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White Sox players embrace higher expectations after young core showed promise last season 01/30/2026 09:59pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Colson Montgomery grew up in Indiana rooting for the Hoosiers and committed to play baseball for them before the Chicago White Sox made the slugging shortstop a first-round pick in the 2021 draft. Fair to say, he's inspired by the football team's historic transformation under coach From stilettos to safety concerns on Inauguration Day: 4 takeaways from Melania Trump's new movie 01/30/2026 09:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The new documentary “Melania” opens on a close-up of the trademark stilettos of first lady Melania Trump as she walks the halls of Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach home, in early January 2025, following her as she climbs into a dark SUV for the short drive to the airport and a flig Body found on the BW Parkway decades ago finally identified with the help of volunteers 01/30/2026 09:31pm • A man whose body was found along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway 45 years ago has finally been identified, with help from a group of volunteer genealogists. Earlier this month, U.S. Park Police and the DNA Doe Project identified 24-year-old Eddie Devone as the man found along the northbound lane Cotie McMahon scores 27 and No. 17 Mississippi women hold off No. 5 Vanderbilt 83-75 01/30/2026 08:47pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Cotie McMahon scored 27 points, Christeen Iwuala had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and No. 17 Mississippi beat No. 5 Vanderbilt 83-75 on Friday at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. The game was originally scheduled for Thursday night on the Ole Miss campus before moving due US approves major new arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion 01/30/2026 08:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved a massive new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion. The State Department announced the sales to America's allies in the Middle East late Friday as tensions rise in the region over the pos Thousands face another arctic blast without power as East Coast preps for a storm 01/30/2026 08:06pm • NASHVILLE (AP) — Frustrations were bubbling up Friday for the tens of thousands who have been without power for nearly a week in the U.S. South as a new storm looms, including Tennessee's residents in Nashville, where the utility was criticized for storm preparations and recovery. Terry Miles, a 5 Texas A&M University to end women's studies due to new policy on race and gender topics 01/30/2026 07:12pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Texas A&M University is ending its women’s and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling six classes as part of a new policy that limits how professors can discuss some race and gender topics, school officials announced Friday. The ch Louisiana authorities launch search after 8 inmates escape from rural jail 01/30/2026 06:49pm • LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities said Friday that eight inmates escaped from a rural jail, including some facing murder charges, setting off another manhunt in a state where bold jail breakouts over the past year have exposed security breakdowns. Officials have not said how the es Twins executive Derek Falvey departs in mutual agreement as organizational revamp continues 01/30/2026 06:44pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Since assuming control of the Minnesota Twins, Tom Pohlad has taken a bold and decisive approach to reinvigorating the family-run franchise. Deep conversations with his top executive produced another startling move, when the Twins and president of baseball and business operation Cubans scramble to survive as US vise on island tightens in push to oust government 01/30/2026 06:12pm • HAVANA (AP) — Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is meant to force a popular uprising and usher in a new government. A sharp increase in U.S. sanctions was already suffocating Cub Cataldi's stoppage-time penalty snatches Lazio win over Genoa in Serie A 01/30/2026 05:29pm • ROME (AP) — Danilo Cataldi converted from the spot 10 minutes into stoppage time to lift Lazio 3-2 over Genoa in Serie A on Friday. Lazio was cruising after taking a 2-0 lead early in the second half. Pedro converted a penalty for the opener and Kenneth Taylor doubled the advantage. Although Lazio Cotie McMahon scores 27 and No. 17 Mississippi women hold off No. 5 Vanderbilt 83-75 01/30/2026 05:29pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Cotie McMahon scored 27 points, Christeen Iwuala had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and No. 17 Mississippi beat No. 5 Vanderbilt 83-75 on Friday at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. The game was originally scheduled for Thursday night on the Ole Miss campus before moving due Florida braces for frost and possible snow flurries as winter storms hit other parts of the US 01/30/2026 05:14pm • MIAMI (AP) — Florida is a winter escape, but for the next few days much of it will have below-freezing nights and the Tampa Bay area might even see snowflakes for the first time in over a decade. The Midwest and South have been getting major winter storms for several days, and a giant cyclone fore Israel reopening Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt on Sunday after long closure 01/30/2026 04:56pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Friday that it will reopen the pedestrian border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt over the weekend, marking an important step forward for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan. COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaz New SNAP work requirements set to go into effect on Feb. 1 with millions at risk of losing benefits 01/30/2026 04:53pm • An EBT sign is displayed on the window of a grocery store on October 30, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are set to go into effect on Feb. 1 and it could mean that millions of Am