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Snow and ice ground flights and choke highways in parts of Europe 01/07/2026 10:27pm • SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) ��� More than 1,000 stranded passengers spent the night at Amsterdam's international airport as snow and ice that is pummeling parts of Europe grounded hundreds of flights and choked highways and railroads Wednesday. In Paris, a skier slid along the snowy bank of the Seine No. 13 TCU women score last 9 points to beat Oklahoma State 69-61 01/07/2026 10:25pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ��� Olivia Miles scored 20 points, and No. 13 TCU scored the last nine points to beat Oklahoma State 69-61 on Wednesday night. Marta Suarez scored six of her 11 points and Maddie Scherr added all six of her points with a pair of 3s in the final period as TCU shot 64%, and hel Strong, Fudd star as top-ranked UConn rolls past St. John's for 32nd consecutive victory 01/07/2026 10:17pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Sarah Strong scored 19 of her 24 points in the first half as No. 1 UConn topped visiting St. John���s 88-43 on Wednesday night to extend its winning streak to 32 games. Azzi Fudd had 16 points and extended her streak of consecutive made free throws to 34. KK Arnold added 11 Driver shot in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person killed in US immigration crackdown 01/07/2026 10:15pm • The fatal shooting Wednesday of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis was at least the fifth death to result from the aggressive U.S. immigration crackdown the Trump administration launched last year. The Department of Homeland Security said the officer fired in self-defense as 37-year-ol Somalia's fight against extremist militants shows signs of success on the streets of Mogadishu 01/07/2026 10:07pm • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ��� Mogadishu's first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia ���s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints. One of the leaders is Abdikani Ali Mohamed, a teenage-faced colonel whose authority h Winter Olympics 2026 guide: All you need to know about the Milan Cortina Games 01/07/2026 08:22pm • The countdown is on for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. The torch relay is already underway and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are waiting to be awarded when comeptition begins in less than NFL playoff odds: Multiple road teams favored in unusual wild-card round 01/07/2026 08:20pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� This could be an unprecedented weekend for road favorites in the NFL playoffs, which open Saturday with the wild-card round. Four road teams were favored at BetMGM Sportsbook as of Wednesday afternoon. Two of those games had 1-point spreads ��� Green Bay at Chicago and Buffalo at The Latest: ICE officer shoots and kills a woman during Minneapolis immigration crackdown 01/07/2026 08:14pm • An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist on Wednesday during the Trump administration���s latest immigration crackdown in a major U.S. city ��� a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city���s mayor described as � Federal prosecutors slam Mangione lawyers��� 'meritless' claims about Bondi���s lobbying ties 01/07/2026 07:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Federal prosecutors slammed Luigi Mangione���s lawyers on Wednesday for making what the government said were "meritless" and "misleading��� claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi���s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthc Philippines evacuates 3,000 people after activity increases at Mayon Volcano 01/07/2026 07:36pm • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A series of mild eruptions at the most active volcano in the Philippines has prompted the evacuation of nearly 3,000 villagers from a danger zone on its foothills, officials said Wednesday. Authorities raised the 5-step alert around Mayon Volcano in the northeastern prov Rescuers use drone technology to find dog that escaped along New Jersey Turnpike 01/07/2026 03:16pm • Associated Press (AP) ��� A dog escaped from a rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike and wandered for about 25 miles (40 kilometers) before she was found safe the next day with help from a drone. Abbie, a 9-year-old golden retriever mix, was travelling from a South Carolina shelter to a planned ne 'One Battle After Another' dominates SAG's Actor Awards with 7 nominations 01/07/2026 02:31pm • ���One Battle After Another��� dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Anderson���s ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honors. In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, no movie h Complete list of 2026 Actors Awards nominees 01/07/2026 02:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The nominees for the Actors Awards have been announced, with ���One Battle After Another��� leading the way. The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio scored a record seven nominations Wednesday. The ceremony, formerly known as the SAG Awards, focuses solely on performances in film an Chevon Championship moving LPGA's first major to home of PGA Tour's Houston Open 01/07/2026 10:00am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� The Chevron Championship is moving the LPGA's first major of the year to Memorial Park, just four weeks after Houston's public course hosts the Houston Open on the PGA Tour. The Chevron had been played at The Club at Carlton Woods, a Jack Nicklaus suburban club about 40 miles north Japan's nuclear watchdog halts plant's reactor safety screening over falsified data 01/07/2026 08:31am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan, after its operator was found to have fabricated data about earthquake risks. It was a setback to Japan's attempts to accelerate nucler rea