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2 firefighters battling Washington state wildfire arrested by Border Patrol 08/28/2025 07:20pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Two firefighters who were part of a 44-person crew fighting a wildland blaze on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a multiagency criminal investigation into the two contractors they worked for, federal authorities said The Latest: RFK Jr. adviser will serve as acting CDC leader after director’s firing, AP source says 08/28/2025 07:14pm • Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a personnel change that has not been formally announced. The director of Jordan Walker homers in 3-run 7th inning to help Cardinals beat Pirates 4-1 08/28/2025 05:01pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Thomas Saggese hit a go-ahead RBI double and Jordan Walker homered in a three-run seventh inning to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 on Thursday. Miles Mikolas allowed one run on four hits and a walk and struck out five in five innings. Kyle Leahy (4-1) Champions League teams to travel north of Arctic Circle and close to China in a season of extremes 08/28/2025 04:14pm • MONACO (AP) — Good luck Manchester City, Tottenham, Juventus and Monaco — one of them will have to travel north of the Arctic Circle in mid-January to play a Champions League game. All four were drawn Thursday as away opponents for Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt, whose 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stad NTSB focused on controllers after B-52 bomber and two planes nearly collided over North Dakota 08/28/2025 03:46pm • Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary PSG gets tough slate of Champions League opponents. Real Madrid going to Liverpool and Almaty 08/28/2025 03:00pm • MONACO (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain was handed a tough start to the defense of its Champions League title when the draw was made Thursday with no opponent from any of the lower-ranked nations. PSG was drawn against Bayern Munich and Barcelona from the pot of top-ranked teams, while Tottenham came fr The 'City Game' returns after an 85-year break as Pitt hosts crosstown rival Duquesne 08/28/2025 02:48pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Antonio Epps' childhood growing up in Pittsburgh's southern suburbs was dotted with Saturday afternoons spent at what is now Acrisure Stadium watching the Panthers. There was a brief stretch during Epps' junior year at South Allegheny High when it looked like the defensive back m A 'sea war' brews off Gambia as desperate local fishermen attack foreign vessels, and each other 08/28/2025 02:15pm • BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body. His day began as normal, with a shift on one of the foreign-owned vessels that carry out commercia Fatal wildfire on Cyprus caused by 'carelessly discarded cigarette,' report finds 08/28/2025 12:52pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — One of Cyprus’ most devastating wildfires in recent memory was caused by a cigarette discarded by the side of a mountain road, a report by U.S. experts said Thursday. The report by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded that the “acc Vine wins mountain stage in Andorra, Vingegaard loses Spanish Vuelta lead 08/28/2025 11:42am • PAL, Andorra (AP) — Australian cyclist Jay Vine pulled off a solo climb to win the mountainous sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday while Jonas Vingegaard lost his overall lead. Vine, of UAE Emirates, dropped the rest of a small breakaway group and stayed in front all the way up the final Hokie Storm Chase turns vans into mobile classrooms as students pursue severe weather — and careers 08/28/2025 11:41am • Most university syllabuses lay out exactly when and where a topic will be covered — not so for the Hokie Storm Chase class at Virginia Tech. Students in the advanced meteorology field course, in the Department of Geography, climb into three specially outfitted vans, and take the mobile clas Floods displace nearly 250,000 people and affect 1.2 million in eastern Pakistan 08/28/2025 11:37am • NAROWAL, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers in boats raced to reach stranded families in Pakistan’s populous eastern Punjab province Thursday, after three major rivers burst their banks because of heavy rain and the release of water from overflowing dams in neighboring India. The floods displaced nearly Today in Sports - Week Ahead, August 29 - September 4 08/28/2025 10:00am • Sept. 2 1901 — Seven-year-old Ogden wins two races in a single day at Sheepshead Bay race track in Coney Island, New York. Ogden edges Cameron by a head in the second race on the card, a six furlong sprint on the main track. In the sixth race, a 1 1-16 mile distance on the turf, Ogden beats Monark High above the Arctic Circle, these Philly cheesesteaks are filled with moose and reindeer meat 08/28/2025 09:10am • KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — Forget Philadelphia: In the far north of Sweden, locals and tourists alike chow down on Arctic cheesesteaks, their hoagie rolls piled high with moose and reindeer meat. At Stejk Street Food in Kiruna, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, owners Zebastia Takeaways: Gambia's fishermen are caught in a 'sea war' with foreign vessels 08/28/2025 08:41am • BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Video exclusively obtained by The Associated Press documents an emerging problem in the fight for dominance between Gambian fishermen and foreign-owned commercial vessels in West African waters. Local fishermen, angered by what they call illegal encroachment and sabotage by t