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Brown grass cost a famed golf course a big tournament and highlighted Hawaii water problems 11/29/2025 09:15am • HONOLULU (AP) — High up on the slopes of the west Maui mountains, the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort provides golfers with expansive ocean views. The course is so renowned that The Sentry, a $20 million signature event for the PGA Tour, had been held there nearly every year for more than a qu No West Virginia Guard troops deployed in D.C. have asked to leave, governor says 11/29/2025 08:53am • Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Friday that no West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have requested to return home in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two West Virginia Guard members that left one dead and the second critically wounded. "I haven't heard of anyone step b Grateful to be alive, residents who escaped the Hong Kong apartment blaze wonder what comes next 11/29/2025 08:42am • HONG KONG (AP) — It was just after 3 p.m. when William Li received the unusual call from his wife, who was at work, saying she'd heard from a friend that their building was on fire. There were no alarms, no signs of smoke in his 2nd floor apartment, and no burning smell to give a sense of urgency Experts doubt the Pentagon can punish Kelly over the 'illegal orders' video 11/29/2025 08:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy “illegal orders” has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts. Some say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fig Today in History: November 29, the Sand Creek Massacre 11/29/2025 04:10am • Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2025. There are 32 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 people. Also on this date: In 1929, Navy L Sweden promises action against illegal sex doll sales 11/29/2025 02:58am • BERLIN (AP) — The Swedish government promised on Friday to fight the sale of childlike sex dolls online after instances of such commerce had been reported earlier in the country. “I think I react on behalf of all parents when I say that, as a mother, your heart really breaks watching these imag Mavs' Anthony Davis gets cheers and another loss in his return to LA after a 14-game injury absence 11/29/2025 02:25am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis returned to Los Angeles on the same night he came back from a 14-game injury absence, and he received loud pregame cheers from Lakers fans who were thrilled to see a longtime favorite healthy and hooping. “The fans, obviously they’re great,” Davis said. “Th Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe 11/29/2025 12:01am • Two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants out of the U.S. were midair on March 15 when a federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to turn them around. Instead, the planes landed in El Salvador hours later, touching off an extraordinary power struggle between the judicial and execu This African nation built its development on diamonds. Now it's crashing down 11/28/2025 11:05pm • GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built on diamonds had fallen so far, so fast. For 17 years, she had earned a living cutting and Shoppers hit Black Friday sales with celebratory mood despite economic strain 11/28/2025 09:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The economic picture hasn't looked very rosy: Hiring has been sluggish. Consumers have been dealing with soaring meat prices. Layoffs are rippling through companies. But despite those concerns, shoppers hit the stores in full strength on Black Friday, with some even sipping champag Iran boycotting World Cup draw citing visa restrictions for soccer officials 11/28/2025 07:47pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington next week because the U.S. denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The agency quoted Iranian soccer federation spokesman Amir-Mahdi Alavi as sa Hungary's Orbán seeks more Russian oil and gas at Kremlin talks with Putin 11/28/2025 07:19pm • Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Friday, once again shunning efforts by his European Union partners to isolate Moscow over its invasion of neighboring Ukraine nearly four years ago. The trip to Moscow is the second since last y Hondurans to elect new president and Congress even as candidates fan electoral doubt 11/28/2025 06:02pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Amanda Durón García supports herself and her 74-year-old mother with the roughly $7 she earns daily selling soft drinks, chips and gum on the campus of Honduras’ national university. Her four adult children are married and out of the house, but every day is a strug Death toll rises to 128 in Hong Kong residential fire as 8 more arrested over towers' renovation 11/28/2025 05:19pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities arrested another 8 people involved in the towers' renovation. The death toll in one of the cit In brief glimpses of Tehran, an AP journalist sees a changing and challenged Iran 11/28/2025 04:46pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As you enter Iran’s capital, it starts with only occasional glimpses — a passenger in a car speeding by or a pedestrian trying to leapfrog through Tehran’s notorious traffic. But as you reach the cooler heights of Tehran’s northern neighborhoods along the city’s sycam