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Man drives car into pedestrians at grocery store in California mountain town, injuring 4 02/07/2026 09:57pm • TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) ��� A vehicle plowed into and injured pedestrians at the entrance of a grocery store in a scenic California mountain town Saturday, police reported. Four people, including some children, were hurt when the 49-year-old man drove into the front of the Truckee Safeway in the after Hilary Knight ties US Olympic goal record in 5-0 win over Finland team coming off stomach virus 02/07/2026 05:34pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Every goal still feels special for Hilary Knight, no matter how many USA Hockey���s most decorated woman has scored in her record-setting career. Saturday night was no different for the 36-year-old appearing in her U.S. women���s hockey-best fifth Olympics. With U.S. Vice President JD Gaza's Rafah border crossing has reopened but few people get through 02/07/2026 02:39pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� When the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt finally reopened this week, Palestinian officials heralded it as a ���window of hope��� after two years of war as a fragile ceasefire deal moves forward. But that hope has been sidetracked by disagreements over wh She filmed Iran's violent crackdown on protesters. Now she is afraid to go outside 02/07/2026 11:40am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� As tear gas canisters landed among protesters filling the wide boulevard, the 37-year-old beautician and her friends ran for cover. They sheltered among trees, concealed in darkness pierced only by the glow of streetlights and small fires behind them in the western Iranian city of Ka Meet the quartet of US Olympic figure skaters whose parents were ex-Soviet skating superstars 02/07/2026 07:54am • One would think that given all the success Marina Klimova enjoyed in high-stakes, international figure skating with her husband and pairs partner, Sergei Ponomarenko, she would have no trouble watching her son when he takes the ice. The couple won three world championships, after all. An Olympic med A man whose mother was found among 189 decaying bodies tells the story 02/06/2026 08:58pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� Derrick Johnson buried his mother���s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui���s Haleakal�� Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place looking over her grandchildren. Then the FBI called. It was Feb. 4, 2024, and Johns 4 people have died from eating death cap mushrooms as they spread in California after rains 02/06/2026 07:33pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid mushroom foraging altogether t The Latest: Two cauldrons are lit for the first time at a Winter Olympics 02/06/2026 06:38pm • MILAN (AP) ��� An unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Winter Olympics opening ceremony replete with references to Italian icons and culture has officially kicked off the Milan Cortina Games, as the sports spectacle returns to a nation that last hosted the event 20 years ago. Italian President Ser Tom Izzo weighs discipline for Jeremy Fears as No. 10 Spartans lose another guard to injury 02/06/2026 05:07pm • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Some sort of discipline for star guard Jeremy Fears is possible as Michigan State coach Tom Izzo deals with another issue in his backcourt: a season-ending foot injury for key transfer Divine Ugochukwu. Izzo said Friday he still was considering benching Fears for at leas With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as a nonprofit 02/06/2026 02:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit, allowing its international work to continue in a new form. This reincarnation of USAID���s Development Innovation Venture US births dropped last year, suggesting the 2024 uptick was short-lived 02/06/2026 01:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a slight increase In Minnesota, sending a child to school is an act of faith for immigrant families 02/06/2026 12:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even though he stopped going to day care weeks ag Sonny Jurgensen, the strong-arm QB whose personality made him a beloved football figure, dies at 91 02/06/2026 12:28pm • Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame quarterback whose strong arm, keen wit and affable personality made him one of the most beloved figures in Washington football history, has died. He was 91. A Washington Commanders spokesperson confirmed Friday the team learned of Jurgensen���s death that morning Meet the man behind the Super Bowl's annual confetti blizzard 02/06/2026 11:57am • Noah Winter brags he's been to way more Super Bowls than Tom Brady. Brady competed in 10 ��� more than any other player. But Winter will be part of the Super Bowl spectacle for his 30th straight year this year, not in uniform but as the guy in charge of the celebratory confetti after the game ends. 'Now I want to be here': Alysa Liu thrives for the US at the Olympics with a new outlook on life 02/06/2026 11:39am • MILAN (AP) ��� Alysa Liu is back at the Olympics on her own terms, and she's thriving on the U.S. team. Four years ago, Liu went to the COVID-hit Beijing Olympics as a 16-year-old who despised how skating and endless hours of practice had taken over her life. A two-year break, a new outlook and a wo