 09/11/2023 10:40am • TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Monday that it has safely completed the first release of treated radioactive water from the plant into the sea and will inspect and clean the facility before starting the second round in a few weeks. The Fukushima Daiichi Russia says ruling party wins most votes in Ukrainian regions it occupies. West calls elections sham 09/11/2023 10:22am • Russia’s Central Election Commission said Monday that the country’s ruling party won the most votes in elections held in occupied Ukrainian regions, as Kyiv and the West denounced the ballots as a sham. The votes were held as Russian authorities attempt to tighten their grip on territories Mosco Residents mobilize in search of dozens missing after Nigeria boat accident. Death toll rises to 28 09/11/2023 08:18am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll in the boat accident in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State has risen to 28, emergency services said Monday, as communities mobilized in support of an intensified search for dozens still missing after the passenger boat capsized. The boat capsized along the N Air China jet evacuated after engine fire sends smoke into cabin in Singapore and 9 are injured 09/11/2023 04:44am • BEIJING (AP) — Nine passengers were injured after an engine fire sent smoke into the cabin of an Air China jetliner landing in Singapore, prompting an evacuation of the aircraft. The Airbus A320 with 146 passengers and nine crew made an emergency landing about 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Changi Airport said