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Chicago Sky fire coach Teresa Weatherspoon after 1 season 09/27/2024 12:00pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Sky fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon after one season despite having two of the WNBA's most promising rookies. The Sky confirmed the decision Friday, a day after two newspapers reported the move. “After careful consideration, we have decided it is in the best interest o Takeaways on AP's story about challenges to forest recovery and replanting after wildfires 09/27/2024 11:09am • The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly intense wildfires, with many areas unlikely to recover on their own. Researchers are studying which species are likely to survive — and where — as climate change makes it difficult or impossible for many forests to regrow. But As the Ukraine war enters a critical period, the EU moves ahead without the US 09/27/2024 10:46am • BRUSSELS (AP) — As the war in Ukraine enters a critical period, the European Union has decided it must take responsibility for what it sees as a security threat in its own neighborhood, and it's preparing to tackle some of the financial burden, perhaps even without the United States. The EU rarely Joe Wolf, who played for North Carolina and 7 NBA teams, dies at 59 09/27/2024 10:42am • Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before becoming a coach, died unexpectedly Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks announced. Wolf, an assistant coach for the Wisconsin Herd — the Bucks' G League affiliate — was 59. “T After 20 years and a move to Berlin, Xiu Xiu is still making music for outsiders 09/27/2024 10:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes. They’ve made music — drenched in synthesizers, breathy vocals and distorted guitar — that is somehow both cacophonous and beautiful, frightening yet poignant, ava Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters in Arizona and Florida 09/27/2024 10:23am • PHOENIX (AP) — When Lesley Chavez found out she was pregnant at age 16, she saw her daughter as a blessing from God and never considered an abortion, a view reinforced by her devout Christian mother. If she could have voted at the time, Chavez would have opposed expanding abortion access. But 10 y Hungary's Orbán says EU hits North Macedonia's 'national pride' by delaying accession bid 09/27/2024 09:58am • SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hungary's right-wing prime minister on Friday accused European Union officials of denting North Macedonia's “national pride” by further delaying the country's troubled bid to join the bloc. During a visit to North Macedonia, Viktor Orbán also offered to mediate 2 boys in Britain jailed for killing a man with a machete when they were 12 09/27/2024 09:53am • LONDON (AP) — Two boys in Britain who were 12 when they stabbed a stranger to death with a machete were sentenced on Friday to at least eight and a half years in prison. They are the youngest people convicted of murder in the U.K. for more than 20 years. The now 13-year-old defendants, who can’t Man City's Rodri will miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery 09/27/2024 09:41am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City midfielder Rodri will miss the rest of the season after undergoing ACL surgery on Friday. The Spain international also had meniscus damage. “This season is over (for him). We got the worst (news possible) but it is what it is,” City manager Pep Guardi Japan's soon-to-be prime minister faces big challenge as he tries to move past ruling party scandals 09/27/2024 08:42am • TOKYO (AP) — The person chosen Friday to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime minister next week, is a veteran politician with deep policy experience, a taste for curry and anime — and big challenges ahead of him as he tries to unite a fractious party and hold off an opposition eager t Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa 09/27/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry’s latest philanthropic move will gather world business leaders and philanthropists to work towards fostering prosperity in Southern African communities, specifically focused on young people. In early October, Harry’s charity organization Sentebale, which he co-fou Trump favors huge new tariffs. What are they, and how do they work? 09/27/2024 06:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. The former president and current Republican nominee asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factor New British leader vows his nation will reengage on global leadership 09/27/2024 05:08am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took the international stage at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday for the first time with a message: His nation is returning to “responsible global leadership.” The Labour Party leader, who won a landslide election victory in Ju More Loudoun Co. English learners making progress toward proficiency, county says 09/27/2024 05:02am • More English learners in Loudoun County Public Schools are making progress toward becoming proficient in the language, according to data presented during a school board meeting this week. In 2024, 53.9% of students made progress in English language proficiency, up from 52.1% in 2023, according to Kamali's sophomore show for Chloé in Paris dazzled with lightness 09/27/2024 02:14am • PARIS (AP) — Chemena Kamali’s sophomore collection for Chloé was a luminous exploration of femininity, blending the house’s heritage with a fresh, sensual energy for spring. Set against a backdrop of sun-faded apricots, blushes and soft whites, the Paris collection captured Kamali’s vision