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Nigeria soccer team boycotts Africa Cup qualifier after being stranded at Libya airport 10/14/2024 04:21pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Nigeria's soccer players returned to their country dancing and singing on Monday after boycotting their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Libya where they were stranded overnight at Al Abraq Airport in what the team captain described as ���mind games.��� Though authorities Islanders coach Patrick Roy returns to Colorado and the building where his retired number hangs 10/14/2024 04:17pm • DENVER (AP) ��� New York Islanders coach Patrick Roy stepped onto the ice at Ball Arena and briefly glanced toward the rafters. Yep, his familiar No. 33 was still up there with all the other banners representing retired Colorado Avalanche numbers. Being back in town for Roy brought back memories of Marjorie Taylor Greene's fans cheer her on as her opponent fights for recognition 10/14/2024 02:44pm • DALLAS, Ga. (AP) ��� In a small Republican stronghold on the outskirts of Atlanta-area suburbs, voters donned their MAGA merch for a town hall in support of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ��� many unaware that she does, in fact, have an opponent. Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired Army General and f Hezbollah's drones are a fierce and evasive threat to Israel 10/14/2024 02:08pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� One of the worst mass casualty strikes on Israel in a year of war came not from dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles nor the repeated barrages of rocket fire launched by Hamas and Hezbollah. Instead, it was a single drone. The unmanned aerial vehicle, laden with explosives, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries stumps in California in a bid to reclaim House control 10/14/2024 01:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries crisscrossed Southern California over the weekend in communities far from the presidential battlegrounds ��� Little Saigon in Orange County and the high desert of Antelope Valley ��� as he works to wrest control of the U.S. House from Republican Russia says it captured a southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes 10/14/2024 01:36pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia said Monday it captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it probes for weaknesses along the war ���s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, including in eastern areas that are the main focus of Moscow���s military effort before winter arrives. Ukrai Planned nuclear plant in a Kenyan top tourist hub and home to endangered species sparks protest 10/14/2024 01:26pm • KILIFI, Kenya (AP) ��� Dozens rallied against a proposal to build Kenya���s first nuclear power plant in one of the country���s top coastal tourist hubs which also houses a forest on the tentative list of the UNESCO World Heritage site. Kilifi County is renowned for its pristine sandy beaches where NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life 10/14/2024 12:23pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon���s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won���t search for life, LaMelo Ball and the Hornets look to snap 8-year NBA playoff drought under new coach Charles Lee 10/14/2024 10:00am • Charlotte Hornets Last season: 21-61, missed playoff for eight straight season COACH: Charles Lee (first-time NBA head coach, hired May 9). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 23 at Houston. DEPARTURES: F Davis Bertans, F Aleksej Pokusevski, G Bryce McGowens. ADDITIONS: G Josh Green, F Taj Gibson, F Tidjane Salaun, Body of missing Md. 5-year-old boy found in pond 10/14/2024 09:50am • The body of a 5-year-old boy was found in a pond near his home in Waldorf, Maryland, after he was reported missing Sunday morning, the Charles County Sheriff���s Office said. Miles McMahon, who had autism and was nonverbal, was last seen on home security video "leaving the house and skipping in h Car Review: The BMW X2 xDrive28i is a sporty, coupe-styled SUV ��� sized and priced right 10/14/2024 04:39am • Many SUVs and crossovers blend into each other with a taller and boxier design. However, the SUV coup�� with a swoopy carlike design tends to get noticed in the crowd. BMW has been making its larger SUVs with the coup�� styling for nearly 10 years now. The X2, the smallest of the coupelike SU Pilot killed and passenger injured as small plane crashes in Georgia neighborhood 10/14/2024 01:06am • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� One person died as a result of a small plane crash Sunday night in a Savannah, Georgia, residential neighborhood, local police said. The Savannah Police Department said in a brief statement that officers were dispatched to the crash site on East 66th Street, roughly 3 miles ( Man with loaded gun arrested at checkpoint near Donald Trump's weekend rally in Southern California 10/14/2024 12:45am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A Nevada man with a shotgun, loaded handgun, ammunition and several fake passports in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump's rally Saturday night in the Southern California desert, authorities said. He was released the same day on $5,000 bail. Middle East latest: US says it will send THAAD defense battery to Israel, along with US troops 10/13/2024 11:47pm • The U.S. is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with US troops to operate it. The Pentagon made the announcement just hours after Iran warned the U.S. to keep its military forces out of Israel. Israel is widely believed to be preparing a military response to Iran' Trump calls for adding 10,000 Border Patrol agents after derailing a bipartisan border bill 10/13/2024 09:58pm • PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump on Sunday proposed hiring 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents and giving them a $10,000 retention and signing bonus, after he derailed a bipartisan bill earlier this year that included funding for more border personnel. Trump made his